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...some respects, Asian philanthropists have to work outside the system. They often get little government encouragement. Significant tax incentives for philanthropy don't exist in the region, and in some countries the rich who do give are as likely to be looked upon with suspicion as gratitude. The relationship is especially fraught in China, where even before the communist era, private giving had to be done in conjunction with the authorities. "Those who acted outside the state, as the Rockefellers did [in the U.S.], could have been seen as potentially dangerous, undermining the power of the government," says Vivienne Shue...
...Arafat's goons hijacked the Achille Lauro and pushed Leon Klinghoffer into the sea and the international community did nothing, the bin Ladens of the world saw that they could commit such acts without reprisal. Thus global terrorism was born. The world cannot allow any kind of terrorism to exist, even if it is local. Ariel Stern Jerusalem...
...Naguib Mahfouz, who died last week at 94, was a true hero in this Islamophobic age, the sort of brilliant, embattled writer and public intellectual who has almost ceased to exist. Prolific and serene, Naguib-bey stood his ground, which was Egypt. He did not leave, even to collect his Nobel Prize. He wrote about growing up in Cairo, about movie stars, madmen, beggars, pashas, gods and religion. His bravest book is Children of the Alley, with its parable of Islam--banned in most Arab countries. Condemned to death in a fatwa issued by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, he continued...
...surprisingly, environmentalists contend that technologies and strategies already exist to meet a sharp reduction in carbon emissions from power plants, oil refineries and other sources. And better technology, they insist, will be developed as a result of the new law. "California is positioning itself to become the hub of a new clean energy economy based on solar energy, ethanol and other renewable fuels," says Bernadette del Chiaro of Environment California, a Sacramento-based group. "These will be the next Silicon Valley industries for California to export to the rest of the world...
...accounts coming out of Iraq, this article has best captured the despair and fear gripping the citizens of a country that is no longer a country. The laws of a democracy, or even a dictatorship, do not exist. The watercolors used to paint an encouraging picture are being washed away by the blood of people ruled by fear, not hope. Joe Macdonald Dartmouth...