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...Auschwitz death camp in Poland 60 years ago last week, the hatred that conceived it continued to erupt. The far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) walked out of the Saxon state parliament during a silence for Holocaust victims. "It is the common duty of all democrats to confront the disgusting propaganda of neo-Nazis," said German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, whose government has tried and failed to ban the party. The Interior Ministry is now formulating proposals to stop far-right groups from demonstrating near Holocaust memorials. This would nix the NPD's planned May rally at Berlin...
...great liberal pendulum swing. His attempt to throw money at urban problems created all sorts of unintended consequences. It hastened a new culture of poverty, subsidizing the collapse of poor families, reinforcing a plague of out-of-wedlock births and soaring crime rates. And Bush's attempt to confront tyranny with utopian bellicosity may presage the end of the conservative pendulum swing. It flies in the face of reality. The Iraq fiasco has weakened our military and our standing in the world. Indeed, our intemperate behavior has sent a powerful countermessage. The unpunished excesses of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib give...
...Britain by Robert Peston, a journalist with close ties to the Brown camp, which details the Blair-Brown feud and describes their relationship as becoming one of "mutual animosity and contempt." Blair denies Peston's account, describing the book as "tittle-tattle," but Brown does not. Alarmed Labourites confront the pair at a heated meeting, and put pressure on them to quash the fuss. The next day, Brown says, "Of course I trust the Prime Minister...
...weeks ago, Sharon privately told a U.S. visitor that he liked Abbas, though he added that he hadn't yet seen any attempt by the new Palestinian chief to rein in the terrorist groups. Sharon's bottom line for a return to peace talks is for Abbas to confront the Islamists of Hamas and the gunmen of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and halt the rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip. The persistence of such attacks could jeopardize Sharon's plans to evacuate all Israeli settlers from Gaza as early as this summer, which is viewed...
...Watch This week, TIME Asia inaugurates a regular look into the murky world of intellectual property abuse. We start with the case of Professor Zheng Chengsi, one of China's top experts on the issue. Last week, while outgoing U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans pressed the mainland to "forcefully confront" its piracy problem, a Chinese court awarded Zheng $6,826 in damages from publisher Beijing Scholar Digital Technology. The affront: publishing eight of Zheng's textbooks online without permission, including seven on copyright infringement...