Word: vacuums
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...Shakeel and Dawood can't return to Bombay because they bombed the city in 1993. The Bombay underworld did not set off the bombs, which killed 257 people, in a vacuum. It relied on the tacit understanding if not outright support of Bombay's Muslim community, which had recently been traumatized by riots in which hundreds had been burned alive, stabbed, and shot by Hindu street mobs. The blasts reminded the Hindu community that the Muslims were not powerless...
Ideally, popularly elected public school officials would demonstrate the creativity, resourcefulness and resolve to improve Philadelphia schools. Time has shown that they are unable to do so; in the vacuum of ideas left in public officials’ wake, we welcome a chance to offer better education to all. We wish the Staff cared more about children than the details of school administration...
...That won?t be easy. Some of the hapless conspirators aren?t ready to apologize. Pedro Carmona, the interim President (now under house arrest), denies there even was a coup. He prefers to call it a "vacuum of power." And the U.S. has yet to acknowledge that it might have been inappropriate to suggest that Ch?vez, a left-wing leader whose policies and statements often irk Washington, had it coming. Instead, the White House chided the restored President: National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice suggested that he needed to "respect the constitutional processes," sidestepping the question as to whether Washington...
...civil authority in the West Bank appears to have been critically impaired, if not destroyed. And "Operation Defensive Shield" has destroyed to much of the Palestinian Authority's security apparatus, on whose enforcement powers any cease-fire would rest. The Israelis are unlikely to tolerate a power vacuum in towns they characterize as hotbeds of terrorism, and that may leave them inclined to maintain security control - from their "buffer zones" - over the major West Bank cities, creating a de facto reoccupation that turns the clock back a decade to the pre-Oslo...
...Many commentators in the region had expected an uptick in violence following the departure of the Secretary of State, who left in his wake what the Israeli daily Haaretz called "a dangerous vacuum" - no substantial movement toward ending the current violent standoff in the West Bank, and vague talk about a regional peace conference that has been skeptically received on both sides of the divide. Powell's efforts to reassure Washington's Arab allies of America's bona fides as a peace broker weren't helped by President Bush's remarks Thursday certifying that Ariel Sharon was in compliance with...