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...crowd is milling in front of the overseas-worker processing office. Dozens of families - some red-eyed, others laughing - hang around, trying to draw out their last moments together. "This is normal," says Amie S. Catigbe, who has just parted with her sister again. "Everybody hugging, crying." She winces. "Sad." On the tarmac, planes are ready to scatter families to Dubai, to London, to Rome, to Hong Kong. Women sit in window seats, bracing themselves for another year, or another three years. As night falls, they watch Manila spread out beneath them. The lights of their houses...
...example of the Brown Report, current students are unlikely to reap the benefits of its findings before they graduate.Trevor J. Martin ’10, a VES concentrator and member of the Harvard College Art Society, is well aware of this fact. “It’s sad, but also really nice to know that I’ll visit the University and see how these initiatives have moved forward,” he says.‘WHAT’ AND NOT ‘HOW’Though they may not directly experience the Task Force?...
...Antonio is the first in a new class of amphibious ships - blue-water buses - each of which carries 350 sailors and is responsible for ferrying 700 Marines and their gear to global hot spots. And the ship's sad plight represents in miniature all that is wrong with the way the Pentagon buys its weapons. The pattern of haste and waste accelerated in the Cold War's wake and simply exploded following 9/11. It highlights the challenge facing President-elect Barack Obama as he contemplates retooling an Industrial Age military - primed for state-on-state warfare - into the more agile...
...President, I will close Guantánamo," Barack Obama promised in 2007. Now, as President-elect, shutting down the infamous prison camp he referred to as a "sad chapter in American history" is shaping up as one of his first priorities...
...sad reality is that without any representation on the city council, Jerusalem's tax-paying Arab residents are given short shrift in the allotment of schools, clinics and such basic services as mail delivery and garbage pick-up. Jerusalem's new pragmatic mayor Barkat made his huge fortune mastering the intricacies of cyberspace. He may find that virtual world a cinch compared to Jerusalem's seething complexities. - with reporting by Jamil Hamad and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem...