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...ethical to field a weaker team for political purposes and insult thousands of supporters who have paid their hard-earned cash to watch what should be a contest between the best players available? That would give the impression that in the "new South Africa" a new bigoted, stubborn political élite has replaced the old one. Stephen J. Lewis, HENFIELD, ENGLAND...
...battle the use and availability of illicit drugs. The fight involves the work of 11 federal agencies, including the State Department, the Justice Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security. But for all the complexities that come with fighting such a stubborn plague as substance abuse, recovering drug users like Olmo say surveys and statistics can't capture the all-consuming despair of addiction. The war on drugs, he says, "is all about the numbers and money." We're at least now trying to do something about the numbers...
...world where children's hands are hacked off with machetes and bombs are detonated in marketplaces, where young women are burned alive as punishment for affairs of the heart, civilization clearly remains a work in progress. Our aspirations are shadowed by the stubborn brutality of the human animal, which, it seems, cannot be tamed and can only be kept...
Neither Jafaari nor Allawi inspires much confidence among Iraqis: both presided over governments that were corrupt and inept, and many of the problems that now beset Iraq can be traced to their missteps. But it is now clear that Maliki has been no improvement. Worse, his stubborn refusal to reach out to Sunnis is undermining the U.S. military's efforts to pacify Iraq and begin a drawdown of American troops. From Gen. Petraeus on down, commanders have repeatedly said the "surge" operation in and around Baghdad can work only if their military gains are accompanied by progress on the political...
These phrases could have been copied straight out of a Western textbook on African development. That's a mark of how much changed in recent months as the Chinese grew increasingly frustrated by Sudan's stubborn refusal to cooperate with the U.N. At a closed conference in Beijing in late July, one Chinese adviser on Africa said pointedly: "The Sudanese government should be more cooperative with the international community and make more efforts to find a solution to the Darfur crisis...