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The mutineers then invaded Delhi, Kanpur (Cawnpore), and Lucknow, looting treasuries, breaking open jails, and killing British men, women, and children.
We're talking, after all, about a city government that--with an annual budget of about $5 billion and a shrinking population--runs schools that cannot shelter, much less educate its children; cannot mend its roads or keep its drinking water potable; cannot police its own police force, let alone its streets or jails; cannot care for the sick, or elderly, or homeless.
4 billion, the paper reports, will be going to health care, but much will also be spent on completely unrelated areas, such as roads, jails, farm aid, schools, and senior centers.
Inmates are escaping from jails, and the president has lost control of the army.
Israel botched an assassination attempt on a Hamas leader . According to various reports, Israel 1) infuriated Jordan by infiltrating that country and staging the attack there; 2) infuriated Canada and other countries by forging Canadian passports for the Israeli agents; 3) bungled the attack, leading to the agents' arrest; 4) was forced to release the founder of Hamas (who was serving a life sentence) and other Hamas prisoners from Israeli jails and to supply an antidote for the lethal nerve toxin used in the attack, in order to assuage Jordan's anger; and 5) aroused such fury at Israel and sympathy for Hamas that Yasser Arafat reportedly will have to release the Hamas prisoners he has rounded up and reopen Hamas institutions.