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...Villagers in Keng Gnao, a small community on Nakai Plateau, are counting on it. They have been told for years that their thatched huts would one day lie beneath an enormous lake and that they would have to be relocated. A long time ago, the idea might have upset them. But in the intervening years, they have watched loggers decimate the plateau's lush forests, where villagers collected and hunted much of their food. Poverty on the plateau is endemic. Children often die in infancy. Crops routinely fail. Hunger is a fact of life. A few kilometers from Keng Gnao...
...winner, was accused of informing on his colleagues while a young man in the early 1970s; a court has cleared him of the charge. For Niezabitowska, the accusation against her is humiliating. "I would rather be accused of having killed someone than of being a traitor," she says, seated beneath portraits of her ancestors in the study of the 19th century mansion on the outskirts of Warsaw she and her huSBand have restored. "This kind of thing can destroy a person." "This kind of thing" has been happening across the former Soviet bloc as police archives, sealed since...
...beneath the flashy numbers and the gritty offensive instincts lies another similarity: the two are, first and foremost, blueliners...
...Italy's regions. Berlusconi quickly vowed that regionalization reforms would go ahead. Since returning to office in 2001, Berlusconi has been a master coalition-builder. His government is the longest-lived of the 57 different ruling coalitions that have governed Italy since the end of World War II. Yet beneath that glossy surface, microparties continue to multiply, and Berlusconi lavishes political capital on simply keeping his government from imploding. There's no better example of that than the Northern League. It was Bossi who brought down Berlusconi's first government in 1994 when he yanked his support after only seven...
...Green Card Incident, as the Canter-and-Siegel affair came to be known, , brought to the surface issues that had been lurking largely unexamined beneath the Net's explosive growth. It was not designed for doing commerce, and it does not gracefully accommodate new arrivals -- especially those who don't bother to learn its strange language or customs or, worse still, openly defy them...