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...very critical of the current Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo. Why? In his second term, he proved not to have lost his militaristic, antipeople attitudes, so we had to take him on. [an error occurred while processing this directive]Especially when he began to run for an unconstitutional third term, which would have debased the democratic process. His [government] was proving more and more to be one of thuggery backed by state enforcers. So he became an enemy of democracy, it's as simple as that. Violence is increasing in the oil-rich Niger Delta. How would you fix the problem...
...part of the building, and a living "vertical garden" of plants sprouts from another. The museum is surrounded by a forested parkland and pools of water, further blurring the lines between the West and elsewhere; between the observed and the observing; between Paris and the world. The new museum gives Paris its third major Nouvel project. Farther up the river is the Institut du Monde Arabe, and farther south is the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art. Spain, too, has been a Nouvel wonderland of late, with the opening last year of both his shimmering Agbar Tower in Barcelona...
...Mining and enrichment. Australia has abundant uranium-one-third of the world's known reserves-but Labor policy limits the number of mines to three. Some Labor M.P.s. are urging change. Said Shadow Revenue Minister Joel Fitzgibbon: "It makes no sense to sit on those reserves and deny ourselves valuable income." Rising prices for uranium exploration stocks suggest that the market believes restrictions will end. But uranium can't be used for power generation until it's enriched. Australia has no enrichment facility. Even some opponents of nuclear power say it should build one, since enrichment could add millions...
...third appearance at a European-hosted World Cup tournament, this much we can say: U.S. fans now have this fussball stuff down. "We struggled through the hard years. Now we belong," said attorney Dave Cattie, 31, as he wrestled in line for the right to buy a Bud for three and a half Euros. Budweiser in Germany? Oh, that. The Germans were outraged that an American brewer had the beer concession, but Anheuser Busch knows how to play global marketing as well as anyone: money talks, especially at FIFA, the world soccer body. Nevertheless, AB had to allow a local...
Sonora Smart Dodd was listening to a sermon on self-sacrifice when she decided that her father, a widower who had raised six children, deserved his very own national holiday. Almost a century later, people all over the world spend the third Sunday in June honoring their fathers with ritual offerings of aftershave and neckties, which leads millions of fathers to have precisely the same thought at precisely the same moment: "My children," they think in unison, "make me happy...