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...wronged them by beating Hillary Clinton, whom they loved because she's feisty and tough, like a fifth Golden Girl. But it's also because he's young, seen as dovish on Israel and black, which is not the old Jews' favorite minority. If he were an old Asian guy who knew Krav Maga, he'd take Pompano in a landslide. I think I've just pitched the plot to The Karate...
...Edinburgh Primate Peril A new report found that hunting and habitat destruction have left 48% of the world's 634 primate types vulnerable to extinction. Asian primates are in particular trouble, with 71% of species threatened. But amid the grim data, a bright spot emerged: researchers conducting a separate census said they had discovered 125,000 western lowland gorillas in the Republic of the Congo, significantly boosting a population previously thought to be about...
...Twenty per cent of [our] last academy class was foreign-born," says the NYPD official. "Scotland Yard is pretty much still lily white. They have a different reputation within the population as a result." In Hackney, where about 20% of the population is black and there are large Asian and Turkish communities, only 11% of officers come from ethnic minorities. That's better than the Met as a whole, where minorities account for just 8.3% of police. But, says Dann, "we have independent advisers who are community representatives: Jewish, Turkish, black, faith, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...
Ideally, Afghanistan's South-Asian neighbors such as India and Pakistan will see their way to overcoming mutual antagonisms and establishing a collective, supplementary reconstruction fund - à la the Marshall Plan - to assist Kabul, but with private direct business investment. (India is booming, after all.) This proposed regional support, which could not as easily be stigmatized as "neocolonial" and therefore would have greater long-term legitimacy, could alleviate the burden on the U.S. and NATO and end up helping heal an otherwise failed and moribund state in a very critical part of our troubled world. Maurice Kane, SAN DIMAS, CALIF...
...focus the next Afghan surge or how many more billions we should spend to catch bin Laden is given to our leaders in weekly CIA briefings. Perhaps we should add just one historical fact: for 3,000 years, never has a Western army won a lasting victory on the Asian mainland. Never. So how can we believe war will achieve anything in this 21st century, with economic power surging in China, India and Russia? Nicolas Gessner, PARIS...