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...never even seen the border, much less the bodies of the immigrants who have died in attempts to reach the U.S. On the subject of language, Huntington is not foolish enough to deny the importance of being able to converse in something other than English—but his belief that bilingualism will somehow split up American society is easily disprovable. Any competent businessperson in this global age, for instance, can speak to the value of multilingualism as a skill that allows flexibility in communication. As more and more people speak both Spanish and English, increased communication will strengthen...
...cities rather than simply using them as staging areas, European leaders are looking to ramp up their own efforts to fight terror. But as the Spanish election result shows, this may put them more sharply at odds with the Bush administration. That's because there's a widely held belief among the Europeans that while police and intelligence cooperation across the Atlantic (and across the Mediterranean, with Arab security services) has been highly effective in eliminating al-Qaeda cells, the U.S. invasion of Iraq has been not only ineffective, but actually counterproductive in the fight against terrorism. European Commission chief...
...reason voters chose doves over hawks three days after suffering the worst bloodshed on Spanish soil since the country's civil war is simple: the widespread belief that the country had become a target for Islamist terror because of its support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Spain might have been targeted anyway, because of its effective police and intelligence campaign that has netted a number of al-Qaeda operatives - or even simply because Andalusia before 1492 was the European foothold of the old Islamic caliphate that bin Laden dreams of reviving. But in the minds of many a Spanish...
...agree that he did a kind of disappearing act after the election, and I feel he should have been involved in party building. My support for him is based on my belief in the need to get rid of the stranglehold on politics in this country,” Potter said...
...work for, Cahill's is not a name you hear on the cable-and-best-seller circuit. But few can match her record for turning around campaigns that are just this side of hopeless. And she was one of the few people left in Washington who shared Kerry's belief that his luck hadn't run out. "She felt it was winnable," Kerry told TIME. "She distinctly felt that, as I did. But we knew we had to make some adjustments...