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People fleeing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq accounted for almost half of the refugees under UNHCR's care last year, which ended with some 3 million Afghans in Pakistan and Iran and about 2 million Iraqis in Syria and Jordan. While richer countries are becoming increasingly vigilant about fending off migrants of all types from their own borders, the vast majority of refugees get no further than a neighboring country, which is often as impoverished as the one from which they fled. "Iraqi exiles are living in dire conditions in Damascus and Aleppo," says Guterres, whose organization has been...
...Mexico and stalled in Texas, where fierce local opposition has delayed construction--a coalition of border-town mayors and chambers of commerce has sued DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, alleging he is trying to seize land at inadequate prices. But Texas already has more than 1,200 miles (almost 2,000 km) of well-marked border in the form of the Rio Grande...
...baseball caps for the Cardinals and a white one for the Holy Father. "He put it on!" Tim told me when he came home. "We have pictures!" Then he said, more quietly, "But, you know, it was really something being in his presence. You felt something holy. It was almost as if the air was different." And that was Tim--exuberant, irreverent, brilliant and devout, a thrilling jolt of humanity. We were friends for 30 years. We closed a few bars together in the early years, before his wife Maureen shaped him up; we talked politics incessantly; we shared summer...
Behind this position is a political calculation that says less about Obama's own affection for the town-hall format than his campaign's determination to maintain its core advantages through the summer. If this election is decided by crowd size, teleprompters and televised speeches, Obama will almost certainly win in November. But if McCain brings Obama to his level, where the Republican can shine, then the outcome is anyone's guess...
...members of Congress with time on their hands and the fall election on their minds. On Friday the country will get a classic: the appearance of former White House press secretary Scott McClellan before the House Judiciary Committee. McClellan served as President George W. Bush's loyal spokesman for almost three years, only to surprise Washington early this month by turning on him in his new book What Happened, a 326-page indictment of an Administration he says "chose in defining moments to employ obfuscation and secrecy rather than honesty and candor...