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Nuke tests are naughty, not nice. So the U.S. plans to bar exports to North Korea of some of Dear Leader Kim's favorite toys, such as iPods, plasma TVs, Segway scooters and Harley-Davidsons...
...That's a nice start, but permanent steps are required. The real cure will require club, city, and police officials to take radical measures to force violent ultras into order, or away from stadia. As British efforts to vanquish hooliganism showed, coordinated identification of all known and potential thugs is essential to control their movements on game days and prevent attempts of banned fans from gaining access to stadia; better policing techniques adapted to soccer thugs are invaluable in defusing violent situations before they explode. If that can't be managed - and quickly - the state should deal with...
...Words: The Pope has had only nice things to say in Turkey about a religion that he'd bluntly questioned in September for being susceptible to violence. Benedict spoke repeatedly of friendship, respect and reconciliation, citing the common roots of the two religions in their ancestry in Abraham. Rather than again propose the new approach to relations between the two faiths he'd launched in his Regensburg speech, he quoted his predecessor Pope John Paul II, who said on his own trip to Turkey in 1979 that Christians and Muslims must "recognize and develop the spiritual bonds that unite...
...Tally: Benedict may have had no choice but to play nice, but he is still searching for his voice on Islam. Perhaps by taking off his papal slippers and stepping into a mosque, he has begun to find his footing...
...this reality, we are called, together with all Christian communities, to renew Europe's awareness of its Christian roots, traditions and values, giving them new vitality." Still nothing new was said by either man about the main source of the East-West schism, the primacy of the Pope. Nice words only...