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...While I sincerely condole her untimely and fiery death, I must agree with William Dalrymple that her legacy was "mediocre." Far from being a martyr for freedom and democracy, she chose to live a life of luxury in self-imposed exile - in distant Dubai. Although she was Prime Minister of Pakistan twice, she did little to improve the conditions of the masses, particularly those of women and the poor. Jalaluddin S. Hussain, Brossard, Canada...
...plan include reforming No Child Left Behind, addressing the high rate of dropouts, and quadrupling funding for Early Head Start programs that form the youngest generation of students. We believe Obama’s emphasis on increased funding for public education and his tax credit for higher education are prime steps to take in addressing our nation’s educational woes. Finally, but perhaps most importantly, we wholeheartedly support Obama’s opposition to the war in Iraq. Obama has consistently taken a stand against the war since its inception, and his commitment to bringing the troops home...
...British-Russian relations have seriously soured since 2006, when the former KGB/FSB officer-turned-dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London with polonium-210, and the Brits demanded extradition of their prime suspect, Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi. Citing the Constitution, the Kremlin turned down London's demands - and promptly elected Lugovoi as a Duma member on the ballot of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's rabble-raising nationalists...
...certainly looked impressive. Presidents, Prime Ministers and foreign secretaries, trailed by their entourages, bustled through the lobby of Madrid's Municipal Convention Center this week. Religious leaders wearing turbans, yarmulkes, head scarves, and the huge ornate crosses of the Ethiopian Patriarch lined the escalators. Media luminaries from NBC's Tom Brokaw to al-Jazeera's Ghida Fahkry-Khane held forth on pressing issues. But an unspoken question hung over the first Alliance of Civilizations Annual Forum: could such a gathering lead to real change...
...Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, proposed the Alliance of Civilizations in 2005 as an alternative to the "clash of civilizations" mind-set, which was first described by political scientist Samuel Huntington and has characterized much post-9/11 thinking about the relationships between Islam and the West. The United Nations agreed to sponsor the program, which it considered, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his remarks to the Forum on Tuesday, "an important way to counter extremism and heal the divisions that threaten our world...