MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Andrew Hammond, Reuters, October 28, 2011
SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia - This provincial Tunisian town became the cradle of the "Arab Spring" revolts nearly a year ago because residents were fed up with being talked down to by elites in the distant capital.
On Friday the town erupted into violence once again because, local people said, despite a revolution that swept away the country's rulers and installed a new Islamist leadership, nothing had really changed.
Protesters angry that election candidates they backed had been disqualified rampaged through Sidi Bouzid, setting fire to a court-house, a police headquarters, the mayor's office and the offices of a rival party....
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