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Pointedly, the emergency evacuation makes no allowances for shelter for those who opt not to evacuate. City officials do not want a repeat of the hellish conditions at the Superdome and the Convention Center, where thousands of people sought shelter after Katrina. The images and tales of people stranded in...
A visit to the Khadamiyah Women's Prison in the northern part of Baghdad immediately produces several tales of abduction and abandonment. A stunning 18-year-old nicknamed Amna, her black hair pulled back in a ponytail, says she was taken from an orphanage by an armed gang just after...
Until recently, the billboard alongside Highway 1 in Bac Ninh province offered only empty promises. "Applying Unity and Creativity Will Speed Up Industrialization," it stated, portraying happy factory workers staring rapturously at a hammer and sickle. But Bac Ninh, like most of northern Vietnam, had been largely left out of...
Over the past 15 years, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly important actors in Russia. They are deeply involved in development work, environmental protection, human rights, and many other issues. However, the resurgence of Kremlin authoritarianism has lead to the suppression of NGOs—and all forms of...
Gilmour interjects amusing tales of the inept legacy students who were in over their heads in the rigorous environment of Haileybury. Another interesting anecdote concerns Haileybury’s most famous professor, the economist Thomas Malthus, who memorably encountered several of his students on the way to chapel with ?...