Word: ruralization
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...group of aides waiting outside, the 55-year-old former four-star general strode into one of the institute's classrooms, a laptop tucked under one arm, to face six university professors. For the next three hours, he parried questions about his recently completed Ph.D. thesis: Agrarian and Rural Development as a Strategy to Eradicate Poverty and Unemployment. "We thought it was just going to be a few token questions," says Yudhoyono adviser Rachmat Witoelar. "He was, after all, probably going to be elected President in a few days. But they really grilled...
...Canada today is not rural China 30 years ago. But the Toronto Festival faithful, seduced by cinema, are a lot like Ling Ling, who thinks of films as a window to the past, to a true movie community?when "the people on screen, their images and voices, brought us all together. Breathing as one. Dreaming...
...still ringing in our ears. The clock above the Citizens’ Bank proclaims the minutes and hours to our little world—a beacon to students late for class and a constant reminder of the exacting pace of college life. Cambridge is a far cry from rural Canada, where I spent my summer camped in an eastern township of Quebec and had to chop wood in order to get a hot meal...
Once a working-class community, Harvard Square is an exciting zone for exploration, especially to those of us who spent our summers in rural parts. The Square is a bustling hubbub of small shops and gaudy franchises, bearing the stamp of industrialization, yet remaining quaint and colonial with brick-lined walkways. Cambridge is the seventh largest city in the state, with over 40,000 residents in the age span of 18 to 29. Despite its presence of youth, the cobblestone streets speak to a revered past when the Square was no more than a nexus of street railway routes leading...
DIED. RICHARD BUTLER, 86, white supremacist who in the early 1970s founded a 20-acre compound in rural Idaho called the Aryan Nations, spawning chapters in a dozen states and contacts with neo-Nazis around the globe; in Hayden, Idaho. Dubbed "the elder statesman of hate" by civil rights advocates, the former aerospace engineer housed a spectrum of right-wing extremists, some of whom would later be convicted of racially motivated crimes. Butler himself claimed he was against violence, however, and operated relatively unhindered until he was bankrupted by a $6.3 million lawsuit in 2001--stemming from a 1998 incident...