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...fear is that jihadists will seek to strike in Britain as the holidays near. Last year's Christmas season came amid high anxiety but proved blessedly uneventful, but this year the country has even more reason to be tense. Once accused of being lax toward extremists, Britain's crackdown on Britain-based radicals--plus Prime Minister Tony Blair's backing of the war in Iraq--may have made London a prime target. "Both sides have reached a point of confrontation," says Mustafa Alani, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies in London. "Terrorists might...
...Egyptian boatman sees a ship pass in the distance, dives into the sea and swims frantically for it. He soon drowns. And by the ninth day, people inside the crowded boat begin to die of thirst and exposure, and most of the rest are semiconscious. Abdi Salan lies amid the sprawl of bodies on the boat's floor, thinks about his family and friends in Mogadishu, and prepares to die. When Abdi Salan's boat was discovered on Oct. 19, after 15 days at sea, with 13 corpses and 15 survivors aboard and an unknown number lost along...
Though U.S. officials have released some inmates deemed harmless, new ones are still arriving, with about 20 coming and going last week. Amid a global argument about their rights, the Supreme Court recently agreed to decide whether the captives at Guantanamo can at least challenge their detention in federal court. But in the meantime, however great the outcry from allies and human-rights groups, the U.S. military, along with the White House and the Justice Department, has not retreated from an unprecedented approach to prisoners captured in an unprecedented...
...Beijing, the Taiwan problem comes amid a growing clamor for more democracy in Hong Kong. Faced with these twin challenges, China is unlikely to back down. Indeed, last week Chinese legal experts warned that there could be no further moves toward democracy in Hong Kong without Beijing's approval?a hard-line approach that China would dearly love to apply to Taiwan, too. Unhappily for the Communists, Taiwan?with its own army, constitution and democratically elected government?has a proud history of remaining defiant in the face of threats from Beijing. China's reaction to how Taiwan runs its affairs...
...much she may have wished to forget. Born into the florid decay of imperial China, Daisy would live through a particular horror: she watched her own mother, forced to become a concubine, commit suicide by swallowing raw opium. Despite such early trauma, she managed to survive in Shanghai amid hellish marital troubles (her brutal first husband divorced her and seized custody of her three children), before she fled to the U.S. As Daisy exhibits symptoms of Alzheimer's, a concerned Amy takes her mother in for tests; Daisy growls, "Nothing wrong my memory. Depress 'cause can not forget." Amy suffered...