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...orange grove. The city issued him a bulletproof vest that he wore proudly around his office. The investigation led to jail terms for five prominent Party officials. On the day Huang reported for duty at Lianjiang in January 2002, a hundred residents stopped him to say the government had torn down their homes and rescinded promises of compensation. Huang concluded that the city had transferred riverfront land to a developer for half its real value. The giveaway was greased, Huang says, by gifts from the contractor to officials. He ordered 33 of them to return their gifts and halted construction...
Spectacular though some of his single-play efforts may have been a year ago, they weren’t worth the broken hand and torn-up knee that arguably arose from the style of play that produced them...
...behavior, and they thought that the Ottoman Sultan would be gracious because of their inaction. They were wrong. The treatment they received was the same as any other Christian town that submitted voluntarily to the Sultan’s rule; they had to pay special taxes, their walls were torn down, they were forbidden to carry weapons and they were forbidden to build any new churches. The Genoese, like the French, thought that they would be treated differently because they were a different kind of Westerner, but the Sultan did not heed such distinctions—to him they were...
...that was born at Oslo a few years earlier was dying. It was the beginning of the end for the once hoped-for peace between Arabs and Jews. For me, it was the beginning of a new journey in life: a search for an opportunity in distant lands not torn by hate and injustice...
...Call it civil war. Call it ethnic cleansing. Call it genocide ... The reality is the same. There are people in Darfur who desperately need the help of the international community." COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, calling on the U.N. to take action in war-torn Sudan...