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...price hike’s impact. The top-ranked countries by volume of searches are the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia and Thailand. In the West, people are preoccupied with the “credit crunch,” “Tibet,” “human rights” and the “Olympics boycott?...
...high-handed approach in Tibet, China has been more concerned with keeping its people from starving and growing restless. Despite the obvious injustice in Tibet, the prospect of much of mainland China exploding with the kind of hunger riots raging elsewhere is one that features too many human rights violations to count. In that event, the government would have likely no less hesitation in striking out against its own people than against Tibetans...
History will not judge this kindly. For many, in America and around the world, these words encapsulate an era in which our government has deceptively deprived individuals of civil liberties and basic human rights in the name of national security. Already, with nine months remaining in his tenure in office, President George W. Bush cannot flee from the scene quickly enough: The latest ABC News/Washington Post national poll showed 64 percent of Americans expressing disapproval of Bush’s performance as president...
...teenager were marred by a sinister regime that thought it had all the answers" and "banished God and thus became imperious to anything true and good." He told his young listeners to thank God that they had instead grown up in a society that promotes democracy and human rights, but warned that "the power to destroy does remain," embodied in social ills such as drug abuse, homelessness and poverty, racism violence degradation of girls and women, and - no surprise here, at this point in his visit - false freedom and "relativism...
...Cathedral itself as a metaphor for his message of the Christian quest. "The spires of Saint Patrick's church are dwarfed by the skyscrapers of the New York skyline, yet in the heart of this busy metropolis, they are a vivid reminder of the constant yearning of the human spirit to rise...