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...There are plans to make it smaller still. Like most developed nations, New Zealand is preparing to fake-proof its passports with a microchip holding the owner's details. But as one border-security scandal followed another, the government swiftly drafted new passport and citizenship laws. Under the proposed changes, immigrants will have to wait five years instead of three before becoming citizens. Marrying a Kiwi won't bring that day forward; having a baby in New Zealand won't necessarily make it a citizen; and the government will be able to cancel the passports of people deemed security risks...
...look at the Abu Ghraib scandal and don't recognize ourselves. Politicians from George Bush to Hillary Clinton insist that those photos of abuse don't depict their America. The problem, as Jon Stewart quipped, is that the wrong America went to Iraq. But the reality, familiar from many instances where western democracies have sent troops to pacify foreign countries, is that there is almost always an ugly side...
...secretary in the 1990s before taking up his present post in 2003 as the Party's national propaganda chief. Li presided over Henan precisely when the local government was turning a blind eye to peasants contracting HIV by selling their blood, which was collected with tainted equipment. When the scandal was exposed four years ago, Li may have realized that his earlier decision to sign off on a $24 million buddha when many of the province's rural inhabitants were so poor they resorted to selling their own blood might make for bad press. And as the country's propaganda...
...past few days [have been] a tough time to be a anchor,” she said, referring to the Iraq prison abuse scandal...
...time when the latest Gallup poll shows that some 55 percent of Americans now disapprove of the President's handling of the situation in Iraq, the Abu Ghraib scandal puts a cloud over Rumsfeld's career - particularly when administration officials inform the press that he has been reprimanded by the president. The administration may also see a need to reassure America's closest allies, who have given the U.S. the benefit of the doubt in legal gray areas and whose trust has been eroded, that strong action is being taken. But axing the tough-talking executive charged with executing...