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...significant indications of all this slowing down. Budget flights from Poland are still full of young people ready to sample a new life. In addition to Chudzicka's TV show, Ireland alone boasts six Polish newspapers, two radio programs and at least a dozen Polish websites. Poles can hear Mass in their native tongue in 100 places of worship across Ireland, and the community was just granted its own cathedral, which has about 2,000 worshippers every Sunday...
Remember the Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore global-warming pitch at the Academy Awards? Before they spoke, the screen at the back of the stage flashed not-so-subliminal messages about how to save the planet. My personal favorite was "Ride mass transit." This to a conclave of Hollywood plutocrats who have not seen the inside of a subway since the moon landing and for whom mass transit means a stretch limo seating no fewer than...
...lone wolf’,” he said. Blix served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1981 to 1997. He returned from retirement to head the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from 2000 to 2003. He now chairs the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, an independent group that recently released a report on the elimination of weapons of mass destruction. In his address, titled “A Renewal of Disarmament? Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons,” Blix argued that disarmament is easier today, given increased global interdependence...
...Sepah, Iran's fifth largest bank, and its principal officers are also listed in the resolution annex as targets of heightened surveillance. The U.S. has already barred it from doing business with U.S. banks and companies on grounds that the Iranian regime had used it to finance weapons of mass destruction, and now the U.S. hopes to use the Security Council resolution to hamper its access to global capital markets. But in a sign that not all the Security Council powers share the U.S. agenda, China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya told Reuters, "The main objective is our concern about...
...Lawyers in cities around Pakistan responded by boycotting court proceedings, and held mass rallies to protest Chaudhry's treatment. Newspapers report that police have taken to searching cars for black suits - surefire proof that the owner is a lawyer and may be up to no good. When the chief justice refused to use an official car sent to take him to a Supreme Court hearing earlier this week and tried to walk to court instead, police forced him into a vehicle as supporters chanted, "Go Musharraf...