Tag: reconstruction
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July 14, 2006 05:23 PM EDT --
©This article copyright Sean-Paul Kelley
Since the war started we've been repeatedly told that we're building Iraqi schools, healthcare centers, and my personal favorite: turning the electricity . . . more
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July 26, 2008 09:40 AM EDT --
It's 7:12 a.m., Saturday morning on our block ...
Birds are singing, bee's are buzzing, flowers are nodding sweetly in the soft summer breezes .... NOT!!! Must be happening somewhere . . . more
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April 26, 2006 03:14 PM EDT --
In today's Wall Street Journal, Ann Marlowe starts off an article by describing a conversation she had with a recent Yale graduate:
"Why did you decide to come to Afghanistan?" I asked. . . . more
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March 10, 2007 08:54 PM EST --
Have you ever heard of Donald McCaig? He raises sheep and trains sheepdogs in rural Highland County, Virginia. At long intervals, five or six years apart, he will turn out a finely crafted historical . . . more
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August 02, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
Ol Poppin' Johnny still stands proud,
Amongst the trees in winter's shroud.
He plowed the furrows straight and deep
Upon the fields he earned his keep.
Grandpa stood behind his wheel,
Standing . . . more
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December 12, 2007 11:34 AM EST --
you know why?
when Black folks were given the opportunity to do all the things we had been wanting to do for a while, we DID IT! we didn't say, "the white school won't take us, so i guess . . . more
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June 20, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
I recently watched a Frontline show outlining the first few weeks following the fall of Saddam in Iraq. It was one of the most frustrating shows I have ever seen. The main focus was on Paul . . . more
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November 01, 2006 04:04 PM EST --
I am still stunned and angry, that over 14 months later, New Orleans and much of the Gulf coast is in the same decaying disarray witnessed 1 week after hurricane Katrina. Hundreds of thousands . . . more
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February 07, 2007 04:54 PM EST --
As reports of hurricane relief fraud surface this week, the Bush administration and the state of Louisiana are likely to use this to further starve legitimate reconstruction in New Orleans.
When the . . . more
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May 14, 2008 01:04 PM EDT --
A few weeks ago Stuart Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, reported that many illions of dollars of Iraq reconstruction contracts were "never finished . . . more
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February 17, 2006 02:20 PM EST --
Did anybody else out there in GatherLand hear THIS?
(Condoleezza Rice struggling through her testimony before Senate Budget Committee, 2/16)
One of my favorite theses is how statistics can be manipulated . . . more
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February 27, 2006 05:37 PM EST --
This article was written by my friend Laura Cheney, who is in the field right now. Because of our volunteer experience in New Orleans, LA and Biloxi, MS post Hurricane Katrina, Laura, myself and . . . more
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April 08, 2006 01:21 PM EDT --
A new food-for-work project organised by the World Food Programme is getting Afghan women out of the home and into fields rebuilding orchards :
The three-year programme, which was launched in October . . . more
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May 09, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
"hello everyone, my name is Anna, and I'm hard headed."
( What?? There's not a 12-Step program for this??)
For about, oh say my entire life I have, at . . . more
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January 28, 2008 05:20 PM EST --
Want to learn more about Pennsylvania's Civil War history? Looking for an interesting and unusual way to spend a weekend getting to know the Commonwealth? Need a place to take your out-of-state visitors . . . more
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December 05, 2005 04:29 PM EST --
I have screws in my head.
Just ask my most recent dentist, Dr. Sara Stock in Brookline, Massachusetts, who upon first look at my x-rays asked slowly, politely, "So . . . you were in some sort of . . . more
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January 25, 2007 07:56 AM EST --
Now that we are facing another Bush attempt to pour more of our nations assets into the sink hole that Iraq has become, it is encouraging to finally see there are some voices of opposition rising from . . . more
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August 29, 2007 11:42 AM EDT --
There probably never has been a professional athlete who lost so much wealth and potential wealth with one kick as this one. He received nearly $40 million just to sign on, and the legal folks at . . . more
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October 02, 2007 02:21 PM EDT --
JDA's Senior Accident Reconstruction Specialist John C. Scott recently presented a full-day seminar to the New York Statewide Traffic Accident Reconstructionist (NYSTARS) titled Investigating and Reconstructing . . . more
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October 27, 2007 03:46 PM EDT --
Wipe your slate clean. Forget everything you knew, or thought you knew about succeeding in everyday life. Forget everything you learned or could have learned and pick up this book to start anew. . . . more
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