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...poorer countries, the same price hike has left low-income families struggling to maintain a minimal diet. Egypt, which subsidizes bread prices for its poorest citizens, had to shell out an extra $850 million on wheat last year, and the UN blames rising food prices for difficulty in meeting many of its Millennium Development goals in Sub-Saharan Africa...
...Although Adams and McDormand make a delightful pair, they can’t rescue the movie from the superficiality of its screenplay. The characters are too flat to elevate the film to the level of profound social commentary. Instead of a substantive film, all Nalluri leaves us is a shell of what could have been a meaningful story of one woman’s ability to rise above her unfortunate circumstances...
...swings between humor and pathos ended that evening at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater, an ornate, three-tier orchestra hall whose stage had recently been fitted with a new acoustic shell to make the venue worthy of the New York Philharmonic. About 1,400 people jammed the hall--a few dozen foreign diplomats and business people, the rest North Koreans. When Maazel took the podium, it quickly became clear that the evening would be one of emotion. North Korean and U.S. flags stood at either end of the stage, and the audience rose as both nations' anthems were played...
...recent years, but what holds it together is an almost cultish devotion to the personality of its founding father—whether or not this was Buckley’s intention at all. Such were his charms. Similarly, while conservatism erodes today as a practical governing philosophy, a shell of the monolith that Bill built, it is alive and well for its faithful, who were always drawn to it more as a cultural religion than an active political ideology...
...study rooms, no offices. On a growing campus of roughly 25,000 students, the building, officials argue, is obsolete. Given its design, says Melanie Magara, NIU's assistant vice president for public affairs, "You can't remodel it. It cannot be repurposed. It's just a shell. It didn't take too long to come to the conclusion we needed to raze the building and perhaps build a new one." But, some observers ask, might it be possible - and more cost-efficient - to convert the two lecture halls into a collection of smaller classrooms? And why spend so much money...