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...that has proved difficult to suppress. According to the World Wildlife Fund, many sturgeon species are now being pushed to the brink of extinction. Although the British government recently introduced tough new labeling requirements for all caviar sold in the U.K., so far caviar smuggling has passed with little sanction. EU countries imported 591 tonnes of caviar in 2006, but seizures of illegal caviar between 2000 and 2005 totaled just 12 tonnes...
Werker said that he has received mixed reactions from his colleagues, and a primary criticism seems to be that this plan would simply give official sanction to businesses’ intervention in government...
Some of this receptivity may reflect biblical viability. On immigration (as opposed to, say, gay marriage) it is liberals who get to cite specific verses to sanction their cause, while anti-immigration conservatives must fall back on a "sense" of Scripture. "In the Old Testament, God speaks of being the God of the aliens about 103 times. That's a lot," says Paul Lim, a Vanderbilt University Divinity School professor writing a book on the theology of immigration. The New Testament, he notes, features not just Jesus' famous criterion for the saved--"I was a stranger, and you welcomed...
...minds, Brown will need to legislate for effective antiterrorism measures that are compatible with the protection of civil liberties and human rights. Striking the appropriate balance between these conflicting considerations is difficult. Tony Blair tipped the balance too far in one direction when, for example, he sought to sanction the discriminatory detention of non-nationals who were suspected terrorists...
...Here we have a provincial leadership," said Owens. "We have a provincial government that's functional. You don't want to have tribes fighting without the sanction of the government." Owens estimates that there are over 12,000 Iraqi police foot soldiers at work against insurgents in Salahuddin, which is home to the volatile city of Samarra. U.S. forces have encouraged tribal leaders to enlist their followers in existing security force. Short of that, tribes should stay out of the fight, as far as Owens is concerned...