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...equal to sub-Saharan Africa's combined economic output. It is folly, as well as unfair, for the developed North to protect its inefficient industries at the expense of the more competitive industries of the South. And to encourage more responsible and accountable government, the G-8 should also insist that their companies operating in Africa, particularly in the oil sector, maintain high standards of transparency and disclosure. This can only serve to strengthen the accountability of African governments to their people...
...people are truthful,” he said. Suspects will have to “come to the lead and say, ‘Yes, I took part. But I was young, I was scared, I was under the influence of a teacher.’ Those who insist on their innocence will have to wait for a trial...
...salient exception of John Walker Lindh, a Taliban soldier captured in Afghanistan last year, most Americans connected with Islamic terrorism were born in Arab lands. Both the CIA and the State Department deny published reports that a number of Americans were arrested in Pakistan last week, though Pakistani officials insist they have two Afghan-Americans in custody. And law-enforcement officials doubt Padilla represents a hidden pool of former gang members being recruited into al-Qaeda. "There aren't a whole bunch more like him," says...
...steel" states, offering support for Democratic charges that Bush is catering to those constituencies with his pro-industry decisions on air-pollution regulations and steel tariffs. A map of states that are "special concerns" neatly meshes with the states Bush has visited repeatedly to participate in events that aides insist have nothing to do with politics. Rove boasts in the presentation that the President's politicking has not hurt his standing with the public. At least, so long as the politics have stayed hidden. --By John F. Dickerson
...state" rather than an "authority." No wonder the proposal has raised scant enthusiasm on either side of the divide. The Palestinians and Arab moderates want the long-term framework of a solution to be articulated now, and the parties to be moved swiftly towards realizing it. And the Israelis insist that to even talk of a Palestinian state and a long-term political solution is inappropriate right now. So administration officials have been finessing the speech in order to create, as one U.S. official put it to the New York Times, a document from which "everyone will ... come away with...