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...Afonso soares was supposed to be one of East Timor's bright hopes. The 22-year-old son of a vegetable vendor from the eastern town of Baucau had done well enough in school to earn a place at Dili's Universidade da Paz in 2002, the same year his homeland gained independence. Soares chose to study law, believing that a strong legal system was a key institution for the young nation. But all that changed last April, when the army revolt ignited clashes between Dili residents from the country's east and west. "Before the crisis, east was where...
...studios of 18 Doughty Street, Britain's latest political-news network, are located in a venerable town house in a part of London that was built on the spoils of empire and that, for more than a century, has been the capital's center of jurisprudence. To the right and left and across the road from No. 18, attorneys peddle notions of justice and fair play. But visitors to 18 Doughty Street are advised to check such outmoded concepts at the door. "We provide some balance," says Iain Dale, the network's co-founder and star presenter, "but no impartiality...
Back in the U.S., it took only a year after the discovery of gold to turn the sleepy little town of San Francisco into a boisterous city, the largest place west of Chicago. Modern California was born. More important, the Gold Rush was a ratification of the most fantastical version of the American Dream, the yearning for instant fortune and easy prosperity, for extreme liberty and land free for the taking from the natives. When they heard the news out of California, Marx and Engels understood that this bizarre phenomenon was another way in which the U.S. might not conform...
...them, their foul mouths were overheard by one student’s mom and her bevy of parent friends. Nothing says educated like the phrase “let’s get fuck-tarded”...A Hist & Lit senior scheduled a Signet date with her mother, in town visiting. Unfortunately, post-thesis revelry left doting daughter hard-up with a hangover, and bemused mom got stood up at lunch...Moving outside the realm of parent mishaps, anal Spee members had an internal e-mail thread that worried about the sexual nature of their “Slow Jamz?...
...Tony Barriteau, the director of athletics at Arlington’s Oakridge School, which Akpan attended all the way from K-12, speaks with a distinctive Caribbean lilt (he is a native of Trinidad) when he calls the town “a very diverse community...