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...town of Emmen, an industrial suburb of Lucerne, adopted a similar measure three years ago, but it was suspended by local authorities due to widespread criticism after townspeople rejected all the citizenship applications from non-E.U. nationals, mostly people from former Yugoslavia. A strong showing on Sunday could give the SVP more mainstream appeal and help them collect the 100,000 signatures needed to push through these referendums. "Some of the party's methods are grotesque," says Held. "They mobilize the public by creating drama - and they are overdoing...
Hours after Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo flew back to Manila from official visits to the U.S., France and Italy last week, she gathered aides and younger brother Diosdado at her family's home in a swanky suburb, to deliver a shocker. Arroyo declared that her decision last December not to run in the presidential election next May was a mistake. "I got out of the race, but what did I get?" she said. "I've decided to accept whatever God has intended for me, including the presidency...
Dressed in a black button down and khakis, Kubik, who speaks without a trace of a Polish accent—though with a hint of Addison, Illinois, the suburb of Chicago where he now lives—addressed the audience in English and Walesa in Polish, asking him about coal mines in the country. The mines’ workers, finding themselves out of work and now faced with a supply-and-demand economy and not all that much demand, have attacked the economic policies of the current government...
...most of my time in college, being gay was a deep-dark secret my Republican self was determined to exorcise. Though I’m from a liberal suburb, I was raised in a household where attraction to the same sex is considered unnatural. It took a drunken conversation during reading period last winter and a 21st birthday promise to myself to initiate my coming out process...
...dynamite bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The church was a focal point of Birmingham's civil rights turmoil that year, but that unrest hadn't touched Virgil and his coal-mining family, who lived in a modest, all-black suburb and rarely even saw white people. All Virgil had on his mind that day was the money he and his brothers were going to make with the newspaper route they had just secured...