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...Panlong, authorities in Liujiaying have used brute force to silence those with the temerity to speak out. In January, Liu Yinde, 62, traveled to Qingdao to seek redress, bearing a petition letter that detailed the alleged abuses. In it, he claimed $1.8 million in lost farming income for the village and appealed directly to Beijing: "We farmers believe the central government headed by President Hu will carry out the law for the people. We believe you certainly will take care of our village affairs." But before he was able to submit his letter, Liu says, a group of hooligans stopped...
...Prelinger Archives of ephemeral films). The Archive advertises itself as a place to store information, and it accepts contributions. Since it’s a nonprofit organization that relies largely on donations to operate, it lacks some of Google’s punch when it comes to brute-force digitization of old works. Libraries, including our own, which have been working on this problem for the better part of the past decade, face similar financial woes.The importance of digitization goes well beyond the mere benefits of secure storage and widespread distribution networks, though even on their own, these things will...
...biggest concern for many Iraqis is al-Sadr's unwillingness to disarm the Mahdi Army militia, which has a long record of inflammatory and often criminal behavior. In areas where al-Sadr's fighters hold sway, they use brute force to impose a strict Islamic code. They are frequently accused of kidnapping and assassinating those who resist them. Many Mahdi Army fighters have been absorbed into the Iraqi security forces and police, and in the aftermath of the Samarra bombing, many police vehicles in Baghdad were openly flying Mahdi Army colors--black and green. Sunni groups say policemen did nothing...
...telling oversight.Second, Harvard might consider alternatives (even if they are more costly) to their current method of slamming the ground with a metal piston. I can’t claim to know too much about construction, but I’m confident there exists a less “brute-force” solution than this prehistoric-seeming one. Harvard has been more than content to do the minimum when it relates to this construction, however, as evidenced by the fact that the machinery on site uses high-sulfur fuel, which has been linked to a host of serious health...
...just disappointed that we haven’t established enough of an identity within our locker room to be able to win games in tough environments.” Dartmouth won the races to loose pucks, the battles along the boards, and the contests of brute strength and will. “We knew we had to be physical, and they took it to us,” Crimson captain Peter Hafner said. “It’s just something that we’ve got to learn, and you can say it all the time...