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...these Japanese citizens were willing to put themselves at risk for a greater good, for a better purpose. And the Japanese people should be very proud that they have citizens like this." COLIN POWELL, U.S. Secretary of State, saying he admired the Japanese who were taken hostage and later freed in Iraq...
...should by rights participate in the convention?still languish in prison. Ambiguous public remarks by Burmese Foreign Minister Win Aung, followed by the release from house arrest of two senior NLD leaders last week, have raised hopes that Suu Kyi and party vice chairman Tin Oo will soon be freed, too. We'll see. The convention's success depends on much else besides. It is far from clear whether Suu Kyi, even if freed, would be allowed to attend or whether delegates will be able to speak freely. Some delegates were sentenced to long jail terms for criticizing the last...
...rule, a transition that promised to bring them to power. That simmering discontent last week turned into a full, chaos-inducing boil. Following a call to arms by a radical, power-hungry cleric named Muqtada al-Sadr, thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites declared war against a military that had freed them from a heinous dictator. In cities across Iraq, Shi'ite militants united behind the goal of casting off the yoke of occupation by killing or capturing any foreigner, military or civilian, they came across. Together with the fighting in Fallujah, the Shi'ite uprising produced the bloodiest eruption...
...some textbooks appear in new editions exceedingly often, a fleecing strategy which raises prices while curbing the market for used books. The Social Analysis 10 text, Principles of Economics by Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, has emerged this year in its third edition since it was first published six years ago, at a list price of $121. While some fields certainly evolve rapidly enough to justify frequent revisions, more than half of the professors in the California and Oregon study believed new editions were “rarely” or “never?...
...town opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators, killing 15 civilians. The incident sparked a mood of mutual antagonism that has sporadically erupted into clashes. In November insurgents shot down a U.S. helicopter outside the city, killing 16. And earlier this year bandits broke into a city jail and freed dozens of prisoners...