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...gleaming new factories pushed electrical consumption up by 21%. Local power stations are able to provide only about half of the juice demanded by the city and its 5.4 million residents, so even the pampered children of government officials have been forced to do their homework by candlelight, and factories have had to buy diesel generators to produce their own electricity. Last year, during the worst of the blackouts, traffic lights went dark and newspapers ran special sections listing which districts would be affected that day?a situation that is likely to repeat itself in the next few weeks...
...last several years Rakoczy has worked with a young Vietnamese girl from Dorchester, Mass.,—helping her with her homework and just being there for her as a friend...
...miss the people the most...and the food the least—and the late nights doing homework,” Frank says. “But I think I will be trading late nights doing homework for late nights doing clients’ work...
...Parents [who emigrated from India] have come here and said thank you for making Indian culture something that my kids love,” Nair says. “They say, ‘you have made it not just like homework but like something they really enjoy...
...occupying powers are shuffling from one scheme for self-rule to another; now, as then, they change their minds about which local Iraqi politicians are in favor. Dodge says modern British and American officials have shown a "staggering level of misconception" about Iraq's history. Had they done their homework on the country, they might have understood why they have come to be so resented there. Any occupation is traumatic. Perhaps the most poignant observation on Iraq in the past year was made by another U.N. representative in Baghdad, the Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, shortly before...