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...that exciting as himself," says Andre Marrou, who was Paul's running mate when he ran as a Libertarian in 1988. "I saw him referred to in print as semi-eccentric. He's maybe 10% eccentric. It's his ideas that are eccentric. But it's basic Americanism." Paul is such a strict constructionist that he autographs pocket Constitutions more often than Tommy Lee signs breasts...
...Spurred by ideology and supported by basic institutional backing, libertarians have all the ingredients they need to become a political force. All that stands between the little-l libertarians and their capital-L counterparts appears to be a little organization and a renaming that requires massive symoblic change but minimal political reorientation. Whether or not a historically diffuse group has the internal drive to mobilize, however, remains to be seen...
Juba has maintained a sizable military force independent of Khartoum as defense and deterrent. The potential for a breakdown in security, as well as the lack of basic services in the war-ravaged area, has made hundreds of thousands of southern Sudanese refugees wary of returning home from neighboring countries. Aid agencies say that the north-south civil war killed 2 million and uprooted another 4 million. Nevertheless, the dual prospects of long-term economic growth and of southern independence may change that - if the peace holds. Henry Jibi, a refugee in northwestern Uganda, says that he does not have...
...demonstrations taking place in Bangladesh come after eight months of repressive emergency rule, which has restricted the rights to protest and fails to respect basic due process rights,” the watchdog organization Human Rights Watch said in a report...
...early stages of economic development, a nation's principal exports are almost always farm products and basic manufactures based on them, like textiles and clothing. But in both the U.S. and the European Union, the farm lobby is powerful. In the U.S., for example, domestic producers have long succeeded in imposing quotas on sugar imported from the Caribbean, though it is one of the islands' crops of comparative advantage. European governments, with the French at the fore, have always sought protection for their farmers as a way of preserving the rural environment and village life. Nick Stern, chief economist...