41. The police occupied the village for the day, detaining three more people but releasing them later, as more senior officials came to see the damage. 42. The police admit they have not entered the village for at least six weeks. 43. The theft of livestock has defined relations of families, clans and villages for generations. 44. Then the fickle rich abandoned the village for Saratoga Springs. 45. There are schools for the kids, colleges for the young people, jobs for the breadwinners, hospitals for the sick, retirement villages for the elderly. 46. There was a piece in the Moscow paper a while back about an officer who sold his tank to a village for a case of vodka. 47. They also used clay and paper to build model villages for the American Indian tribes they studied. 48. They are paid very little at the beginning so they must essentially rely on a local village for shelter and food. 49. They arrive in a sleepy village for what they assume will be just one more bit of measuring in a long, boring trip. 50. They pose no inherent threat to each other and occupy a region in which Hindus and Muslims have gotten along in countless villages for centuries. |