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...only country in which minorities are underprivileged. Europe and the U.S. both face the problem of minorities that are not properly integrated. But in the Chinese case, things seem to be different: for example, the injunction to speak Mandarin at schools and universities in Xinjiang is seen as oppression rather than helping integration. Images of the Chinese police responding to riots with violence are only part of the picture. Matthias Paul, AUGSBURG, GERMANY...
...surprisingly, there are already signs of a mini cultural counterrevolution - not from the youth ranks but rather from an old face of Italian public life. Vittorio Sgarbi - an art-critic provocateur and lifelong political carpetbagger, having held key posts in the Italian Cultural Ministry and Milan city council - is now mayor of the small Sicilian town of Salemi, which is trying to make its mark on the map as a major wine-producing region. "We have to teach young people to drink Italian wine," Sgarbi declared to the AGI news agency last week. "If there's something...
Milan Mayor Letizia Moratti called the new law a "response to an emergency" rather than some newfound whiff of puritanism. "It is a message to young people and their families that alcohol is bad for you and that alcohol abuse and dependence lead to negative consequences," she told reporters. (Read "Should You Drink with Your Kids...
This let's-go-get-loaded spirit might not seem so strange in countries that have long battled excessive youth drinking and alcoholism. But Italy has always prided itself on a balanced - even divine - rapport with the strong stuff. Call it a sipping culture rather than a drinking culture: Italians traditionally serve wine at the family dinner table, with boys and girls often getting their first taste of alcohol around age 12. The national minimum drinking age of 16 is often ignored and rarely enforced. (Read "Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered...
...such sanctions could come as early as September. Gates also made a point of emphasizing expanded U.S. military cooperation with allies in the region, the purpose of which Gates said was "to try and persuade the Iranians that their security will be diminished by trying to acquire nuclear weapons, rather than enhanced...