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Finally, she had to flee once more, eventually relocating to a remote settlement called One-Man's Village. She runs a makeshift hair salon and sets aside a couple of hours each day for HIV/AIDS advocacy. But "my people need me," she says. "They have sent messages to me that I should come back...
Stage antics abounded as well. Near the end of the set, Beck announced that a dinner party would be taking place on stage, and sure enough, the band sat down at a makeshift table and ate while the man played a lovingly acoustic rendition of the ridiculous sex jam “Debra?...
...four days waiting for the school to release a plan of action. Across town, Loyola had already informed its students to look into other schools and was helping them apply to other Jesuit colleges. Though Tulane has tried to keep members of the community up to date through its makeshift website and weekly online chats, parents of students have been frustrated by busy signals at Tulane’s temporary office in Houston...
...residents made up the majority of the victims. At Adhamiya's ancient Abu Hanifa mosque, close to the Bridge of Imams, sermons routinely laud the jihadis who have been killing Shi'ite civilians and curse the Shi'ite-dominated government. Yet on Wednesday, the yellow-brick mosque became a makeshift triage station for emergency crews and a lost-and-found center for pilgrims separated from their loved ones in the stampede...
...tried? When cans of food are scattered in the debris, does taking them amount to theft, or salvage? At one point, police with guns drawn escorted Dr. Henderson through a Walgreens as he emptied the pharmacy of drugs to use in a French Quarter bar turned makeshift clinic. Dudley Fuqua, tall and lean in baggy blue shorts, broke into neighborhood shops and took canned goods, frozen chicken and ribs and cigarettes to his neighbors, who called him a hero. "I was in a building with no food, no water for five nights," Fuqua's neighbor Mohammed Ally, 70, told TIME...