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...insulting the monarchy.") The couple were already having a tough year: A few months earlier, Letizia's sister had committed suicide. This fall, groups of Catalan nationalists publicly burned photos of the king and queen, and last week, Morocco's monarch temporarily recalled his ambassador from Madrid to protest the Spanish monarch's visit to the contested cities of Ceuta and Melilla. Through it all, Juan Carlos and his wife Sofia have maintained their habitual calm, confident, no doubt, of both of their high approval ratings and their own exquisite manners...
...stunt, it turned out, had been organized by Greenpeace to protest an old industrial dump near Basel that was said to be leaking chemical waste into the groundwater. The barrel carried water from a source by the dump in which, protesters said, they had found traces of drugs made by Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant that Vasella leads as chairman...
Vasella could have summoned the police. Instead, he stepped outside and asked the crowd, "Who's the boss here?" A man stepped forward, and Vasella told him the commotion was scaring his two younger children. Vasella invited the protest leader and two of his companions for breakfast on his terrace to talk things over. Vasella's wife Anne-Laurence served croissants to the rest of the group...
...conscientious solidarity. Steven Biko was a black South African activist who died while in police custody, and, as Gabriel performs his tribute, the song takes on the power of a folk requiem. Gabriel, however, has found a resonance in Biko's death that goes beyond outrage or simple protest. The further away history moves, the deeper Biko cuts. "You can blow out a candle/ but you can't blow out a fire/ once the flame begin to catch/ the wind will blow it higher," Gabriel sings. Hearing that song during last spring's Amnesty International tour, or at the June...
...Gaza Strip by rivals of the Fatah movement, loyal to President Abbas. Hamas routed Fatah fighters in Gaza last June, but Arafat's old militia still has many followers in Gaza, judging from the rally's size. Gaza sources also said that many Palestinians attended the memorial as a protest against Hamas's tightening control over Gaza, which has triggered international sanctions by Israel and the international community on Gaza's 1.5 million residents. Palestinians in Gaza face constant shortages of food and supplies, factory shutdowns, and reprisal raids by the Israeli defense forces every time the militants fire...