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...This lack of flexibility in spite of the looming Olympics is worrying, says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch. "Especially now with the Lhasa protests," he says, "they are facing a pressure-cooker period." Beijing will have to keep a lid on Tibet, where rights groups say there are still sporadic protests despite weeks of virtual military law. But Beijing's problems are not confined to Tibet. There have also been rumblings of dissent in the far-western Xinjiang province, populated largely by the Uighur Muslim minority group. Protests by thousands of Uighurs...
...people even more in doubt of his ability to lead us out of the national crises we are in. Joe Klein stated that he doubted whether many Americans could get past their "third" impression of Obama. For this voter, he is correct, but it is not because of my lack of "experience" with Obama. It is because of something very important that my parents taught me when I was a child: your character or lack of it will be judged by the company you keep. The fact that Obama held someone as racist as the Rev. Wright so close...
Condoleezza Rice's return to the Middle East highlighted the lack of progress since last year's peace summit...
...treaty in which the warlord Joseph Kony agreed to come out of the bush and be tried before a jury in a regional court. Why would the likes of Kony be swayed by the likes of Riccardi? Riccardi himself can only guess. "We are all volunteers," he ventures. "Our lack of vested interest gives us moral authority...
...told his North Carolina audience on Monday. That was the good news. But he quickly followed up with bad news: "When that will be, I don't know." So long as the op-tempo is so high, all the Pentagon's family fixes can't make up for that lack of family time...