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...There was no relief for the nervous citizens of the city. On the night of December 29, a letter faxed to media outlets in Bangalore claimed that a five-star hotel would be hit by bombs on New Year's eve, and the house of a major state politician would be attacked by suicide bombers. On December 30, the city had to endure five hoax bomb-threats, including one that was made to an IBM office...
Commuter rage gave way to relief this morning after labor mediators convinced striking New York City transit workers to return their jobs without a contract. That deal was reached on Thursday afternoon. Cursing the walkout had become a bloodsport for New Yorkers in the last three days, but at the 116th Street station in uptown Manhattan, the strike end brought a quick return to normalcy. Commuters streamed past the single station agent with barely a glance, while a couple of French tourists hovered nervously nearby before asking the agent for change for a $20. They were denied...
...react. After the tsunami hit, the world donated billions of dollars; Americans alone gave $1.6 billion, more than to any other disaster overseas. And four months after Hurricane Katrina, the donations approach $3 billion. This got me to thinking about the nature of giving, and what makes for temporary relief vs. lasting change. Sudden disasters get the big headlines, but day after day other tragedies of avoidable dimensions unfold: the one child who dies of malaria in Africa every 29 seconds, the one person who is infected with HIV every 6.4 seconds, the 8 million who die every year because...
...Year. Josh Tyrangiel explores how Bono gets his message across. Amanda Ripley and Amanda Bower spend time with the Gateses and dissect their charitable approach. Michael Duffy hangs with our Partners of the Year: George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, the onetime rivals who joined forces to raise relief money. My thanks to Priscilla Painton, who deftly ran the project, and to all my other colleagues who made this issue so special...
...that are the property of the Islamic Republic of Iran” held in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, the Semitic Museum, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.The plaintiffs’ only specifically identify a set of six limestone relief fragments from the site of Persepolis in southwestern Iran, on display on the third floor of the Sackler. In court filings, Harvard’s lawyers contend that none of the antiquities in its collections— including the six fragments in the Sackler, which were a gift from Grenville...