India and China each have hundreds of millions of citizens waiting to escape hard, impoverished lives.
Then there is the tumultuous world of politics and sectarian violence in Benares -- a world of student radicals, criminal gangs and restless, discontented young men hoping to escape their impoverished pasts.
They decide they will write a novel together to become rich (and escape their impoverished neighbourhood).
In order to escape his impoverished background, he reveals, he joined Opus Dei, and eventually served as a tutor for General Pinochet.
His play Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, about a man's struggle to escape an impoverished Port of Spain slum, was produced first in London in 1958 and then revised for a production in New York City in 1962.
The boats were to have been used in the first in a series of illegal boat crossings organized and financed by human rights activists, who want to help North Koreans escape their impoverished homeland.
Indeed, these themes can be seen throughout his career – from his poetry collection Kalakuta Republic and his novel Song for Night, which explore the more visceral aspects of trauma upon survivors of torture and child soldiers, to his novel Graceland, which follows a boy trying to escape the impoverished ghettoes and violence of Lagos.
This story involves two strangers: one, a man of few means, who sought to escape his impoverished life; the other, a woman who had the means to live life comfortably, but denied herself all its amenities.
By Simon Ingram PORT-AU-PRINCE PORT-AU-PRINCE PORT-AU-PRINCEg a visit to Haiti yesterday, former US President and UN special envoy Bill Clinton praised the United Nations for its response to the devastating 124January earthquake, saying now was the tiMarch 2010 the country escape its impoverisheDuring and build a better future.
Ms. Dirie escaped an impoverished childhood in Somalia and, largely through serendipity, became a sought-after model.
