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...home more competitive, to the detriment of other countries on the global stage. The only way to avoid this practice of outsourcing education would be to deny Indian and Chinese students admission to U.S. universities, a move that would be sure to cause outrage. Gianluca de Duonni Waterloo, Belgium...
...Spanish investigators were directed to a video recording stuffed in a trash can near Madrid's main mosque. On it, a man calling himself Abu Dujan al-Afghani, the self-styled "military spokesman for al-Qaeda in Europe ," claimed responsibility. Last week in Brussels , police arrested a Moroccan-born Belgium resident named Youssef Belhadj, 28, after receiving an arrest warrant from a Spanish judge who suspects Belhadj of being the man in the video. He hasn't been charged and has made no comment. Belhadj has been in police custody before. He was picked up on March 19 of last...
...days after the attack, on suspicion of involvement with al-Qaeda. The Belgians let him go for lack of evidence. According to a spokeswoman for Belgium 's public prosecutor's office, they had no idea of his alleged link to Madrid until last week when the Spanish warrant arrived. Was that because the Spanish didn't yet suspect him or because they didn't know he'd been in Belgian custody? Spanish Interior Ministry officials aren't saying. Spain has rounded up a considerable number of suspects in its March 11 investigation, but testimony before parliament last year revealed...
...Minister Brigitte Zypries is threatening action if companies don't change their stance soon. In Belgium, Parliament is discussing similar laws; the European Commission recently circulated recommendations that would bring all into line with British practices. "Most countries are going for more transparency," says Jean-Nicolas Caprasse of Brussels-based shareholder-rights group Deminor. For bosses there's consolation: Caprasse says greater transparency pushes up pay as executives see what their peers earn - and argue for bigger raises. Declaring War on Junk Food Calling obesity a "European-wide problem of epidemic proportions" - no surprise there - the European Commission last week...
...Administration created a new enemy, terrorism. But achieving that goal has only strengthened U.S. adversaries, especially al-Qaeda. Eventually, reality will come back with a vengeance, but it is the successors to the Bush Administration who will have to deal with it. Peter Van Roy Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium...