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...spokeswoman Alison Cooper says the authorities are maintaining control in Dili. "The situation is volatile, but the incidents of violence are sporadic and isolated and able to be contained," she says, despite just having a rock smash through the windscreen of her UN car. The UN registered 31 incidents including arson, rock-throwing and roadblocks over a 10-hour period on Monday night, but had no reports of casualties. The worst attack torched the Customs office; a second Customs building was set on fire early Tuesday. On Wednesday Gusmão was sworn in and promised to "dedicate...
...fancying Indian girls; sheeplike Ravi, who is overeager to fit in; and angry Amit, tortured by "complicated family-related s___" involving his brother's impending marriage. The posse cruises London in Ravi's lilac BMW - "spoiler, alloy hubcaps that kept on spinnin at red traffic lights an matchin lilac windscreen wipers" - looking for "fit" women and making pocket money reprogramming stolen cell phones. That scam leads them into partnership with a menacing Indian ex?investment banker, and they're soon in over their heads. At the same time, Jas loses his head over Samira, a gorgeous Hounslow girl with...
...Dora Akunyili and her family were driving down a rural road in Nigeria three years ago when snipers opened fire on her car. "The back windscreen was shattered," she says. "A bullet pierced through my head scarf and grazed my scalp." Akunyili had been targeted by a drug gang--but not the kind that sells heroin or cocaine. These drug dealers traffic in counterfeit medicine--ineffective at best, deadly at worst--and as director general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Akunyili's job aims to put them out of business...
...drove back to London for an evening at home with a dvd rented from the online, pay-as-you-go easyCinema service. Price? Just $3.50. The picture? Easy Rider. The next morning, nine passengers shuttled up the motorway to Luton airport inside a bright orange bus with a cracked windscreen and grinding brakes. A German and a Canadian seated to my right griped about paying $10 after missing the easyBus Holy Grail - the $2 starting price. Having paid $7.50, I kept quiet. "It changes your habits," says Nicolas Legrand, a 25-year-old mechanical engineer from Nice, aboard our Boeing...
...graduate from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, gives an impression of teenage life as textured and poetic as Heidi's scrapbook. Stones thrown into a lake cut to the sound of snooker balls. Heidi watches her stern new lover throw water across his ute's icy windscreen and her heart melts. Rejected by Joe, she goes to an alpine club and watches revelers in an indoor pool tumble as if in sexual free fall...