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What would? Ethiopia thought it had found one answer. In 2005 a $1.4 billion five-year program identified 7.3 million Ethiopians unable to live without free food and gave them jobs in rural projects, such as roads and irrigation. The idea was to create livelihoods as well as to save lives. It was working, slowly. By this year, says a Western economist familiar with the effort, "a few thousand" had left the program and were making it on their own. Then came the double blow of drought and soaring food prices. Of the 7.3 million, 5.4 million suddenly needed extra...
Thus began a strange new life for Solzhenitsyn. With his wife and three sons he settled on a 50-acre compound in rural Vermont, where he preserved every aspect of Russian life that he could. Once a year he would commemorate the day of his arrest with a 'convict's day,' when he reverted to the diet of bread, broth and oats he ate in the labor camps. He rose early every day and wrote until dusk - producing, among other works, his novel-cycle The Red Wheel, a vast, Tolstoyan account of the Russian revolution that runs...
...been a kind of mini "surge" of police officers patrolling on foot and bicycle in high-crime neighborhoods, supported by helicopters frequently hovering overhead - which raises the level of anxiety of many residents. But bringing in state troopers may not be the answer, because being drawn largely from rural, mostly white locales, they are generally unaccustomed to the demands of urban policing. "A military response will invite even more problems," says Dennis Rosenbaum, a criminal justice and psychology professor at Loyola University here...
After democratic elections resumed in late 2007 and his surviving political allies were elected, Thaksin returned to Bangkok. He is still enormously popular with poor and rural voters who felt his government, despite the charges against it, was the first to put their interests, like universal health care and debt relief for farmers, on the national agenda...
...this week's verdict will play out in rural Thailand, where Thaksin enjoys his greatest support, remains to be seen. Last week, violence broke out in two northeastern provinces when pro-government groups attacked anti-government demonstrators as police looked on. Dozens were injured, prompting civil rights groups, academics and opposition politicians to demand the government protect its opponents' right to peacefully protest...