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...Taiwan, but they were barred by WHO headquarters in Geneva from contact with Taiwanese government officials. "They are not even allowed to talk to our officials from the Department of Health," complains Yu. "They are here to observe and compile information which, so far, they have only used to slap a travel warning...
...tried to hijack a ferry to Miami. Many human rights experts fear Castro may now have succeeded in neutralizing Payá. The U.N., which in a stunning display of bad timing re-elected Cuba to its human rights commission last week, has given Castro little more than a slap on the wrist - as have his Latin American neighbors. But Europe's legions of Castro admirers, from politicians to artists, are increasingly siding with Payá, a phenomenon that could dampen European enthusiasm for travel to Cuba, which is often driven by the island's chic revolutionary cachet. Portugal's Nobel...
...MacLeod: Some politicians in Washington may be inclined to cast this decision as a slap in the face to the Saudis, but I see no sign that at the highest level of the U.S. government that Saudi Arabia is being abandoned as a strategic ally. The fundamentals of that relationship - which long predated the deployment of U.S. troops there and are based on Saudi Arabia's oil production, its geographic location and its longstanding friendship with the U.S. - remain unchanged. Even in the best-case scenario in Iraq, it take a very long time before the government and people...
...park and pray in a mosque that had been padlocked for years. But maybe liberation feels real only when it includes the chance to be bad. Vandalism and violence were not just freedom's product; they were its proof. You know it is a new world when you can slap your shoes on the tyrant's face, spit on it and slash it, when you can break a window and steal a chair, wheel a refrigerator away on roller skates, drive down the wrong side of the street--all conduct unthinkable just 24 hours before or at any time during...
Having been a slap hitter for twelve years, Goldberg had to start with the basics of being a power hitter, which required a change in mentality as well as technique...