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...will be forced to swim in the same restrictive garments. Rapper Mehrak Golestani, a.k.a. Reveal, writes about secret house parties where DJs silence the decks at 5 a.m. so that the first call to prayer can be heard. Khosrow Hassanzadeh satirizes official portraits of "martyrs" in the war with Iraq by painting his friends in the same style...
When Kensuke Onishi decided to use his foreign university degree and fluent English to help internally displaced refugees in Kurdish Iraq, his Japanese mother's friends told her they understood if she wanted to weep. After all, shouldn't a dutiful Japanese son return home and work for a big company, like the droves of salarymen before him? But in 1996, Onishi founded one of Japan's largest international NGOs, Peace Winds Japan, which operates everywhere from Sudan to East Timor. Today, the 41-year-old Osaka native has noticed that his countrymen no longer consider helping less fortunate foreigners...
...suspect there'll be a rethink of America's role in the world. You can already see from his early comments that he's starting to focus quite clearly on Osama bin Laden and the position in Afghanistan, and he's clearly indicated that he wants to withdraw from Iraq, though how quickly that can occur remains to be seen. But I think you will see a period of consolidation...
...nice year trotting from Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire to Salzburg, from the Italian lakes to German castles, doing nothing but ponder in earnest detail the state of the Atlantic alliance. It's a monumental waste of time. Nearly six years after those passionate disagreements on the invasion of Iraq, U.S.-Europe relations are just fine, with a clutch of Atlanticists heading the governments of Britain, France and Germany - and leading the European Commission in Brussels, too. The thing now is to figure out what the world's collection of rich democracies can do with their substantial power. U.S. Secretary...
...played out in early October off Mytilene, the harbor capital of Lesbos, is repeated nightly in Greece's Aegean waters, where a gaping new hole has opened in the border between Europe and poorer, war-torn corners of Asia and the Middle East. As growing numbers of people flee Iraq, Afghanistan and the Caucasus, human traffickers have begun using the route from the southwest coast of Turkey to several eastern Greek islands as a back door to European territory, adding it to more familiar passages from North Africa to Sicily, Lampedusa, Malta and the Canary Islands. The number of illegal...