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...media not to broadcast his whereabouts, the risk in doing so was manageable," said the General. Dannatt and advisers on the ground now consider that risk is unacceptable. "I would never want to put someone else's life in danger when they have to sit next to a bullet magnet," said Harry in an interview recorded in Afghanistan and only released after his whereabouts were revealed...
...higher representation within the college than others. “It varies from year to year, but Boston Latin [School] for the past three years has led the way,” says Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 of the magnet school. To attend the Boston Latin School, one must live within the boundaries of Boston. But the number of international students at Harvard has been increasing. According to Fitzsimmons, foreign nationals comprise more than ten percent of the Class of 2011. Statistics available on the Harvard International Office (HIO) Web site...
...Sandhya's relief, never came to pass. In 1996, as a 14-year-old student from a town north of the capital Kathmandu, she joined Nepal's Maoist cadres at the moment when their armed insurgency had just begun to take hold of this rugged Himalayan nation, long a magnet for foreign backpackers and adventurers. Her father's military income meant Sandhya did not grow up among the country's many poor, but she chafed under the rigid caste laws and gender norms that blunted her parents' ambitions and stripped her of the same opportunities as men. The Maoists...
...expensive that theater groups and dance troupes can't find rehearsal space, fledgling art dealers can't establish or keep their galleries and fashion designers can't find showrooms. Look, by contrast, at Berlin. Since the Wall came down in 1989, the German capital has become a magnet for young artists from all over the world, largely because of low rents...
...always been a haven for migrants fleeing trouble in China. Even in these prosperous times for the mainland, it still has pull. (Visitors from the West may find Hong Kong polluted; locals know it has cleaner air than almost all Chinese cities.) And increasingly, it is a magnet also for Chinese whose families have lived for generations in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., as well as for other Asians. Between 1996 and 2006, for example, the number of South Asians in Hong Kong leapt...