Word: lashing
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...banks of the Pyapon River, survivors of Cyclone Nargis now lash together lengths of bamboo to make primitive shelters for families the junta is too incompetent or uncaring to help. Against the odds, without any domestic or foreign aid, new homes are rising on the sodden and shredded remains...
...only place the town's booming soundtrack can't be heard is the site of the soon-to-be towers. There, near a concrete hole reminiscent of an open-pit mine, clusters of laborers pour cement and lash lengths of bamboo. Director of Construction Qiu Juping says it will take 1,500 workers five years to finish. These workers, imported from across the country, join 25,000 other migrant laborers to keep Huaxi afloat. They know building the tower will be tough, and potentially dangerous, but say they're proud to be part of something big. "I feel honored...
Four days after she was spared the lash but jailed by a Sudanese court for insulting Islam, British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons received a presidential pardon Monday and was deported from the country. But while her alleged crime - permitting her primary students to name a Teddy bear Mohammad - garnered the Khartoum regime a good deal of international condemnation for its radical justice, the charges against Gibbons and her famous bear were incidental to a larger struggle playing out in Sudan - the manipulation of Islam in the pursuit of personal and political power...
...arresting hundreds of Hamas supporters inside the West Bank territory. In Gaza, Hamas officials accuse Fatah militant cells of setting off roadside bombs aimed at Hamas patrols. Apparently, according to Gaza journalists and eyewitnesses, those past incidents made Hamas fighters, unskilled at policing even small crowds, ready to lash out during the Fatah rally...
...supporters nationwide among just Sunnis militants. The most virulent of the insurgents remains Al-Qaeda-in-Iraq. That group and its affiliates, says Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq, "are the greatest source of spectacular attacks. We fully expect al-Qaeda in Iraq operatives to lash out and stage spectacular attacks...