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...whatever is necessary, for as long as it takes, to identify and ruthlessly eliminate the cancer: intensify surveillance, run multi-million-dollar recruitment and information campaigns, tighten immigration and deportation rules, increase penalties across the board - but leave the pillars of Western civilization alone. They survived Hitler and a thousand would-be tyrants before him; trust them to survive the latest wave of murdering nihilists. These principles cannot easily be destroyed from outside, but they can be timidly surrendered, with consequences yet unknown. It's fair to assume politicians believe that they are acting in Australia's best interests...
...Church of Scientology in Boston occupies a multi-million-dollar town house overlooking the Charles River on Beacon Street. The floors are marble, the walls covered in heavy, creamy wallpaper. The Church looks like an expensive doctor’s office, not a local parish. A bookshop and seating area on the first floor sit opposite a desk complete with a smiling teenage receptionist...
...Africa captured the world’s attention. With the hope of pressuring the G8 leaders to seriously address African poverty at the Gleneagales summit, the “Make Poverty History” campaign and its U.S. counterpart, “ONE,” launched a multi-million-dollar international publicity blitz of commercials, concerts, and wristbands designed to raise awareness—not money—for the poor of Africa. As Tom Hanks said at the end of the ONE television spot, “We're not asking for your money. We're asking...
...country of origin of the cultural goods," notes a 2004 United Nations report. It estimates the international trade in "looted, stolen or smuggled art" at $4.5 billion to $6 billion a year. In p.n.g., says museum director Eoe, the trade in illegal artifacts is probably "a multi-million-dollar business, but we don't really have any idea of the true extent...
...With multi-million-dollar holdings of PetroChina on stock exchanges in New York and Hong Kong, the University sharply reduced its stake in the company at the start of this year, according to new documents filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission...