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...endear himself to Algerians. He's angered many locals and their political leaders with his moves to cut back legal immigration and crack down hard on illegal immigrants. Critics, meanwhile, claim his creation of a Ministry of Immigration and National Identity stigmatizes foreigners as a threat to French identity...
...assessment of the U.S. intelligence community that Iran represents no imminent nuclear-weapons threat will certainly take the wind out of the sails of those arguing for an urgent ratcheting up of pressure - and even military action - in response to the Iran "peril." To convince the American people that it may be necessary to start a new war in the Middle East in order to stop Iran from acquiring a technological capability that could theoretically be used to build weapons - even if there's no sign it is currently trying to do so - would, after all, be a tough sell...
...above their season average in helping Harvard pull off the upset. A tough Wolverines defense limited Harvard to 40.7 percent shooting from the field, but the two sophomores still went 5-for-9 and 4-for-8 from the field, respectively. McGeary was the team’s main threat from downtown, hitting three of seven shots from beyond...
...proposal to nominate Suleiman had arisen more than a week before Annapolis, several days before Syria even announced it would attend the peace conference. The anti-Syrian block had determined it was better to choose a President acceptable to the opposition than risk a prolonged constitutional vacuum and the threat of violence erupting in Lebanon between rival factions. "We're sure that Suleiman is better than the void," says an adviser to Saad Hariri, whose Future Movement is the largest component of March...
...witnessed the way in which progress, in the wrong hands, can become and has indeed become a terrifying progress in evil. If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world...