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...says Harsaran Pandey, the World Health Organization's spokesperson for Southeast Asia. "A lot of the inpatients [stay] because they and their families have no place to go. As no hospital is geared to deal with such a large human populace on its premises, this is putting a heavy strain on water and sanitation facilities." So far, though, cholera and dysentery have been kept...
...doubt four years of Harvard education aggravated an already sensitive condition. The siren songs of Commencement speeches alone were enough to confer on even the most immune graduate a particularly virulent strain of the Syndrome. After all, we had just been told in English and in Latin that we were incredibly wonderful and talented. It was only normal to expect the world to roll out the Red Carpet for us. Hear ye, hear ye: hundreds of smart, talented, ambitious people are graduating from Harvard. World, make...
...City neighborhood. But his take on the Haditha killings is purely practical: the local morgue dealt with those bodies, and they were all claimed by family members, so they aren't his problem. He has more pressing concerns. The escalation of killings in Baghdad puts him under tremendous financial strain: he makes his living as a professional mortician but receives no payment for burying unclaimed bodies, which he sees as a religious duty. He estimates that each body he buries costs him $20, including the price of the body bag, the coarse white cotton shroud, gravediggers' fees, transportation costs...
...Each man was representative of a strain in American life. Brown grew up in Harlem, where his father ran the Hotel Theresa, which was frequented by celebrities. He earned a law degree at St. John's University, had a prominent career with the National Urban League and went on to become one of the great Washington insiders. Baldridge is probably best remembered for the Malcolm Baldridge award given to outstanding businesses or nonprofits, but he had a fascinating life. His father was a Nebraska congressman, and Baldridge went on to become head of Scovill, which makes fasteners for much...
...troops drawn from around the U.S. On the other, he made it clear that the Guard's role would be logistical, not law enforcement. And Bush tugged on different emotional strings-at once invoking America's immigrant past and at the same time describing illegals as a strain on local governments who bring crime. He continuously used the word "comprehensive" to make it clear that border security alone would not work...