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France is the land of public service par excellence, where a whiff of sacrilege still adheres to the very notion of privatizing basic infrastructure. Trains, hospitals, universities and pensions are all largely state provisions. But water--a sector that remains a function of municipal government in 90% of U.S. cities--is the almost exclusive domain of two companies, Suez Environment and Veolia Water...
...adopting every last one of their children.) For example, GreenSeat, a Dutch carbon-trading outfit, buys offsets from a foundation that plants trees in Uganda's Mount Elgon National Park to soak up the carbon emissions of its rich Western patrons. Small problem: expanding the park encroaches on land traditionally used by local farmers. As a result, reports the New York Times, "villagers living along the boundary of the park have been beaten and shot at, and their livestock has been confiscated by armed park rangers." All this so that swimming pools can be heated and Maseratis driven with...
...frequent in modern media that our memory and compassion has grown short-lived. Today, we are concerned for the victims of Darfur and the women of Afghanistan, but who remembers the Bosnian war crimes? Writer-director Jasmila Zbanic’s first film, “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams,” was nominated for the Sundance Film Festival and awarded the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Zbanic, a 32-year-old Bosnian, tells the story of her struggling country in the aftermath of the war. Esma (Mirjana Karanovic), one of the tens...
...Stories from the Spanish Civil War” and “The Good Fight.” On March 13, The Crimson sat down with Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Bradley S. Epps to watch “Tierra y Libertad,” (“Land and Freedom”), one of 10 films in the series.NEVER FORGETAccording to Epps, learning about the Spanish Civil War offers today’s viewers a glimpse of idealism that is largely lost today.“I think it is relevant for its vision of idealism shot through...
...Also drawn to the annual meeting from all corners of China are representatives of those downtrodden and dispossessed in China's giddy rush to modernity. These are the Petitioners, representing millions of ordinary Chinese here to highlight some local injustice they have suffered - the illegal seizure of land or houses, or bullying by local authorities. They are exercising their millennia-old right to appeal for redress to those in power in the capital. Almost as old as China itself, this system has long served as a safety-valve, a court of last appeal for the desperate. Most of the main...