Word: squalidness
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...return to the kind of right-wing regime that encouraged atrocities like Raboteau in the first place? Two months after the arrival of some 3,500 international peacekeeping troops - who are scheduled to be replaced next month by a larger United Nations force - the nation is still in squalid, violent chaos and especially vulnerable to authoritarian solutions. Aristide himself was hardly a model of democracy and rule of law, and the Bush Administration made no secret of wanting him out. But the U.S., which has some 2,000 Marines patrolling Haiti, seems to have figured out that...
...Although nobody starves in Burma, poverty and malnutrition exist and are by some accounts increasing. Outside Mandalay, I visited the families of migrant workers who live in squalid lean-tos on the wide, refuse-strewn banks of the Irrawaddy River. They labor for subsistence wages, shoveling sand from dredging boats or hauling illegal timber. Often there's not enough work to go around, and sometimes?for example, when the dredgers run out of fuel?there's none at all. Sickness is everywhere. "I have a husband and three children," said a woman dressed in rags...
...driving out the rot. In a new world of tall towers and chain stores, the Disney company played both beauty and the beast--corporate pioneer in the once skanky wilderness but also chief symbol of the bland mass marketplace that the Square is today. It's not just the squalid 42nd Street of the '70s that has been wiped away. It's the rich, wild tangle of the prewar years. Traub is of two minds about "the stupendous contrivance" that Times Square has become. So are a lot of people. Nobody misses the junkies and peep shows...
...Aristide's opponents. Spokesman Thayer Scott concedes that the I.R.I.'s work "had a political party--building component" but insists that "it created positive democratic space." If Washington really hopes to rebuild Haiti, Maguire points out, the space it should first focus on is the country's squalid streets...
...Internet start-up run by well-dressed New Republic readers. The sweet-natured, churchgoing college interns at the Richard Gephardt campaign are far outnumbered by the brawny volunteer ironworkers. Joe Lieberman's nerdy, beleaguered staff, which is the best-liked in town, works out of the most squalid office. Dennis Kucinich's volunteers--smart misfits who live in a co-op and make decisions by consensus--oddly get along best with the John Edwards folks, who are preppy, racially diverse, good-looking Southern jocks. Before she dropped out last week, Carol Moseley Braun had exactly one campaign volunteer, McLane Heckman...