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...country, people tremble in the fear of losing their friends, jobs, advertising revenues, campaign contributions, and alumni donations if they question Zionism or Israeli policy—despite the billions of our tax dollars paid annually for Israel’s defense and sustenance. Even the Israeli military hosts freer debates about this issue than any U.S. university does. One result: Israel has now withdrawn from Gaza, an action that Summers slammed Harvard and MIT professors as anti-Semitic for even contemplating...
...Musharraf, for his part, has not been all bad for Pakistan. The economy is growing at a rapid clip, new infrastructure projects have brought roads, water and electricity to remote areas, and the arts and media are freer than they have been in a long while. But it's a quirk of Pakistani politics that leaders are easily built up, torn down, cannibalized and regurgitated. Like Musharraf, Sharif has a new persona. Once deemed an industrialist out of touch with the masses, he is now seen as an economic savior who will curb the crippling inflation that plagues Pakistan today...
...APEC exists to promote economic growth through freer trade, but for this summit Australia, using its prerogative as host, has put climate change at the top of the agenda. Some may connect this with the fact that there's a national election coming up, but Downer believes "APEC very much has the potential to launch a new approach on the issue." Last year Australia helped launch the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, five of whose six members belong to APEC. Rejecting Kyoto Protocol-style restrictions, the AP6 vowed a voluntary, collaborative effort to promote clean-energy technologies...
...Sarkozy has long understood that to a French society perpetually concerned about unemployment, economic optimism is everything. And that is why Sarkozy has advanced his reform program this way: submit to a little pain now in exchange for far more gain from freer markets in the future. The problem is that to many French voters this pay-off seems to be getting more remote. Last week news came down that a mere 3,700 jobs were created between April and June - the lowest number since 2005. That shortfall sounded even grimmer against the government's announcement in July that...
...terror experts had believed that the U.S.-led military ouster of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan had scattered al-Qaeda and forced it to assume a more decentralized form, there is now growing concern that Bin Laden's network has managed to regain its footing. "These groups feel somewhat freer to plot and plan along the Afghan-Pakistan border, where they have what amounts to a refuge," a senior U.S. counterterrorism official told TIME. Indeed, the central role of NATO in fighting the Taliban-Qaeda alliance in Afghanistan has also raised the incentive for the jihadists to strike at Germany...