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...weeks ago, Moscow has cut off energy and fuel supplies to Abkhazia and has sealed the border with the rebel-held region. Still, Georgian officials fear that their country faces complete collapse unless the Kremlin sends Russian troops to help recapture the Black Sea region and quash the spreading rebellion in the Transcaucasian state...
...came right out and called a pile of it a pile of it. In the previous year or two, Germany and Britain had seized portions of China, the British had also pursued their increasingly nasty war against the Boers in South Africa, and the U.S. had been suppressing that rebellion in the Philippines. In response, Twain published in the New York Herald a brief, bitter "Salutation-Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth...
...canon with the diocese of South Carolina and in many ways Naughton's conservative counterpart, continues to hope that GAFcon may be the start of "a new thing." But Harmon agrees that GAFcon will not have the impact some had hoped for, and that barring a surprise conservative rebellion at the Lambeth conference, the big blow-up around homosexuality many had expected this summer will be deferred. Anglicans, says Harmon ruefully, are incrementalists, and "that has continued through this season...
...child policy are repellent from a First-World perspective, but emotions and poorly thought-through conclusions make little contribution to informed debate. Kurlantzick implicitly contradicts himself, foreseeing "a [future] severe labor shortage" while reminding us that in the past, "unequal sex ratios, which left men idle, contributed to armed rebellion." The government's decision to relax the one-child rule for those who lost children in the recent earthquake is sensible and just, however, and suggests that China's rulers are gradually becoming more sensitive to human-rights issues. John Farquhar, Brisbane...
...billed as a crunch vote, one that the government couldn't afford to lose without fatally undermining the already rickety authority of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Labour Party loyalists, keen to prevent a rebellion, pumped out that urgent message to persuade all their colleagues in Parliament to back an extension of the period terror suspects can be held without charge from 28 days to 42. The government scraped through with a victory so narrow that the larger questions over Brown's leadership have hardly been put to rest...