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...THINK AMERICA'S ROLE AS THE SOLE SUPERPOWER IS A PROBLEM? Any community with only one dominant power is always a dangerous one and provokes reactions. That's why I favor a multipolar world, in which Europe obviously has its place. Anyway, the world will not be unipolar. Over the next 50 years, China will become a global power, and the world won't be the same. So it's time to start organizing. Transatlantic solidarity will remain the basis of the world order, in which Europe has its role to play...
...Dari says the "harsh actions" - suicide bombings and attacks on civilian targets - of al-Qaeda's foreign fighters in Iraq are "unacceptable." He also accuses the group of trying to take over sole command of the fight against the Americans, pushing aside home-grown insurgent groups. But there may also be a personal reason for al-Dari's change of heart: his nephew, also known as Harith and a top commander of the Brigades, was murdered by al-Qaeda in March...
...coffeehouse and guesthouse. Though women still apply in the hundreds, this class has only 10. "There's no funding," she says. "You can get $1 million for a road easier than $10,000 for training. But this is one of the few industries where women can work, be sole owners of a business and control the money themselves...
...refers to the 1997 Human Rights Commission report that recorded the removal of thousands of indigenous children from their families, and to Australian Prime Minister John Howard's refusal to apologize for the actions of previous governments. In a novel of such resonance and restraint, this epilogue strikes the sole forced note. For Australian readers, at least, the title carries enough emotional weight to speak volumes, and Jones is too subtle and cerebral a writer to suggest a polemical reading of her text. Instead, Sorry is most eloquent expressing a more singular kind of sorrow, while suggesting why the simplest...
...Winning would have been nice, but we wanted to sail conservatively, taking few risks, and be consistent at the top of the fleet.” Both boats did just that, finishing in the top three of their respective divisions. In A, Johnson and senior crew Kristen Lynch assumed sole responsibility of the Crimson’s boat, leading Harvard to a third-place finish with 93 points, behind Brown and Boston College. In B-division, Kovacs was skipper while junior Elyse Dolbec and sophomore shared crew duties. The Crimson finished as the runner-up behind Boston College with...