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...bringing European countries together. His position helped create a Europe in crisis, searching for its identity as the constitution was rejected. So while I am sad to see Blair go, I am sad mostly for what he could have been: a founding father of a secular, democratic and prosperous union of European peoples. It was not to be. Steve Maertens, OSTEND, BELGIUM...
...black Africans. In four years of fighting in this eastern, semi-desert region of Sudan, 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced. Last November, Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir finally agreed to a three-phase U.N. plan to strengthen the overstretched, 7,000-strong African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in Darfur. Then, after five months of stalling, the Sudanese President gave the go-ahead in April for the second phase of the peace plan: a "heavy support package," with 3,000 U.N. troops, police and civilian personnel along with six attack helicopters and other equipment. Last...
...This political melodrama would be amusing if Kazakhstan were not the most prosperous of the Central Asian nations that emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union, a stable secular state in a predominantly Muslim-populated country, and a huge stable source of energy, both oil and natural gas. So much power concentrated in the hands of one man in that country may help ensure some sort of stability, but the lack of political maturity bodes ill for an increasingly critical section of the world...
...University Library is a department of the central administration, each of the University’s 10 faculties funds its own library independent of the center.In the past, Verba has often made a tongue-in-cheek comparison of Harvard’s structure to that of the Soviet Union, noting that it “ought to be equally ungovernable.” He draws an analogy between Soviet republics and Harvard’s different “tubs”, each of differing sizes and resources—the Faculty of Arts and Sciences being like Russia...
...increasing, some caution that Turkey should focus instead on better integrating its Kurdish minority into society. "The military are putting the pressure on the government" says Altan. "But the Kurdish problem is one that needs to be solved by democratic means, not military ones." As part of its European Union accession bid, Turkey passed a number of reforms designed to improve human and cultural rights for its Kurdish population, estimated at 20 million of Turkey's total 71 million. But that process has stalled amidst backlash from some European leaders opposed to Turkey joining the EU under any circumstances...