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...illustrated by the marvelous “Goodbye Lenin” story of Jan Grzebski, who woke up from a 19-year coma four days ago. When the former Polish railway worker suffered his horrific accident in 1988, millions of people languished behind the Iron Curtain, Americans practiced nuclear shelter drills, and students had to navigate the Dewey decimal system—a life unimaginable today. In Jan’s words, “When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere...
...when I’ve inquired about Sarkar’s whereabouts with the hopes that he might join me in drinking. Invariably he’d be unavailable because he had already committed to working an overnight shift at UniLu, Harvard’s student-run homeless shelter in the basement of University Lutheran Church. Since sophomore year he’s been a director of UniLu, sacrificing his Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks to work shifts that were short-staffed. For Sarkar, public service is not merely an extracurricular: it’s a fusion of the intellectual...
There's no way of knowing how many companion animals were left behind when Hurricane Katrina forced the evacuation of New Orleans. The Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which operates the city's animal shelter, estimates that 70,000 pets remained in the city during the storm; of those, about 15,000 were rescued. Only about 20% of the rescued animals were reunited with their owners, says LA/SPCA disaster preparedness coordinator Heather Rigney...
...After years of witnessing this misery, Calais officials voted last month to reopen a refugee center in September near the city's ferry dock. Immigrants will receive hot meals and showers there, but, unlike the shuttered shelter in Sangatte, no one will be allowed to sleep in the building. The plan has outraged some politicians in Britain, where, as in Sarkozy's campaign, immigration is a hot issue. Conservative Party immigration spokesman Damian Green has said he fears a fresh stampede of illegal immigrants from a new Calais center. The Calais mayor's spokesman Bernard Barron counters that his city...
...counts several of them as his friends. "They live in Haifa, and I was worried about them during the war last summer when the Hizballah rockets were falling," he says. "I told them that they could stay with us!" Omar likes the novel idea of his Jewish buddies taking shelter inside a Palestinian refugee camp, and I ask him if Jews and Palestinians are so different. No, he says. They're both smart, they value education, and they laugh at the same jokes. But in conversation with Omar, I realize that Jews and Arabs are fatally alike in another...