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...mother Dragana took seven-hour bus trips to the Budapest airport, since there were no flights out of Belgrade. Because of Milosevic's war crimes, Serbians were often viewed with disdain. "We would say we were from Serbia, and people would look at you suspiciously," Ivanovic says. "They would pull you aside, and you could tell from the look in their face that they felt sorry for you. It was very frustrating...
...Negro leaders who refused to condemn the future New York Senator's report. "The shattering blows on the Negro family have made it fragile, deprived and often psychopathic," King said at the time. "Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people to pull themselves out of poverty and backwardness." But King also insisted that Moynihan's report offered both "dangers and opportunities." The danger was that "problems will be attributed to innate Negro weaknesses and used to justify neglect and rationalize oppression." The opportunity was the chance that the report would galvanize support and resources...
...Uncertainty Principle In some ways WFP is more like a global shipping company than an aid agency. Every Monday through Friday - weekends too if there's an emergency - empty trucks pull up at the warehouse in Kampala, bound for destinations around Uganda and neighboring countries. Nearly 200 porters jog around the warehouse, a steady stream of men carrying 100-lb (50 kg) bags of food on their heads. Trains and trucks arrive full from local traders and from the port city of Mombasa, Kenya, where ships bring donated food from the U.S. and other Western countries. (About two-thirds...
...writing a story about Big Brown, not Eight Belles, but I was still taken slightly aback when I read "after Eight Belles ... racing needs a feel-good equine story in the worst way" [June 9]. What racing needs is for the "kings" of this "sport of kings" to pull their heads out of the sand and take stock of what's going on. This isn't a game. There are animals' lives on the line. And the way the language of profits and percent shares has infiltrated how we articulate these lives is appalling. Let us all take note...
...Both politicians see Afghanistan as a foreign policy priority (Brown announced more troops for the region during Bush's visit); they're both looking to reduce troop numbers in Iraq but only in consultation with their military commanders on the ground; they both hope tougher sanctions will pull Iran to heel. But the similarities go deeper than that. At their first meeting last July, Bush already appeared to be a spent force, an unpopular President eking out his final days of power. Brown, by contrast, was buoyed by an early wave of public support after taking over from Tony Blair...