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This past week, while we enjoyed our spring vacation, the United States finally made the decision to intervene in the Balkans on behalf of the embattled Kosovar Albanians. For months, President Slobodan Milosevic, the hard-line nationalist leader of Serbia, has waged a war of ethnic cleansing against Albanians in the province of Kosovo. The result has been a humanitarian disaster that was left unchecked far too long...
...sandwiches, my closest third-grade friends and I watched, with fascination and terror, the grainy news footage of Chinese soldiers crossing the Yalu River into Korea. It was 1950, the year after Mao Zedong and the communists had taken control of China, exiling General Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party to Taiwan. And now they were fighting...
...rough year for Vladimir Zhirinovsky, madcap leader of Russia's ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party. Last month his colleagues banned him from the Duma floor after he called for the communists "to be shot." But things may be picking up with the publication of his latest book, The ABCs of Sex. At a publicity event for the 222-page tome, the self-proclaimed "sexual knight of all the girls of Russia" proposed a new domestic sex industry as the panacea for the country's economic ills...
...DELHI: India won?t be stopped from confronting Pakistan -- on the cricket field. Hindu nationalist extremists on Thursday dug up the New Delhi pitch (the cricket playing field) hoping to sabotage the first match in 13 years between the rival nuclear powers. But the government is determined to play on. ?This is a nation of cricketers, and they desperately want to see Pakistan come here and play,? says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk. ?And see India trounce them...
...situation in India is instructive. The Hindu nationalist party claims that its assimilative agenda and its mission to "break Islamic exclusivism" are the only means to build a united, democratic India. Thus, by stifling minority religious sentiment, the Hindu politicians hope ironically to "protect the plurality of thoughts and institutions...