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Alexander Koval, 46, figured his boarding house for a gold mine. The two-storied building with 23 double rooms is only a short walk from the Black Sea coast in Nizhneimeretinskaya Bukhta, a town just 28 miles (45 km) down the shoreline from Sochi - the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics. But Koval's reckoning of future wealth turned sour early this year when it started looking as if a government decree requisitioning his property for Olympic development could render his home and source of income all but worthless. "The prospect of confiscation has killed the real estate market...
...Harvard my new significant other?In the summer before my senior year of high school, my so-called best outfit was a short-sleeved “Speedy Gonzales” tee by Iceberg, black shorts with red lining by Guess, and a pair of black and red Chi-town Air Force Ones that I had custom outfitted with Gucci material on the toe and swoosh. I’d be shocked if anyone at Harvard even knows what Iceberg is, or once took the trouble to have their Timbs or Forces outfitted with Gucci, or even Louis Vuitton print...
...properly operated. Moreover, current light sources like kerosene lamps and candles raise safety issues, said Fabry, who is also a former Crimson associate arts chair. The inequality in access to energy sources leads to exploitation, Van Vuuren said. “The person who controls the light in the town has a disproportionate amount of power,” he said. To prevent exploitation and ignorance about how to properly use the product, Lebone Solutions plans to oversee a grassroots system where African entrepreneurs sell the devices. In July, Lebone Solutions will conduct a pilot study in Tanzania with...
...outspoken local civil rights activists have been reluctant to raise an uproar. Philadelphia's NAACP head J. Whyatt Mondesire, not a man known to be shy about criticizing the city police, publicly dismissed the Rev. Al Sharpton when he called the case "worse than Rodney King" and came to town to visit one of the beaten suspects. "We let him know we didn't particularly like outsiders coming in and making comments about a situation he wasn't aware of," Mondesire told TIME. "But he practices his own brand of headline grabbing. So let him do his own thing...
There are tens of thousands more in need in even more remote parts of the district, but the few foreign agencies in town are struggling to help them. "We don't have the means," says Sosa Calo. "To reach affected areas we have to use the river. And most of the boats in the area were destroyed by the cyclone." One area in Laputta district called Pyin Sa Lu was hit badly by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which destroyed houses and almost certainly lives (the junta released no data), then struck again by Cyclone Nargis. This time, more than...