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...when it returns, Donziger said, the group hopes to publicize its findings and "sensitize people and policy makers to the plight of the innocent civilians on the ground...
Alarmed by the plight of millions of Kurdish refugees fleeing from Iraq, a group of Harvard students have formed an organization to push the issue to the forefront of campus and national consciousness...
...priced modeling jobs. Instead they wound up working as nude table dancers at several strip clubs. The women, billed at one club as "Gorby's Girls," say they were kept as virtual prisoners in a locked apartment during the day. Eventually, a bar patron learned of the group's plight and called police. While the Soviet strippers face deportation, local citizens are offering financial help and even proposals of marriage. Immigration officials, who charged the club owners with hiring illegal workers, are investigating reports that many other Soviet women may have been imported to Canada through similar scams...
...what does demand an immediate answer is what the U.S. and its friends will do to prevent more deaths among refugees from the failed rebellions and Saddam's bloody vengeance. They number in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, and their plight has drawn all the passion of hindsight debate. But the argument is critical -- especially since the early response of Washington was pitifully inadequate...
Director Orion Ross, along with producers Hannah Feldman and Thomas M. Lauderdale, made Duchess memorable both in innovation and production quality. The play they so successfully interpreted describes the plight of a young widowed noblewoman, the Duchess (Tanya Selaratnam), whose forbidden relationship with a lower-class man subjects her to the indignation of her brothers...