Word: rurales
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...board, up to 40 guests are served ginger pork, chicken soup with coconut milk and other Laotian specialities by gracefully garbed staff. And in the evenings, villagers entertain passengers by dancing to age-old tunes that include royal ballet and interpretations of everyday rural life, folk tales and ancient legends...
...Entering the electoral fray will be an ironic development for PAD, as its platform dubbed "New Politics" once called for denying the nation's rural majority the right to vote on the basis that they are uneducated and sell their votes to corrupt politicians. The movement's positions range from reasonable - such as reforming corruption in politics and pushing for an unbiased state-run media - to questionable at best, with one PAD leader recently praising North Korea's land reform program, saying that although North Koreans were starving, they had pride of small land ownership...
...attempt to paper over the extent of their losses, the Communists have been quick to point out their vital influence in shaping the policies of Singh's past government. The rural upliftment schemes that many believe won Congress this election, for instance, were pushed and prodded along by Communist support. "They have an effect that goes beyond their electoral strengths," says Jayati Ghosh, a professor of economics at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University and a prominent left-wing columnist. But the country's focus now is more on the effect of the Communists' absence. Unshackled from leftist dogmas against free...
James Quinn and his classmates called it the blackjack - five layers and 18 in. (46 cm) of leather, studded with coins and other metal objects. The priests at the school Quinn attended in rural Ireland in the 1950s each carried a blackjack and used it, along with bamboo rods and other objects, to dole out almost daily beatings to hundreds of children. "Whatever class you went to, you got a beating from whoever was in charge," says Quinn, now 70. "But knowing what other people went through, I know I was one of the lucky ones...
...Lives in a modest mobile home in rural Falcon, Mo. A neighbor says he's friendly but not active in the community...