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...California politicians wanted to please potential donors....
...In the valley to our north is Rawlins, a prison town, and just east of there is the hamlet of Sinclair, renamed after its almost 100-year-old refinery....
...At a time when the US is in a paroxysm of tribal discord, the tech industry’s young leaders promote themselves as the vanguard of an enlightened new generation....
...Seattle City Council last week voted to cut ties with Wells Fargo and Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, has signalled support for a boycott....
...An occluded moon rode high above the valley....
...A council of tribal elders was convened. Predictably, competition over lucrative trade routes had fuelled much of the ethnic rivalry....
...Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf By Miriam Cooke (University of California Press, £19.95, $29.95) In Dave Eggers’s novel, A Hologram for the King, an American IT consultant is dispatched...
...And, thus far, Facebook has managed to ensure its employees define themselves as part of a common “tribe”....
...Metal had been rare to the tribes – now it fell deadly from the sky....
...Khan writes compellingly about the culture and mindset of tribal people in Pakistan’s’ Swat valley and the North West Frontier Province....
...Money will almost certainly continue to flow, especially if the country fulfils its goal of joining the Gulf Co-operation Council, a Saudi-led grouping of oil-rich nations....
...He introduced darkling clouds that weren’t there by superimposing pictures on a separate landscape plate and more daringly brought the actual inhabitants of the valley – Miwoks – into a scene that in other...
...The score pounds and beats, pauses to sing, and Morris’s dancers (a tribe repeating an ancient ritual) are possessed by it, as have been their ancestors....
...They come to apply for government identity cards or attend a weekly council – or shura – to discuss projects planned by Melton....
...A bigger obstacle is that Rift Valley politicians, even though they are on the same side of the coalition, have turned the issue into a tribal dispute between their communities....
...The ‘jirga’ [tribal council] of the Mehsud tribe has warned him that he should surrender. That means they [Mehsud and his followers] are now feeling handicapped....
...Three decades later Daniel arap Moi, the then president, reopened tribal wounds....
...Stone remains the optimist: “Remember, I came out of Silicon Valley, where if you had a six-month lead on your competition, you win....
...The Kikuyus owned the retail and transport businesses,” says Joshuah Nyamori, who hopes to become the town’s mayor in a council vote next week. “This was unsustainable....
...“But when I presented [a proposal to buy Hard Rock] to the tribal council, they saw the potential.”...
...That was how Ahmad and Governor Ibrahim got their tribal positions too....
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