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...idea so far ... but it might work.") Meanwhile, Africa and the Arab world offer no way forward, while China - whose oil interests and other investments in Sudan give it substantially more leverage than the U.S. has over Khartoum - has used its veto power in the Security Council to block harsher U.N. actions against Bashir's regime...
...Vladimir Putin, as Moscow's relations with the West sour and the screws are tightened domestically. Opposition parties are banned, and rallies are brutally broken up by the police. NGOs get shut down, while the state launches criminal probes into their leaders. The cowed media's controls grow ever harsher. And, just as 42 years ago, the Kremlin propaganda invokes the specter of an external enemy and its internal agents threatening Mother Russia. The continuing hysteria against "the desecration" of the Soviet memorial in Estonia (which in reality has been moved to a military cemetery and reopened with full military...
...Presidential poll scheduled for next March. Just as in Soviet times, there's nothing like the specter of an external enemy, either to make the people accept that they don't change horses in midstream and let Putin stay - or to pave the way for someone way harsher than Putin. A strong hand to keep the country together. Just what the people need to have Victory, when confronted with an "external enemy...
...Oklahoma followed, passing Jessica's Law with a death penalty provision for raping a child under age 14. Texas already had some of the toughest child predator laws on the books with its two-strikes rule that sends child predators to jail for life. But the push for even harsher punishment was coming from the state leadership, rather than from the grass roots, as tightening of criminal laws often does. "Prosecutors will tell you these are the most difficult cases to get a guilty verdict on," Edmonds said. "Prosecutors lose more of these cases than any other...
...legalization, then the country is going to suffer,” Cisneros said. A member of Clinton administration, Cisneros conceded that there were potential flaws with his plan, as it left little incentive for Latin American workers to stay in their home countries. He underlined the need for harsher sanctions for businesses employing illegal immigrants. Cisneros concluded the evening with examples of the progress Latinos have made in the past decade, citing figures from singer Gloria Estefan to Red Sox hitter David Ortiz as people who represent a “picture of increasing influence in this nation...