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...attacks on Emanuel are a reminder that there is a narrow slice of Americans who not only don't trust government, but also have come to regard it as a dark conspirator in their lives. This peculiar brand of distrust helps create the conditions for fast-moving fear-mongering, especially on complex and emotionally charged topics like the life and death of the elderly and infirm. Prairie fires of that kind are hard to douse when the Administration's own plan for health care remains vague, weeks away from being ready for a public rollout. The health-care bill that...
...fast, says Florian Jessberger, professor of criminal law at Berlin's Humboldt University, who believes vehemently that the laws should stay. "The criminalization of the use of Nazi symbols ... is justified because of Germany's Nazi history and Germany's historic responsibility," he says. "Germany's criminal legislation has a special symbolic significance." Jessberger says the laws could even justifiably extend to Hitler-saluting gnomes. "You could argue the garden gnome doesn't endanger public peace ... because as a work of art it poses no concrete danger. However, under existing criminal law, the mere abstract danger of harming the state...
...where the population is declining? Win points. Exhibit antisocial behavior? Lose points. Return to your Third World native country to aid development? Win points. Display "active disregard" for U.K. values - which could include protesting the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan? Lose points. Prospective citizens may also be able to fast-track their candidacy by volunteering or canvassing for political parties. (See pictures of Iraq's revival...
...crowded island," says chairman Sir Andrew Green. "In a normally functioning economy there is not a fixed number of jobs, so it's not the case that one immigrant takes one British job. However, there is some effect of the kind as the rate of employment is falling very fast...
...Critics have also attacked the ways points could be awarded. Some worry that the "active citizenship" fast track would coerce candidates into volunteering, while the suggestion of political canvassing raised more than a few eyebrows. Some note it could lead to a bias toward the ruling Labour Party. (Watch a TIME video with PM Gordon Brown...