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...images are, Shootback's most lasting impact has perhaps been on the lives of the youth Wong first drafted into the project. For many, photography turned from a pastime into an income-earner - a huge advantage in a country with 40% unemployment. Mohammed Dahir Nur, 23, says he met Wong when he was 14, after a broken leg sidelined him from Mathare's youth football teams. "We called her 'Mama Lana' because she turned everybody's life around," he says. "I would not have known what to do in life." He now works as a freelance celebrity photographer in London...
...While the world debates what to do, the people of the delta wait. They are in no condition to foment revolution. In one village that no government representative had yet visited, I met a teacher who could speak a little English. He showed me the rubble of his destroyed schoolhouse. Only two things had been salvaged from the building: a small globe used for geography lessons and a framed photograph of junta leader Than Shwe, which normally hung at the front of the classroom. I asked if the 75-year-old strongman was a good person. The teacher laughed...
...Honolulu, the Australian interloper met Chuck Knox, who was in charge of the Los Angeles Rams, and became friends for life with then San Francisco 49ers head coach Dick Nolan. "I went because I was looking to learn something," Gibson said years later. "Their game is the same as ours. They're looking for the same type of individual": huge, fast, tough...
...typically very impressed with the tolerance and respect with which opposing ideas are met on Harvard’s campus,” said Caleb L. Weatherl ’10, president of the Harvard Republican Club. “I must admit that I’ve been a little bit disappointed with the open list controversy, with the mockery and in some cases rudeness with which this opt-out option has been met...
...said he had not come to Philadelphia to provoke controversy. "Reaction to what? I didn't call for any reaction. If I had called a march or called a gathering I can see [why people would say nothing came of it]." He came to do mainly one thing: "I met with the mother." As for Mondesire's comments, Sharpton told TIME, "I guess he's into organizational competition...