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...China's amicable stance toward its Asian neighbors was also on display earlier this month, when Wen Jiabao, China's smooth-talking Premier, traveled to an ASEAN confab in Bali. Instead of harping as usual about the Spratly Islands?tiny dots in the South China Sea that are claimed by China and several Southeast Asian nations?a smiling Wen instead urged greater economic cooperation through the establishment of a mutually beneficial trading bloc. Earlier this year, China also moved substantively to resolve a long-simmering border dispute with India?a big step for a nation that has had territorial disputes...
...people were buying that lame old line. "So Solid Crew might not be setting a good example," says Mike Franklin, a member of London's Lambeth community-police consultative group, "but no one is driven to murder by rap lyrics." More substantive proposals emerged from Blunkett's confab with police officials, including tough new measures against guns. The officials discussed greater protection for witnesses, and an amnesty for those who turn in illegal weapons. Blunkett promised a ban on carrying replica weapons and air guns in public, and to raise the allowable age for owning an air gun from...
...Pashtun militias around the country that may once have sided with the Taliban would switch sides. While there are continual reports of Taliban allies sounding out the possibility of switching sides, the Taliban does not appear to be anywhere near collapse. Delegates assembled by Pakistan for an anti-Taliban confab this week suggested the bombing campaign had actually drawn many Pashtun groups towards the Taliban, which has reportedly begun distributing weapons to Pashtun civilians in order to widen the fight against the U.S. and the Northern Alliance. The reported capture and execution of legendary mujahedeen commander Abdul...
...quarter is full of dark, winding alleys--perfect turf for antiglobalization protesters who hope to turn next month's G-8 summit into another spectacle of window-smashing mayhem. Genoa's police are mulling ways to forestall the kind of violence that erupted in June at the European Union confab in Sweden. Government officials nixed proposals to stage a floating summit in Genoa's harbor, but they have summoned American experts to train local police in "crowd control." Italy's government has already learned that about 3,000 Greek and Spanish anarchists and some 150,000 protesters will descend...
...knowledge of home schooling was rather limited, mainly to those geeky kids who year after year win the national spelling bee with words I can't even pronounce. To find out more I spent last weekend at a home schooling exhibition at a Denver Holiday Inn, a 5000-strong confab of parents, children and education experts who got together to purchase curriculum, take seminars and talk shop. My first lesson: these people rise with the sun. When I arrived at 7:30 am on Saturday morning, a swarm of parents had already staked out the still-shuttered exhibition hall. When...