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In many of the struggles around the world, humanitarianism may simply be a Band-Aid and an irrelevance. Rieff quotes Jose-Maria Mendiluce, the UNHCR's first special envoy to the Balkans, as saying, "You don't reply to fascism with relief supplies, and you don't counter ethnic cleansing...
Passing on Issyk-Kul's Soviet-era resorts, we opted to rent rooms with a local family for a few dollars. Besides, Aidai pointed out, why shell out for hotel rooms when we'd be out all night? Come evening, Aidai took me on the local disco crawl. Consisting of...
And a lot more kibitzers. One day a heavy mist draped the mountains of Binh Dinh and sank into the rice paddies in the valleys below. An ancient Citro?n spun its wheels on the muddy track, in a scene that would bring Fowler to a rebel leader's camp in...
The accusation that athletics are too demanding and intense, putting a strain on academic performance, is also biased and unfairly aimed at athletes. As the Brown athletic director pointed out, “We aren’t telling the Brown Daily Herald or singing groups they have to [cut...
A very smart person once pointed out that if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat. Probably a very rich, well-connected rat, which is much more than my current path of sitting with a pencil will bring. But being the python that plucks the...