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- But the last four notes in the documents interested me: Maldives Kosovo Cambodia Never Tell Our Business to Strangers Unless you leave a leg behind The jogger's mouth It was impossible to know when those notes had been written, and whether they'd all been written at once, but they certainly seemed connected: A quick search told me that Kosovo, Cambodia, and the Maldives were all nations that had no extradition treaty with the United States, meaning that Pickett might be allowed to stay…† (source)
- There were children from Lebanon, Cambodia, Kosovo, Brazil, Norway, Yemen, Mozambique, Palestine, Guatemala, the U.S. (New York), South Africa, Peru, Northern Ireland, India, Papua New Guinea, Malawi, to name a few.† (source)
- Cambodia?† (source)
- He reads about U.S. planes bombing Vietcong supply routes in Cambodia, Naxalites being murdered on the streets of Calcutta, India and Pakistan going to war.† (source)
- And now they think that a whole regiment of North Vietnamese regulars are coming through Laos and Cambodia now.† (source)
- She has worked with child prostitutes in Cambodia.† (source)
- Part of him wished Sal lived across the country, or in Cambodia, so that the temptation to visit him wouldn't be so strong.† (source)
- We spent two years in Cambodia with the Peace Corps, and after that he took a job with the United Way while I worked at a free clinic.† (source)
- Laos, Chaos, Cambodia.† (source)
- So two months later, she was able to escape and make her way back to Cambodia.† (source)
- These failures have cast a dark shadow over humanity: two World Wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations -- Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin -- bloodbaths in Cambodia and Nigeria, India and Pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo; the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima.† (source)
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- Walking over the bodies of their countrymen to escape Cambodia.† (source)
- He had first heard of this sexual practice for enlarging the anus on his trips to Thailand and Cambodia.† (source)
- They were planning a march on Cambodia and invited him to join them.† (source)
- To the east, Cambodia.† (source)
- My erudite friend from Cambodia and beyond doesn't climb over fences with his foot in cement at three o'clock in the morning unless he thinks he has to.† (source)
- Not in pretty Paris, London and Madrid, but in Laos, Lebanon, Cambodia.† (source)
- Lightman and his wife, Jean, started the Harpswell Foundation to help disadvantaged students in Cambodia obtain an education.† (source)
- There was a lot of Cong activity and the special forces guys in Cambodia were spotting convoys.† (source)
- "From the north through Cambodia, is the word," he said.† (source)
- Intelligence reports a lot of movement just north of the DMZ and in Cambodia and Laos.† (source)
- 'Including his wife and children in Cambodia?† (source)
- Remember, Cambodia was neutral; no one wanted to be responsible.† (source)
- What remains of the dying population of Cambodia?† (source)
- How about taking one of a future award-winning photographer on his way out of Cambodia?† (source)
- After college, it came with us to Cambodia, then hack to the States.† (source)
- So American Assistance for Cambodia focuses on educating rural children, especially girls.† (source)
- That is the weight of how valuable seeing Cambodia was for me.† (source)
- He told her of Cambodia, and though his voice was flat, she could see it as he had.† (source)
- He traveled to the borders of Cambodia only for Sabina.† (source)
- In Cambodia a sweet face and a generous smile had blinded him to treachery.† (source)
- Wasn't Cambodia the same as Sabina's country?† (source)
- Bernie Krisher of American Assistance for Cambodia tried another approach.† (source)
- Long Pross was thirteen when she was kidnapped and sold to a brothel in Cambodia.† (source)
- All at once, the Cambodia venture struck him as meaningless, laughable.† (source)
- Cambodia was racked by famine, and people were dying for want of medical care.† (source)
- Time spent in Congo and Cambodia might not be as pleasant as in Paris, but it will be life-changing.† (source)
- The Overlake School in Cambodia is indeed an extraordinary place.† (source)
- American Assistance for Cambodia agreed to look after her and help her.† (source)
- After the war, Cain made his reputation throughout most of East Asia, from as far north as Tokyo down through the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, with side trips to Hong Kong, Cambodia, Laos and Calcutta.† (source)
