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...network that includes Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba, the chief suspect in last November's Mumbai attacks. "That is our No. 1 concern," says M.L. Kumawat, director general of the BSF. "Indigenous insurgent groups in Bangladesh have to be dealt with strongly so as not to allow them to use their soil to commit acts of violence in India." (Fencing on the Pakistan border has already made that area easier to patrol, the BSF says.) Mutual suspicion inhibits the one antiterrorism strategy that could make a real difference: cooperation between India and Bangladesh against their common threat. Intelligence and human...
...fundamental part of Lincoln's moral compass was his opposition to slavery. But it took him a long time to embrace black people. We were raised with a fairy-tale representation that because he hated slavery, he loved the slaves. He didn't. He was a recovering racist. He used to use the N word. He told darky jokes. He resisted abolition as long as he could. But in the end, he was on an upward arc, one that was quite noble...
...People use the words ethnicity and race interchangeably. But race is not a biological concept. It's socially constructed. We are [influenced by] the environment in which we live, but our physical features are inherited from our biology. If we all traced our family trees 50,000 years back, we're all in Ethiopia. There's no question about that...
...right for African Americans to use the N word? Pitufo Geiger BAGUIO CITY, PHILIPPINES...
People refer to President Obama as black, even though he is of mixed race. What language should we use? John Malick, LONDON...