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...they find much else. In Kinshasa's fetid slums, there is a new and sinister edge to the desperation. People who cannot afford soap wash their clothes with papaya leaves. Families that cannot pay for funerals bury their dead in rude holes. Single mothers who cannot find jobs feed their babies only once every other day. "Look at me," says Andre Miku, a retired mechanic whose children are hungry because he has sold the television set and the refrigerator and now there is nothing left to hawk. "I've grown so thin. It's not because I'm sick. There...
...setbacks befell the celebration but were well withstood. Our Olde Town Trolley driver, who found trouble finding her way out of the Square and then confidently dropped us off in front of the Radisson Hotel, drew a few rude comments from drunk first-years...
First, reform the Evening Shuttle Van Service (formerly known as the more sordid Escort Service). Monitor the courtesy of often impatient and rude operators. Call students back when you say you will call them back. Add more vans to the three currently running from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. so that students will not have to wait more than 15 minutes for a van to pick them up. And, most importantly, either shift operating hours to 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. to accommodate those studying or playing down by the River, or extent the service from...
Perhaps more telling than anything he said was what Clinton did. He put Rahm Emanuel, who has moved into George Stephanopoulos' old office as senior political adviser, in charge of the reform campaign. Emanuel, a strategically rude, hyper sometime ballet dancer and former Israeli soldier who makes enemies first and friends later, is especially good at keeping Clinton in line. He spent much of the first four years pushing long-shot legislation to victory, including NAFTA and the crime bill; both were campaigns in which Clinton at various times turned squishy...
...throughout the Union for his participation in the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Seven years later, he was shot and killed. Just last week, my great-uncle Julius was debating whether or not to drive in the HOV lane on the Long Island Expressway; someone honked at him and made a rude hand gesture...