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...Tuesday it appeared as if Prime Minister Qarase might be able to defy his nemesis Bainimarama. Holed up in his official residence in the suburb of Domain in the hills above the capital of Suva, Qarase seemed undaunted as he conducted media interviews and gave orders to his cabinet by cell phone. But by late afternoon, Bainimarama had named himself as president and declared he had taken control of the government...
...directed by Paul Almond. The kids were chosen to represent English classes and regions: Jackie, Lynn and Sue from a London council estate, John, Andrew and Charles from a Kensington boarding school, Paul and Simon (originally spelled Symon) from a charity home, Neil and Peter from a Liverpool suburb, Suzy from a titled family, Nicholas from the Yorkshire dales, rough-and-tumble Tony from the East End, ethereal Bruce from divorced upper-class parents...
...criminal rampage. With each new episode, it feels as if the gap between Muslims and their fellow citizens gets wider: hearts harden, fear seeps in, unreal stereotypes become set in concrete. But that's not happening in those communities where Muslims live in large numbers. The Sydney suburb of Lakemba is Australia's Islam Central; immigrants from the Middle East, Asia and Polynesia have transformed a place that was solidly Anglo-Irish and European (and obviously Christian) for most of last century...
...sprayed with gunfire in 1998, is also code for violent misfits in the fantasyland of the State's law and order politics. The Lakemba stigma, says Steve Conlon, principal of St. Therese primary, is evident in a decision by his Catholic school's P&F to scrub the suburb from its organization's name. Unemployment here is high, particularly among boys and men with low levels of education. Families live in small apartments; hope one day of a better home, with a yard for the kids, gives Lakemba a transient disposition, says Conlon. Yet, as in many parts of Sydney...
...days following the violence at Cronulla-trouble also spilled into other parts of the city-those in Lakemba sensed a strain as the image of the suburb was again being spoiled from outside. The people of Holy Spirit College, a co-educational Catholic high school, felt they needed to show solidarity with local Muslims and promote the area. "It was a tumultuous week," recalls Holy Spirit principal Frank Malloy, speaking a year after the school canceled end-of-year beach picnics to Cronulla and its evening of Christmas carols at the school. "We wanted to say to the people...