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...information technology has empowered individuals to pool their resources and make common cause at a speed and on a scale previously unprecedented; and, finally, nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, have grown and become important agents of assistance. During the responses to Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in Southeast Asia, citizen power was on full display, as the Internet provided a conduit through which enormous sums of money flowed from millions of people of modest means...
...divide between Bosnia's leaders over the future of the two entities. Silajdzic, the leading Bosnian Muslim prime ministerial candidate, says he would like to see them dismantled in "a year or two." He explains: "A minority of 23.8% [Serbs] can block the whole country. We should be a citizen-based, and not an ethnically-based, country." He favors what he calls a new "dialogue" with all sides about how to eliminate the old borders and establish a centralized government in Sarajevo, but critics fear he means a Muslim-dominated state in which ethnic Serbs and Croats would lose their...
...howled in protest when the government on Wednesday named a close legal advisor to Chirac, Laurent Le Mesle, as chief prosecutor of Paris. The new job will give Le Mesle a key role in deciding whether charges are ever brought against Chirac once he reverts to being a regular citizen...
...second I was playing a tune from Rhapsody, only a minute had elapsed. Rhapsody might not have all of the music available for downloading that iTunes has - it's a different pricing model - but I was happy to see that this week's releases from Barenaked Ladies and Citizen Cope were right there, ready to play. (On the other end of the spectrum, an album I myself recorded several years ago was also in the menu...
...came in through Mexico by car and then took a bus to Miami. But it is widely believed that a friend may have smuggled him into Miami by boat. The federal magistrate reviewing his case noted in court documents that the 78-year-old is a native and citizen of Cuba, as well as a naturalized citizen of Venezuela and that his "case reads like one of Robert Ludlum's espionage thrillers, with all the plot twists and turns Ludlum is famous...