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...events that led up to regime change in Central and Eastern Europe, we Hungarians are very proud of our contribution. We have just celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic: the opening of the border with Austria that allowed hundreds of East Germans to cross to the West. But this was preceded by many other events, such as the demonstrations by tens of thousands of people in Heroes' Square in Budapest in the summer of 1988 against Ceausescu's bulldozing of ethnic Hungarian villages in Romania, at a time when gatherings by just a handful of people were...
...Arabia for counter-terrorism policies that, the group says, rely heavily on secret arrests, torture and unfair trials--under which some 3,000 suspects remain detained. Amnesty representative Malcolm Smart said the abuses have been allowed to take place behind a "wall of secrecy" in part because of the West's dependence on Saudi...
...other night, as I drove down one of New York's more conventional and lovable Main Streets - Bleecker, west of Sixth - looking at the glowing shopfronts and bustling restaurants and strolling pedestrians, I had a sudden elegiac impulse to register the scene and its details. Because, I thought, once a Depression descended, these same blocks would look and feel very different; in 2010 or 2011, I might think back to this particular evening - autumn! twilight! - and remember how sweet and jolly the city had felt and looked not so long...
...inanimate and animate and in which followers believe that all things, including objects, can possess living spirits. "Robots have a long and friendly history in Japan, and humanoid robots are considered to be living things and even desirable members of families," says Robertson. While popular culture in the west often casts robots as forces of evil that pose a threat to world peace - or worse, job security - Japan "tends to see robots as a force for good," says Damien Thong, a technology analyst with Macquarie Securities in Tokyo. (See the silver screen's most memorable robots...
Shine talks too quickly, as if he's the only person in West Africa who is in a hurry. He wants to be famous - but he also wants more. He wants to see Sierra Leone move toward peace and development. Fisher believes the path to reconciliation is for young men like Shine to lay down their weapons and pick up microphones. "Even [during the war] the rebels put down their guns when the music came on," he says. "The military and the rebels danced together, and when they're dancing, they don't have to fight...