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...nowhere to win Iran's presidential election." You seem to have forgotten that the election was marred by the accusations of reformist candidates that hard-liners had rigged it. Time's interview with Ahmadinejad, in which he revealed his supposedly peaceful intentions, sounded hauntingly like the polite conferences European and American diplomats had with Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. While Ahmadinejad is a bit more forthright than Hitler about his disdain for Jews, declaring that Israel should be "wiped away" and the Holocaust is a "myth," Neville Chamberlain would have probably found him trustworthy. Fred S. Carr Jr. Virginia Beach...
...political as possible and let people draw their own conclusions. I think that the crisis over there is bad enough that if people see the facts, then they will draw the same conclusions I have.”Cheek is interested in different kinds of athletes—a European soccer player, an Indian cricketer—but he is especially pushing hard to get Chinese athletes on board. Given China’s close ties to the Sudanese government, he hopes that the work of “Where Will We Be” can turn the spotlight...
...well-being of Chileans may be determined less by their level of personal freedom than by the lifestyle created by economic changes. In a new book, Tironi argues that Chile went from a European-style development model with a welfare state, to a U.S.-inspired model, with increased competition, entrepreneurship and risk and more working hours. "That means less time for friendship and community," he says. "That may make countries more competitive, but it makes people less happy, especially when per capita income is less than $10,000 a year." Brunner adds that inequality remains a hurdle: While rapid economic...
Anna Politkovskaya, the celebrated 48-year-old Russian journalist whose coverage of the war in Chechnya won international acclaim (including being named as one of TIME's European heroes for 2003), was assassinated outside her apartment last Saturday. The fact that her execution-style killing coincides with an escalation of Moscow's campaign against neighboring Georgia will be taken by many in Russia as a chilling signal of the rise of an authoritarian nationalism that brooks no challenge...
...correspondent for the liberal Moscow-based biweekly Novaya Gazeta was admired by the liberal community and hated by corrupt military and political officials, although she had enjoyed grudging respect even among some hardliners on both sides of the Chechnya war. She had testified to the U.S. Congress and the European Union Human Rights Commission on atrocities committed in the North Caucasus...