Word: remain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Though students like Havice are a minority on campus, only around 30 participate in ROTC programs at all, she is among a small group of members of the Harvard community that have served in Iraq over the past five years. A number still remain abroad...
...Such understanding may be part of the reason why the battalion’s numbers remain steady...
...majority of Iraqis, the future is bleak indeed. More than two million—most of them middle-class professionals—have left the country, with another two million internally displaced. This means that, for those who remain, the numbers of doctors, professors, university teachers, engineers and technicians available to them sinks by the day. Meanwhile, central government has more or less ceased to exist, leaving the provision of social services to local sectarian strong-men and their militias who allocate these services on a mainly religio-political basis. In short, most Iraqis now live in localities governed...
...parallel between modern politics and comedy: both are startlingly devoid of women. Why is this? There are few holdout “man’s jobs” nowadays. The priesthood? University presidency? Women demolished those glass ceilings eons ago. So why do female comics and female politicians remain rare enough that there are still forums on how to get more of them? Comedy and politics have a lot in common. Both are great ways to pick up chicks—just look at Governor Spitzer. Or Ellen Degeneres. Both require spending time on the road meeting strangers...
...problem is, it's also considered the building block of broken lives in the rest of the world, where cocaine consumption and addiction remain rampant in developed regions like North America and Europe. The U.S. has spent more than $5 billion this decade aiding Colombia's largely failed efforts to eradicate coca cultivation. Meanwhile, Washington and the U.N. have tried to get Bolivia and Peru to reduce their coca crops to the bare minimum for traditional consumption. Peru and Bolivia are the region's second and third largest coca producers, behind Colombia, with about more than 75,000 hectares...