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...speech in Berlin - in which he said, "The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another" - fell short. Obama's true commitment to eliminating the walls that stand between nations, races and religions remains to be proved. Saber Ahmed Jazbhay, Durban, South Africa...
...briefly detained Tsvangirai, his deputy - Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.) general secretary Tendai Biti - and a third M.D.C. official. The three were held at Harare airport and, after their passports were confiscated, prevented from leaving the country to attend a weekend summit of southern African leaders in Johannesburg, South Africa. Biti said the incident raised questions about the Mugabe regime's true intentions. "This is a reflection of their insincerity," he told reporters at the airport. "They want to talk to us. Yet they behave like hooligans...
...South Africa Iyer's piece states "Beijing even invited Albert Speer, the son of Hitler's architect, to help design a major axis." This sentence implies a connection between the present Chinese administration and the Nazi regime. This is an enormous exaggeration. The handling of democratic development and minorities by the Chinese government are not to my liking, but the atrocities of the Nazi regime were committed on a much larger scale. The government of the People's Republic of China must be criticized with frank words, but this essay violates TIME's usual standards. Dr. Clemens Derndorfer, GALLNEUKIRCHEN, AUSTRIA...
...Phelps' chase to break Mark Spitz's 1972 Munich record of seven gold medals in a single Games, that means another day at the Water Cube - in Athens, the waiting was over by the second day, when the U.S. men came in third in the 4x100m relay behind South Africa and the Netherlands...
...seduce Papua New Guinea away from Beijing were accused of absconding with $30 million of government funds. Even if, as analysts expect, Taiwan doesn't offer Paraguay the full $71 million, by going, Ma risks being seen as continuing the practice of bribing impoverished nations in Latin America and Africa for their support. "Ma should not expose himself to this kind of open blackmail," says Loh I-Cheng, Taiwan's former ambassador to South Africa...