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...viewers. With NASN already available in Britain, Ireland and Germany, the expansion will provide nearly 20 million homes with access to its sports fare - which this week includes three opening-day Major League Baseball games. The channel's strategy is to gain a foothold as part of a basic digital service. Baseball is played in leagues from France to Russia - and with considerable skill by the Dutch, Spanish and Italians. The popularity of televised NBA games, and transplanted NFL Europe football league, demonstrate a European appetite for U.S. sports. So it's perhaps not surprising that NASN co-founder...
...Sachs missed one important issue: the rights of women trying to survive in repressive patriarchal societies. As long as women in aids-infected areas are forced to have sex with philandering husbands and have no birth control, they will have babies they cannot feed and care for. Without the basic human right of self-determination, there is no way those women can achieve economic and political independence. Christina Zecca Greve, Italy In light of the enormous scale of the world?s aid to the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami, it is apparent that humanity is not so selfish...
...influence Iraqi politics. As long as it remained the formal occupying power, it held the ring for the competition between rival Iraqi factions. Now, nobody really holds the ring, and the contest to shape post-Saddam Iraq is more wide-open than ever. The election has not resolved the basic political conflicts among Iraqis, but it has turned the current U.S.-appointed government into a lame duck and has diminished U.S. influence over the next...
...Sachs missed one important issue: the rights of women trying to survive in repressive patriarchal societies. As long as women in AIDS-infected areas are forced to have sex with philandering husbands and have no birth control, they will have babies they cannot feed and care for. Without the basic human right of self-determination, there is no way those women can achieve economic and political independence. Christina Zecca Greve, Italy...
...region. What we do know is that both Afghanistan and Iraq are war zones. Thousands have been killed and their homes destroyed. Terrorism is on the rise. We have alienated our allies and encouraged our enemies to seek nuclear arms, and at home we are cutting funding for basic programs while increasing the military budget and the deficit. I for one am not cheering. Danny Boyer Mill Valley, California...