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Assaf, the NGO representative, acknowledges that there are "corrupt elements" and for-profit associations masquerading as civic groups but says that clamping down on the majority because of a minority is unfair. The security situation is a convenient excuse for ulterior motives. "We speak of a new democratic Iraq that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iraqi Government's New Target: Do-Gooders | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

Actually no, as the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is finding out the hard way. The ACMA, Canberra's equivalent of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, put together such a list and sent it to more than a dozen companies. It was part of a trial program to develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Blacklist for Websites Backfires in Australia | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

The convenient and long-standing tradition south of the border is for Mexico to blame its problems on the U.S. It can often be justified when the matter is the drug-trafficking violence now terrorizing much of Mexico, which is powered in large part by the insatiable gringo demand for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Other War: Fighting Mexico's Drug Lords | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

In the meantime, though, it’s time for Cambridge to internalize the lesson that Washington should have learned back in 1930, when the restrictive Smoot-Hawley Tariff helped plunge the United States into the Great Depression: Protectionism may be intuitively appealing and politically convenient, but it?...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Smoot, Hawley, and HUDS | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

Take the envelope, Patrick,” my blockmate urged me. As if still frozen from the previous night’s chilly River Run, I remained motionless and stared blankly at two over-eager gentlemen, clad in Pforzheimer gear. I was unable to take the envelope. They gently placed...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Suck It, Housing Lottery | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

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