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...concern that has spurred the Saudis to move against Saddam is the same one that led them to tolerate his continued rule even after he invaded Kuwait - stability. Riyadh fears that war in Iraq could lead to chaos, civil war among ethnic factions and military incursions by neighbors like Turkey and Iran. They see a coup as offering a better chance of maintaining order and preserving state institutions necessary for providing public services such as security, health care, electricity and water. "They are trying to stage manage the removal of Saddam," says a Western diplomat. "The level of Arab anxiety...
...free up to 40,000 detainees, including thousands of genocide suspects, in order to ease overcrowding in the country's jails. Attorney General Gerard Gahima said that the decree did not apply to ringleaders of the 1994 genocide - in which an estimated 800,000 people, most of them minority ethnic Tutsis, were slaughtered in a campaign by extremists from the Hutu majority. Those freed would still be tried by community courts. Survivors criticized the move, saying suspects might intimidate witnesses...
...acceptable biases can be taught or debated; only condoned and stylish beliefs can be promulgated. But the process of self-victimization actually runs counter to the objectives of the BLSA’s own stated purpose of creating a “discriminatory harassment policy” to ameliorate ethnic insensitivity. As ACLU president, Nadine Strossen wrote in the Duke Law Journal, “Because civil libertarians have learned that free speech is an indispensable instrument for the promotion of other rights and freedoms—including racial equality—we fear that the movement to regulate campus...
...Fiddler] is about traditions, values that are instilled from parents to children and how children must choose between the lives their parents choose for them and their own desires,” Galper says. “These are issues that we can all relate to regardless of ethnic or religious affiliation...
...governor’s gala featured several ethnic performance groups as well as the Boston Pops, which played the 2002 Olympic Theme song “Call of the Champions” in honor of Romney, who chaired the Salt Lake City Olympic Organizing Committee...