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...vote [then opposition party] Z.U.M." In 2005, Mugabe ordered the security services to level whole districts in towns across the country, depriving 700,000 people of their homes or livelihoods out of fear that urban support for a new party, the Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.), would foment rebellion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Mugabe Lose His Election? | 3/29/2008 | See Source »

...Prime Minister's recent drive to lift the ban on headscarves in universities, including his controversial remark that "If the headscarf is a political symbol, then so be it". (Secularists' biggest concern is that the headscarf is in fact such a symbol, and that allowing it on campuses will foment an "us vs. them" mentality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ban Sought on Turkey Rulers | 3/16/2008 | See Source »

...response to incidents like those, the Spanish government passed legislation last summer that imposes stiffer penalties on those who foment racism within sports. But even this new law may not be enough to combat a larger problem. "The real issue is that Spaniards have a habit of not taking this kind of thing seriously," says Esteban Ibarra, president of the Movement against Intolerance, a watchdog group. "There's a banalization, a permissiveness in the face of racist incidents that worries me more than the incidents themselves. As long as society as a whole continues to see these crimes as insignificant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sports Racism: The Stain in Spain | 2/5/2008 | See Source »

...perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation,” Diane Patrick read, throwing pointed looks at her spouse...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Letters of Love From 1776 to 2007 | 11/20/2007 | See Source »

...Opposition politicians have called on the military to declare the Iraqi Kurdish administration an "enemy" and target them in any operation. Turkey is already deeply suspicious of Iraq's Kurds and their progress over the past four years toward creating an independent Kurdish state, which could in turn foment unrest among its own Kurdish population. "From this point on, our barrels are pointed at [Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud] Barzani," wrote Ertugrul Ozkok, chief editor of the top-selling Hurriyet newspaper. "We must tell Barzani. 'You have two options. Either you can be our neighbor or our enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey's War Drums Grow Louder | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

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