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...shorts and baseball caps. "Holy days" transformed into the sacred institution of the Great European Vacation, the massive July through August exodus during which Europeans escape to seek rest and recreation in friendlier climes. The summer holiday is going through some hard times, though. It has become a political battlefield with the recent spat between Italy and Germany, and at least some would-be travelers have been deterred by fears of terrorism, infectious disease, clogged road and air (and leg) arteries and the Continent's shaky economies. Some even suggest that Europe can't afford so many days off. Americans...
...some Shiites become more inclined to take up arms against the occupation, communal tension remains a huge impediment to cooperation between Sunni and Shiite militants - Sadr's supporters have enraged Sunni clerics by laying claim to their mosques in the predominantly Shiite south. Keeping the Shiites off the battlefield will be a key dimension of U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq. And also a long-term counterinsurgency program and billions of dollars of aid to restart economic life and undermine resistance among the Sunnis. As the Pentagon's new deployment schedule suggests, this may still take years...
...midst of a war to control the world’s food supply it is all too easy for governments to use the African continent as a conveniently distant battlefield. But with this new legislation, it seems the EU has begun to acknowledge the appalling recklessness with which it has treated the developing world and the duty it has to stop plunging vast swathes of Africa further into poverty and underdevelopment. While it is wishful thinking that the U.S. will follow Europe’s lead at the Doha trade talks this September, further subsidy reforms within the EU could...
...decade. Its army is weaponless, its soldiers often unpaid, its boot camps places like the Queens classroom. It has no actual connection with the U.S. government (except possibly to unintentionally muddy America's image). But in the past few months, its advance forces have been entering the still-smoldering battlefield of Iraq, as intent on molding its people's future as the conventional American troops already in place...
...Although it outguns its predecessor in terms of bullets, bombs and dramatic battlefield deaths, Battle Royale II lacks the original's who'll-die-next-and-how suspense. Much of the satisfaction in the first movie came from watching the kids transform, Lord of the Flies-like, into bloodthirsty killing machines as the game races towards its climax. The characters in the sequel are a simpler breed, eventually teaming up against malevolent adults. Fans of the stubbornly misanthropic original may feel betrayed by the intrusion of more humane sentiments...