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...response, Nesson said the RIAA is seeking to sanction him unless he withdraws this request...
...departing Bush officials shouldn't count their poulets before they've hatched. First off, Roquefort sales to the U.S. represent just 2% - or 400 tons - of the total Roguefort market. The 1998 World Trade Organization ruling that permits Washington to retaliate over the beef ban also limits that sanction to less than $116.8 million in annual European imports to the U.S. - not exactly a sum capable of forcing trade policy capitulation. And that original decision was undermined by a WTO revision last October, which accepted previously disputed scientific evidence from the E.U. on the health risks of hormone-treated beef...
...invoked much in secular Senegal until now. Generally, as Imam Amadou Kanté acknowledges, homosexuality is treated much like public drunkenness. It is okay, he says, to be drunk in private, but not in public. But he is clear to note that in private or public, Islam does not sanction homosexuality. So why were nine AIDS activists arrested with only lubricants and condoms—standard HIV-prevention tools—as supposed evidence of private homosexual conduct?The answer is that several authorities are guilty of the same sin as the HRW: disregard for historical and cultural context. Ignorance...
...crime is expected to rise and civilization as we know it to break down. Someone somewhere is stirring the tar and plucking the feathers for Lehman's Richard Fuld and Merrill's Stan O'Neal and of course Bernie Madoff of the $50 billion swindle, because absent any effective sanction, we're all vigilantes...
...Bear" a strategy. Nor is "Let's annoy him a little bit" the epitome of statecraft. The latest example is Georgia. In the wake of the Russian invasion this summer, the European Union froze talks about a new economic partnership. But on Nov. 14, that killer sanction was lifted after just 10 weeks when the E.U. and Russia embraced at a summit in Nice...