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...Nile, are important to the holy men for more prosaic reasons. They drink it and water their crops with it, wash in its muddy shallows and scrub their laundry on the rocks that necklace the lakeshore. After every sorghum harvest they draw the water in buckets and mix it with grain and hops to make pungent beer. "Our life depends on the lake," says Father Meseret Moges, 53, a priest who has lived in the monastery on the island for almost three decades. That sentiment is shared by the millions of people who live along...
...resources, or they are saying that they do not deserve to develop their resources." Development is on the minds of the priests of the Church of Narga Selassie. Standing inside the round building, its walls covered in vividly colored paintings of Bible stories, its air filled with a heady mix of burning frankincense and the fresh straw thatch used in the roof, Father Moges says he would like the government to buy the priests a faster boat so more tourists could visit their church. Electricity, he says, would be a miracle. "We learn from our grandfather and our father that...
...some of those dehumanizing tower blocks. The whole of central Epinay would be a candidate for this treatment; a patchwork of massive concrete blocks, it is instantly intimidating and crushingly ugly. And the center of Epinay isn't the worst; at the town's western end lies Orgemont, whose mix of towers and low-slung apartment structures provide a rat run for dealers and a dangerous maze for visitors. The minister believes the first step to breaking down "real and psychological walls" is to reshape the landscape by replacing towers with human-size structures interspersed with open space...
...went back and questioned everything from first principles because we had the obligation to do so,” says El-Erian. “We would rebuild it with the same hybrid model”—a mix of internal and external management—”because it is so potent in terms of delivering returns...
...Music, a record label that distributes music exclusively from Harvard alumni and students. The label’s first album—H the Music, Volume 1—came out in March. She chose the 10 final tracks out of a pool of 50 to create an eclectic mix of pop, reggae, dance, and other genres. Liz W. Carlisle ’06, a country singer/songwriter, landed a track on the debut album. “There is so much original energy,” she says of the CD in an e-mail. Salmon is pushing a different...