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...result is an unabashed miscellany that delights in its own variety: its 200-odd pages span the breadth of fiction, reportage, memoir, travel writing, polemic and even photography. Wood says the magazine will eventually produce themed issues, but for now, readers can expect the unexpected. Dip into recent copies and you'll find them packed with everything from poetry by Margaret Atwood to a photo-essay on the Mumbai bombings to experimental short fiction by emerging Singaporean writer O Thiam Chin...
...good work they've been doing and to raise vital campaign funds. The Legislative Branch has made a tradition of taking August off, going back to the first Congress, in New York City in 1790. Back then, the break lasted until December (it often took weeks to travel between New York and some Southern states). Throughout much of the 19th century, Congress adjourned in June or July to escape the heat of Washington summers. Beginning in 1911, however, Congress met frequently in the summer months, particularly during both world wars. Since 1970 the August break has been congressionally mandated...
...Catholics of Sri Lanka, Aug. 15 this year marked a similar miracle: the survival of a 500-year-old statue of the Virgin, through the fiery tumult of a quarter-century of civil war, which was re-ensconced in a jungle church that was once again safe to travel...
Jason Motlagh's travel to Afghanistan and South Asia was funded by the nonprofit Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting...
...Policy and Management, who headed the research team. But in general the heavy reliance on the state is an indicator of the underdeveloped state of many NGOs in China. "Most NGOs are incapable and desperately in need of money," says Deng. "Some of them couldn't even afford to travel to the earthquake zone. In order to get any results for their money, those groups had to rely in turn on the government...