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...Cold War nemesis. While some are cashing out and preparing to leave before Ortega takes office January 10, others are hoping the Sandinista return to power will drive away many of the growing herd of foreign profiteers here to make a quick buck on the country's post-war real estate market...
...bags and scaring off what few tourists remain in the city. The concern is that Hizballah anti-government demonstrations will provoke pro-government counter demonstrations, risking confrontations between the two sides. In the meantime, the country's economy, already burdened by this summer's destruction, will continue to suffer. Post-war reconstruction remains in paralysis...
...poor suburb of Paris set off 12 days of riots in destitute and disenchanted banlieues throughout France. As clashes with police multiply in the run-up to that anniversary, France is nervously eyeing the high unemployment and sense of exclusion that persist among the young descendants of France's post-war immigration...
...White House’s management of the Iraq war. Using previously undisclosed memoranda and an unprecedented access to Bush and high-ranking members of his administration, Woodward’s book describes how White House officials turned a deaf ear toward their own advisers, who predicted post-war chaos in Iraq as early as May of 2003. “These were their guys,” he said again and again yesterday, referring to the advisers hired by the Bush administration. One of these consultants, Steve Herbits, was hired by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld...
...These actions must be understood in a larger context. Under the proposed French bill, Armenian genocide deniers would face fines and prison terms equivalent to those mandated by anti-Holocaust-denying laws in some central European nations. Although the motivations for these laws may have been understandable in the post-war era, governments should not impose their version of the truth over their citizens. The French bill is well intentioned; its goal is to force Turkey to confront the atrocities committed by the ruling Committee for Union and Progress during World War I. But we cannot help but be skeptical...