Word: reliefer
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...Kenya continues to boil with unrest, students at Harvard have begun to change summer plans and to collect donations for humanitarian relief. For others, the violence has hit closer to home. Kenyan student Kipyegon A. Kitur ’09 remembers the first day of the new year. That day 50 people were burned alive in a church in Eldoret as they fleed from a mob incensed over the results of the election two days earlier. Kitur, who was spending winter break on campus, called his brother in another Kenyan town. “He said people were screaming...
Pring explained that being under house arrest has been difficult for her son and that the “finality” and relief from the legal costs associated with avoiding a third trial had influenced the plea decision...
...prices of basic food staples have skyrocketed, and the economy has ground to a halt so much of the scarred population has no way to pay for basic necessities. According to a United Nations estimate, more than 500,000 Kenyans will need emergency aid. In the critical humanitarian relief effort, the United States should do its part along with other nations, but it should do no more...
...Northern District of California ruled that the administrative system is not "adequate" for reviewing claims of organizations suing on behalf of a broad class of veterans (the class-action lawsuit was filed in July by two veterans organizations). Nor is that bureaucratic process empowered to grant the kind of relief sought by the veterans groups: systemic changes in the VA's processing of disability claims, strengthened rights of individual veterans to press their claims and immediate medical and psychological help for returning troops complaining of PTSD symptoms...
...Never have so many Republicans been so pleased by Hillary Clinton's success. "Sweet baby Jesus, they saved our bacon," a veteran of the Reagan Administration exulted. "We're back in the game." But that relief may well be short-lived. This is going to last for a while, and in 48 states, voters are getting ready to play...