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...their empty space for art exhibitions. She landed her first storefront in June: a former tackle shop was soon home to photographs, paintings and videos on the bad economy and - in homage to the space's former use - fishing. Says Slome: "It's art coming in to fill the vacuum...
...even beyond concerns of electoral strategy, the Democratic Party would do well to change how it approaches the American values debate. Instead of pretending to operate in a moral vacuum, liberals in the United States must offer a vision of American values to contrast that of folks like Tim Pawlenty. President Obama has tried to do this for some time, but many of his supporters—especially young progressives—refuse to follow suit...
...quits on Karzai, the results could be disastrous. "It will be dog-eat-dog here," says Ashraf Ghani, a U.S.-educated presidential contender. In the vacuum created by a U.S. pullout, he argues, the Taliban would retake Kabul while millions of Afghans who embraced Western promises of girls' education, democracy and a place for Afghanistan in the 21st century would flee the country...
...Taliban is surging into the vacuum created by Karzai's government, which is based on patronage rather than competence, coupled with the international community's often bungled and chaotic distribution of aid. One indication of how far the Taliban have come: this summer, Mullah Omar tried to consolidate his grip on his unruly commanders with a 13-page Code of Conduct (among the rules: no senior government officials are to be executed without his say-so, and civilian casualties must be minimized when attacking foreign troops). In large swathes of the southern provinces of Helmand, Kandahar, Zabol, Oruzgan, Paktia...
...Unfortunately, the liberation of Iraq left a vacuum. In this vacuum have come men who call themselves the guardian of man. But they have killed millions. They have done this in the name of religion, although the Koran forbids killing." - During the annual Forum 2000 in Prague where global participants meet to discuss key issues facing civilization...