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Having given up on finding a good beach, we decided to flee the tourist hordes and check out one of the smaller, more remote islands. After several days' journey on slow-moving ferries and jittery prop planes, we arrived at the tiny island of Maupiti...
...quarter to one in the morning, and Medo, a 16-year-old Kuwaiti, is chatting with his friend and compatriot Khaled, 22, as they prop up a wall at Sultana's, the third-floor disco at Cairo's Semiramis Inter-Continental. "Cairo is boring," grumbles Medo. Khaled murmurs in agreement as he eyes the action on the floor. "I come here every night," Medo says. "There's nothing else...
...have never been invaded by a stronger force than our own, never had to watch as troops marched through our streets, preserving or destroying as they saw fit. When bombs go off in a war, they don't shatter the glass in our bedrooms windows, or destroy our prop-property, or kill our entire families...
...that Singh, who enjoyed a large following among students because he stressed honest, "value-based politics," compromised those principles by setting aside the jobs for lower castes. Though Singh does have a history of commitment to social reform, it is also undeniable that he needed a stronger mandate to prop up his minority government. The affirmative- action decision not only gave Singh fresh support from a huge part of the electorate; it also undermined several of his political enemies who rely on the allegiance of lower-caste members. Arun Shourie, editor of the Indian Express, a New Delhi-based daily...
Last year, more than 180 of the state's cities and towns had some type of Prop 2 1/2 override question on the ballot, signaling to public policy analysts and state legislators at the time that these local governments were under considerable financial stress...