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...surprising. Justice, after all, is an older concept than democracy; societies which had no conception of democracy as we know it nonetheless had sophisticated systems of justice. But it is important to distinguish two ways in which justice is relevant to claims of American leadership. First, there is a search for equity between the competing claims of individuals - the sort that might be made by a Palestinian farmer, for example, who has seen water from the local aquifer appropriated by an Israeli settlement. We ignore such claims, and the sullen outrage that accompanies them, at our peril. But there...
...been killed. Six of the recovered bodies had been beheaded. While the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the deaths of 27 passengers, contending that they were Afghan soldiers, police chief Matiullah Khan Qaneh maintained that the Taliban had killed some 40 civilians who were en route to Iran in search of work. On Oct. 20, aid worker Gayle Williams, who had British and South African citizenship, was shot dead in Kabul by two gunmen on a motorbike as she walked to work, another attack for which the Taliban claimed responsibility...
...luxury is taking a fall, and sales of all types of merchandise are soft. "There's no need for panic," Boyner says, "but this is the point where you need to be very conservative." In her family's case, that means a freeze on all new investments, and a search for ways to cut operating costs. In one of the Boyners' biggest stores in Istanbul, which stretches over six floors, the manager has even shut off the escalators to save money...
...Seven comedians donated their time, the ERC took in $10,000, and Sanders was jam-packed with undergrads in search of a giggle...
...state government quickly dispatched two dozen wildlife rangers to collect any aggressive crocodiles in the area and search for Booker's remains. Within days, traps anchored to the banks of the river snared three potential man-eaters. But instead of executing and disemboweling the reptiles, the rangers gently loaded them into trailers and transported them to Cairns, 160 miles to the south, where they were X-rayed. Two were also given an endoscopy, with a tiny camera passed into their stomach to probe for Booker's remains...