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...case centers on an alleged marriage arrangement that went sour involving Marcelino de Jesus Martinez, his 14-year-old daughter and her suitor, Margarito de Jesus Galindo, 18. Galindo had agreed to pay Martinez for his daughter's hand in marriage, according to Greenfield police. According to the cops, the total cost was $16,000, one hundred cases of beer and several cases of meat. "The 14-year-old juvenile moved in with Galindo, and when payments were not received, the father, Martinez, called Greenfield [police] to bring back the daughter," the police said in a Jan. 12 statement...
...tried in absentia for his role in the 2006 violence, but the court case would have had little effect given that the former army commander was still on the run. "Even after the elections, we felt like we were waiting for something bad to happen," says Marcelino Magno, chief of staff for Fernando de Araujo, East Timor's speaker of parliament. "There was a lot of tension building...
...99¢ was more than or less than 69¢. In another, three men helped one another with composition exercises. And in a third, workers slapped down dominoes marked with letters in place of dots. "You can see people who have never learned anything learn something every day," says Maria Cristina Marcelino, who oversees the employees' lessons. "It is very gratifying...
...With reporting by Hannah Beech and Marcelino X. Magno/Dili
...greater stress on coastal areas in particular - and groundwater levels decline - "water wars" are becoming internal. Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards recently took to the streets of Madrid and Barcelona to protest government plans to divert the country's largest river, the Ebro, to supply water to the southeast. Marcelino Iglesias, president of the regional government in northeastern Aragón, through which the Ebro flows, has denounced the plan as "aiming at an absolutely unsustainable model of development ... while consolidating a second-class Spain in the interior...