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...term balance" to the Netherlands' second city. The center-right Dutch government, while keen to decrease immigration, has signaled its opposition to Rotterdam's approach. And with good reason: local initiatives, and even national ones, frequently lead to a mere displacement of the problem. Just ask the Swedes. The tougher approach taken by the Danish government elected in November 2001, including a 50% cut in financial aid to newcomers, has reduced the number of people seeking asylum there from 12,500 in 2001 to less than a third of that this year. Largely as a result, asylum applications in Sweden...
...even intensify their activities in the hope of showing that Saddam?s capture has not weakened them. But now that he?s a prisoner rather than a corpse, they too will face a challenge of defining their relationship to him. A ?Free Saddam? movement would certainly be a tougher sell among ordinary Iraqis than a ?Yankee Go Home...
...Crimson used to be regarded as the tougher game of the two. Now it’s tough to call. The Bears are the 12th-ranked team in the country and have the nation’s best power play and its second-best penalty kill. Goalie Yann Danis is a bona fide Hobey Baker candidate...
...same time, al-Qaeda has every interest in showing it's still in business. Measures taken since Sept. 11, 2001, in the U.S. and Europe have made it tougher for bin Laden's men to strike inside the enemy's borders. But the enemy has plenty of attractive soft targets scattered throughout the Muslim world where affiliated franchises are available and able to take on the job. Al-Qaeda has evidently found a powerful rallying point for jihad in the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Since the invasion, the number and frequency of attacks have risen dramatically. It serves al-Qaeda...
...currency was to wallpaper his room. A new law, drafted with the assistance of E.U. and U.S. officials, would establish tough sentences not just for printing but for preparing to forge currency as well, but it is unlikely to win backing by the Bulgarian parliament until next year. Tougher legislation in Bulgaria and elsewhere will make a difference, police say. But to fight the common enemy, investigators across Europe will have to work more closely with each other and with Europe's new neighbors to the East in years ahead. If they don't, the world's biggest currency could...