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...connotations. First and foremost is the implied lack of agency: When I feel “busy” it comes with the feeling that things are happening to me, not that I am causing things to happen. Secondly, being “busy” makes for a chaotic lifestyle, as the crazy hair and stressed-out expression that I unwittingly tend to carry ended up in far too many people coming up to me over the years and saying, “I saw you the other day but didn’t say ‘hi?...
...disparity between rural residents and city folk is only growing. To make things worse, the poor are being victimized by widespread land grabs, in which plots tilled by generations of farmers are seized with little or no compensation by companies awarded government-sanctioned land concessions. In the chaotic rule of the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975-79, most of Cambodia's land titles were destroyed, leaving few farmers with proof of property ownership. "These people had almost nothing, and what little they had is being taken away," says Mu Sochua, secretary general of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party...
...roadside ditch, another victim, said one of the hundreds of onlookers, of the treacherous narrow and winding roads in this northeast corner of the country. Up ahead, soldiers were hammering steel pins into the hard earth to winch the wrecked vehicle up onto the road. The scene was chaotic. A few cars had managed to wend their way through the crush of traffic and were trying to slide under the low-slung metal cable tethered to the truck in the ditch. One, an SUV, was a bit too high; as it edged forward the cable scraped along its roof. Soldiers...
...first Israeli town to feel the heat. The small town of about 23,00 people perched on a pleasant bit of countryside near the Gaza Strip is within easy range of the homemade, unguided, Qassam rockets fired by Palestinian militants across the fence. And with Gaza spiraling into a chaotic Palestinian civil war, at least 70 rockets have been fired into Israel over the past two days, several of them landing in Sderot. One even hit a building near the home of Defense Minister Amir Peretz, a Sderot native...
History’s place in the new curriculum came under the microscope. In a close vote at a sometimes chaotic meeting, professors rejected a motion to add the word “history” to the name of the Culture and Belief category. Two weeks later, professors voted to require all students to take one course engaged “substantially with the study of the past...