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...even sparked unrest. Last Thursday some 3,000 people held a candlelight vigil to protest what they feel is unwarranted Chinese interference, and the following day police forcibly removed 100 demonstrators besieging the main government office building. The fear: that Beijing is on the brink of curtailing the extent to which the territory is master of its own destiny. Here is Time's guide to Hong Kong's constitutional face...
...insurgents have never had to skulk in the shadows. In February, for example, in the most audacious attack of the entire insurgency, they overran the city's police station in a simultaneous daylight attack on five different targets - showing an ability to operate openly in Fallujah to an extent that would require the consent of a significant portion of the local population. The response of locals interviewed by the media after Wednesday's attacks was even more telling - while many expressed revulsion over the "un-Islamic" dismembering of the corpses, they also saw the killing of the Americans...
...Bush would prove disastrous as a nation builder has largely been confirmed. In the year that has passed, we have learned a great deal about America’s faulty intelligence regarding supposed weapons of mass destruction, corruption and cronyism in Iraq’s rebuilding contracts and the extent of the Pentagon’s miscalculations in its reconstruction plans. The world has good reason...
...results Cavanagh produced on Saturday certainly belied the true extent of his illness. Just ten ticks into the second period, and with Harvard skating a man up, Cavanagh took a lead pass from junior Brendan Bernakevitch and slipped the puck between Clarkson netminder Dustin Traylan’s legs, at last marking the scoreboard for Harvard...
...allies. Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the single most influential leader in Iraq, called on Muslims to unite against Israel, while the more militant Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr offered the Palestinians "moral and physical support." In an already tense transition process, the extent to which the U.S. is viewed as complicit in an Israeli action that has outraged Iraqis will not make the task of U.S. soldiers and officials there any easier...