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...next five years, including nearly $10 billion in new money, to turn the tide against AIDS in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean,” the president declared in his 2003 State of the Union address. He’s made this project a key element of his foreign-aid policy...
...bender. And very often they are. But researchers generally agree that hate crimes are not simply caused by poverty or ignorance; often they grow out of a combination of high youth unemployment, the presence of many new immigrants, and a lack of law enforcement. It is this third element that is easiest to remedy. But, says Jack Levin, a sociologist at Northeastern University in Boston who has written extensively on hate crime in Europe and America, "the police in Europe haven't been trained to recognize hate crime." 8 P.M., SATURDAY PRITZWALK, GERMANY Andy Gaschler, a 16-year-old high...
What we have here is the makings of a not unfamiliar western narrative, some elements of which (the captive innocents, the scout who owes his skills to his intimacy with the natives) can be traced back to James Fenimore Cooper and beyond. What sets The Missing apart is a potent mystical element. The raiders are led by an unrelievedly evil shaman called Chidin (Eric Schweig), who can throw a handful of dirt in a man's face and permanently blind him or send a dark thought across the miles and bring a woman near to death. He brings out Jones...
...There is a solution with the Dalai Lama,” Tsering said. “If the Dalai Lama passes away there will be a radical element [that will act in Tibet...
When an audience member asked Sangay if a radical element meant terrorism, he responded by stating that “the Dalai Lama has always advocated non-violence but if the Chinese government doesn’t reciprocate, Tibetans will have to rely on traditional means...