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...where 80% of the population still lives (or lived before August), was a town of mud huts. The Emir set about building a modern metropolis, a place not unlike Houston, with its skyscraper business center surrounded by villa-style suburbs. In Kuwait, too, each "suburb" became a self-contained microcosm of a city. The neighborhoods were established as cooperatives. Each had its own supermarkets, schools, medical centers and municipal services...
Increasingly, though, it is the illegal aliens who are victims of violent assaults by whites. Armed robbers and overzealous U.S. Border Patrol agents ^ are responsible for countless beatings and shootings of immigrants at the frontier. But human-rights activists say San Diego's racial attacks are a microcosm of hate crimes flaring nationally. In one of several attacks involving white youths, Leonard Paul Cuen, 21, was questioned last May and remains a suspect in connection with the death of Emilio Jimenez, 12. The boy was shot as he crossed a field not far from the site of the protest...
Vladivostok (pop. 660,000) is a microcosm of the struggle between the forces of reform and reaction, openness and xenophobia that is seething throughout the U.S.S.R. The city, with its magnificent harbor, could be the commercial gateway to Siberia and the Soviet Far East, which constitute the largest expanse of untapped natural resources in the world. The Maritime Province's fishing and timber industries already earn enough hard currency from exports to have donated Japanese-made sports cars to the region's police, who need the fancy wheels to catch equally well-equipped smugglers and black marketeers...
...seeking to bar Michael from Local 560 for secretly running it from the wings. "This case is a microcosm of how difficult it is to remove the Mob," says Newark prosecutor Michael Chertoff. "Sometimes victims support the guys who are victimizing them. It's very tribal." Along the highways of New Jersey, bridges and signposts are sprayed with graffiti supporting Sciarra and his ironically named party, Teamsters for Liberty...
...When I was a pre-frosh, I learned how to play Tetris. I spent a lot of time sitting in classes and not understanding or caring what was going on and I drank too much. Come to think of it, pre-frosh week is a perfect microcosm of my entire first year of college...