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...think it was an attempt to intimidate the press - both independent and mainstream - and those who engage in civil dissent...
...grapples with insurgencies in Iraq, and internecine fighting rages on in places like Darfur, the renewal of hostilities in Sri Lanka offers some lessons as to why civil wars are so hard to end. Part of the problem is that fratricidal disputes are often personal and heartfelt. "Both sides see themselves as being locked in a fight against evil," Jehan Perera, executive director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, wrote in a recent appraisal of his country's war. This fight is part ethnic, part religious and wholly vicious. "It is the belief in the unchanging nature...
...recent survey by Japan's Cabinet Office found that while 70% of fathers wanted to balance home and career, 23% had little or no time to spend with their children on weekdays. Some are even reluctant to take time off for the birth of their kids. In South Korea, civil servants are permitted three days' paternity leave, but the figures suggest that men either don't want it or feel pressured not to take it. In 2005, just 208 fathers in the civil service used their entitlement, compared with 10,492 women who took maternity leave...
...officials at Iraqi Airways are former Baathists who try to gum up the works. Flights from Turkey often get canceled when there's a public dispute between Kurdish and Turkish politicians. And all flights in and out of Kurdish Iraq still have to receive clearance from both the civil aviation authority in Baghdad and the American air base in Qatar...
...Nearly every important public problem in the world involves government, business, and civil society, and so the idea here that we should work collaboratively is absolutely vital,” he said...