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Angry Cantabrigians are boarding protest buses, Amigos and Ola are fighting for their lives, and an unpopular school board has to sort through it all. A $2.6 million budget deficit and decades of declining enrollment mean that at least two Cambridge elementary schools have to close, and it’s not an easy decision for the beleaguered school board and the district’s lame-duck superintendent, Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, to make. One way or another, someone’s beloved neighborhood school will get the axe, and probably one of the valuable Amigos...
...privacy is essential to the sanctity of the process. Cameras, they say, will skew the composition of juries by removing people who don't want to deliberate in front of them. And jurors who don't feel articulate or confident may be reluctant to speak out or take an unpopular stand--as Henry Fonda did in the classic movie 12 Angry Men--if they think their neighbors are watching and judging them. Furthermore, recording jury deliberations, opponents say, might encourage litigation and prolong what some feel is the already cumbersome process of appeals...
...fuse was lit last Tuesday when police in the capital, Dili, barged into a high school to seize a student over a homicide stemming from a gang fight. Outraged over the manner of the arrest by what is an unpopular force, hundreds of fellow students took to the streets and set fire to a pair of police motorcycles before being repelled by tear gas. They regrouped the next day and, armed with rocks and slingshots, marched toward police headquarters. The police fired warning shots in the air, then apparently aimed lower, killing a 14-year-old and fatally wounding...
...building houses." The irate architect shoots back: "If you weren't Chancellor, I'd be building houses, too." Barely two months after he won re-election by a wafer-thin margin, Schröder's handling of the country's sputtering economy has made him the most unpopular leader in postwar Germany. People feel betrayed and lied to by Schröder, because during the election he promised no new taxes, yet now proposes to raise taxes by j26 billion next year. The opposition Christian Democrats have demanded a parliamentary inquiry into whether Schröder committed election fraud...
...felt he had the chance to become not just a good President but a great one. But with barely three months to go before he hands over power to the winner of South Korea's Dec. 19 presidential election, Kim has become a lonely, almost tragic figure, deeply unpopular, politically spent and increasingly irrelevant...