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...British society. They should be given every opportunity to learn English, to acquire knowledge about Britain and to participate in community-led initiatives. Such measures will provide for greater interaction between Muslims and the rest of British society. That interaction will eventually lead to integration, which will diminish the likelihood of radicalization...
...Will students summons [sic] campus police when their roommate passes out in the bathtub after a night of heavy drinking if there is the likelihood that information is soon making its way through internet sites and campus blogs?” the president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts, Richard Doherty, told the committee, according to a written transcript posted on the association's Web site. Harvard is one of the association’s 56 member institutions...
...return to Thailand to fight the charges-and perhaps re-enter politics. The prospective homecoming of Thaksin is likely to inflame tensions between civilian protestors and the military government, further damaging the country's international image and its hopes for stability. "[Thaksin's] return will raise the likelihood of violence," says Sunai Phasuk, the Thailand representative for New York-based Human Rights Watch. "We are heading for political upheaval...
...Fearing she could end up like best friend Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie tells David Letterman that she is prepared to go to prison for her pending DUI charge. "I'm willing to face whatever consequences come my way," she said on the TONIGHT SHOW. Letterman wondered, "Is prison a likelihood?" She giggled and replied, "Um ... yes." SCORE...
...with resources such as oil often grow more slowly, more corruptly, less equitably, more violently and with more authoritarian governments than others do. The authors of Escaping the Resource Curse - Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz and Macartan Humphreys - assert that there is "a strong association between resource wealth and the likelihood of weak democratic development, corruption and civil war." Western oil workers in the Middle East lived in secure compounds with armed guards long before hijackers hit the Twin Towers. Is that same pattern developing in the Niger Delta today, where they also live in guarded compounds after the kidnap...