Word: rebuilds
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...problems, though, New York still has a superb infrastructure for housing, transporting and employing large numbers of people. "It's far easier to fix New York," says Berger, "than to rebuild it in Des Moines." More important, cities such as New York and Tokyo will never lose their role as % marketplaces of ideas. Even as electronic communications increasingly link people over long distances, they still crave face-to-face encounters...
Many Somalis think poorly of the U.N. for what they consider to be mishandling of earlier relief and peacekeeping efforts and kowtowing to the warlords. So far, the U.S. stands tall, but Somalis expect that the Americans will not only help feed the hungry but also rebuild the economy and infrastructure -- and that Washington has so far refused...
...Somalia, U.S. officials fear their troops could be cast into the same untenable position. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has been leading a campaign to turn the humanitarian mission into a more problematic operation to rebuild the Somali nation. Step 1 is disarming a populace so heavily armed that no one can even begin to figure the size of the arsenal. But the Bush Administration remains unwilling to take on a task that could put U.S. troops in the middle, making the Marines the target of anyone who refuses to give...
...nationalist group that has become the second largest political organization in India, on charges of inciting violence. If convicted, they could be imprisoned for 11 years. Rao also banned three Hindu organizations and two fundamentalist Muslim ones and at the same time promised Muslims that his government would help rebuild the Ayodhya mosque -- moves that some Hindu leaders warned might spark more resentment and violence. At week's end army troops were slowly bringing the violence under control. But the long-run survival of secularism and tolerance in the world's most populous democracy was by no means assured...
...strong, who stayed behind when India was partitioned in 1947. But militancy on one side breeds it on the other. In the wake of the Babri mosque's destruction, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, a Muslim religious leader, vowed to lead a mass march of his own to the site to rebuild the shrine. Said he: "The country is heading toward civil...