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...doesn't help that the undocumented immigrants are arriving from Turkey, Greece's old foe. Under a 2002 bilateral accord, Turkey is required to accept the return of all would-be immigrants from Greece. But of the more than 26,000 people Greece says it can prove crossed over from Turkey, only 1,600 have been accepted back. "They are not cooperating at all," claims Alexandros Zavos, president of the Greek government-funded Hellenic Migration Policy Institute, who says Ankara sees "immigration as a bargaining chip" toward membership in the European Union. Interior Minister Pavlopoulos argues that "Turkey...
...even with the backing of Basra's influential tribal sheikhs and the Fadila Party, winning a majority won't be easy in the face of concerted opposition from Maliki's Dawa Party and his sometime ally-sometime foe Sadr. Less certain is the reaction from the Supreme Council, which has long favored a semi-autonomous nine-province "super region" in the south (which it would have a fair shot at governing) rather than a smaller one in Basra, governed by Fadila. "We are not participating in this because we are busy with other things," says parliamentarian Redha Taki, the head...
...Gears of War 2” trailer. The trailer, entitled “Last Day,” features cinematic shots of thoughtful computer-rendered soldiers as they cast their final glances at an idyllic landscape before embarking on a subterranean mission against an unseen alien foe. Much like the first “Gears of War” commercial, which was set to Gary Jules’s haunting cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World,” this preview relies heavily on a song—DeVotchKa?...
Thus, while certainly wary of opponents Penn and Yale coming up in the next two weeks, Harvard must pay attention to its current foe, which only lost by three points to Princeton, a team that managed to give the Crimson quite a challenge...
...erratic campaign based on the themes of foreign and military policy, has seemed at times, more Bushian than Bush himself. Despite 26 years of Congressional experience, McCain continues to perceive foreign relations as a field where moral absolutes predominate, neatly splitting the world into virtuous friend and despicable foe...