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...That’s pretty unconvincing, to put it bluntly, much more so in the face of overwhelming agreement amongst the country’s civil war academics and a handfull of its perceptive foreign correspondents. Even so, the majority of news organizations, as catalogued by Think Progress, continue to toe the line and opt for cutesy alliterative terms like “snowballing sectarian violence,” courtesy of Fox News, or “sectarian slaughter,” of the San Francisco Chronicle...
...harbor during a 3 a.m. training exercise Nov. 30, he told a press conference that he was "boss" of Fiji. A meeting between him and Qarase in Wellington last week-hastily arranged by the New Zealand government-failed to soften Bainimarama's stance. Qarase emerged from the talks saying progress had been made; Bainimarama immediately denied it. On Sunday, speaking in Fijian on Fiji One television, he said there were "5,001 ways we can make him resign," and, referring to the prison island where several coup perpetrators are serving long sentences, said, "Nukulau is a beautiful place where...
...dare I say, the white power elite, probably made those decisions. What is infuriating about this process is commentators’ tendency to generalize. First, there are many different subcultures that tend to be lumped under the Asian category. This tends to overlook the individual groups’ true progress in either education or the workplace. Second, idea of race, already a highly controversial issue, is further complicated by the acculturation and assimilation processes, not to mention the learning curve, experienced and endured by immigrant Asian groups. (However, this can be applied to immigrant groups in general). The, on average...
...don’t think anyone can realistically promise success on every issue. But I do think we can make progress on every single point in our platform,” Petersen says...
...Roman customs. But it is evidence of a more open intellectual climate under Benedict. And so with Ratzinger, who was perhaps the best-known modern Cardinal to become Pope, there is another bit of well-worn Roman wisdom to ponder: every papacy - like creation itself - is a work in progress...