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...pretty unconvincing, to put it bluntly, much more so in the face of overwhelming agreement amongst the country’s civil war academics and a handfull of its perceptive foreign correspondents. Even so, the majority of news organizations, as catalogued by Think Progress, continue to toe the line and opt for cutesy alliterative terms like “snowballing sectarian violence,” courtesy of Fox News, or “sectarian slaughter,” of the San Francisco Chronicle...
...Even the gestures seem to be giving the wrong message, as when Abe last week allowed his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to reinstate 11 of 12 members banished last year after voting against former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal-reform program. Though they pledged to toe the party line, their readmission sent a signal that the LDP's commitment to reform may be halfhearted. "It will hurt us badly," says Taro Kono, assistant chairman of the LDP's policy-research council. "Abe is seen as a weak leader." At least Bono likes...
...home, with a yard for the kids, gives Lakemba a transient disposition, says Conlon. Yet, as in many parts of Sydney's western suburbs, what was a dull main street a decade ago has become lively. On any day along Haldon Street, you'll see women covered head-to-toe pushing prams, restaurants that are busy around the clock and clothing stores bursting at the seams...
...Montblanc," says Ralph Grippo, China manager for the Ritz-Carlton hotels. "But there's no way you can knock off luxury service. It's about human beings and experience. That's not something you can duplicate." Ford agrees. "There's no Chinese company right now that can go toe-to-toe with Marriott," he says, or other big chains such as Hyatt, Hilton and Westin. "They just don't have the brand name or international drawing power...
...benefits from the conflict." Says a U.N. official: "There's no public debate about how to find a solution. There is no civil society. The politicians monopolize the debate and exploit it for their own ends. They are incredibly well-organized and ruthless, and the business community has to toe the line." Three years ago, before the referendums, there was room for optimism. The green line was opened to traffic, but in the political vacuum that has existed since 2004, the main beneficiaries of free movement seem to be criminals. "The bicommunal activity to have benefited most from...