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...itself 72% Hispanic. ''The rampant criminal problems in our downtown are gone,'' boasted Mayor Larry Francis. ''The majority of El Pasoans are stating that this should have been done long ago.'' Motorists tied green ribbons to their aerials and flashed their headlights at patrol vans. Observed Fred Morales, an activist in the crime-ridden Chihuahuita barrio: ''The stabbings and shootings are down to zero. This is the best present we could ever get.'' No one was more pleased than the Border Patrol, whose new sector chief, Silvestre Reyes, devised the blockade and wangled $300,000 out of INS headquarters...
...million on World Youth Day, a Catholics-only event. They grumbled that streets would be closed and traffic disrupted. Some feared the week-long festival of faith would overtax police and emergency workers. Racing fans were angry that the final Mass would lock up the city's biggest racetrack. Activist groups saw the event as a chance to protest against Catholic teachings on homosexuality and abortion, and demanded that Pope Benedict XVI apologize for sexual crimes committed by Australian clergy...
...part, that's testimony to the success of those G-men in dark suits. (There are women involved, but they're a distinct minority at Treasury and the Fed; men in light-colored suits are even rarer.) The U.S. government is a far bigger, more activist presence in financial markets than it was in the early 1930s, and this activism has staved off the kind of financial breakdown that sparked the Depression...
...rights activists view the furor as yet another example of homophobia. "It shows bigotry," says Ryan Wilson, an activist with South Carolina's Pride Movement, a gay rights organization. "I don't want to be a pawn in someone's reelection campaign." In response to actions by the state tourism board, Wilson's group has decided to raise the $5,000 necessary to pay the advertising fee, and has adopted the slogan "South Carolina WILL...
...were counted as Buddhist in the 2001 census, but the vast majority are the descendants of Dalits, who converted to Buddhism en masse in the 1950s as a reaction against their low status in the Hindu caste hierarchy. It was an inspiring political revolution, led by the great Dalit activist B.R. Ambedkar, but its success gave contemporary Buddhism in India the stigma of a lower-caste movement. That's changed with this recent move toward the faith among the élite. Sarao estimates that urban, affluent followers of Buddhism in India may number about 1 million...