Word: suffering
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...respond to TIME's interview requests, but his officials gladly rattle off lists of figures to show Tunisia's progress under his regime. The numbers are striking: while Egypt and Algeria suffer from chronic shortages, Tunisia has a 15% surplus of housing, thanks to massive government construction programs. And about 80% of Tunisians own their homes - ahead of much of Europe. While African countries struggle to educate their children, school is compulsory - and free - in Tunisia up to age 16. About 34% of Tunisian high school graduates go to university, more than five times the rate when Ben Ali took...
...international cooperation at Tunisia's Ministry of the Interior. In October the ripples from Tunisia's approach to human rights reached Washington: a federal judge ordered the U.S. government not to send a Guantánamo detainee home to Tunisia, fearing he'd be tortured in jail and suffer "devastating and irreparable harm." Ten Tunisians remain in Guantánamo, and Refaï says they can expect many years in prison if they are repatriated...
...Most of these unions, without doubt, are successful ones. But some overseas marriages can be problematic. At a MOIA conference on the issue in February, Girija Vyas, chairperson of India's National Commission for Women, noted that brides going abroad can suffer from culture shock if they have had no prior exposure to the West. Their overseas-raised spouses, meanwhile, can find themselves pressured into a traditional marriage by émigré parents. The combination can result in loveless, incompatible relationships and eventually, divorce. The worst cases, however, are those "where NRI men come to India seeking either huge dowries...
...even whiz kids suffer setbacks. In 2003, despite never having run for office, Jindal lost the gubernatorial race by only four points to Democrat Kathleen Blanco. He had led the race for months, and while Jindal will never admit it, his ethnicity likely played at least some part in his defeat. Despite a college-era conversion from Hinduism to Catholicism and his close alignment with the passionately pro-life wing of the GOP, Jindal could not convince rural voters in the state's north, who had voted for white supremacist David Duke less than two decades earlier, to give...
...global chaos and uncertainty while examining longstanding philosophical questions involving everything from memory to the mundane. His skeletal poems skillfully tie together the past and the present, exploring the capacity of collective memory and selective forgetting while leaving ample room for readers to reach their own conclusions about human suffering and contemporary existence. Pinsky divides “Gulf Music” into three sections. The first poems, which explore the human capacity to both cause and endure suffering, tackle current events such as Hurricane Katrina and the horrors of Guantánamo. Pinksy adopts a personal tone, asking...