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...into the affected area] has raised people's hopes," said Giuseppe Zamberletti, who heads the government relief operation. "A massive evacuation would have been more likely to take place had we failed to bring adequate help." With that, the government moved thousands of campers, trailers and even some railroad cars into the stricken region. By week's end some 12,000 homeless victims of the earthquake had been transferred from tents to more substantial dwellings-including, for a lucky few, prefabricated houses...
...district of Bhagalpur, 5,000 Biharis sat on railroad tracks and blocked trains to protest the action taken against the suspended police officers. Elsewhere in the district, villagers supporting strong police measures have threatened work stoppages. One Bihari woman, whose father has been robbed twice, insisted that "something must be done" to stop the crime. What if the accused are not guilty? She shrugged. If police arrested them, she said, they were probably guilty...
...Gorskii began taking in 1909 at the behest of Tsar Nicholas II. Having fascinated the Romanovs with a color slide show at the court at Tsarskoe Selo, Prokudin-Gorskii gained an imperial commission to record the art and people of the Russian Empire. He traveled widely in a private railroad car outfitted with a darkroom. His pictures are no Walker Evans tour of Russia's huge brute poverty. In the warmly glowing but primitive colors of his still rudimentary art form, Prokudin-Gorskii celebrated the village life and gilded ecclesiastical magnificence of a Mother Russia that Tsar Nicholas imagined...
...reaction is more than a nervous giggle. We are reminded of our grandmothers, who were prohibited from emigrating to this country and then kidnapped for slave prostitution houses in San Francisco. We are reminded of our grandfathers who were recruited into the brutal jobs of agriculture, mining, and railroad construction--only to suffer lynchings, mob attacks, and discriminatory legislation. We are reminded of the price that our parents and grandparents had to pay in order for us to be admitted into the "democracy" of Harvard/Radcliffe. And we are angry that so few members of the Harvard community either...
...development of the western U.S. can not be separated from the sweat of the Chinese miners and railroad workers, the Japanese farmers, or the Philipino labor organizers. U.S. foreign policy in Asia can not be separated from its policies toward Asians in America; nor can the U.S. economy and domestic policies be separated from the slum conditions of Koreatowns, Manilatowns, Japantowns, and Chinatowns today. Yet, how often are these issues raised in Harvard courses...