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...volatile because Fatah members blame Abbas for the party's poor election showing. Thousands of angry Fatah supporters demonstrated late last week to call for his resignation, and Fatah gunmen stormed the Palestinian parliament. Isolated and weak, the President could probably do little to stop internecine violence if it broke out. "He's trying to pretend he can walk on water," says an aide to Abbas. "But he has problems everywhere he looks...
...adequately compensated for losing land, sometimes because corrupt local officials have pocketed the money. In Guangdong alone, two million farmers have been displaced by development, according to provincial statistics. These land seizures were one of the top causes for the 84,000 "disturbances to public order" that Beijing says broke out nationwide in 2005. "We farmers depend on our mountain and our lake to make a living," says Lin's brother. "Now that they've taken them away, how can we continue our lives...
...Shock value. Curiosity value. Armfuls of awards. A lovely lead performance or two. A film that makes you think, lets you cry. It's no wonder Brokeback broke through...
...basement of Littauer Library. Few books are stored in the basement of the library, which opened in 1939 and contains collections on economics, government, and political science, along with the Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives. The flooding was caused when a cap in a water line broke, according to Matthew P. Stec, the building manager who was on scene coordinating the clean-up effort. Stec said yesterday evening that it was too soon to say how much damage had been caused by the flood. He added that a private mold mitigation company had been called to assist with repairs...
...coalition agreement and MPRP actually broke that,” he said...