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...Portuguese Republican National Guard with riot gear and bullet-proof vests raced to the scene. They fired tear gas to disperse rock-throwing youths, who swiftly melted into the maze of alleys between the district's tiny shacks and stalls. Expat Australian Jim Clifford, owner of a pizza shop, was making deliveries on a motorbike. "I drove right through the middle of it. They were fighting at every intersection," he says. "The locals were angry. They've had enough. When the police came they were telling them to just shoot them [the easterners]." On the main road heading west...
Downstairs on the shop floor, where 18 motorcycles are produced a day, there is not a single visible sign that Benelli is Chinese-owned. With his handlebar moustache and thick sideburns, veteran worker Righi believes Qianjiang has brought a real change for the better. "We've seen more investment and new projects in the past 18 months than we'd seen in the past decade," he says. On the local level, this might be the most meaningful effect of the Benelli-Qianjiang model: the hundred or so Italian employees at the plant see the Chinese parent as the savior...
...showcase showdown, you or Bob Barker? -Michael Debre, CHICAGOBob Barker. He knows the prices of everything. I would have to know what Broyhill furniture costs. [Laughs.] And I have no idea. I am not savvy with prices. The only thing I am aware of [when I shop] is if I can get to the car in one trip...
...Explicitly, you could say there is a problem [of homophobia] in reggae and dancehall, but it's in every type of music to a certain extent," says Stuart Baker, owner of the Sounds of the Universe reggae record shop London and the record-label Soul Jazz. "It is part of dancehall, but it doesn't define it... [Stop Murder Music] are justified in protesting their corner...
...Dems celebrated loudly at the July 31 House passage--and anticipated Senate passage--of a measure that forces lawmakers at least to begin cleaning up shop. It makes them disclose earmarks, curbs corporate-paid gifts and travel, ends the lavish parties lobbyists throw "in honor" of politicians and requires quarterly reports on the money lobbyists raise for politicians, known as bundling...