Word: foreigner
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...Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson recently named the exiled Wang a criminal when it was speculated internationally that Wang would win the Nobel Peace Prize...
There is however, a rational behind revoking Glass-Steagall. The Act weakened American banks vis vis foreign financial institutions, which, unrestricted by Glass-Steagall, were often able to out-muscle American banks. This explanation holds little water. Considering the fact that our economy is currently the motor powering the world's finances, America's financial status while Glass-Steagall was active was hardly in jeopardy. The real reason behind the end of Glass-Steagall is the government's current emphasis on a strong national economy...
...foreign film opens today across the country, and to some it might seem oddly familiar. Winner of numerous international film awards, including Italy's prestigious Donotello for Best Foreign Language Film and the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Train of Life is yet another foray into the human condition during the events of World War II. Director and writer Radu Mihaileanu presents the humorous story of an Eastern European Jewish shtetl (village) and its fantastic escape from the Nazis on a fake deportation train they build themselves. Never mind that it was historically impossible for such an event to have...
...evacuated from the country as a precaution before last year's cruise missile strikes on Bin Laden's Afghanistan camps. But the incident is a major challenge to the authority of General Parvez Musharraf, who has done his best to assure the West that his coup will stabilize Pakistan. Foreign observers had been uncertain of how Musharraf planned to deal with the country's fundamentalist movement and with the Taliban. But no military leader is likely to tolerate irregulars running around his capital firing rocket launchers, especially when they're biting the hand that feeds his country's aid-dependent...
...actually orchestrating this? Is Albright is suffering from delusions of grandeur in suggesting that her accepting culpability for this decision would be enough to neutralize abortion-rights proponents? Or is she taking one for the team, sacrificing herself on the altar of the Clinton administration's foreign policy? At this point, it's hard to tell. "It certainly would be convenient for the nonpolitical side of the administration to take the heat for a decision like this," says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller. "The fact that she's a woman doesn't hurt, either." A willingness by the White House...