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...tide of history was turning his way. The Nagymaros dam became a focal point for the budding political opposition, and when the government began loosening its policies, he published his original article -- in a much tougher version. Public protests against the dam intensified, and last year Hungary finally terminated the project. Vargha, meanwhile, has emerged as a powerful voice of political reform. A founder of the Alliance of Free Democrats, now the leading opposition party, he was offered an official post within the group. But Vargha, 40, declined. Says he: "I am first and foremost an environmentalist...
...People just come for the movies," says Stanley of the Eliot House grill. "The food is not the best here. This grill is not the focal point of House life...
Braving heavy rain, the group defiantly chanted and waved placards on the approximately two-mile trek from the Lincoln Memorial to the Chinese embassy. Participants described the scene as eerily similar to that at Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the sight of last spring's demonstrations and the focal point of a government crackdown that left thousands of students dead or arrested...
...develop the sprawling western state of Rondonia. The program, backed by subsidies and built around a highway through the state called BR-364, was designed to relieve population pressures in southern Brazil. But Polonoroeste has made Rondonia the area where rain-forest destruction is most rapid, and the focal point of the fight to save the Amazon...
...possible sharing of information has become a focal point in recent weeks as the Justice Department continues to widen a probe into alleged price-fixing by universities in setting tuitions, student financial aid and faculty salaries...