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...turned businessman, and Rushdie himself studied history at King’s College, Cambridge. Now Rushdie has fallen for the American Ivy League voodoo. According to Gawker, he now with Min Katrina Lieskovsky ’03, a half-Hungarian and half-Chinese former religion concentrator who wrote her senior thesis on the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, studied the intersection of anthropology and literature and biology, loved traveling, and dreamed of being Angelina Jolie’s assistant doing UN work in Cambodia. “I can’t think of anything that make her anything like...
...full of fighting kites is symbolic. The multiplicity of explosive Afghan factions, competing interests and networks remain so complex and hazardous that honest students of the country's recent history are eager to point out the limits of their own knowledge. It is all daunting. As John Dempsey, Senior Rule of Law Advisor for the United States Institute of Peace, says, "there are things I still find confusing about this place, and I've been here seven years." (Read a story about Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner...
Carolina Lombardi, a senior attorney at Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc., which is mentoring some of the UM fellows, says foreclosure defendants also need attorneys to help them fend off all-too-frequent lender practices like exorbitant escrow claims. "Homeowners who have lawyers are usually prevailing in those cases," says Lombardi. But she notes that unless homeowners fall below the federal poverty line ($22,000 for a family of four), they can't qualify for the free legal aid that agencies like hers provide. That creates an obstacle for most foreclosure defendants, who aren't impoverished but because...
...senior partners in the coalition are Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU). Westerwelle heads the junior coalition party, the Free Democrats, and campaigned primarily on economic and finance issues. He was forced to scale back his demands for deep tax cuts in the coalition talks, and his demand to turn Germany into a nuclear weapon-free zone may have been agreed partly to assuage the sting of compromise. Merkel said that she would be seeking the withdrawal within the context of NATO, rather than as a unilateral measure...
...Some of the developers in Mexico are affiliated with firms in the U.S., so there will certainly be support in Washington from those firms," Crist says. "Both the senior-housing industry and the health-care industry are internationalizing, and the U.S. players in these industries will be big winners. They have the capital, and the experience to dominate this industry in Mexico and elsewhere, because the senior-housing industry, in particular, is so new in many countries...