Word: squalidity
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...faculty of Harvard University or the first 100 names in the Boston telephone book. Why? It's their knowledgeable, companionable talk, the stories that their curiosity has unearthed and accumulated - their confidence that the world is a fascinating place and that journalism, though it may sometimes be wrongheaded or squalid, is also critically important and, quite often, a huge amount of fun. Correspondents like Pearl are the true students of the world's diversity (as opposed to narrow-gauge group-identity ideologues at home, each crowd sitting at its own table in the cafeteria and glaring at the others through...
...saddens me to say it, but since the Oslo Accords in 1993, the Occupied Territories have shown a striking resemblance to my country under apartheid rule. The impoverished Palestinians live in squalid third-world conditions alongside the first-world Israeli settlers. Much like the black South Africans under my government’s rule, Palestinians can’t even travel on the same roads as the settlers, and they are confined to tiny Bantustans. When they wish to leave their Bantustan to go to the market, school or work, they are subject to the whims of the Israeli Defense...
...Skinny and brown might be an amusing goal if Tansy ever morphed into Ab Fab's Edina. She doesn't. Instead her shock upon discovering that parts of Vietnam are squalid makes for condescendingly dark comedy. And it would take a more skillful parody to convince readers that Tansy hopes Asia will wean her off drugs...
...Tondo, a rank, perilously crowded slum that has essentially been Manila's garbage dump for a decade. On her first visit, she was greeted with boos and pro-Estrada chants. Instead of fleeing, though, she scrambled ahead of her security detail and climbed the cramped stairwells to the squalid apartments and landings from which the voices emanated: "Can I come in?" she shouted, "Let's talk about this. Why are you so angry with me?" They were angry because she and her middle-class backers had deposed their hero...
...abusive atmosphere of her family. Though quiet and meek, Tille struggles against her resentful mother and dreams of a career exploring the mysteries of the atom. Her mother, Beatrice (Sharon O. Doku ’05), is a broken woman whose difficult life has caged her in their small, squalid home. Because she resents her fate, she terrorizes Tillie, her other daughter, Ruth (Sasha G. Weiss ’05), and the decrepit old boarder for whom she cares (Megan L. Gaffney...