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...incisive study In Honor's Voice cuts straight to Lincoln as a young man, showing him as creative and vulnerable, at once vastly ambitious and preoccupied with doubts and concerns about his future. Similarly, Guelzo's intellectual biography, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, shows a man wrestling with the basic issues of fate and free will, torn between the Calvinism of his youth and the Enlightenment doctrines of freedom. Michael Burlingame's forthcoming multivolume biography will add a tall stack of new documents to the record, including hundreds of newspaper articles that, Burlingame has determined, Lincoln wrote anonymously in his early...
...This distinction is narrow and dishonorable, says Sunai Phasuk, a Thai academic and consultant for Human Rights Watch (HRW). "These people are not just fleeing war, but also forced labor, executions, mass relocations and systematic rape," he says. HRW accuses Thailand of "violating international law" for denying basic humanitarian assistance to the Shan. A recent report by the New York-based NGO also documents the murder, rape, enslavement and brutal displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians during the Burmese army's long-running assault on Karen insurgents; some 650,000 people, says HRW, have been made homeless in eastern...
...arms, claims the S.S.A., while the rest are dependents or other refugees. Ignore the parade ground of packed mud, over which a Shan flag defiantly flies, and Loi Tai Leng could be just another hardscrabble hilltop community: there is a small clinic, a Buddhist monastery, and stalls selling basic goods. But this community is at war. Most men don military uniforms, and even when there is no fighting, there are mist-muffled retorts from a nearby firing range. Children walk to school along roadsides peppered with interconnecting foxholes...
...eager to help. This, I was told, is the Philippines' unique strength in outsourcing. Filipinos are not famed for their brilliance at telemarketing, which requires pushiness, but they are prized when it comes to the gentler art of customer service. The nation's other outsourcing edge is more basic: it has a large population of English speakers who will work for relatively meager salaries. A top agent in Manila might be paid $2.65 an hour, perhaps a quarter of what someone in a call center in the U.S. might earn. As a result, it can be a highly profitable business...
...thing in common: each personified his country's most competitive, indeed combative instincts. At first, that seemed destined to keep them apart. Yet there they were on Saturday and Sunday, exchanging not just handshakes but straight talk on a range of difficult and contentious subjects. The evolution dramatized some basic principles of the relationship between their countries. By agreeing to meet and negotiate, the two leaders implicitly acknowledged that neither side can gain a decisive advantage over the other in the nuclear...