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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Born on April 4, 1957, to a poor family in the rural town of La Tuna Badiraguato, his abusive father kicked him out of the house as a child. He's poorly educated, and reportedly resorted to using a ghostwriter to compose love letters to a mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joaquin Guzman Loera: Billionaire Drug Lord | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

...Iraq. These films offer a very concrete example of how we managed recovery hand-in-hand with European partners.”Despite the obvious bureaucratic strings, many of these films are rather charming. “The Story of Koula,” targeted at audiences from rural Greek farmlands, tells the story of a farm boy’s dream: to own a donkey. His poor family is only able to fulfill the boy’s desire by signing up for aid from the Marshall Plan. Koula, a mule shipped in from the American South, bristles with...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Selling Democracy' Premieres at Brattle | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...would question whether this is an adult Web site. You go there, and you see, it’s a very adult Web site. 4. FM: So what did you find?BGE: There are many interesting patterns in this data: patterns in consumption according to education, age, cities versus rural areas, places where people are more religious versus less religious. There are patterns along all those variables. 5. FM: What surprised you about your findings?BGE: Well, one basic fact that came out here is that online adult entertainment seems to be of interest everywhere. Now you can talk about...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Benjamin G. Edelman '02 | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...generously accommodated several million economic refugees and migrants from Bangladesh. I would now request the author to also research the economic hardships being caused among Bangladeshi farmers by dams being built in India on rivers flowing into Bangladesh, and see whether this is forcing poorer segments of Bangladesh's rural society to look across the border to India for a living. Nadeem Khan, London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

Rawalpindi is not a city where fortunes are made. It is a refuge for those seeking relief from the backbreaking labors of rural life and a home for those fleeing the violence on Pakistan's troubled frontier with Afghanistan. 'Pindi, as it is known, may be a stifling metropolis where crime goes unpunished and hard work unrewarded, but it also offers a chance at the first rung of a very long ladder toward financial stability. Yet that ladder goes only so high. The greensward of the Rawalpindi Golf Club teases the poor with dreams of the good life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of a Mumbai Terrorist | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

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