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...claimed that the Israeli people want the town’s residents to suffer, and that this is why the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) attacks. In explaining why children have no places to play, he claimed that if the residents built playgrounds, “The occupation would come demolish them because they don’t want the children to have a normal place to play.” Tahreer, another photographer, states in the Picture Balata slideshow, “The Israelis don’t want us to be free.” These claims are highly...

Author: By Shai D. Bronshtein | Title: Politicizing the Playground | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...information about the extremist groups with which they are putatively associated. "To an overwhelming degree, such people are not threats behind bars. They're opportunities," says Grassian. "We hurt ourselves by destroying their sanity." Closer to home, prisoners serving sentences for more mundane crimes do sometimes get released. Demolish their psyches while they're in prison, and nobody's safer when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Prisons Driving Prisoners Mad? | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...trash is picked up on time. And since the mayor himself has been indicted on nothing, he strides on, overseeing everything from public housing and education to the details of an ongoing beautification initiative. It helps that some of his most unpopular moves, like his unilateral decision to demolish a small lakefont airport in 2003 under the cover of night, seem nearly forgotten. Meanwhile, he has accepted blame for not having had a better handle on the rampant job-rigging infractions, in which applicants for city positions who had political connections were favored over those with better qualifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago, the Dynasty Rolls On | 1/22/2007 | See Source »

...Alex propose to fulfill their promise to demolish the UC in three ways...

Author: By Samuel G. Hodgkin | Title: Hwang and Wong: Dismantle the UC | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

...Delhi shop owners called a three-day strike, burned tires in the street, organized mock funerals for the Delhi state government, and stoned policemen and passing vehicles. The cause of the traders' anger was a February Supreme Court ruling instructing the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to "seal" - close or demolish - 44,000 stores operating illegally in Delhi's residential areas. The Court established a three-member monitoring panel to ensure its orders were enacted, and after months of legal back and forth the "sealing drive" finally began last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Activist Judges, Try India | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

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