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...world powers must accept this reality. You mentioned terrorism. In the case of Iraq, it is under American occupation, not our occupation. The Americans organized elections there and a government arose out of those elections. Since then we have accepted that government and helped it. Iraq is our neighbor. They are Muslims. We have cultural and political common ground. So what's this talk of terrorism? Take the example of Lebanon. Is the presence of Hizballah really a terrorist one? Who then killed Imad Mughniyah [the reputed master-terrorist and Hizballah collaborator who was assassinated in a bomb attack...
...shots on goal, the Crimson maintained possession of the ball for much of the remaining 10 minutes of the game to deflect any momentum the Bobcats mustered in the first 20 minutes of the frame. With its fourth win behind it, Harvard now anticipates its match against Quinnipiac neighbor Connecticut before beginning Ivy League play against Brown on Saturday. But the wins haven’t come easy and the Crimson knows that it has places where it needs to improve. “Basically, our coach always emphasizes not wins and losses, but how we play the game...
...least. The two countries briefly went to war in 1962 over a border dispute, and for the next couple of decades, the Dalai Lama's presence in India became almost a badge of honor for Delhi-living proof that democratic India was freer and more tolerant than its authoritarian neighbor. Over the last decade, though, and especially since Delhi formally recognized the Tibetan autonomous region as part of China in 2003, India has taken a sterner line on Tibetan protests, discouraging them before they can start and breaking them up when they do. The latest crackdown is further proof...
...used to be equally fearful of its giant neighbor. The party has historically been one of the great bastions of anticommunism and the restrictions on Taiwan's contact with the mainland date primarily from the long period when the KMT was in power. But in recent years, the KMT has gone through a transformation in its outlook. The KMT's turnaround was caused, indirectly, by the DPP. Kicked out of power eight years ago, the KMT had grown out of touch with Taiwan's increasingly vibrant democratic environment. After ruling for so many decades, most of the time through authoritarian...
...understand the impulse of the Vatican to stress a broader range of sins for the modern age. Gianfranco Girotti, the No. 2 Catholic official in charge of confessions and penitence, told the Vatican's newspaper, "You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbor's wife" but also by polluting, cloning, taking drugs, promoting social injustice or becoming obscenely rich. Where the standard sins are individual failings, in a global culture sin is social. "Attention to sin is a more urgent task today," Girotti said, "precisely because its consequences are more abundant and more destructive...