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...special protection because of the global swirl of threats surrounding the publication of cartoons Muslims consider insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. Some 400 antiglobalization protesters burned U.S. and Olympic flags in downtown Torino just a few hours before the opening ceremonies, as Italian security officials voiced concern about more violent disruptions of the Games. Everywhere in the city and around the stadium, soldiers and police were visible and, until the disco music drowned them out, watchdog helicopters whirred overhead. As for the internal controversies of the Olympics, they were on parade even before the opening ceremony. Propecia sounds like...
Given the excesses of the protests--which included retaliatory cartoons mocking the Holocaust--it's not surprising that some in Europe and the U.S. have lashed back. The Bush Administration initially declared the caricatures offensive while denouncing the violence. But as the protests turned violent and critics grumbled about the Administration's failure to stand up for free speech and the U.S.'s suddenly besieged European allies, the Bush team ratcheted up the rhetoric. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, "There is no excuse for violence," and she accused regimes in Iran and Syria of deliberately stirring up anti-Western...
...cartoons--though not for publishing them in the first place--media outlets in France, Germany and Spain ran some of the drawings in a defense of press freedom. Many Muslims say the republications exacerbated their belief that the cartoons' sole purpose was to humiliate them. Meanwhile, the most violent reactions in the Arab world came after a Copenhagen cleric appeared on al-Jazeera in late January and mentioned rumors that Danes planned to burn copies of the Koran in Copenhagen's City Hall Square. No copies were burned. In early February, almost three months after refusing to meet with...
...genteelly tedious Windemeres. Gossip, spying through binoculars, and mistaken identities ensue. It’s a big zany ride through 1930s British society, complete with doddering alcoholic Brits for comic relief. Unfortunately, it all ends up being rather ungainly. This harmless movie won’t provoke any violent reactions, but it is a pitiful tribute to Wilde’s writing. In a desperately blatant attempt to make this film appealing to American viewers, Barker has moved the story out of Wilde’s Victorian drawing rooms and into 1930s Italy. Also, the two lead female roles, Lady...
...latitudes. Poor peasants with few acres of land grow coca because of basic Smithian economics: the market equilibrium price is far higher than other crops like coffee or soy. Washington’s “Apocalypse Now”-like burning of fields might work in areas with violent seditious guerrillas like Colombia’s FARC, but in Bolivia, aerial spraying destroys peoples’ opportunities to feed their families. Burning crops in distant Inca lands only prevents politicians from facing the real problem of demand, whether it is in Amsterdam’s dark alleys...