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...villages, Hindu "self-defense" groups are ransacking Muslims' shops and burning their homes. Vigilante patrols from each side keep watch over their respective communities. Among Hindus, talk of finishing the job left undone from the genocide of partition, in which up to a million people died in the bloody split of the subcontinent, is open and common. In the past month, more than 100,000 Muslims have fled their homes; business losses are estimated at $600 million...
Before the attacks, Nolan estimates, his consulting business was split equally between training companies to collect information on competitors and preventing rivals from collecting information on them. Today, he estimates, for every company that wants help digging up proprietary information, seven come to him for assistance in protecting their data. And, notes Nolan, there's a new kind of adversary: terrorists who want to use Western technology against the West. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies in particular should raise their level of awareness, says Jan Herring. "There's a very strong business objective [in] staying on top of these terrorism threats...
...many Europeans that "British society still hasn't overcome the class struggle from the 19th century." He argues, too, that the whole hunting debate in Britain is linked to the "increasing polarization between an intolerant, even aggressive urban society and a traditional rural society less skilled in 'communication,'" a split that countries like Spain, Ireland, France and the Nordic nations have escaped because of much closer links between countryside and town...
Although he was a member of the Commonwealth troika that recommended censuring Mugabe, Mbeki and his ruling African National Congress accepted Zimbabwe's election results as legitimate. Mbeki's ambivalence amounts to a compromise that probably averted a split between African and non-African members of the Commonwealth...
Last summer, during the council’s previous term, the same measure to give 17-year-olds the vote was rejected by a close 5-4 split. But with the election last fall of councillors E. Denise Simmons and Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87—both councillors supported by members of the Campaign for a Democratic Future—the measure gained two of its staunchest supporters...