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...disappear from view. Ditches provide trails from the border to Highway 92, a distance of about three miles. That is the route that Ladd says 200 to 300 illegals take every night as they enter the U.S. They punch holes in the barbed-wire border fence and then tear up the many fences intended to separate the breeding cattle--Brahmin, Angus and Hereford--that divide the Ladd land...
...also proof of how messy democracy can be. In Belarus, just several days before President Alexander Lukashenko ordered his storm troopers to meet the flowers and colored balloons of a peaceful people's march with clubs, tear gas and stun grenades, I happened to overhear a Western observer. The gentleman, apparently Italian, was admiring the impeccable organization of Lukashenko's election: all so orderly, just like in Switzerland, he enthused. Well, yes, order is admirable - didn't the trains run on time under Mussolini, which doesn't always happen in Italy under democracy? That's the eternal problem: democracy...
...TIME in a call from Minsk. "But before he started talking, the officer ordered an attack. They knocked my husband off his feet, started beating him up and then dragged him away." In the melee that followed, many protesters were beaten up, stunned by percussion grenades or affected by tear gas. Last week, both the U.S. and European Union condemned Lukashenko's regime, with the E.U. banning him from travel to member states of the Union and the Bush Administration calling for the early release of those detained since the election. Belarus, said the E.U., was a "sad exception...
...banlieues south of Paris, was smiling gleefully and weeping at the same time. Like hundreds of other young people boxed in by riot police between the Bon Marché department store and the Hotel Lutetia in the heart of the Left Bank, Diakite was choking in air pungent with tear gas and smoke from a burning newspaper kiosk. Amid the uproar, he and his fellow students felt a budding--and maybe false--sense of empowerment. Could half a million young people in the streets throughout France bring an embattled government to its knees...
...poll last week found that more than two-thirds of the population--and more than 80% of the young people whom the law aims to help--want the government to rescind it. The most agitated of them flocked to the Sorbonne last week and hurled anything they could tear loose--metal barricades, a camera tripod and dozens of Parisian café chairs--at the shields of riot police. A Mercedes was flipped over, and a Renault set alight; Minis were tossed about like toys. THE BOURGEOISIE TO THE GULAG! read a graffito. "Maybe you can talk about labor flexibility in England...