Word: soiling
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Perhaps. In the exaggerated mythology of the Balkans, eastern Herzegovina is the hard heart of Serb nationalism. The inhabitants pride themselves on being as inhospitable to interlopers as the rocky soil is to farming. "We see them as occupiers," a local Serbian Orthodox priest says of the NATO troops in the region. Also convenient for Karadzic is the region's extended, porous border with Serbia and Montenegro that provides ample escape routes in case of a snatch attempt. Most important, the entire region is in the French sector of NATO operations in Bosnia. Statistically, that is the safest place...
...from where his father is buried. It is a sizable sum, built up over the years from the surplus grain and vegetables he has been able to sell since farmers' markets were legalized in 1979 by Deng Xiaoping. Chen is content: after seven decades of working the soil and being nourished by it, he has made all the arrangements to return to it, in the simplest of life cycles. He represents the first wave of free enterprise in China's long effort to modernize. Now, in the second wave, rural people are heading for the cities and the opportunities they...
...renminbi ($1,250) each. Now the local officials are saying it will be just 7,000 renminbi. They will try to keep the rest." The new land is on top of a mountain, so it will not be nearly so good for farming as the rich alluvial soil they till now by the river's edge. "Everyone here is angry," he says...
This year, a memorial for those killed on June 4, 1989, was held for the first time on Chinese soil. Activists in Hong Kong, the most democratic locale in all of China, have taken it as their duty to make sure that those dissidents did not die in vain--that with each step President Clinton takes in Tiananmen Square, the cries of those who perished there will resonate forcefully around the world. Because of the rights people here have gained under British sovereignty and because of the international interest in Hong Kong in recent years, people feel that they...
...never really go home. Louise Woodward touched down on English soil Thursday for the first time in 15 months of au pair-hood, trial and notoriety. "I've really missed the old place a bit," Louise said at Manchester airport, with what one reporter described as "a slight U.S. twang." But it was not the same England she left, nor the same one that supported her to the hilt during last November's trial. The tabloids are beginning to turn on Louise: "First Class Child Killer," blared the front page of Thursday's London Mirror. It was a tale with...