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...Venezuela is also looking abroad to alleviate its housing woes. It has struck a deal with Chinese conglomerate Citic to build 20,000 new houses within two years. Even so, Patricia Duran and her fellow protesters say the housing plight is so dire in Caracas that the Mayor needs to find land where he can - even if it means expropriating golf courses. "If we have to go to that extreme, we have to do it," she said. "I imagine the rich are angry right now, but there's nothing else we can do. It's better if they help...
...growing risk of kidnapping, and the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem has warned that Americans traveling in the Palestinian territories are no longer safe. The consulate in mid-August issued kidnap warnings for Gaza and the West Bank after the abduction of two Fox News reporters. On Wednesday, kidnappers struck again: an American aid worker, Michael Philips, 24, from Louisiana was kidnapped from Nablus by a new gang calling itself Jaish al-Sunna (the "Sunni Army") which demanded the release of Palestinian women and minors from Israeli prisons. Palestinian security police freed Phillips, but the identity of his captors is still...
...clock struck seven and the judges took their places. Our professor judges—Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities Homi Bhabha and James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature Diana Sorensen—came with their respective daughters in tow, first-year Cornell undergraduate Leah Bhabha and Lisa K. Goodrich ’07. Former FM cover model Adrienne M. White ’08 and Adam P. Schneider ’07, a former FM associate editor and VP of Lewis Albert Corporation, took their places alongside the profs...
...undisputed King of the airwaves” says Martel’s first piece was “a breath of fresh air” among the “all-male crew in a sexist sport.” Martel is no novelty act, however, and Fernandez was struck by her “incredible boxing acumen.” “She knows more about boxing than some of the so-called experts,” Fernandez says. Martel has shaken up some of Ring Talk’s regular readership. Martel’s articles received...
...more than two years ago that Barack Obama—then a senatorial candidate for the state of Illinois and now the only African-American currently serving in the Senate— delivered a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. His speech struck such a resounding chord with a class of African-Americans that a couple of years later, a record number of African-American candidates are vying for upper-tier political offices. From gubernatorial candidates Deval L. Patrick ’78 in the state of Massachusetts, Lynn Swann of Pennsylvania, and Ken Blackwell of Ohio to senatorial...