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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...while Raul has encouraged debate about Cuba's socialist system, most analysts agree that he's pursuing a China-style model that opens Cuba's economy but does not liberalize Havana's stringent politics. Perhaps he knows that if he attempted the latter, he'd have to read even harsher op-eds by his brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Castro Family Values: Fidel vs. Raul | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...Sadr's offer of peace on Sunday followed a much harsher statement against Maliki's government just a day earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sadr Offers to End Basra Fighting | 3/29/2008 | See Source »

...residents of Basra until April 8 to turn over "heavy and medium-size weapons" in return for a reward. Government adviser Sadiq al-Rikabi said the deadline is separate from a three-day ultimatum for gunmen in the southern town to surrender their arms and renounce violence or face harsher measures. That expires later Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad Trembles as Basra Bleeds | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

More than 1 out of every 100 U.S. adults is behind bars, according to a new Pew report. Violent crimes have dropped 25% since '87, but harsher sentencing for lesser crimes has caused overcrowding and fueled a thriving private-prisons industry. A look at who's doing time in the land of the free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...international media has heavily criticized harsher interpretations and practices of Shariah in the past. In some Islamic states, extreme punishments and misogynistic attitudes toward women are a reality. Heavy media criticism is thus fair in such cases, where Shariah sentences—such as punishment by stoning—veer from the embedded standards of human rights. Williams was not proposing a carte blanche for this set of laws. Merely, he wanted to express a confidence in the amalgamation of cultures, religion and loyalties...

Author: By Emmeline D. Francis | Title: Marking British Values | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

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