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...While Canada’s “Marxism” functions as a punch line on the right side of the aisle, 46 states in the union have higher combined federal and state corporate tax rates than their counterparts across the border...
...wisdom of placing a building that will hold, at any one time, half a billion dollars' worth of diamonds on the border of a country with one of the world's highest violent-crime rates--South Africa--might be questionable. But the benefit to Botswana, through stable jobs in Gaborone, is undeniable. What will surprise many old industry hands, particularly those familiar with the saga of Sierra Leone's conflict diamonds, is how the building is also evidence of what the country can do for diamonds. "The way people feel about diamonds has to be the way they think about...
...rendezvous with history... Free Ingrid Betancourt." He has promised asylum for scores of imprisoned rebels whom Uribe now says he'll release in exchange for Betancourt. But since Uribe - a key U.S. ally whose father was killed by the FARC in 1983 - sent his army across the Ecuadorian border last month to kill the group's No. 2 comandante, Raul Reyes, the rebels appear deaf to the appeals. Reyes' death "provided the fatal blow to a humanitarian exchange," wrote Ivan Marques, an FARC leader, in a March 22 communique. That posture may bode ill for the U.S. hostages as well...
...Military commanders in the region foresee more attacks in Afghanistan if negotiations succeed. Nearly 100,000 Pakistani troops have been deployed to the border regions, and they have suffered significant losses, leaving the government without the strength to insist on not talking. "We will have to swallow the consequences of [the Pakistan army's] incapacity for the next two or three years," says one NATO official in Afghanistan. "Which means the potential for terrorism increases over here...
...side of the clearing on the remote border, Sudanese government soldiers bristled with weapons and kept a lookout. To the other, there was little but an impenetrable wall of Congolese bush. In between gathered an eclectic mix of Sudanese mediators, Ugandan government ministers, journalists, rock-and-roll activists and tribal chiefs, all hoping to witness what should have been the end of one of Africa's longest and least understood wars...