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Federal authorities unsealed charges against eight people accused of recruiting young Americans to join an Islamist insurgency in Somalia. Officials say the ring persuaded about 20 Minneapolis men, most of them Somali natives, to fight alongside al-Shabab, a militant group linked to al-Qaeda. At least six fighters were killed. A total of 14 men have been charged in the case...
Faces a tough re-election fight next year in a state where President Obama performed poorly...
...Boxer's Next Fight Your article on boxer Manny Pacquiao, the people's champ who has brought great honor to the Philippines, captures his impact [Nov. 16]. However, most Filipinos do not want him to enter politics there, as evidenced by his lost bid for a congressional seat in 2007. The good name he has painstakingly built for himself would be tainted, if not lost, as soon as he entered that lion's den. Instead, he could use his popularity to unify divided Filipinos, especially during election time. Such an act would boost his place in Philippine history more than...
...Boxer's Next Fight Your article on boxer Manny Pacquiao, the people's champ who has brought great honor to the Philippines, captures his impact [Nov. 16]. However, most Filipinos do not want him to enter politics there, as evidenced by his lost bid for a congressional seat in 2007. The good name he has painstakingly built for himself would be tainted, if not lost, as soon as he entered that lion's den. Instead, he could use his popularity to unify divided Filipinos, especially during election time. Such an act would boost his place in Philippine history more than...
...struggle" credentials are impeccable. Between 1963 and '73 he was locked up on Robben Island, where Mandela spent most of his 27 years in jail. If it is the later years on his résumé that outrage South Africa's élite - the court cases, the damaging fight with Mbeki, the three wives and 18 children - it is his early activism that makes him a natural champion for the poor...