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...grief," says Jerry Moberg, an attorney in Ephrada, WA who served as the lawyer for the Moses Lake School District after it experienced a high school massacre in 1996. "I know the press doesn't like it, but they have to respect the fact that they're covering a sovereign nation. I don't see anything wrong with what the tribe is doing...
...Taiwan in recent years have pushed Asian bosses to accept more outside influence by giving shareholders more rights and dismantling restrictions on foreign investment. Change will not come overnight. At the annual shareholders meeting of oil company SK Corp. in Seoul on March 11, some shareholders, led by Sovereign Asset Management, failed to oust chairman Chey Tae Won from the board, even though he was convicted in 2003 of accounting and securities fraud. Sovereign CEO James Fitter called the decision "a missed opportunity for shareholders to place the most competent and ethical leadership" at SK. That opportunity is likely...
They voiced their support for an “independent, democratic and sovereign Lebanon, free of outside interference and intimidation,” according to a statement posted on the U.S. State Department website...
...problem. If political leaders were sitting down to discuss potential hot spots in Asia, it would be hard to avoid concluding that the Taiwan Strait was one of them. On one side of the waterway is Taiwan, whose democratically elected leader speaks of it as a sovereign state. On the other side is China, which regards Taiwan as no more than a renegade province, and has vowed to prevent, by force if need be, any formal declaration of independence by Taipei. Oh, and another thing: the U.S. is committed to defending Taiwan if it is attacked without provocation...
...plausible to think of happiness not as a state of mind or a state of the pocketbook, but as an actual sovereign state? Many surveys lead us down that path. In study after study on national happiness levels, my country, the Philippines, gets unlikely top scores. The World Values Survey published by the University of Michigan last November ranked 82 countries and territories according to feelings of "subjective well-being"?which combined its happiness and "life-satisfaction" scores?and the Philippines had one of the highest ratings in Asia, above far richer locations such as Taiwan, Japan and South Korea...