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With over 18 million inhabitants, Mumbai has a population density four times that of New York City, and fully half of these inhabitants are homeless. Millions live in fetid, decaying slum metropolises without running water or electricity. Only rudimentary cinderblock and aluminum sheet dwellings protect these impoverished masses from monsoon rainfalls and a sweltering...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: A Tale of Two Cities | 4/9/2007 | See Source »

...that the candidates themselves disapprove of.” Therefore the ads had to be banned—god forbid we lowly proles raise our voices. After all, in doing so, we might threaten a congressman’s re-election chances, and politicians certainly know how to protect their...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: Filthy Lucre and Clean Elections | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...that the NRA filed suit against Nagin and was able to secure an injunction stopping the confiscations. “[These people] hadn’t done anything wrong, and they were being told to give up their guns at a time when the government couldn’t protect them,” Froman said. She added that the city took guns from the residents without issuing receipts and that “shining on the misdeeds” that happened in places like New Orleans was an effective way of mobilizing gun supporters to fight for Second Amendment...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NRA Chief: Big Easy Hard on Guns | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...turn over the video in exchange for my release and not having to submit to testifying in front of the federal grand jury...As there was nothing of a sensitive or confidential nature on the videotape, it was worth fighting for the right that I should have to protect it. But once that right was lost [after all appeals were exhausted], once that battle was lost, there was really no purpose in perpetuating my incarceration simply on a matter of principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Josh Wolf | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...school arch, the university's police department served him with a written notice that if he did this stuff on campus again, he would be arrested. Although there are technically no laws against peripatetic back flipping, IU's Captain Jerry Minger says there are rules in place to protect school property as well as personal safety. "What if somebody came up with some kind of French term for dodging traffic?" Minger asks. "Dodge le traffique is great as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Student Stuntmen | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

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