- And Alex Conklin — according to his deposition as well as his own numerous psychiatric sessions with Mo Panov and what vague memories David could provide — had been a close friend of Foreign Service Officer Webb and his Thai wife and their children in Cambodia a lifetime ago.† (source)
- Then back across the world to stations in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Cambodia, Laos, and finally Saigon and the tragedy that was Vietnam.† (source)
- We are ordinary people: My friend Jemma, from Armenia; Paul, from Canada; Kosal, a landmine survivor from Cambodia; Haboubba, from Lebanon; Christian, from Norway; Diana, from Colombia; Margaret, another landmine survivor, from Uganda; and thousands more.† (source)
- Panov had been looking for clues to Jason Bourne's identity then, for all they had at the time were a first name and fragmented images of painful death in Cambodia.† (source)
- In Cambodia?† (source)
- There'd been a time, during the first months after his return from Cambodia, that Shade had had the dream regularly.† (source)
- The march on Cambodia had been their idea, and here the Americans, supremely unabashed as usual, had not only taken over, but had taken over in English without a thought that a Dane or a Frenchman might not understand them.† (source)
- Cambodia had recently been through American bombardment, a civil war, a paroxysm of carnage by local Communists that reduced the small nation by a fifth, and finally occupation by neighboring Vietnam, which by then was a mere vassal of Russia.† (source)
- Here he was, standing only a few steps from the bridge joining Thailand to Cambodia, and he felt an overwhelming desire to run out onto it, scream bloodcurdling curses to the skies, and die in a great clatter of gunfire.† (source)
- The school dedication--and the full week in Cambodia--left an indelible impression on the American students.† (source)
- American Assistance for Cambodia agreed to monitor Momm and assist her transition, and in the next few days Momm phoned repeatedly with updates.† (source)
- Yes, said Franz to himself, the Grand March goes on, the world's indifference notwithstanding, but it is growing nervous and hectic: yesterday against the American occupation of Vietnam, today against the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia; yesterday for Israel, today for the Palestinians; yesterday for Cuba, tomorrow against Cuba and always against America; at times against massacres and at times in support of other massacres; Europe marches on, and to keep up with events, to leave…† (source)
- The actress spoke about suffering children, about the barbarity of Communist dictatorship, the human right to security, the current threat to the traditional values of civilized society, the inalienable freedom of the human individual, and President Carter, who was deeply sorrowed by the events in Cambodia.† (source)
- The students conducted bake sales, car washes, and talent shows, and also educated themselves about Cambodia's history of war and genocide.† (source)
- American Assistance for Cambodia tried to get her medical treatment, but Neth thought it was hopeless.† (source)
- Just then the interpreter, at the head of the parade, raised a large megaphone to her lips and called out in Khmer to the other side: These people are doctors; they request permission to enter the territory of Cambodia and offer medical assistance; they have no political designs whatsoever and are guided solely by a concern for human life.† (source)
- Over Christmas vacation 2008, we took our family to Cambodia--including our three children--and had a joyous meeting with Momm in Poipet.† (source)
- We ourselves have recently built a school in Cambodia, like those students in Seattle under Frank Grijalva, but there are drawbacks.† (source)
- In rural Cambodia, an HIV diagnosis felt like a death sentence, and Neth didn't think she had long to live.† (source)
- Just as Neth and her girlfriends were about to leave, an aid worker from American Assistance for Cambodia dropped by to see how she was getting on.† (source)
- Grijalva had a brainstorm: His students could sponsor a school in Cambodia and use it as a way of emphasizing the importance of public service.† (source)
- In India, for example, brothels are technically illegal--but, as we said earlier, they are ubiquitous; the same is true in Cambodia.† (source)
- So Overlake students and parents decided to forge an ongoing relationship with its namesake in Cambodia.† (source)
- Family members may have suspected that Momm had been trafficked, but they didn't press her when she said vaguely that she had been working in western Cambodia.† (source)
- Frank heard about Bernard Krisher, a former Newsweek correspondent who was so appalled by poverty in Cambodia that he formed an aid group, American Assistance for Cambodia.† (source)
