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Militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr aired his sternest threat yet to the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, vowing "open war" unless the U.S.-backed military assault on his followers ends...
...forthcoming. In Saudi Arabia - where he drives past the "bin Laden Aviation Company" - Spurlock visits a school and is allowed to question two 18-year-old boys. What does he get? Terse answers, then "No answer." And before long, from their hovering teachers, "Interview over." His only threat of physical violence comes in Israel, from the Orthodox Jews who see his camera and shout, "Get the hell out of here!" (You get the full versions of these confrontations in the new Random House book Spurlock has written about his trip...
...Olympics Terrorist Threat? The problem, according to Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch, is that the twin forces of repressive policies and rising Han immigration can create a fear in minority populations "that can lead people to do almost anything." It is precisely that kind of fear and bitterness that led to the ugly racial violence in Lhasa by Tibetans against Han Chinese that left more than a dozen Chinese immigrants dead and scores wounded...
...favorites for diplomatic success are also in trouble. At talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed open to a deal on missile defense, but the White House couldn't convince him that its proposed Europe-based system would not pose a threat to Russia. At home, Democrats emboldened by Bush's weak numbers and their own rising electoral prospects in November are loath to hand him a win, even on trade deals with allies like South Korea and Panama...
...Aaron J. Mowery ’08, board member of the Harvard Culinary Society, doesn’t see Savory as a threat. “Ultimately, more conversation about food is a good thing,” he says. “But it probably would have been a good thing for them to get more involved with Taste rather than start a new conversation that says the same thing...