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...content. Angry union leaders were not buying. "It is not even worth consideration at all," said Kwon Young-gil, head of an illegal labor federation spearheading the strikes. The conflict continues to heat up. Twice in the past five days, protesting strikers have clashed with police, hurling chunks of cement and brandishing pipes as riot squads lobbed canisters of tear gas. Prosecutors hinted Wednesday that they would soon order police raids on a cathedral and other sites where union leaders are taking shelter. "If the workers do not stop their illegal strikes immediately, the government will act in a firm...
...effect is hardly confined to religions; the era of computerized mass mail and desktop publishing has seen the number of political-interest groups grow by an order of magnitude. But religions, with their aspirations of human brotherhood, uniquely highlight the paradox: communication is supposed to be a social cement, yet new communication technologies are often fragmenting...
...this ancient city, dusty and undeveloped but holy to all faiths, is steeped in bloodshed and tension, a tangled maze of roadblocks, cement barricades and metal spikes manned by hundreds of Israeli soldiers to keep militant Jews and militant Palestinians apart. Both sides have grown hard as Palestinians stab and stone the settlers and Jews shoot and vandalize their neighbors in regular tit-for-tat violence...
...Some freshmen, I think, have taken advantage of the newly-paved sidewalks to immortalize themselves forever in the cement," Agarwal says. "Also the removal of street signs makes stealing them for dorm room decoration a very tempting thought...
...stay in for 30 years, brick bungalows with metal awnings and a ribbon of lawn that skips from house to house. For years the mainline Forest Park patriarchs of St. Louis looked down on the German immigrants who settled this south side because they were forever washing those neat cement porches and tight little windows. They called them the Scrubby Dutch. Policeman Harvey Laux lives across the street from Lori. He figures there has been one burglary in the 17 years he has lived here...