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...fresh ballot, fair elections are a real possibility. But Bangladesh's citizens aren't holding their breath. People "are hostage to the power struggle and who will be sharing the booty," says editor Chowdhury. "Politics has been polluted." A group of students from a private university in a Dhaka suburb concurs. Tauhid Jalil, 21, who is in his fourth year of a degree in finance and economics and wants to study abroad, says he has lost all faith in Bangladesh's leaders-in "the way they talk, the way they express themselves, the way they act like kids...
...Until his arrest last Friday on kidnapping charges, Michael Devlin, 41, led a life that seemed limited to a three- or four-mile radius from the place he grew up, Webster Groves, an upscale suburb of St. Louis. "He was just a big, friendly marshmallow," said one neighbor who knew Devlin in his youth. When he finally moved out of his parents' home, where he lived in an apartment above the garage, he set up residence in an apartment complex in Kirkwood, about three miles away. For 25 years, he worked at Imo's, a pizza parlor even closer...
...dismembered bodies were pulled out of a storm drain in Noida, an affluent suburb of New Delhi, beginning Dec. 29, residents of the nearby Nithari slum looked on in horror. But their revulsion quickly turned to grief and anger when it emerged that the dead-six boys and 11 girls and young women-hailed from Nithari and were victims of a serial killer. Residents of the slum had repeatedly warned the police that a murderer appeared to be operating in the area, and distraught parents say they had implored the authorities to help search for their missing children-only...
...perception that they focus primarily on assisting the rich and powerful. When the 3-year-old son of a wealthy resident of Noida was kidnapped in November, police launched a massive manhunt and recovered the boy within days. Indian media were quick to compare the two cases. "In a suburb in which the police swung into action so expeditiously upon the kidnapping of a prominent CEO's son, how was it that dozens of children were being reported missing, but no action was taken?" editorialized the Indian Express...
...Some people are fighting back, taking noise cases to court and trying to create quiet neighborhoods in India's biggest cities. One of my favorite signs in Delhi greets you as you enter a middle-class suburb of hushed lanes and leafy parks. "Avoid car horns they cause mental disorder," it reads. Phil Spector, who once admitted to being "relatively insane" and has been charged with the murder of a 40-year-old actress, may sympathize...