Word: refugee
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Out of all the libraries on campus, it is Lamont which is most conducive to studying. Lamont is a no-nonsense, no frills library. There are but a handful of cushy chairs; only the most minimal carpeting is used. Lamont is built from concrete and starkly adorned with linoleum floors...
The finding is relatively easy; Ray Murdock (James Earl Jones) is a policeman in Chicago. Making peace is another matter; Ray knows how his mother died, was in fact present on that terrible night. Forgiving the white man who seduced her and the half brother whose breech birth killed her...
Like the interior of a great cathedral--or like McKim, Mead & White's 1910 New York masterpiece, Penn Station, demolished in 1962 and still ardently missed by many, many New Yorkers--Harvard Hall provides a welcome refuge from outside stresses (no less pronounced in and around Harvard Yard, perhaps, than...
Those who remain report being attacked from all sides. Four months ago, Jean Ndabagendeje, 39, escaped from his mainly Hutu village after the army stormed into the area and ordered everyone to leave. But when he sought refuge with some 1,500 other Hutu near a Tutsi military encampment in...
...tide of violence is threatening to further destabilize a region already badly traumatized by the Rwandan civil war. Since 1993, 250,000 Burundians, mostly Hutu, have escaped into Zaire and Tanzania, adding to nearly 2 million Rwandan refugees camped in those countries and refusing to go home. Earlier this month those numbers increased sharply when Rwandan Hutu from the Mugano and Ntamba camps, who had sought refuge in Burundi from their own civil war, fled fighting in the area and made for the Tanzanian border. Some 20,000 managed to get across. With an additional 130,000 increasingly anxious Rwandan...