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...More than four years have passed since British and French officials vowed to prevent illegal immigrants, hailing largely from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, from sneaking into England from Calais. In late 2002, Nicolas Sarkozy, then France's Interior Minister, ordered shut a Red Cross refugee center in the Calais suburb of Sangatte after British officials complained that thousands were using it as a base to organize crossings to England by jumping on trucks or walking through the Eurotunnel. Sarkozy, whose tough stance against illegal immigration helped build his career and win him the French presidency, claimed that Calais would soon...
...folded long ago. Beauty is an argument that doesn't take no for an answer. And when you're confronted with something as haunting and luminous as the Bloch building, as the new addition is now called, what other word will do? At twilight, when their interior lights come on, the lenses have a milky refulgence, radiating gently against the sky. In daylight, when the glass loses that ectoplasmic glow, there are a few dead zones along the exterior, stretches that have the featureless feel of shed walls. But to keep the eye occupied, Holl plays with the forms...
...Sunni terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. And Shi'ite militias typically don't target ministries run by their fellow-sectarians. The Ministry of Higher Educaton was run by a Sunni. But the Finance Minister is a prominent Shi'ite, Bayan Jabr Solagh. What is more, he's the former Interior Minister under whose watch the Iraqi police was thoroughly infiltrated by Shi'ite militias...
...morning after Nazarbayev signed the constitutional amendments that gave him unbounded power, law enforcers brought kidnapping charges against Aliyev. "The head of state," said a Ministry of the Interior spokesman, "personally instructed" officials to conduct the investigation that concluded with the criminal charges of kidnapping, with a penalty of life imprisonment. Formally, investigators charge him with the January kidnapping of the chief and the deputy of Nurbank, a financial organization of which Aliyev owns more than 50%. Reports have Aliyev allegedly furious that the bank officials were siphoning off money that he believed...
...Predictably, government-by-lobbyist has produced some scandals. Philip Cooney, an oil lobbyist who worked in the White House, got caught editing the science out of global warming reports; he's now back at ExxonMobil. Steven Griles, an energy lobbyist who became deputy interior secretary, was a one-man extraction-industry conflict-of-interest machine at Interior; the inspector general described his tenure as an "ethical quagmire," and he's now awaiting sentencing in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal...