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...settle in the first E.U. country in which they land. For the thousands fleeing Afghanistan and Iraq, that usually means Greece, where the government grants asylum to only about 1% of refugees. "There are huge, huge differences between countries in the chance of being recognized as a refugee," says Wilbert van Hövell, regional representative in Brussels for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which has urged European governments to be flexible when implementing asylum laws. (Read "Greece's Immigrant Odyssey...
Rosso's big idea was to improve the product and the margins. (He had road tested the first part of that formula as a teenager selling friends $7 jeans he made on his mother's sewing machine.) In 1988 he hired a young Dutch fashion-school grad named Wilbert Das, and they began to experiment with dyes and destruction?all sorts of techniques to age the jeans and give them a more vintage feel. They moved pockets, reshaped the jeans, introduced curves?and then charged a whopping $79. Their look was Rosso's look, a blend of thrift store, Americana...
...write up your thesis, make sure that you write about us, about all the good things.” But, the boy added, “Be sure to tell them how horrific this is too.” A press officer for the Zimbabwean embassy in Washington, Wilbert Gwashavanhu, said of Baskshi’s account, “This is created. This is very, very, very untrue.”After reading an article about Bakshi’s arrest on the website of the Zimbabwe Standard newspaper, Gwashavanhu said, “An article like this...
...press officer for the Zimbabwean embassy in Washington, Wilbert Gwashavanhu, said of Baskshi’s account, "This is created. This is very, very, very untrue...
...rounds from a 25-mm cannon, obliterating the two-man RPG teams, to quiet the boulevard. Two Iraqi guardsmen were killed, and U.S. commanders say their troops killed dozens of insurgents in the fire fight. But the attacks haven't subsided. "[The insurgents are] not intimidated," says Staff Sergeant Wilbert Tynes. "You've actually got to wipe them out to get rid of them...