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...Posada doesn't get to go home to his family in South Florida just yet, though. U.S. District Judge Philip Martinez will review Garney's recommendation and can adopt, amend or reverse the ruling. If he adopts it, the government has ten days to file an appeal...
Karzai isn't naturally imposing. In person, his slight frame, drawn countenance and trimmed white beard make him look a decade older than his 48 years. "If I adopt a style of not consulting, and of doing it alone, the country will not have the kind of harmony it has today," he says. "My problem is perhaps that I'm too much of a democrat for this time of the country's life. If you need a dictator, then go to the Afghan people. Let them elect a dictator. I am not one of those." Of course, what Karzai...
...patterns for white advantage that we can see that white Americans may not be overtly racist but may, in fact, have very different (if not na?ve and simplistic) visions of the social system of race. This is an important finding with implications... for how we understand the policies Americans adopt (or fail to adopt) to challenge [racial] inequities...
...concerted effort," by Beijing, argues Pei Minxin, director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. "The guiding principle in the crackdown is the old mind-set: toughness works. The leadership has a two-pronged strategy. On the one hand, it tries to adopt policies that appear to be populist and friendly to the downtrodden, such as cutting rural taxes and increasing spending. On the other, it intensifies political control and targets troublemakers...
...plant emits, since the federal government has hitherto fought off lawsuits to force the regulation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. That issue will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court next December. But regardless of the outcome, California's new law, which was adopted by the legislature Thursday and is expected to be signed by Schwarzenegger next week, would require that its industries measure exactly how much they emit by 2008. Then, by 2011, the state's independent Air Resources Board must adopt rules that cap emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping...