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...real power until its people are free to choose their own direction, that national pride comes from personal pride in a (freely chosen) job well done. We need to stop treating China like our precocious little brother and, instead, have it play by the West's rules: democracy. Robert Rakoczy, Hamilton, Canada...
...Zimbabwe's Tyrant The people of Zimbabwe are putting up with the impossible. The "army" which is brutalizing those who oppose Robert Mugabe [June 30-July 7] consists of drugged gangs backed by some of the most corrupt party élites, bureaucrats and military officers in the world. The interests of this crony class - not just Mugabe himself - will have to be addressed to achieve any sort of regime change. And once that happens, the culture of corruption and the self-serving cynicism of politicians will have to go. Tjarda Barratt, Elnora, Canada...
...idealism and pragmatism. In Uganda, the ICC chose idealism and issued an arrest warrant for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, who then refused to sign a peace agreement until the warrant was lifted. In Zimbabwe, the court chose pragmatism, responding to queries on whether it plans to pursue President Robert Mugabe by saying it has no authority over the country as Zimbabwe never signed the Rome Statute, which established the ICC. This is disingenuous. Sudan hasn't signed the treaty either, a snag overcome when the U.N. Security Council referred the situation in Darfur to the ICC - something it could...
...usually a knife, sometimes a gun - casually wielded because the victim had looked askance at his killer (most victims are boys) or offered some other insignificant provocation. Last year 27 teenagers were murdered in London, many by other teenagers. This year's toll has already reached 20 and includes Robert Knox, an 18-year-old actor who plays a trainee wizard in the forthcoming Harry Potter movie, and who was reportedly killed defending his brother in a brawl over a stolen mobile phone. On July 1 hundreds of demonstrators marched through Islington, Hackney's neighboring borough, to protest the knifing...
...Even then, there's plenty of anguish and surrender involved. Doctor Stephane Saint-Leger, head of the Children and Women's Ward at the Robert Ballanger Hospital in the ethnically diverse Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois, agrees the social and sexual differences between young Muslim and non-Muslim women in France are shrinking - including a trend of marrying later in life. That trend has generally reduced the likelihood of women of any faith marrying as virgins. But Saint-Leger says the pressure and intimidation evoked by the Muslim women who come to him for help as their traditional weddings...