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...look back." Despite pledges to punish those responsible for the substandard construction of dozens of schools that crumbled during the earthquake and resulted in the deaths of thousands of students, no one has been prosecuted for it. After nearly four months of investigation, the central government announced what any parent could have told you on May 13 - that an act of God may have triggered the schools' collapse, but that shoddy construction and dangerous locations near fault lines left them unnecessarily vulnerable. Even as the rebuilding reaches frenetic levels, the political pressure for accountability has dissipated. Parents of dead students...
...look back." Despite pledges to punish those responsible for the substandard construction of dozens of schools that crumbled during the earthquake, no one has been prosecuted for the deaths of thousands of students. After nearly four months of investigation, the central government announced what any parent could have told you on May 13: that an act of God may have triggered the schools' collapse but shoddy construction and dangerous locations near fault lines left them vulnerable. Parents of dead students, who once promised to take vengeance if justice wasn't served, have largely been silenced by intimidation and payoffs...
...companies owned by Sheikh Mohammed's government, took a major stake in Kerzner International, which owns and operates luxury hotels from Mexico to the Maldives, principally under the One & Only brand. "[Kerzner] fits very well with Sheikh Mohammed," says bin Sulayem (who is also chairman of Dubai World, the parent company of Nakheel and Istithmar). "I could see the eye contact between them. Sheikh Mohammed said, 'This guy has vision, and these are the kind of people we want to see in Dubai...
...average façade was crumbling. During the “Fast Money” speed round, I claimed that 13 was a good age for a parent to start treating you like an adult, a truly terrible answer. As a Jew, it seemed sensible enough—a bar or bat mitzvah is when every Jew becomes an adult, and even aside from that as a naturally precocious, overly-responsible non-child, my parents had started treating me like an adult at 13. I had given my real self away, with few points to show...
...comes to weather. The year before, a hurricane decided to roll through the night of the show. The directors had to reschedule it to the afternoon of the next day. “We never get a break,” she says with a laugh. Timothy W. Parent ’09, the other founding director, is bluntly realistic about getting people inside the muddy tent. “It’s a logistical nightmare,” he says. Despite the unfortunate circumstances, the directors have managed to organize an event of prodigious ambition. Only in their...