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...plows past the rows of parked scooters, the squid cooking on outdoor grills, and the children riding in circles on a miniature electric train. Chen, 56, a veteran activist and former political prisoner, is running for mayor of Taiwan's second-largest city, Kaohsiung - and tonight she appears intent on shaking the hand of every hotpot eater, bra seller and pachinko player in this small outdoor market...
...himself. Born in New York to a musical family, Lockwood played cello by the age of nine. The future scholar quickly became proficient, and by his teenage years Lockwood had begun to consider playing professionally. He attended Queens College, in the City University of New York system, and was intent on keeping music in his life. Lockwood numbers his years as an undergraduate among some of his most formative. “I had marvelous teachers at Queens College,” Lockwood says. “It was an extraordinary place [when I was a student] in the early...
...Tally: Benedict is intent on making freedom of religion a hallmark issue of his papacy. While he sees threats to this liberty in China and in an increasingly secularized Europe, it may also end up being a pointed - if somewhat safer - way of confronting fundamental problems he sees in Islam...
...warning sign experts look for when considering the danger of genocide. Samantha Power, a professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, says with Shi'ite and Sunni sub-groups already identifying and killing victims solely on the basis of their religious identity, "genocidal intent" is already present in Iraq. "When you drive up to a checkpoint and you're stopped and somebody pulls out your ID and determines whether you're a Sunni or a Shiite and takes you away and kills you because of that, there is a genocidal mentality afoot." The question, Power says...
...destroy in whole or in part, "a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." Says University of Mary Washington's Stanton, "Anyone who says that's not happening in Iraq is burying their head in the sand." But others say the number of people in Iraq operating with the intention of eradicating people solely on the basis of their membership in a ethnic or religious group is too small to constitute genocidal intent...