Word: plights
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...Review was often not an easy read, but people who needed to know Asia skipped it at their peril. It took equally seriously the plight of hill tribes in Bangladesh and adjustments in monetary policy in Malaysia. Under the protection of British laws in Hong Kong, it was able to deliver genuine, often hard-hitting news to readers in countries where the media had no freedom or were heavily regulated-and, until the late 1980s, that was the case in most of Asia. The Review had a discernibly expat, Hong Kong-centric perspective-Southeast Asia always seemed more important than...
...plight of North Koreans fleeing their destitute homeland has garnered some sympathy in America, but until last month it was tough for a North Korean to get political asylum there. Because the Korean War never formally ended?only an armistice was signed in 1953?Seoul and Washington have treated North Koreans as South Korean citizens, and that's where most refugees have ended...
...dilemmas don't end there. With such a sizable force tied down in Iraq, whoever is President will have fewer military options for curtailing, for example, the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea. He will confront a seething Muslim world unsettled by the war in Iraq and the plight of the Palestinians. And he may well see bin Laden--inspired extremists try to overthrow the government in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, procure weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or stage another attack on U.S. soil--or all of the above...
However, Al-Dewachi is quick to point out, concern for the plight of the Ma’dan “comes and goes in news and in the consciousness of the people...
...Americans, it is always hard for us to confront the remnants of former greatness, skewed and corrupted by a decided lack of originality and misguided attempts to be hip and cool. It’s what is vaguely depressing about Rod Stewart cutting an album of jazz standards; the plight of rock stars bereft of new material can’t help but make us sad. In this grand tradition, R.E.M’s new album, Around the Sun, is at some points so frankly ill-advised that one wonders if Michael Stipe had his ostrich feather boa tied...