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...Early last year, U.S. Customs agents based in Newark, New Jersey, infiltrated a network of child pornography websites run by criminals in Belarus, a country in the former Soviet bloc. The agents had compiled a record of more than 70,622 transactions from voyeurs around the world who had logged on to buy the pornography using their credit cards. The Americans passed details of the transactions thought to have originated in Australia to the Australian High Tech Crime Centre, hosted by the Australian Federal Police; the AHTCC traced addresses for the suspects on the list, confirmed their identities and forwarded...
...evidence for this claim comes from exit polls that showed a plurality of voters listed “Moral Values” as their primary issue of concern and that Bush won this bloc by huge margins. But “Moral Values” is about as vague and indeterminate a category as one can imagine. Can you define what caring about “Moral Values” means? Among Democrats the consensus seems to be that it means being a religious Christian and holding conservative views on a few contentious social issues—namely, opposition...
Israel is facing a power struggle of its own. Sharon won Knesset approval for his Gaza withdrawal plan with the support of left-wing and Arab parties. But his right-wing bloc split. The crisis of legitimacy has shocking similarities to the internal divisions that shook Israel before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Some soldiers threaten not to carry out Sharon's orders to evacuate settlements, and their influential rabbis back them. The plan poses a dilemma for the religious Zionist movement at the heart of the settlement project. Its early rabbis decreed that Zionism...
...decade, much of the West's steel industry has been in the doldrums. Sinking prices and flat demand, rising costs and competition from Asia turned steel belts into rust belts as once-mighty American titans like LTV and Bethlehem Steel went belly up. Many of Europe's former communist bloc governments determinedly sold off their dilapidated, money-losing steel mills. Workers around the globe were bounced out of the devilishly cyclical industry in droves. Even bosses were shying away: in 1998, Michael Frenzel, then chairman of German industrial concern Preussag, became so fed up with the smokestack rollercoaster that...
...feel the pressure of our disdain for that regime” by denying these academics “the hospitality of the United States.” The State Department is wrong on all accounts, and it fails to conceal its real ulterior objective: appeasing the significant bloc of Cuban-American voters in the crucial swing state of Florida...