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...article on "Reverse Radicalism," in which you interviewed repentant terrorist Nasir Abas [March 24]. Muslims should listen to him when he says the Koran forbids killing civilians. He could have gone further and stated that Osama bin Laden and others who advocate terrorism are bad Muslims. Titus Steenhuisen, Upper Moutere, New Zealand...
...scenes in the hospital and morgue were particularly ghoulish, with patients covered with synthetic wounds and bloody bandages wailing and moaning on dirty mattresses strewn about the floor. Even the British stiff upper lip seemed to quiver a bit as members of the response team tried to mediate in Spanish between injured countryman pleading for help and the local Dr. Giggles who wanted to take...
...Democratic budget plan will not pass the Republican-controlled Senate, of course. But the President will have trouble prevailing there too. On defense spending, Republican leaders in the upper chamber are closer to the Democrats in the House than their leader in the White House. They have publicly urged that the growth in the Pentagon budget be cut to about 5%. The more pragmatic members of the President's staff, led by James Baker, are hoping for a compromise at about 7%. For them to persuade the President to come down to that level may be as difficult as getting...
...freshman year, Kwong started on the road to success when he received funding for language study at a Harvard Summer School Program in Korea. Kwong walked away with $3,000—a sum which he calls “average” in a program with an upper limit of around $5,000. After years of raking in the Benjamins, Kwong has a system to navigate the often arduous process of grant applications: “The secret is to apply to the ones that are unpopular,” he says. Because all Harvard Summer School Programs have...
...gridlock stems from elections last summer in which members of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)-the country's main opposition party-won a surprise majority of seats in the Diet's upper house. The results were a sea-change for Japanese politics. For five decades, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) had complete control of the Diet and Japan's administration. But while some hailed the DPJ triumph as a much-needed step toward a true two-party democracy in Japan, in reality the power shift has been anything but cathartic. Since he took over as Prime Minister on September...