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The clinic was heavily damaged by Hurricanes Georges, in 1998, and Katrina, in 2005, but Benjamin rebuilt it each time and continued to offer medical care to the village's 2,500 residents.

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Thursday, when most of the village's 2,000 residents were still asleep.

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The fiesta will take place in an open, dirt floor courtyard facing the village's main street.

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Former protest leader Lin Zuluan was appointed as the village's new party chief last month.

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Banners decrying local government corruption hang in the village's central square, and there is an outdoor memorial for Mr. Xue, who police say died of a heart attack but who many in Wukan believe was murdered.

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The village's main street remains alive with drinking, coming and going, and of course sporadic bottle rockets going off.

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Mr. Lonsdale's aged and asthmatic Father Luc, the village's only physician, not only ministers to the sick but dispenses sage advice to a local girl who wants to know about love.

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The villagers who worked with him say Mr. Hazare resorted to such actions only when warnings didn't work and that his "army method" of disciplining people was necessary for the village's transformation.

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