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...good reason: local initiatives, and even national ones, frequently lead to a mere displacement of the problem. Just ask the Swedes. The tougher approach taken by the Danish government elected in November 2001, including a 50% cut in financial aid to newcomers, has reduced the number of people seeking asylum there from 12,500 in 2001 to less than a third of that this year. Largely as a result, asylum applications in Sweden have gone up 40% since 2001. Nevertheless, Swedish Migration Minister Barbro Holmberg last week vowed to expand Sweden's intake of asylum seekers to include people persecuted...
...inmates are now completely in charge of the asylum...
...their rivals for political power. By bringing moderate Taliban onboard, Karzai hopes he can garner support among the Pashtun and split the Taliban's ranks. But the President's program could falter at the start: Karzai's advisers say Muttawakil has already declined a Cabinet post, and is considering asylum in an Arab country--possibly Qatar--far from Mullah Omar's long memory and vengeful grasp. --By Tim McGirk and Rahimullah Yusufzai
...Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder in an insane asylum, successful and ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett (Breck) gets himself committed by having his stripper girlfriend claim to be his sexually harassed sister, leading to her classic line, “I will not be the Greek chorus to your rehearsed nightmare.” Soon, Barrett interviews the three residents who witnessed the murder, starting with Stuart, a former defector to the North Koreans who thinks he is Confederate General Jeb Stuart. Trent, the first black student in a southern university, has decided that he is a member...
Greece pushed for the latest and biggest round of E.U. expansion, as well as loosening restrictions on immigration and asylum...