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...European Union (EU) likewise remained quiet until masked men carrying grenade launchers and assault rifles, burning Norwegian and Danish flags, threatened the Brussels office on January 30th. Only then did the EU speak out; EU Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik expressed the EU’s “solidarity with our northern colleagues and the freedom of expression…and the freedom of religious beliefs” and said that it “strongly rejects” Muslim threats...
...Bhutan, by contrast, had no television then, no daily newspapers, only medieval buildings. Its capital, Thimphu, basked in a stainless quiet in which everyone wore traditional, medieval clothing (as they still do), and fewer tourists arrived in a year than pile into Disneyland in an hour. The young King Jigme Singye Wangchuk was pursuing a policy of "Gross National Happiness" which said that peace was as important as plenty, and immaterial needs were at least as important as material. There is a point of diminishing returns in development, he was suggesting (in terms that more and more people now heed...
Picture this:A bunch of renegade Penn fans storm the quiet town of Princeton, N.J. on a mission. They round up all the members of the 2005-2006 Tigers basketball team and lock them in a little room somewhere in the cavernous expanses of Jadwin Gym. Then, the Quaker faithful hire all of the members of the 2002-2003 Columbia team—the one that went 2-25 overall and 0-14 in the Ivies—to pose as Princeton players for the duration of the season.At the first practice in the fall, Princeton coach Joe Scott doesn?...
...first listen, the styles of the two groups struggle for supremacy and find little middle ground. ‘Cravo É Canela,’ a Milton Nascimento tune sung, bravely, in Portuguese by Oldham, finds him squarely on Tortoise’s turf, sounding nothing like the quiet musings or heart-rent ramblings one finds on “Ease Down the Road.” The very next song, a dirge-like take on Springsteen’s anthemic ‘Thunder Road,’ is sung with a more familiar half-smiling sorrow...
...elected president to have completed his term of office is Ren? Garcia Pr?val, today's presidential frontrunner-initial results tabulated in and around the capital give him a 60% lead. For the last five years, the 63-year old agronomist has been astutely observing the political scene from the quiet of his rural hometown, Marmelade. His decision to run under a new political party signaled his independence from Aristide's Lavalas Family party and marked his autonomy from the man many had deemed his political twin. At the same time, Pr?val has profited from the support of Aristide partisans, many...