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...land of foxes, Abb? Pierre was a hedgehog. His one big idea: that the plight of the poor and homeless calls for constant outrage and action. His organization, Emma?s, created in 1949 to enlist the homeless themselves in the work of building shelters and a future, is now present in 35 countries. Every public figure in France has lamented his passing. President Jacques Chirac said that France "loses an immense figure, a conscious, an incarnation of goodness...
...frantic struggle to make it to the top, few higher-income Indians-journalists included-concern themselves with the plight of the poor. Nowhere is that more evident than in Noida, where servants in the extravagant new suburban mansions commute from the squalor of the shantytown next door. When the CEO's son was kidnapped, it dominated the national news, whereas the disappearance of slum children was ignored by the press until their bodies started to be recovered...
...Further upstream, in a series of more permanent homeless camps by the canal, visitors are greeted with far less cheer - and told to go "back down there if you want a show." Asked why his group seemed hostile to the homeless protest drawing so much attention to his plight, a bearded man in a heavy army coat waved his questioner brusquely away, and shook his head. "When they go, you'll go, everyone will go - right back where they came from," he replied, throwing a stick on his fire. "Us, we'll still be here. We're always here...
Romney doesn't have to explain anything about his beliefs and testimony of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. What he does have to explain is his stance on Iraq, the plight of schools and the economy. These are the important issues to tackle. LES CRUE Germantown...
...make your life easy: where can I get a fake? —Irkingly UnderagedUnderage, it’s simple. Find someone who looks relatively like you who’s over 21, and ask for one of their old IDs. We of the over-21 brethren understand this plight. We will give you our old IDs (sometimes for only a nominal charge). Memorize your sign and your middle name. Good to go,SaraDear Sara,Everything I do is wildly awkward. It’s starting to cause problems in my everyday life. Is there any cure...