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When Marshall spent a year of high school in Detroit as a foreign exchange student, she was stunned by the way Americans freely criticized the government, she said...
...That poor distribution of wealth has also sparked conflict in Nigeria's oil-rich southern Delta region, where militants lobbying for a greater share of oil revenue regularly blow up pipelines and kidnap foreign oil workers. Andrew Kakabadse, professor of international management development at the U.K.-based Cranfield School of Management, says oil companies have at various times pitted ethnic factions against one another for economic gain. (See pictures of Lagos...
...commission was not only worried about women’s rights when they proposed the veil-ban, they were also worried about the growth of Islamic radicalism within France. The same parliamentary commission recommended that foreign women exhibiting such signs of "radicalness" (presumably, like a veil) be denied residency, asylum, and citizenship. France has five million Muslims, more than any other country in Western Europe, and has had problems assimilating immigrants in the past. Therefore, fears of a London subway bombings-style act of violence by disenchanted Muslim youth are resonant Again, there is some truth to the idea that...
...Administration faces Senate challenges on the issue from several quarters. Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman introduced a bill last week that would block civilian trials for foreign terrorism suspects, prevent terrorism suspects from being read Miranda rights and require that they be held in military detention. McCain and Lieberman are close to Graham, and their proposed legislation has raised questions among supporters of civilian trials about the usefulness of negotiating with Graham...
...abroad. Last year China marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic with an Oct. 1 military parade in front of Tiananmen Square. While generally a cause for celebration in China, the parade of soldiers, tanks and missile carriers was seen as intimidating by many foreign observers...