The problems are daunting but, as for Africa as a whole, despair is no more use than callous indifference.

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Lazarescu, who has a splitting headache and is sick to his stomach, is picked up by an ambulance and entrusted to the care of a sympathetic nurse, but, like some awkward, undeliverable package, he gets shunted from hospital to hospital and from specialist to specialist, each more callous and vain than the last.

NEWYORKER: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

"This was a particularly callous murder where Grenfell put greater value on his acquisition of a car than the life of an innocent man simply protecting his own property that he had worked so hard for, " he said.

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