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...think that this attempt, to criminalize the care of widows and orphans, is a very underhanded way of pursuing a political agenda and that it is absolutely unconscionable to attack an organization that takes care of the poor, the sick because you disagree with the causes that may have contributed to these people’s destitution,” Yasin said...
...relief workers’ lives. She added, “I keep seeing you in a white coat,” and when I said I didn’t really have any medical training, she suggested that I might be a researcher. You know, the kind that brings sick people to helicoptors. She also said that I might just be very “medically sensitive,” that I could tell when people are sick very easily. That part is actually pretty true, if you substitute a word like “tall?...
...political commentator for the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. "People expected reforms. There was hope - and then everything stopped." Unemployment, unpaid salaries, beggarly pensions, a collapsing infrastructure and severe electricity shortages plagued the long-suffering population. People worried about getting kerosene in the winter or medicines for sick relatives. And they watched, bitterly, as ministers built grand dachas and drove around in Mercedes. Shevardnadze talked of anticorruption committees, but no official was ever prosecuted. Ongoing complications in the relationship between Russia and separatist statelet Abkhazia, after violence broke out in a remote part of that region in October...
...from the viewer. Food is a tool that can be used to enlighten and invigorate a sometimes pedantic art world. Joseph Beuys, one of the most influential artists of the last 50 years, shares Alhauser’s belief that food is healing. Society, which he thinks has become sick and corrupt, can only be reformed through individual creativity. The individual must realize his own creative potential in order to survive. For Beuys, food represents creativity. It is nourishing, life giving and both physically and spiritually cleansing. Food must be separated from the economic shackles that obscure its real purpose...
...humanism and a weak idea of tolerance. It has become a moral vacuum. Inspiring teachers are prohibited from discussing their moral or religious convictions with their students, and some students absorb this sour nihilism in dangerous ways. Recently, four teenagers in the Boston area were arrested for plotting a sick, heartless killing spree in their high school. Mass murders, gang activity and violence in public schools are now all too common. When will we learn that students in schools without positive moral aspirations will sink into festering amorality, alienation and even sociopathy...