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...times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America - they have served the United States of America...
...former president may have tried humor with the unimpressed Scottish judge, but the charges against him are as serious as they get: genocide, persecution and extermination for being what prosecutors call the "mastermind" behind a large-scale ethnic cleansing campaign to expel non-Serbs from huge parts of Bosnia during the war in the early 1990s. He is charged with setting up notoriously brutal detention camps like Omarska, the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, when some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were executed over the course of five days. As Supreme Commander, say prosecutors...
...hard to come by, but government officials have acknowledged that scores of so-called "mass incidents" - protests - occur every day. These often violent eruptions of frustration were bottled up by the authorities as the Olympics loomed. Some are now worried they are primed to boil over. "There are serious issues that have been accumulating, including ethnic problems in Tibet and Xinjiang as well as social issues and conflicts, that have been temporarily covered up by force to guarantee a successful Olympics," says Peking University law professor and reform advocate He Weifang. "I cannot predict whether there will be an immediate...
...keeps 15% and gives the rest to the two absentee building owners. The women charge their clients a going rate of about $75 for sex; the rooms rent for up to $225 for the shift between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m., when the tourist groups have left and the serious customers arrive. Says Gharbi, "I rent rooms just like Mr. Hilton...
...Eurostat study's most serious implications are for an aging population and the ability of European societies to pay for pensions for their elderly after they stop working. Today, there are three working-age Europeans for every one over 65. By 2060, that number will have fallen to one in two. "This is a big problem and countermeasures must be taken," Steffen Kroehnert, a demographic expert at the Berlin Institute for Population and Development says. His institute published similar projections earlier this month...