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...Somalia seemingly so important to Osama bin Laden? Why is it so attractive to foreign Islamist fighters? The reason foreign fighters pour into our country is that there is lack of governance and there are Somalis who work tirelessly for Somalia to be stuck in chaos forever who welcome these people. Somalis have to understand the consequences that these foreigners have. Everyone can contribute to peace and development. But it is obvious that our friends have been misled by outsiders...
...distress. During a nationally televised meeting in the town, the Prime Minister scolded local officials and factory owners, including billionaire tycoon Oleg Deripaska, a onetime Kremlin favorite whose investment company Basic Element owns the town's BaselCement factory. "You have made thousands of people hostage to your ambitions, your lack of professionalism - or maybe simply your trivial greed," Putin said...
...dyslexic and had hired tutors to help him. Sotomayor was on the three-judge panel that okayed New Haven's decision to nullify the tests. The panel did so in a one-paragraph blow-off that ignored a host of pressing constitutional issues and was striking for its lack of empathy, compassion and all those noble qualities that are supposed to come with growing up in the South Bronx. The case is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, which could well overturn the decision in the next few weeks...
...other end of the attitude spectrum are women like Diane Mello, who was newly pregnant when she learned she had melanoma in 2004. The 21-year-old from New Jersey underwent surgery but took a pass on chemo. Spooked by the lack of data on pregnant women, she chose her baby's health over her own and died when her daughter was 9 months...
...result is almost perverse. At a time when the left's longstanding complaints about the free market and the lack of workers' protection are being widely acknowledged and agreed with, voters are turning their backs on those parties that now seem to have been so prophetic. "There is an existential crisis for the socialists. Voters do not want socialism, they want a market system that works," says Corien Wortmann-Kool, who was re-elected for the Dutch center-right CDA party. "But the socialists are still rooted in the 20th century. They have not yet broken away from their ideological...