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...rainfall patterns. Beyond the roads are staging areas so polluted with human waste and garbage that DiRosa must bring in commercial cleanup crews rather than rely on volunteers. One recent study estimated that each person crossing the desert leaves about eight pounds of garbage in his or her wake. Last year, the Border Patrol apprehended half a million illegal immigrants in Arizona; that means that, even if you only count the illegals who were apprehended and use a conservative estimate of five pounds of garbage for each, 2.5 million pounds of trash were left behind...
...tactics to racialized policing during Apartheid may be imperfect, the metaphor is apt: students who are routinely subject to identification checks regard their treatment on the Quad lawn as a harsh reminder that, by some, they are not viewed as being part of this community. In fact, in the wake of the incident many black alumni have cited similar trends of excessive scrutiny from HUPD, resident tutors, and their peers. Even faculty members have been subject to similar treatment because of their race. The two aforementioned editorials completely disregarded—and therefore trivialized—these accompanying facts...
...thousands were massacred on Saddam Hussein's orders in the 1990s, and tens of thousands have died in the Shi'ite-Sunni sectarian carnage in the past two years - learns to adapt its mourning traditions to its circumstances. During the war with Iran, Saddam barred newspapers from publishing wake notices; he worried that the sheer numbers of such notices would advertise just how badly his ill-judged war was going and demoralize his subjects. (Ironically, the current Iraqi government has taken a page out of the Saddam's rulebook, suppressing monthly death tolls and barring journalists and photographers from...
...Affluent families put on more elaborate wakes, building giant cylindrical tarpaulin tents in their gardens, where for three days visitors paid their condolences and ate hearty meals. The atmosphere was somber, punctuated by haunting lamentations performed by "adadas," or professional mourners: at a 2004 wake in Baghdad's Jihad neighborhood, I saw a group of old women in black abayas sing threnodies for four hours, egged on by an uncle of the deceased, who said, "Keep crying, I'll pay you more." (The going rate for a group of addadas was $150 per day, plus tips...
...Fear of Shi'ite militias also prevented Azhour from posting a black banner to mark Amer's death. There was no question of holding his wake in a mosque; fearful of attacks, many of them refuse to allow wakes. Nor could Azhour hold the wake in their former neighborhood, where their old friends and neighbors could attend. So she invited a handful of family members to the home of an uncle who lives across town. Nobody came...