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...mainland with their 40 Licks tour, featuring songs from their latest compilation album. Though the Stones have periodically applied to perform in China since the 1970s, they finally got clearance earlier this year. But the band, scheduled to play first in Shanghai and then Beijing, has already run afoul of China's Ministry of Culture, which has banned four of its best-known numbers, including Brown Sugar and Let's Spend the Night Together. For concert details, visit rollingstones.com/news/pressreleases.php...
...confident that we are not running afoul of the constitution,” Barro said...
...facing a slowdown; and like-for-like retail-sales growth fell from 4% in October to 1.7% in December. Should consumer spending tank in Britain, though, the government still has one distinct advantage over its euro-zone neighbors - the ability to spend what it likes without running afoul of Brussels. In 2002, Chancellor Gordon Brown unleashed a raft of spending initiatives that will underwrite GDP growth of almost 2% this year. To listen to economists, there are two things that could help lift Europe out of its doldrums. In the short term, there's a war. Not a protracted, recession...
...take a back seat," says political analyst Mehmet Ali Birand. Turkey's problem dates back to Kemal Atat?rk, the army officer who founded the republic almost 80 years ago and who imposed stringent laws to keep fundamentalism at bay. Erdogan, 48, is just the latest politician to run afoul of such laws which - in the hands of zealous courts and a secularist army - have led to the banning of dozens of politicians and a handful of political parties over the years. Born to a working-class family (his father was a sea captain) on Turkey's Black Sea coast, Erdogan...
...Gomes’ views with the thinking that has fueled terrorist atrocities in America, Israel, the Philippines, Bali and, most recently, Moscow. But this thinking begins by claiming God as a political backer, an error which Gomes commits with his easy assumption that a war in Iraq would run afoul of the things the Lord delights in: “Love, justice, and righteousness...