Word: mother
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...cash in. Contracts with mining firms are now linked to the price of ore rather than "set in concrete like in the old socialist fashion," says Kumar. "You have to make the best use of the opportunities the global market throws up. Before, we were operating like some Mother Teresa charity home...
...eating breakfast, came tumbling into the street. "There was an explosion," Mudakir recalls. "Then the mud started to flow." He gaped in amazement as a geyser of scalding sludge shot five meters into the air, collapsing the roof of his neighbor's house. Mudakir froze. Then he gathered his mother and two brothers from inside his own house. "The whole village was panicking. Everyone ran." Mudakir didn't stop to collect his family's belongings. He assumed he'd be able to return home...
...year and a half ago, at the behest of another acquaintance who helps aid refugees, I sat in a small apartment outside the town of Yanjie in northeast China. There sat two people - two among thousands - who had fled Kim Jong Il's North Korea in recent years. The mother of one young woman, Park Dae, had been taken to a political prison, gotten ill and died about three years ago, she said. Another, a young man, said he was simply tired of the poverty he faced in a small village in the northeast corner of the country. Both hoped...
...Obama was at the Democratic debate in Cleveland, hastily accepting Hillary Clinton's assertion that she didn't order the leak of a picture of Obama wearing a turban in Kenya. "I think that's something we can set aside," he said. (Read "The Story of Barack Obama's Mother...
...Harvard team, this effort has special significance, as it heralded the return of a former assistant coach and player for Harvard, Claudia Asano ’99, who now serves as the head coach of RPI. Asano has been involved in cancer advocacy since she lost her mother to breast cancer four years ago. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...