Tracking how Spitzer got into this mess requires forbearance in the face of squalid statehouse wranglings.
The Windermere was finally cleared out in 2007, at which point there were only seven tenants, many of them poor, elderly and infirm and faced with squalid conditions that included pigeons, mice, roaches, leaky ceilings, broken windows and no electricity.
This report finds that the approximately 120,000 guest workers brought to the U.S. annually under the H-2 visa program regularly face exploitation, from squalid living conditions to denial of wages earned.
"Witness" seems to take its view of the Amish from a quaint dreamland, a Brigadoon of tall golden wheat and shiny-clean faces, and to take its squalid, hyped-up view of life in Philadelphia from prolonged exposure to TV cop shows.
BANGKOK -- Stateless refugees from Myanmar are suffering beatings and deportation in Bangladesh, according to aid workers and rights groups who say thousands are crowding into a squalid camp where they face a "humanitarian crisis" of starvation and disease.
BANGKOK — Stateless refugees from Myanmar are suffering beatings and deportation in Bangladesh, according to aid workers and rights groups who say thousands are crowding into a squalid camp where they face starvation and disease.
Cnn.com quotes a UN report that fighting in Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu, has "uprooted...nearly 34,000 people in less than a week" and, according to relief workers, "left Somalia civilians with the choice of facing bloody battles or fleeing to squalid camps".
Family members say the young man has been held in squalid conditions, a fate now faced by thousands of other detainees, mostly Morsi supporters, who have entered Egypt's overcrowded prisons since July.
And on Sunday night, he had to face the fact that the people he taunted as squalid good-for-nothings, little Yankees and fascists, turned out to be nearly half the electorate.
Tens of thousands of East Timor refugees living in squalid camps on the West Timor border face starvation by the end of the month, government officials and aid workers on the divided island said today.
