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Another problem is national politics. Early last year, Argentina's government terminated a contract with a Suez-led consortium that was providing water services to Buenos Aires. The company also lost its contract to provide water to El Alto and La Paz, Bolivia, after massive protests beginning in 2003 over limited access for poor families. The leader of those protests, Abel Mamani, is the Minister of Water in the government of Evo Morales...
...make various community-building reparations like apologizing to the victim, paying restitution and participating in service projects or apprenticeships. In seven years the county's youth-incarceration rate dropped 25%, and the number of teens who received citations or were arrested for crimes went down 28%. According to Bob La Combe, who runs the county's juvenile system, young people are "making the connection between the crime they committed and the harm to the community." The state, however, may take more convincing. Because of budget cuts, Oregon stopped funding the program in 2003. The community-based justice initiative...
...La Petite Maison,” the original inspiration for Burgin’s project, the Marquis de Trémicour performs a feat of architectural seduction by transforming a prudish Mélite into his lover simply by touring her through his well-decorated mansion...
...Burgin’s video installation, a female narrator recites his translation of an 18th century novella, “La Petite Maison,” while the screen alternates between scenes of a Chinese woman turning the pages of Mao Tse-Tung’s “Little Red Book” and slowly rotating 360-degree panoramic views of Rudolph Schindler’s Kings Road House in West Hollywood...
...attempts to show the timelessness of hip hop culture and those famed Air Force One sneakers. The video begins with legendary DJ Premier flipping through floppy disks and working an old mixer—not exactly Apple Garage Band—resulting in a fresh old-school beat a la the music of Marley Marl or the Fearless Four. The footage is interspersed with clips of MCs in studio, spitting their self-proclaimed “classic” rhymes, as well as shots of graffiti artists creating murals of the rappers’ names and the shoes. However, instead...