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governance structure, requiring payment at cost...
...that say MASSAGE," she recalls. Today, though, it seems as if the whole town is beating a path to her table. Not just the doctors, lawyers and bankers, but the factory workers, farmers and handicrafters. Balliet takes cash for her services but occasionally accepts other down-home forms of payment: six dozen eggs, handwoven baskets, clothing. "Massage," she says, "has become a necessary part of their lives...
...other demonstrators converged on the National Palace in Mexico City to protest a plan by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M.) to tighten entrance requirements and increase annual tuition fees from an average of 10 cents to more than $90 a student. Speakers exhorted the government to stop payment on its crippling $100 billion foreign debt, demanded that workers receive hefty pay hikes to cope with the country's 103% annual inflation rate, and prodded officials to show backbone in their dealings with the U.S. Chanted demonstrators: "No to the Yanquis! No to the Yanquis...
...they frequently go unpaid. Courts and prosecutors are not good at collecting them, says Michael Tonry of the nonprofit Castine Research Corp., which specializes in law-enforcement issues. He proposes that banks and credit companies be deputized to fetch delinquent fines, with a percentage of the take as their payment. "To make fines work as a sentencing alternative," he says, "they must be both equitable, based on a person's ability to pay, and collectible...
...studied the comrades. She concluded that the poverty and hopelessness of life in the townships make them impulsive and largely incapable of compromise. The primary object of their wrath is anyone suspected of collaborating with the government. The victim's "crime" can be trivial or wholly nonexistent. Even payment of rent for government-owned housing can be a capital offense. Some recent victims...