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...case, the issue seems to have been fast-forwarded by Illinois' flamboyant and controversial governor, Rod Blagojevich, who announced on Wednesday that he would seek $40 million in state funding to raze the building where the massacre took place. The governor, embattled by several political controversies, apparently took it upon himself to publicize plans to do so by the university. Blagojevich probably thought he would thus be soothing the feelings of students and professors distressed at the prospect of returning to Cole Hall. But the governor immediately came in for criticism...
...local anger against Musharraf is the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, in the capital Islamabad. For months the clerics of the mosque and the students of its two madrasahs, or seminaries, have openly defied the authorities: they have occupied a nearby children's library to protest government plans to raze illegal mosques built on state-owned land; set up their own Shari'a court; and have even kidnapped policemen and terrorized neighboring areas with a Taliban-like vigilante campaign against anything they consider un-Islamic. On July 3, that defiance erupted into a bloody clash between security forces and students...
Blue won, and is now part of a movement that is pushing back hard against the government's power to meddle with property owners. The campaign is largely a response to the Supreme Court's controversial 2005 decision allowing the city of New London, Conn., to raze private homes for a commercial waterfront project. The ruling struck a deep chord in the American psyche; that the government could seize your house or business in order to build a road for everyone's use was one thing, but the idea that it could hand your property over to private developers...
...Zozaya says the mayor's plan to seize the land is unrealistic because it would cause a traffic nightmare and would have a negative affect on the 11,000 club members and direct and indirect employees. He also points out, with an ironic chuckle, that the city proposes to raze an institution that the federal government last year declared as part of the national patrimony in recognition of its historic value...
...tough, what with no utilities, phones or any neighbors at first. Petrie, who handles investor relations for oil companies, called family and friends for money, then oil business associates in New York, San Francisco, Washington and Houston. They raised $2.5 million - the majority of it locally - to buy and raze 19 properties in a 10-square-block area near their homes. Petrie's new duplex is their prototype for the future: three stories, 2,400 square feet of living space, built up at least 9 feet 4 inches, accommodating a garage that can flood. Priced to sell...