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...Uighurs to kidnap athletes at the Olympics, and made scores of other arrests. But increased pressure may have already backfired. Residents and activist groups outside China say that since Mutallip's death, Khotan and surrounding areas have been roiled by protests involving a few dozen to nearly a thousand demonstrators. "The demonstrations are indicative of the widespread dissent in Xinjiang's Uighur community and how quickly that dissent can become explosive with only a little agitation," Elizabeth Van Wie Davis, co-editor of the 2007 book Islam, Oil & Geopolitics: Central Asia Since September 11, wrote in a recent academic paper...
...smartly observed, but structurally Poon draws too crude a contrast between London and Singapore to power her plot of a young man's journey of self-discovery. Alistair's parents are caricatured embodiments of lowbrow, materialist Asia. Because she uses the abbreviation k to denote a thousand, we are asked to believe that Alistair's mother has "a barbaric attitude towards money - reducing something vast to a small, inconsequential syllable." His father makes bawdy comments about the breasts of "these Western women" while Alistair, rather prissily, feels his ears burn. London, on the other hand, is portrayed as a liberal...
...unveils the airline's introductory fare--$1,000 round trip between Sydney and Los Angeles--Branson, in jeans and a rumpled polo shirt, interrupts. "That's not good enough," he declares. "What kind of plane are we flying? 777s? Then let's make it $777 for the first thousand tickets!" People cheer, as if Branson has just spontaneously handed out $223 in dollar bills, but his lines are part of a well-choreographed bit of corporate theater--never mind that the first thousand tickets had just been sold...
...talk and let them vent and then I said, 'Here's the deal. They are not going away, we have to do the best we can.'" One angry woman demanded the town leadership do something because the FLDS were practicing polygamy and living in sin. Nikolauk responded: "Two thousand years ago this young fella stood up in defense of a whore and said he who is without sin cast the first stone. I know there are some sinless folks here so why don't you stand up so we can applaud you." That calmed the anger. For a while...
...really want heart, go find a member of the Red Sox Nation. We all know who had Babe Ruth first. We all know who had Rodger Clemens first. And we all know that even in the face of a thousand year curse, if enough fanatically dedicated sportfans gather together and cheer loud and long enough, we can overcome pretty much anything...