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...have a tendency to close ranks around colleagues who become the target of accusations of rights abuses or political shenanigans. And so far, it has worked. The African Union has asked the U.N. Security Council to order the ICC to suspend its Darfur investigations on the grounds that they pose a threat to international peace and security. African Union leaders also say that by prosecuting Bashir, the ICC will complicate matters for U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur, most of whom are from neighboring countries on the continent. Bashir attempts to stall the mission have already left it severely hobbled...
...candidacy that persists in many segments of black America. While the campaign has successfully increased voter registration levels among blacks, getting them to the polls is a very different matter. Cherry and others in the black community worry that the Obama campaign is too concerned with striking a moderate pose that puts white voters at ease and, as a result, is not working hard enough to get out the black vote...
...their homes or elsewhere if they cannot go to cigar bars. Thus, the measure is doing nothing to protect the health of the bars’ customers. Furthermore, smoking in these bars—unlike smoking in the restaurants covered by the previous ban—does not pose a risk to nonsmokers. Customers at a cigar bar go there solely in order to smoke, or at least to spend time in the company of smokers. Eliminating the presence of cigar bars does nothing but redirect the deliberate inhalation of smoke that takes place at these bars elsewhere. The presence...
...what exactly is Pentecostalism, and could it really pose a political problem for Palin? Here's a brief TIME primer on the religious tradition that is such a touchy subject for the McCain campaign...
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