Author: Dunia Mekonnen Tegegn Human rights lawyer, Ethiopia Maternal mortality is one of the shocking failures of development and a dreadful social injustice. According to recent UN official figures, 536,000 women die every year during pregnancy and birth. This is one death every minute. Out of...
Once considered a quirky or niche instrument, the ukulele has hada surge in popularityin recent years. But at the time my father gifted me with mine, there were no uke teachers around,[5]and I knew I wasn’t naturally gifted enough to have the discipline for self-taught lessons. So I ...
—though that would have been too perfect—that Karl had a moment of profound wisdom which has stayed with me all my life. He looked at the gallon jug balanced on his thigh, then at me, and said, “Davis, some people get everything they want in life. The rest of us become philosoph...
and I’m stoked that you and Dave have been brought together by my climb. Through climbing this route I got to see what’s inside of me, and because of that, everything else felt simple.”
If the Shah should run over an American dog, he would be called to account. But if an American cook should run over the Shah, no one would have any claim over him . . . If the men of religion had any influence, it would be impossible for the nation to be at one moment the pris...
Given this was a hot tub party, and not a personal finance 1X1 consulting session, I didn't dig deeper into his finances. But given the retired lawyer was 20 years my senior with adult children, I realized I had just “seen the future.” ...
The profession of a lawyer is from the very category that they talk about –“person-sign.” Realizing its importance, we rightly place the highest demands on the representatives of this profession. Of course, they are largely related to the personal characteristics of a person, since the legal...
s local transportation issue. Commissioners included George Winchester, later President of the Susquehanna Railroad Company; William H. Conkling, soon to be Director of the Savings Bank of Baltimore and a corporate partner in the National Fire Insurance Company; andJohn Thomas, a lawyer and recent ...
bikes home; a shower is made available nearby at the North YMCA; the municipal parking lot where many of us have parked our car is just next door; our luggage is deposited in the parking lot behind the visitor center for us to claim; some of us will take the shuttle bus back to ...
To add a bit more spice, a British newspaper has resurrected an old story on Rowe’s alleged claim that she was impregnated artificially by semen other than Jackson’s. [The children would still be considered Jewish, which would explain why the children are so fair.] Stay tuned for developm...