Word: foments
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...tourism industry. Since then, yellow- and red-shirted supporters of two political camps have taken turns occupying the government, and international visitors continue to stay away. Instead of relying on the sanctity of the ballot box, a disenchanted citizenry is finding it easier to simply swarm the streets to foment regime change. The line between mob rule and People Power, it turns out, is dangerously thin...
...postelection crisis has rallied Iran's rebellious youth as well as its street artists, albeit in furtive and risky situations. Graffitists hurriedly stencil their graphics in out-of-the-way alleys (for example, to mock the regime's insistence that foreign agents helped foment the street protests, a noted brother duo sprayed "God Save the Sk8" against a British flag). Break dancers and techno producers must be content performing in cramped basements and villas outside the capital. Nonetheless, the mere existence of these cultural jammers is a form of protest...
...arrived in Kenya, her first stop, Prime Minister Raila Odinga told her his country didn't need another "lecture" from outsiders. That did not stop her. The Secretary of State repeatedly referenced Obama's heritage as she criticized the Kenyan government for its failure to prosecute those who helped foment election violence in early 2008 that killed some 1,200 people. The problem in Kenya is that many of those suspects are the people now in power. If Kenya does not try them, she suggested, the International Criminal Court will. "If there's not going to be a special local...
...activist who now lives in the U.S. False rumors that Uighur workers raped Han women at a factory in coastal Guangdong province led to a riot there in late June, during which two Uighur workers were killed. The Chinese government says Kadeer used Uighur anger over that incident to foment the riot in Urumqi. She denies the charge and says a heavy-handed police response to a peaceful Uighur protest calling for a speedier investigation into the Guangdong deaths on Sunday led to the violence. (Read a Q&A with Rebiya Kadeer...
...Tajbakhsh, 47, was not involved in the protests, the sources said, but the Columbia University graduate had been among four dual citizens arrested in 2007 on charges of trying to foment a "velvet revolution" against the Islamic regime. He spent four months in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison before his release. Tajbakhsh, an urban-planning expert, taught urban policy at the New School for Social Research in New York City from 1994 until 2001. Before his arrest in 2007, he had served as an adviser to the Iranian Ministry of Health and been a consultant for George Soros' Open Society...