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...broke out last April after an unarmed African-American man named Timothy Thomas was shot and killed by a white police officer. Now Luken, who is white, is trying to fend off Fuller, an African American, who sees the race as a referendum on Luken's handling of the unrest. (Cincinnati, pop. 331,000, is 43% black...
Political unrest fuels the trade. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, as in Somalia, years of fighting have left many of the country's museums nearly empty. "For starving, unpaid soldiers, anything is good for sale," says George Abungu, chairman of the International Standing Committee on the Traffic in Illicit Antiquities. "Lack of order is a perfect breeding ground for people who want to collect...
Hyundai and Kia are defying a tradition that has put all their compatriots out of business except Daewoo, which is sputtering. As Korea lurched toward democracy and full-scale industrialization in the late 1980s, labor unrest worsened quality problems in carmaking and other industries. The Asian financial crisis struck another blow in 1997. Kia (then independent) went bust, to be absorbed by Hyundai. Daewoo, Korea's second largest automaker, filed for bankruptcy last year with estimated debts of $17 billion. Its fate now depends largely on whether General Motors can negotiate a takeover...
...trouble is, nobody knows who will rule China in 2008. By then the Communist Party will have undergone a tricky succession; its previous two changes came amid purges and massive unrest. Olympic scrutiny intensified upheaval in Mexico in 1968 and South Korea in 1988. Awarding China the rings now could be like arranging a marriage for children, then inviting the whole world to critique their maturity. And once China is wed to the Games, marital spats may be inevitable...
...unrest at the ballot box is more likely than unrest in the streets. And Richard Riordan, the millionaire Republican who just moved out of city hall due to city term limits, is mulling whether he’ll try to march triumphantly up to Sacramento. Riordan, whose conservatism is of the fiscal rather than the Bible-thumping kind, is seen by many as the state Republican party’s best hope for the governor’s office in 2002. (They were desperate. For a time, Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered a possible Republican nominee...