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...human-rights activists wonder if Obama will use the bully pulpit of the prize to push for the release of dozens of jailed activists being held throughout the country. Expectations aren't high. In February, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. wouldn't allow human rights to derail cooperation with China on issues like climate change and rebuilding the global economy. Then last month Obama decided to postpone meeting with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, until after his visit to China. That was widely seen as an effort to avoid upsetting Beijing...
...from Israeli intelligence - but could also help it hamper the activities of the U.N. tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. That tribunal has implicated Syrian officials in the killing, and much of its evidence comes from telephone records. Though Hizballah has denied wanting to derail the investigation, such pressure on its patron could disrupt the flow of weapons over the Syrian border to the Shi'ite group's arsenal. (Read a brief history of Hizballah...
Proponents say the tax credit has helped breathe life into the comatose housing sector and that its extension is critical. "Failure to act now could derail the fragile housing recovery even before it has time to take root, " said Jerry Howard, president and chief executive of the National Association of Home Builders, in a recent statement. (See six year-end tax tips...
...can’t negotiate without a robust nuclear provision.” Murkowski, likewise, said, “The only way we get there...is if we really ramp up nuclear.”Climate change is too urgent an issue to allow opposition to nuclear power to derail the Boxer-Kerry Bill, likely to be the only legislation comprehensive enough to tackle the issue that we will see for many years. The McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act of 2005 was defeated 60-38 in the Senate by senators like Boxer who voted against it due to its nuclear...
...obviously trying to derail the whole trial," Natasa Kandic, a Serbian human-rights activist, told TIME by telephone from Belgrade, the Serbian capital. "I hope that the tribunal has learned some lessons from Milosevic's case and that they'll continue with the trial and disregard his games and claims that the court's unfair...