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...offer free space to refugees in their homes--from "a small 2 bdrm trailer" in West Virginia to "a double bed, plus a day bed" in the San Francisco Bay Area. A university in Orleans, France, offered to admit 50 displaced University of New Orleans students. The ambassador from Sri Lanka volunteered to raise money from the tsunami countries...
...seemed so inept. Somehow Harry Connick Jr. could get to the New Orleans Convention Center and offer help, but not the National Guard. Bush praised the "good work" on Thursday, then called the results "not acceptable" on Friday. By then, 55 nations had offered to pitch in--including Sri Lanka, whose disaster scars are still fresh. "Get off your asses, and let's do something," New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin raged in a radio interview that he ended in tears. But he of all people was in a position to understand the odds. A city known both...
...people were wiped out in seconds by the atomic blast. I believe the modernization occurred because the U.S. simply did not comprehend the extent of destruction the atom bomb would cause and thus set about rebuilding the city to ease the pain and guilt Americans felt. Tungsan Yu Colombo, Sri Lanka Reforming Islam Irshad Manji's essay "When Denial Can Kill" argued that Islam might be motivating suicide bombers [July 25]. She is right. It is not enough for Muslims to hide behind platitudes like "Islam means peace" and to say the radical fringe of Islam is exploiting the religion...
...Cruise Industry Charitable Foundation, which provides support for ocean research and preservation efforts as well as scholarships for kids in the areas where the ships do business. Mountain Travel Sobek This adventure-trip organizer works with grass-roots outfits to boost the local economy in countries like India and Sri Lanka. In China it supports the Nature Conservancy by training locals to be Yangtze River guides. Other Ways To Help Join Country Walkers' tree-planting project in Costa Rica to create a corridor for mono titi monkeys Improve health conditions in remote regions with Medicines Global by packing extra first...
...Sri Abdul Rahim Noor, accept responsibility for the ... assault. The pain and hurt caused to you and to your family is deeply regretted." RAHIM NOOR, former Malaysian police chief, in a statement apologizing for the beating of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim during Anwar's controversial 1998 arrest on sodomy and corruption charges...