…Y. “Are they SDF?” I asked, referring to the (Sans Domicile Fixe, the ‘Without Fixed Abode.’ “They are refugees, been here for a year or so.” “Where are they from?”…
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…cracked along client lines: if you serviced natural clients, but wore a straightened style yourself, you were a preachy poser whose hands were out of synch. So called from the…
…her face, in a devastating sans serif popularized by the Internet, was the slogan: Fire Up. The design was to be the face of a giant food and beverage corp.’s…
…no Comic Sans or Papyrus. I. UNTITLED #474 In this photograph is a wealthy, gray-haired woman in a dress of brown and gold and yellow sequins, like a sparkling cheetah….
…breathing in the area unpleasant. The feet continued on the tramway sans torso, ultimately to be plucked off and thrown away by another man who got out of bed knowing…
…made to wait for permission to enter a country whose people desperately needed their help. A few aid groups, including the Dutch branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres, which were already…
…the author of eleven books of poems, including Essays on Departure (Carcanet, 2006) and eight collections of poetry translations, most recently Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles (Graywolf, 2008). She received the first…
…tackling malaria through the mass distribution of more than one million Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets in 2008, and more than four million nets in 2009. By the review of…
…the library. This one had the jacket, which she’d never seen before—an Art Deco nineteen seventies-ish cover in yellows and creams, with a stout, sans-serif font for the title and…
…unfettered — evading the river patrol as he illegally paddles down the Colorado River, charming a border agent into letting him back into the country sans identification — you ask…
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…for our thoughts. What do we think about global military strategy, garrisoning the planet, the ways in which our forces are structured, and how, where, and for what they should…
…region for a humanitarian relief training mission, fully supplied, waited for an invitation that never came. France’s Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (a mass of contradictions who co-founded Medecins Sans Frontieres…
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…territory), was to stand on this small ridge and look out over it. It was May 2016; I was at the berm as a humanitarian-affairs officer with Médecins Sans Frontières…
…hub and a locus of financial and political exchange. Supporting social networks and the free trade of goods, services, and ideas, the agora enabled public speech and was thus central…
…the high-achieving high school seniors from families in the highest income quartile, but just one-third of the top low-income students. Students who are getting into institutions of higher education tend…
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…a prize handed over by a whimsical jury or because a combination of factors sent a ball into or over a net. We live in dreams; we go into the…
…decades, in fact, have seen serious and consistent attacks on social security, food assistance programs, unemployment benefits and education and health programs. As the social safety net has shrunk, the…
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…to enjoy the continental clientele and partake of the freely available drink and drugs. (At The Garden, it was said, Prohibition acted more like a stimulant than an embargo.) Buster…
…the Gulf of Maine in the early-nineteenth-century China trade, of my great-grandfather’s organizing the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company in 1899 not because of the money in the business but because of…
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…Syria’s largest city and home to much of the family’s clientele over the last seventy-three years. Syrians still untouched by the violence, in cities like Aleppo, were staying closer to…