- In February 2003, the school construction was completed, and Grijalva led a delegation of nineteen students from Overlake School to Cambodia for the opening.† (source)
- Travelers crossing between Thailand and Cambodia walk along this strip, the size of a football field, and it is lined with peddlers selling drinks, snacks, and souvenirs.† (source)
- The group, American Assistance for Cambodia, used $400 in donated funds to buy a small cart and a starter selection of goods so that Rath could become a street peddler.† (source)
- Bernie Krisher of American Assistance for Cambodia set her up in Phnom Penh twice more, but each time she ran away after a few days, desperate to get back to her meth supply.† (source)
- They lugged along boxes of school supplies, but as they approached Pailin by car, they realized that Cambodia's needs were greater than they ever could have imagined.† (source)
- So if you ever cross from Thailand into Cambodia at Poipet, look for a shop on your left, halfway down the strip, where a teenage girl will call out to you, smile, and try to sell you a souvenir cap.† (source)
- Our unusual purchase came about when Nick traveled with Naka Nathaniel, then a New York Times videographer, to an area in northwestern Cambodia notorious for its criminality.† (source)
- To address these financial pressures, American Assistance for Cambodia started a program called Girls Be Ambitious, which in effect bribes families to keep girls in school.† (source)
- In Cambodia, a twenty-seven-year-old former prostitute told us of her struggles with AIDS, and we assumed that she had caught the virus in the brothel.† (source)
- Momm lived all the way across Cambodia, and with every passing mile of our long drive, she became more anxious about whether her family would accept or reject her.† (source)
- "After going to Cambodia, my plans for the future have changed," said Natalie Hammerquist, a seventeen-year-old at Overlake who regularly e-mails two Cambodian students.† (source)
- Srey Rath and her son in front of her shop in Cambodia (Nicholas D. Kristof) Rath's eventual triumph is a reminder that if girls get a chance, in the form of an education or a microloan, they can be more than baubles or slaves; many of them can run businesses.† (source)
- But then the State Department began putting out the TIP report and severely criticized Cambodia, media reports put a spotlight on Cambodian slavery of girls, and the International Justice Mission opened an office there.† (source)
- Kun Sokkea in front of the Overlake School in Cambodia (Nicholas D. Kristof) "This project is simply the most meaningful and worthwhile initiative that I have undertaken in my thirty-six years in education," Frank Grijalva said.† (source)
- Bodhisattva (carved stone, Cambodia, twelfth century A.D.).† (source)
- The Chariot of the Moon (carved stone, Cambodia, C. A.D. 1113-1150).† (source)
- …Zee or the Scheld, Others as comers and goers at Gibraltar or the Dardanelles, Others sternly push their way through the northern winter-packs, Others descend or ascend the Obi or the Lena, Others the Niger or the Congo, others the Indus, the Burampooter and Cambodia, Others wait steam'd up ready to start in the ports of Australia, Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux, the Hague, Copenhagen, Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama.† (source)
- You know the town of Cambodia is about fifteen leagues up this river; about three leagues on this side of it, there lie two Dutch and three English ships.† (source)
- One day, as I was on shore refreshing myself, there comes to me an Englishman, who was gunner's mate on board an English East India ship, riding up the river near the city of Cambodia.† (source)
- No sooner were we clear of those rugged seas, but we perceived our ship had sprung a leak, which obliged us to put into the river Cambodia, which lies northward of the Gulph, and goes up to Siam.† (source)
- The rogues were lately discovered in the bay of Siam, in the river of Cambodia, by some Dutchmen who belonged to the ship, and had much ado to escape the five boats that pursued them, but they have solemnly sworn to give no quarter to the Captain or the seamen but hang them every one up at the yard-arm, without any formal business of bringing them to a court of judicature_.† (source)
- In parting with the ship, it comes in course to consider of those men who had saved our lives when in the river of Cambodia; and though, by the way, they were a couple of rogues, who thought to turn pirates themselves, yet we paid them what they had before demanded, and gave each of them a small sum of money, making the Englishman a gunner, and the Dutchman a boatswain, with which they were very well contented.† (source)
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