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Embracing commutes measured in steps, not miles.(Easy Living?--Downtown for Sale)
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In one of the indelible images of the silent film era, actor Harold Lloyd dangles helplessly from the hands of a clock on the face of the Brockman Building downtown.
Going inside and plunking down up to $400,000 for one of the 76 condominium units earmarked for the 12-story building, however, may be just as daunting--or rewarding--a task.
With more than 1,000 market-rate apartments built and almost completely rented between 1998 and 2002, and cultural draws like Staples Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall attracting potential residents, builders are ...
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Chinese Scholars Call for Attention to Peasant Wars
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; The study of peasant wars in China urgently needs to be deepened...Seminar of the China Society for Study of Peasant Warfare. The seminar, which closed...farming country and experienced numerous peasant uprisings during its 2,000-year...
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Colombian president to enlist peasants in war against left
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...Colombian president to enlist peasants in war against left, right By JUAN...government plans to arm 15,000 peasants to support the armed forces...government forces are to back the peasant-soldiers in the event of...2006. Ramirez said inducting peasants complements this effort.
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Peasants' Golf War puts Mexico in a spin
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Mexico - They have dubbed it the Golf War but it's more like a Mexican mini-revolution...country, where the legendary general led his peasant army against the wealthy elite in the bloody...another placard, echoing Zapata's famous war-cry. White-shawled Indian women embroider...
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COLOMBIAN PEASANTS CAUGHT IN WAR'S CROSSFIRE.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...a country that is already deeply fractured. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are being forcibly uprooted. Most are peasants caught in the crossfire between Marxist rebels and the right-wing paramilitary forces that seek to wipe them out. Fernando...rights groups estimate that more than half of the displaced have ...
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PEASANT MILITIAS AT WAR IN COLOMBIA
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...Press International 05-14-2004 Peasant militias at war in Colombia BOGOTA, Colombia...a year ago, 3,500 men of the Peasant Self-Defense Group of Casanare...of militants who are part of the Peasant Self-Defense Group of Cordova...
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Knights and Peasants: The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: History Today
; Knights and Peasants The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside...population (the `knights' and `peasants' of the title). It is the...The war's impact on the peasant community is then considered...countryside, found both hapless peasants and their livestock being...
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Violence erupts when peasants protest drug war U.S.-backed effort to destroy coca plants enrages Colombians
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...alcohol sales. The military says the peasants have been incited by guerrillas whose...in Florencia thrive on coca from the peasants who grow it to the bank owners, truck...cultivate 200 hectares over there," peasant Cesar Mundaca said. "They'll have to get rid of the whole forest." Peasants have ...
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Innocent suffer in Angola war // Mined peasant farms become killing fields
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Angola's high central plateau, the war between the Marxist MPLA government and...become the country's new killing ground. Peasants increasingly are the victims. In what...Bie in the central zone, some 300,000 peasants have fled to government refugee centers...
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The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua
Magazine article from: The Americas
; The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua. By...circles, the 1980s Contra War in Nicaragua today is a small...bunch of really pissed off peasants" (p. 3). More to the point...makes the case that highland peasant resistance was not driven simply...
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Vietnam's southern revolution; from peasant insurrection to total war.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 9781558496927 Vietnam's southern revolution; from peasant insurrection to total war. Hunt, David. U. of Massachusetts Press 2008 272 pages $28.95 Paperback DS559 Under contract with the US Department of Defense...
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