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...racial tensions in St. Helens. Most residents probably don't care to know much more about Mexico than what they can glean from the menu of Muchas Gracias or the two other Mexican restaurants in town. Westerling, whose Rural Organizing Project canvassed St. Helens and surrounding towns as it fought against 5-190, says voters were truly undecided about the measure until the fall, when the worsening economy hardened their opinions. "Immigrants are serving as a great dog for people to kick when they're frustrated," says Westerling. But there is a sincerity to the most ardent activists against illegal...
...same lineup that they had then, so we’ve got a big battle there too.” In last season’s corresponding matchups, Harvard dismantled its opponents, dropping only one point over both fixtures. With so ruthless a display in two closely-fought games against Columbia and Cornell—the margin of victory a single point in both—the Crimson team of 2009 will aim for history to repeat itself. If only college tennis was that simple. “[Princeton and Penn] lost their opening matches, but when we come...
...largest HIV/AIDS epidemic. It has presided over an economic boom that has made millionaires of a well-connected élite but left countless lives unchanged. As a party, it is accused of politicizing the police and the bureaucracy and showing contempt for the constitutional democracy for which it fought so long. (See pictures of South Africa in the run-up to the election...
...democracy for 60 years. In the Middle East, after helping broker a historic peace deal with Israel in 1993, Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement quickly lapsed into authoritarianism and corruption. As a young man, Henning Melber, executive director at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Uppsala, Sweden, fought in Namibia against white rule. Watching his fellow liberators turn on their own people once the war was won taught him that revolution and democracy are "incompatible," he says. (See pictures of China doing business in Africa...
...Stack-Babich’s shot fought its way over the center-field wall to tie things up, setting the stage for more of the senior’s heroics in the 17th...