Word: stricken
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...Week Two former U.S. Presidents, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, arrived in Asia last week on a four-country tour to keep the world's attention focused on the aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami. The pair?in Democrat blue and Republican red, respectively?visited a stricken village in southern Thailand on their first stop; an emotional Bush praised "the spirit of the Thai people" while Clinton stressed the need "not to forget these people and places when all the cameras are not there...
Playing with an injured and flu-stricken lineup, the Crimson (8-1, 5-0 Ivy) pieced together two straight victories over the weekend, beating Penn 8-1 on Saturday and squeaking by Princeton 5-4 on Sunday...
Briski, who is almost as much the film's subject as the children are, is seen arranging interviews for them at schools that offer opportunities to leave the brothels. But the mothers are not universally encouraging about escape. They seem to believe that this brutal, poverty-stricken life is all their offspring deserve...
...MAKING A NEW PLEA While advertisers remain sensitive to the plight of the tsunami victims, travelers are being encouraged to come back to stricken destinations; officials are calling tourist dollars a direct form of aid. The Sri Lanka Tourist Board's new slogan reads, IF YOU WANT TO SAVE US, COME AND VISIT...
...world. It will soon dispatch a team to plan the rebuilding of the Lho Nga plant and nearby villages. "It's a human challenge of massive scale," says Alain Guillen, vice president for social policies at Lafarge. Across Europe, corporations and individuals have stepped up to aid a stricken region where they have been working and playing for generations, and with which they feel a strong bond. They've pledged tens of millions of euros, millions of doses of drugs, and the people and equipment needed to reconstruct damaged infrastructure. On Dec. 30, Christopher Bland, chairman of the U.K. telecommunications...