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...have failed to halt the violence, and the 20,000 troops now in the area are struggling just to protect themselves. It isn't clear who is responsible, yet underpinning many attacks is a deep sense of resentment against the Thai establishment, and a belief that the government is ill-treating or discriminating against Muslims. In June, the government-appointed National Reconciliation Commission, chaired by the highly respected former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun, made some modest proposals to address local grievances on issues such as justice and consultation. But caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his cabinet have...
...growing humanitarian crisis; and the A.U., which rarely criticizes its own, said Khartoum should relent. At week's end, there was the hint of a fudge: the A.U. force might stay on as a transition to a U.N. force. It won't stop the killing - the A.U. soldiers are ill-equipped and backed by the weakest of mandates - but it creates another few months in which the world can dither. Amid the diplomatic flurry, and as evidence emerged of a new government offensive in Darfur - Human Rights Watch says government planes indiscriminately bombed civilian-occupied villages in rebel-held areas...
...controversial. The basic philosophy: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Become one of the increasing number of museums and historical sites that are redesigning their collections with high-tech interfaces, action-packed short films and theme-park aesthetics. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum opened in Springfield, Ill., last year with a talking Honest Abe hologram and a host of other educational parlor tricks. The Marine Corps museum, opening in Quantico, Va., near Washington in November, will use changes in temperature and humidity to immerse its visitors--and, it hopes, drum up recruits--in harrowing and heroic battlescapes...
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...What Pakistan needs is compromise: between provinces, between religion and secularism, between the desire for growth and the imperative to check inflation, between us and our neighbors. But a government led by a President in a soldier's uniform has proven ill-suited to striking compromises. So we must try the alternative: a return to democracy, with its inherent horse trading, messiness, and false starts. Such a transition will not be without risk, and many Pakistanis are frightened by the potential for instability. But the alternative, a continuation of the status quo, in which our President lacks the legitimacy that...