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...India's Medha Patkar is a passionate critic of big dam projects, especially the one scheduled for the Narmada Valley, which will submerge 245 villages and uproot 100,000 people. Taking a leaf from Mahatma Gandhi's book, she has organized hunger strikes, demonstrations, sit-ins, roadblocks and rallies. A measure of her success: the World Bank has ordered an independent review of the environmental impact of the Narmada dam and plans for resettling villagers, prompting foreign investors to delay releasing fresh funds...
Consider the good-government advantages of (let's call it) the Byrd Migration. First there is the Minsk effect. What better way to symbolize an end to the old ways and commitment to reform than physically moving the government? What better way to break up old bureaucracies than to uproot and transplant them, files...
...disavowal drips with disingenuousness, it is winning converts -- particularly among educated middle-class voters who sense something is terribly wrong with the state. Duke, who fancies comparisons with Boris Yeltsin, appeals to the same kind of throw-the-bums-out impulse that the Russian leader has used to uproot the entrenched order in his country...
...issue is the company's determination to uproot work rules that, it argues, reflect generations of featherbedding that cost the News some $70 million a year in excessive wages and benefits. The newspaper says it loses $50 million annually. "These contracts are a nightmare," says News publisher James Hoge. "You can't manage effectively under them...
...ECAC once again boasts a bevy of talented teams that will take a crack at the national title. Like last season, this winter campaign should have more than its share of upsets. Any team can uproot any other on any given night. Last-place Army proved this last year by defeating the Crimson on the opening game of Harvard's Season After. In that sense, there will again be parity this season in the ECAC...