The Cut - The U.N.'s Own Humanitarian Crisis

In the fall of 2010, Kirstie Campbell, a 32-year-old aid worker from Edinburgh, met a colleague named Mick Lorentzen at the bar of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan. Campbell and Lorentzen were both working for the United Nations World Food Programme, providing humanitarian relief to victims of Pakistan’s recent floods, one of the worst natural disasters in the country’s history. Campbell mentioned that although she had worked for the WFP on and off for the past five years, she was still on short-term contracts, some lasting just 30 days. Campbell said that Lorentzen, who ran the WFP’s security unit and said he was a former British Royal Marine, suggested that she work for him on a fixed-term contract, which comes with better working conditions and a pension. “You know I can get you that job,” he said, adding, “So when should we go and have sex?”

You’ve got to look inside the Bingo heiress’s fantastical Upper East Side duplex. Eating meat only one day a week could cut emissions, stave off climate despair, and help start a movement. Props to these female-only salamanders who steal genes from unsuspecting males. Olivia Wilde’s film with Harry Styles, Don’t Worry Darling, officially has a release date and a little clip of Harry making out with Florence Pugh. The “celebrities bathing” discourse continues, with Ashton Kutcher being heckled by sports fans. And read your horoscope from Madame Clairevoyant for the week of September 13.

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