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...Turkey has no choice but to remain secular,” he said. “But its secularism should respect people’s beliefs...
...twenty-year regime of any sort is a remarkable bout of stability, and in which the Montoneros, a leftist paramilitary group of the 1960s and ‘70s, continue to capture the imagination of the young intelligencia—had taught its youth to value radical action over respect for democracy. But American kids wouldn’t dream of pursuing serious political objectives through violence. After all, I thought, while the Montoneros were out blowing up buildings and laying the groundwork for Latin America’s bloodiest military dictatorship, the “radicals?...
Julie A. Duncan ’09 is in Ecuador for the summer, and she confesses that missing the movie and book release posed “a serious problem” to her summer plans. Apparently, Amazon doesn’t have much respect for Potter-ites overseas...
...Katinka Barysch, deputy director of the London-based Centre for European Reform, says Russia is simply flexing its muscles. "Russia's main objective at the moment is to establish itself as a great power, to gain the respect of its international peers," she says. The country's new confidence is founded on its oil and gas reserves, which it has used for political leverage. "There's been a lot of pressure on governments to go soft on Russia because it's seen as an important new economic player," says Denis MacShane, Britain's Europe Minister from 2002-05. And Western...
Then again, anonymity can protect the innocent as well as the guilty. As privacy advocates will be ecstatically eager to remind you, Common Sense and The Federalist were both first published anonymously. In countries where governments don't respect free speech, anonymity is a priceless resource. Right now the Chinese city of Xiamen is trying to ban anonymous Web postings after citizens used the Internet to organize a protest against a new chemical plant...