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...policy outstripped the Pope's was a range of issues that he either soft-pedaled or failed to pronounce on at all this week. He did not address Iraq. He did not make any grand statements about conflict or dialogue with Islam, a dynamic that had dominated previous trips abroad. He did not address the question of denying communion to pro-choice politicians, although he did call their actions a "scandal." Nor did he deliver a major dressing-down of liberal Catholic educators that some had anticipated during his visit to Washington's Catholic University, although he did present some...
...Apparently the Hasidim weren't aware of the movie's premise. As Spurlock says, "I'm not looking for trouble, I'm just looking for answers." A true American innocent abroad, the filmmaker figures that, if he asks nicely, maybe radical Islamists won't want to kill us. He's a Rodney King figure pleading for people to just get along. And even if Spurlock's one-man Peace Corps campaign doesn't work, he'll have fun trying. More fun than the viewer, sometimes. While embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan, he gets to fire a rocket launcher...
...There's one big difference between Tibet and Xinjiang, though: Islam. China's critics say the Uighur's faith has allowed them to be demonized by Beijing since 9/11 in a way that is dangerous both to race relations at home and to their image abroad. "It's a systematic Chinese policy to portray Uighurs as splittists and terrorists," says Rebiya Kadeer, a businesswoman who now heads the Uyghur American Association and is the leader of an exile movement seeking greater rights for her roughly 9 million compatriots who live in Xinjiang. Kadeer was once a rich businesswoman in Xinjiang...
...which is Labor Day for much of the world and a sacred date on the communist calendar. Since greater agricultural efficiency is regarded as his priority, some analysts say he might permit foreign investment in that sector as well. He may also allow Cubans to travel abroad freely and open the door to wider entrepreneurship in Cuba, letting business owners hire employees other than immediate family members and set their own prices...
...Without such measures, Albanel warned, France's art will continue to be snapped up by buyers abroad, while deep-pocketed French collectors will keep preferring to purchase the classic, often foreign-origin works they consider more valuable in terms of status and potential profit. "For every work that is imported, two works are exported," Albanel lamented...