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...recent times conditions have been slowly changing to a more normal type of government, it is a social and relatively peaceful evolution in Islamic society that is making it happen. But the Bush Administration's imperious insistence on quick change is revolutionary?and history is replete with examples of sovereign nations that would rather perish for the wrong reason than have outsiders force change upon them. That Bush is crusading as a missionary of democracy is a crime against the rest of us who are now the victims of Muslim outrage. Muslims everywhere consider themselves under siege. There...
...small parts of the country; elections will go ahead as scheduled; Iraq is free and well on the road to democracy. You don't have to take my word for it, President Bush appeared to be saying. You can hear it from "the prime minister of a free and sovereign Iraq...
...Indian director Satyajit Ray was written by another foreigner, Andrew Robinson. At a time when more and more Indians are writing fiction that gets read in America and England, a disproportionate amount of the informative and scholarly work on India still gets outsourced to Americans and Britons. The sovereign obsession of middle-class India, it would seem, is to be entertained, not to be informed. And that is why Amitav Ghosh might well be the most important Indian novelist writing in English today...
Birth of a Nation imagines what might happen if the mostly African-American residents of East St. Louis, Ill., fed up with an electoral process that isn't working for them, seceded from the union and declared their city a sovereign state. Fred Fredericks, the mayor turned President of the newly named Blackland, must balance the country's utopian initiatives (adopting hitherto suppressed alternative-fuel technologies) with the difficulties of life in a rogue nation (where federal checks no longer come in). The satire is omnivorous, poking fun at the Bush Administration and Louis Farrakhan...
...endless talk about how the PA was offered 94, 95, 99 or even 100 percent of the 1967 lands—it all depends on how far the person describing the deal is willing to stretch it. Still, almost no Palestinian believes that Arafat was offered a viable and sovereign state. Palestinians’ problem with the PA, however, stems from corruption that has entrenched its institutions. Decentralization, transparency and reform were all popular Palestinian demands before they became U.S. and Israeli negotiating conditions. Arafat’s mediocre performance in these areas has severely damaged his image amongst Palestinians...