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China has several advantages over Haiti when it comes to reconstruction. While China's disaster affected millions of people, the destruction was concentrated in rural areas and smaller towns, not a dense city. The mountainous parts of Sichuan and surrounding provinces hit by the 2008 quake are poor, not destitute, and they all had a basic level of food and water supplies, access to medicine and health care, and transportation and communications infrastructure. When much of that was wiped out by the quake, China's central government responded quickly, sending tens of thousands of soldiers and paramilitary troops...
...deputy mayor of Paris, believes the legal framework for gay partnerships has "forced respect." (Girard is in a civil partnership with his partner of 13 years and has two children). "Gays are no longer just seen as partiers, but also as parents," he says. Paris, of course, is not rural France. But even in Barsac, a village of 2,200 people in the country's southwest, gay leaders have seen progress. Philippe Meynard, the mayor for five years, says his own visibility has influenced local attitudes. "People have become aware that a gay person isn't a caricature," he says...
...looking like a statesman," says Anita Isaacs, a Guatemala expert at Haverford College who has testified before the U.S. Congress on peace building in the country. Colom, the first left-of-center President to be elected in more than 50 years, won office with the support of indigenous, rural Mayans and vowed to help alleviate widespread poverty in the countryside with programs that have angered the nation's oligarchy, including cash rewards to poor parents who send their children to school regularly...
...negotiate with Sinn Fein during his six-week break. But a failure to reach a consensus could cause the fragile coalition to fall apart, which would trigger new elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. And this may not be good for the DUP. The party's traditional base - rural Evangelical Protestants - has been rocked by Iris Robinson's affair, which may cause some voters to drift toward the anti-power-sharing Traditional Unionist Voice Party or the more moderate Ulster Unionist Party, which recently forged an alliance with the British Conservative Party. "The DUP grass roots is in shock [over...
...Although Evangelical influence over the DUP has waned in recent years, Evangelical congregations - particularly those in rural Northern Ireland - still form the backbone of the party founded by the Rev. Ian Paisley in 1971. The couple's standing among these devout members is now likely to deteriorate. "The Robinson affair will be difficult for core DUP supporters," says Gladys Ganiel, a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and author of a book on Evangelicalism in Northern Ireland. "It certainly doesn't hurt to talk about your faith in public in Northern Ireland politics, and no one has done that more than...