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...residents of Dover, PA., are visited with disaster anytime soon--a flood, an earthquake, a hail of fire and brimstone--no one can say Pat Robertson didn't warn them. Doverites voted last week to oust all eight members up for re-election on the school board that had mandated the mention of "intelligent design," or i.d., in biology classrooms. By doing so, the televangelist said on his TV talk show, The 700 Club, "you just voted God out of your city...
...conversations with Harvard students, faculty, and alumni, managers from competing area film venues, and the directors of the Brattle, The Harvard Crimson explores the question of what turned the ardent romance between the independent cinema and the bohemian Harvard Square into the lover’s quarrel threatening to oust the Brattle today.AN UPHILL BRATTLEFinancial problems are no stranger to the Brattle. Created as a live performance space in 1946, which John I. Simon ’46, theater reviewer for Bloomberg News, remembers as “a very lively place with all kinds of theatricals...
...farmer who had been elected by villagers to be their chief was beaten up by people suspected to be cronies of the local government's defeated candidate. Similar events unfolded this summer, when farmers in the Pearl River Delta village of Taishi tried to orchestrate a recall motion to oust a village chief. Although the villagers had the law on their side and had collected the requisite number of signatures, their efforts failed...
...Assad out of a meeting with European and other Middle Eastern leaders. (The only one willing to meet with him, the sources say, was Iran's new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.) Assad's emerging status as a political leper comes amid an intensifying U.S. campaign against Syria--if not to oust the regime, then to muscle it into better behavior...
...democratic process has invited his citizens to imagine a different political, and begin taking their first steps towards in its pursuit. The significance of these baby steps can't be underestimated against the backdrop of the decades of political stasis over which Mubarak has presided. Even if Egyptians cannot oust their regime in this presidential election, they are overcoming their fear of demanding change.-With reporting by Amany Radwan/Cairo and Lindsay Wise/Alexandria