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...Mayo's supporters are just as impassioned. At a February demonstration against Mayo's law, a passel of counterprotesters, VFW types in trucker caps, spoke reverently about "Pastor Mayo" and the movement he started. Mayo didn't show up for the demonstration because he - shrewdly - didn't want to be seen as endorsing the idea that his opposition to illegal immigration is necessarily an attack on Hispanics in general...
...polled its lowest approval rating this week in the 25-year period the question has been asked. Obama spoke at length of the Czech Republic’s history and road to independence, flawlessly pronouncing the Czech phrase for “Velvet Revolution,” the movement that ousted Communism from the country...
...college in the 60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up. Being a wife and mother somehow betrayed the sisterhood. It was tantamount to slavery. I've been on both sides of this mentality, and I am grateful my head got switched around...
...started the movement with the firm resolve that I will never be caught alive by the enemy. That has spread down the ranks." - on the wearing of cyanide capsules by his followers, a tradition he began himself (Los Angeles Times...
...coincided with a decision by the Karzai government, concerned about the environmental impact of clear-cutting, to ban timber exports outright. The valley's population lost its only source of income. Smuggling rings took over, bringing corruption in their wake. As it has elsewhere in Afghanistan, the national Taliban movement co-opted local grievances. (Taliban, these days, no longer refers just to the regime that once ruled the country; the word has become synonymous with any number of antigovernment forces.) Tribal elders say the fight in the Korengal is directed and funded by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a warlord who was once...