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...After that, things got ugly. Officials started the impeachment process, then stopped it. In early August, residents surrounded their village committee building to prevent the removal of account books they said would prove corruption. On Sept. 12, police drove the demonstrators away. Roughly 30 people were arrested and 10 remain in custody. Several dozen "hooligans" that Taishi residents believe are paid by local officials now terrorize the village threatening to attack anyone who, like Lu, tries to enter or leave. "Now they're there every day, intimidating people into removing their names from the impeachment petition," Lu says. The village...
...school zones. Here they'll run your kids over." Brown points inside her house, where "the mold covers so much it looks like we wallpapered it that way. Uh-uh, it won't be hard for me to leave this." As she got back into her rented car and drove away, it was evident that while the Ninth Ward may finally be dry, it may still get washed away-or bulldozed-for good...
...unsuccessful. 11:44 p.m.—An officer responded to Vanderbilt Hall, room 337, on account of a loud party, in which its occupants were incessantly pushing emergency buttons. Police arrived but all had quieted down. Oct. 2: 12:58 a.m.—An officer observed a drove of students waiting for the shuttle bus outside of Cabot. The officer provided taxicabs and cruiser escorts for the stranded. 10:22 p.m.—Police observed an altercation between two individuals in Au Bon Pain at 1360 Mass. Ave. The two people engaged in the scuffle were checked...
...slide. "There are 90 dead bodies in that." Tawoos Hussain Manhas, 20, is a civil servant who works in the capital of Indian Kashmir, Srinagar, but who was brought up in the village of Kamal Kote, a few miles away from Uri. When he heard of the disaster, he drove home to help out. He hasn't washed or slept since. The army, whose presence in the garrison town of Uri is almost oppressive, has not tried to cross the landslide. "No one has visited here. No doctor, no rescue, no civil administration." From where...
...calmness" ends, Israel fears Hamas may launch new operations from the West Bank. Hamas believes its bombs and rockets drove the Israelis out of Gaza, its sees little reason not to continue the same strategy in the West Bank...