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...education systems, local administration - are either extremely frail or virtually nonexistent. Insurgent armies still hold sway over parts of the borderlands. And in some other areas there simply isn't much government at all; perhaps an army battalion to keep down any potential dissent, but almost nothing to provide basic social and legal services. Any major political upheaval is as likely to lead to anarchy as anything else...
...economy still closely tied to official power and patronage, and a growing underclass facing greater hardship than ever before. Millions of poor people from rural areas are on the move, in search of work and food, including across the border into Thailand. Many are now in desperate need of basic life-saving assistance, and yet per capita international aid to Burma (less than $3 a year per person) remains about a twentieth of what's provided to Cambodia, Laos or Vietnam...
DEFINITION kwik-ship n. The name for a $20,000 bonus offered to U.S. Army recruits who agree to report for basic training within 30 days of signing...
...Everything John Edwards says, does and wears, from the frayed cuffs of his faded jeans to the rolled-up sleeves of his basic blue shirt, tells these people he is one of them. He may be a millionaire trial lawyer, but he made his money by taking on corporations on behalf of regular folks, "and I beat 'em and I beat 'em and I beat 'em again." He and Elizabeth fall into a little routine onstage-she's the smart, gabby wife, he's the exasperated but loving husband-and when she interrupts him by mopping up some water that...
...Hill points out that in times of crisis - and the two years since Hurricane Katrina have been one prolonged crisis - ethnic groups tend to circle the wagons. "When people's basic psychological needs, and physical needs - security, food and sustenance, health care - are not being met, when they're frustrated in fulfilling those needs, there's a tendency to fall back on ethnic group identity," he says. "I think that both whites and African-Americans have fallen back on their ethnic group identity to fulfill their basic needs, and to give them political advantages during the recovery...