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Following the proverb “Drop by drop you make a river,” a group of female undergrads is making a difference $30 by $30. The Circle of Women, a nonprofit organization founded by Harvard students, has started an initiative to get 30 women under 30 to donate $30 in 30 days—and to get each woman to recruit another 30 students to the cause. The money will go to the construction of a school for women in Afghanistan, where the female literacy rate is just 12 percent. “Our mission...
...you’ve come to help me, go away,” the proverb goes. “If we can work together, then let’s get started...
...struck a positive note Friday but tempered Idham's optimism. "I'm not going to say it's very good, but it's good now, better," he said. He encouraged his fellows to be patient with the Marines and help them identify strangers in Sinaa, citing a local Arab proverb as the final word at Friday's meeting. "One who has seen death, can tolerate fever," he said with a raspy cackle and a knowing grin...
...ground? "I'm used to being beaten up," she says wryly. "You try as best you can not to think about that while you're writing it. A friend of mine stuck on my refrigerator door many years ago this little slogan she had on a calendar, a Yugoslav proverb that said, 'Tell the truth and run.' " TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with the author at her home in San Francisco...
...they still consider their champion. "Bridging this [urban-rural] divide is Abhisit's biggest challenge," says Chaiwat Satha-Anand, a political scientist at Bangkok's Thammasat University. Even Abhisit, who is trying to court farmers with promises of free education and low-cost health care, acknowledges an old Thai proverb: "Rural voters elect governments; urban voters get rid of them...