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...profile groups like the Quechua of Peru and the Yanomami of the Amazon rain forest, Chile's Mapuche are a relatively obscure indigenous cohort in South America. But that has changed dramatically in recent months as a growing number of armed and masked Mapuche activists, pursuing a centuries-old claim to land they say was taken from them by the Spaniards and then the Chilean government, have engaged in a wave of arson attacks. Their assaults - torching forests, hijacking forestry trucks, seizing rural ranches - have created Chile's worst security crisis in decades. (See a story about a 120-year...
...Tell me about your heroine, Kinsey Milhone. What is she like? I claim she is a loner, and she is to a certain extent. She's perfectly happy in her own company. She says at one point, "I am not half of something looking for the other half." She's been married and divorced twice. She also says, "I keep my guard up along with my underpants." So she's careful about sexual connections with guys because to her it represents a hazard. She likes working for herself. She's persistent. She's curious. She's not above breaking...
...suit, which was filed in 2008, is only the second claim against an alleged file sharer that has gone to trial and has not been settled out of the courtroom...
...Egyptian officials say security concerns justify their actions. They claim Islamist militants and drug smugglers use the same routes and that bedouin passers, whom the asylum seekers pay to smuggle them to Israel, sometimes fire at the border guards. Cairo has also come under pressure from the Israeli government to halt the increasing number of migrants crossing the border. Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki says Cairo is doing everything it can to strike a balance between the humane treatment of the asylum seekers and the protection of its borders. "This is a vast desert area, manned by fewer troops...
...they only attack schools that are being used as "police camps." In the November 2008 bulletin of a banned Maoist political party, an unsigned editorial states, "You cannot show a single instance where we had destroyed a school that was really meant for education purposes." HRW researchers contradict that claim, and say the Naxals attack schools as a way of intimidating the local population to keep them from cooperating with the military, who badly need better local intelligence...