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...black former football hero as payback for years of police racism, and we condemned the decision as a simple case of money buying freedom. At New York City's Rikers Island prison, we broke into applause, guards and inmates alike. In the Harriet Tubman battered women's shelter in Minneapolis, Minn., we cried. Later that day, on the TV news, we watched each other watching, and soon that watching became the bigger news, for it taught us what else we had in common. We, each of us, could not believe that the other side could feel...
...property boom has begun, focused near the island's southwest tip at the historic Dutch fort of Galle, where 17th century seawalls shelter colonial houses, picturesque churches and mosques on narrow streets. There are fewer than 200 homes inside the citadel walls, now a UNESCO-designated World Heritage site, and in the past several years foreigners have bought at least 40 of them...
...initial post-Saddam days. Someone would have to dole out the humanitarian assistance that Iraqi civilians would need. Almost 60% of Iraqis depend on their government for food. "Liberators" would not be welcomed if they did not swiftly provide the country's 25 million citizens with rations, water, shelter and medical care. Under the plan, Franks would start delivering supplies in the wake of his advancing troops...
...best, architecture serves the public by providing more than just shelter; architects’ creations become a large screen on which to project the wishes of the populace. But architecture has not taken up such a heroic cause for a long time. This time it may not meet with total success, yet it is ultimately capable of filling this role...
...local orphanage. Some residents can't afford heat. Domestic violence flares. Families split. "There have been suicides," whispers Dulamgav, 63, who settled in Chingeltei last year. "The nomads are exhausted," says Rabdan Sambandobji , secretary-general of the Mongolian Red Cross. "If it were only a matter of food and shelter, they would eventually be okay. But these animals were passed down from generation to generation. If they lose them, they lose the meaning of their lives...