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...were killed. Last year, 32 were murdered in and around Cape Town alone. Black South Africans have begun purging their neighborhoods. Last August in Cape Town, a crowd of 200 drove Somalis out of the seaside township of Masiphumele. On February 12, after a Somali shopkeeper fired on a robber and killed a passerby in Port Elizabeth, a mob looted and burned 89 Somali stores...
...shaping up to be a very hot summer of contract talks. The company's rank and file are less than thrilled about their employer's leaving the warm embrace of Germany and falling into the hands of New York financiers. "These private-equity firms are like modern-day robber barons," said a worker at the company's Warren truck plant outside Detroit. "People are feeling betrayed by the management...
...still awake?” Tuan and Dasher said nothing was taken from the room during the incident. This is not the first time the three residents of this room have experienced a break-in. Earlier this year, an iPod and video camera were stolen from their residence. The robber left a note in the form of a PowerPoint presentation on Dasher’s computer that insulted the roommates and Dasher’s concentration. Since the first robbery, the three roommates have been very careful to lock their door, leaving it open only when they were present...
...restrictions beg for student guerilla-style ingenuity. Line your pants pockets with plastic bags and then fill them with gin or moonshine. Better yet, do this with cargo pants or those big moonboots. Hit the alumni tailgate and steal some massive martinis and roast suckling pig from unwitting robber barons. Or settle for the five beers. And shed a tear for Harvard’s stellar football team. Nobody will watch them—far fewer Elis, the many students who will party on this side of the river, and the canny students heading to the less-draconian alumni tailgate...
...problem is that the state cannot foster that if you want to be a successful country," says Adolfo Hellmund, a former economic adviser to Lpez Obrador who used to work at ALFA, another Monterrey firm. "They are our Rockefellers and Carnegies. We are now the country of the robber barons...