Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China. Liu Nianchun, a labor activist, defiantly applied for formal registration of the unofficial league, claiming 120 founding members. At least one of them, Yuan Hongbing, was arrested. These organizing efforts are still small, but they worry the Chinese leadership because they could ignite major unrest, especially among urban workers. Inflation is running at 23% in the big cities, and the economic reforms that will privatize huge state-owned industries will add to the unemployment rolls. The last thing China's leaders want to face is a newly militant labor movement, even if it is interested primarily in job security...
Crime is a young man's game. Most of the nation's random violence is committed by young urban terrorists. But because of long, mandatory sentences, most prisoners here are much older, having spent 15, 20, 30 or more years behind bars, long past necessity. Rather than pay for new prisons, society would be well served by releasing some of its older prisoners who pose no threat and using the money to catch young street thugs. Warden John Whitley agrees that many older prisoners here could be freed tomorrow with little or no danger to society. Release, however, is governed...
What you can't do in front of the president of The Crimson: Criticize the media. Being folk and myth, I say that it's cool that newspapers tell urban legends. But she says that "They should always tell the truth. If they don't it's bad journalism...
What the president of The Harvard Crimson says about this: The Crimson has enough credibility problems on campus to entertain my roommate by spreading urban legends as truth...
Israeli soldiers inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs were scrubbing away the pools of blood, but it will not be so easy to clean up the political wreckage of the Hebron massacre. Talk of peace has been thrust aside by something close to urban warfare in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinians are demanding the disarmament and dismantling of the Jewish settlements before they return to the negotiations. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, no lover of the settlements, is under deeply conflicting political pressures about how to respond, and many feel he has failed to do enough. Palestine Liberation Organization...