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...peak in generations - should not have elicited quite the cheers and fears it did across the country. Canadians, of course, are peculiarly obsessed with the U.S. dollar exchange rate: three-quarters of exports go to the U.S. and a comparable share of imports arrive from there. But America's Civil War is a reminder, if nothing else, that when currencies start breaking records, it's usually a sign that something big is happening...
...middle of nowhere, but this Maoist guerrilla camp marks a fork in the road for the Himalayan nation. After a decade-long civil war that has claimed 13,000 lives and prompted mass protests in 2006 against the autocratic rule of King Gyanendra, the Maoists have been brought into the political mainstream, via a peace agreement that would turn the oft-romanticized Hindu kingdom into a secular republic representing the true social and ethnic diversity of Nepal's 27 million people. The self-styled People's Liberation Army agreed to retire to rural camps such as this one, to begin...
...aligned against them. Thai society was deeply polarized between left and right when Indochina fell under communist rule in 1975. On the morning of Oct. 6, 1976, police and right-wing paramilitary mobs invaded Thammasat University, raping, lynching and burning alive scores of students who were demonstrating for greater civil liberties. A few hours later, the military staged a coup. Samak was then appointed interior minister in one of Thailand's most repressive governments. Leftists and students were hunted down and jailed. "I blame him," says Prof. Thientham Thiensirichai, a former student who fled to the jungles...
...ancient Athenian idea of a cultured and intelligent person was someone who participated in civil life,” says Payack...
...could be the number, it could be the name was improperly typed in," says senior counsel Elizabeth Westfall with the Advancement Project, a civil rights group that, along with several other lawyers, represents the plaintiffs - Florida's NAACP, the Southwest Voter Registration Project, and the Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition. They are suing Florida Secretary of State Kurt S. Browning, who oversees elections in the state, arguing that the law is unconstitutional and should be immediately suspended. U.S. District Judge Stephen P. Mickle in Gainesville heard roughly four hours of oral arguments in the case on Tuesday...