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...more hours across scorched mountains and rocky desert, and we are in Iriba, the logistics base in northeast Chad for six camps of refugees from Darfur. Aid workers there tell me that as horrific as the suffering in Darfur is today, it is almost surely going to get worse. "The water is going. The firewood is gone. The land has lost its ability to regenerate," says Palouma Ponlibae, an agriculture and natural-resources officer for the relief agency CARE. "The refugees are going to have to move. There's going to be nothing here to sustain life...
...Four years ago, a friend showed Liang Daxing a photograph of a traditional cloth pillow fashioned into a toy tiger. The image stirred Liang's memories of his time in China's barren, dirt-poor Northeast, where he was packed off for re-education during the terrible years of the Cultural Revolution. A master tailor, Liang, 59, was due to retire until he saw the photograph. It inspired him to hold onto his needle and thread, and delve into the old craft of making toys from spare cuts of fabric. Today, he sells the fruits of his labors from...
Such was the case when I was checking in at the JetBlue counter on the last day of spring break, to return to the still-icy Northeast from a water polo training-trip in sunny California. Because my coach had reserved the tickets, I had no idea where I’d be sitting, so all I could do was hand over my ID and hope for the best. Lo and behold, the best was not what I received, and as I glanced down at the ticket shoved to me across the sticky counter by the JetBlue attendant...
...wanted to show a different perspective and the long-term effects of dealing with sexual assault.”Another contributor wrote about an experience closer to home.The student, a sophomore in Dunster, said she had been sexually assaulted by a stranger last summer at a job in the Northeast, and is now working through the repercussions. “It’s definitely affected me long-term,” she said. “Like, if I go into a building now and a guy I don’t know follows me in, I automatically...
Their manifesto claims that New England is a “bastion of sanity in a nation of crazy,” and it ends by stating, “WHEREAS we believe in the socially progressive values espoused in the Northeast: we will advocate, through means violent and non-, for the secession of the New England states from these ostensibly United States of America...