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...between well-to-do city dwellers and impoverished peasants gets wider, the fury of the poor is fast becoming explosive. With access to the mass media and the Internet, village folk are becoming more conscious of pervasive hardship and injustice and are beginning to voice their resentment. The protests have put the authorities in a bind. True to the dogma of communism, the regime is making incessant efforts to clamp down on websites and blogs, hoping that dissent will not burst into a wildfire. When the demonstrations get ugly, the government may opt for bloody suppression and further fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...beach, and a few months later, Arizona has a cobalt-blue bottle. Vultaggio has discussed a distribution deal with Coke that would put Arizona in Coke's vending machines. Without the vast distribution networks of Coke and Pepsi, Arizona still lags behind Nestea and Lipton in vending machines and fast-food fountains. Vultaggio says Coke has talked to him about buying out Ferolito's share of Arizona, with Vultaggio still retaining full control. "That's the only way I would do it," Vultaggio says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mavericks: Raising Arizona | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

Harvard’s success this year has been predicated on fast starts, but a 3-1 Quaker lead less than ten minutes into the opening quarter had the Crimson playing from behind. Despite the early setback, it was a steady stream of first quarter shots that knotted things up at three after the first fifteen minutes...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Surprises Quakers | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...situation across southern Arizona has spun so far out of control that many on the border believe a day of reckoning is fast approaching, when an incident--an accidental shooting, multiple auto fatalities, a confrontation between drug and people smugglers--will touch off a higher level of violence. And the nightmare scenario: some resident frustrated by the Federal Government's refusal to halt the onslaught will begin shooting the border crossers on his or her property. As a rancher summed up the situation: "If the law can't protect you, what do you do?" Everyone, it seems, is armed, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illegal Aliens: Who Left the Door Open? | 3/30/2006 | See Source »

...third video was released to a small Kuwaiti TV station. In a steady voice, Carroll said, "Please just do whatever they want, give them whatever they want as quickly as possible. There is a very short time. Please do it fast. That's all." After that, nothing was heard until today's good news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Sunnis Will Use Jill Carroll | 3/30/2006 | See Source »

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