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...that Canada grant refugee status to victims of sex-based persecution. The debate ensnared Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt, who reversed a decision denying asylum to a Saudi woman who said she feared punishment for refusing to wear a veil if she returned home. Valcourt now promises new guidelines to encompass women whose governments fail to protect them from domestic violence or persecution. Women's rights advocates insist that Canada go further and become the first country to enshrine in law refuge for abused women...
Milosevic has a dream of a Greater Serbia that will encompass large swatches of Bosnia, Croatia and the disputed province of Kosovo. The Serb leader has carved out a section of Croatia already, and now is on the verge of solidifying his control over much of Bosnia...
...organization can encompass all ofHarvard's 1,600-person Jewish population, andFinestone estimates that in a typical week onlyabout 19 to 21 percent of Harvard's Jewishpopulation visits the building...
When the late Lee Atwater looked toward 1992, he envisioned a continuation of this "big tent"--a party that could encompass a similar broad partnership...
...celebrate in the sudden multiplicity of folk talent as there was at the Garden. Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam performed a ferocious version of Masters of War that demonstrated that the hardest rock has a strong and still vital folk lineage. Folk now can comfortably encompass the salty sensitivity and social speculation of Willie Nile's Hard Times in America (Polaris) as well as the rap-inflected rage of the Native American activist John Trudell on AKA/ Grafitti Man (Ryko). It has a newer, wider compass, and, as ever, Bob Dylan is magnetic north...