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...Founded in the late 1980s by Filipino Muslims who fought with al-Qaeda during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Abu Sayyaf (Arabic for "Father of the Sword") aims to create an Islamic state in the southern islands of the mostly Catholic Philippines. Its bombings, kidnappings and assassinations have killed some 300 people and wounded hundreds more. Abu Sayyaf first caught the world's attention in 2000, when it used speedboats to snatch 21 tourists from a Malaysian beach resort within reach of Jolo. The following year it seized 20 more people from a resort on Palawan, in the southwest Philippines...
...Nesim, who is planning to apply for naturalization at the beginning of 2009, direct democracy is a double-edged sword. He worries that the new law might open the floodgates to subjective and harsh judgments. "What if someone doesn't like the fact that I am a Muslim?" he asks. "He or she will vote against me based on their personal bias...
...fact that this openness can be a two-edged sword was underlined during a press conference held Tuesday by the State Council, the country's highest administrative body. Wang Zhenyao, a senior official at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was asked by a reporter from the government's English-language newspaper, the China Daily, why so many schools had collapsed when government buildings in the same towns had not. According to state media, at least six schools were destroyed by the quake and its aftershocks; at one school, almost 900 eighth and ninth graders were believed to have been buried...
...announce it." Jimenez's family is one of dozens who have spoken to an attorney about challenging the new law on the grounds that it violates the state vehicle code, which says that sales from mobile caterers can only be regulated for public safety. "The county has created a Sword of Damocles," says Jimenez' attorney, Philip Greenwald. "They're trying to frighten [the taco truck drivers] out of business...
...gotten increasingly heated, Obama rarely attacks first. He took more than a week, for example, to hit Clinton after her chief strategist Mark Penn resigned following revelations that he had helped the Colombia government lobby for passage of a free trade deal Clinton opposed. "It's a double-edged sword for him. He's supposed to be new and different, and when he runs negative ads people say what's new and different about this?" said Congressman Jason Altmire, an undecided superdelegate from western Pennsylvania whose district went 66% for Clinton...