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...counterpart, on the issue of which of the two parties would better handle the economy. As they have felt increasing pains at the pump this summer, voters have shown more willingness to allow drilling off U.S. shores, open up Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and expand drilling in Western lands - all things the Dems have opposed. "There is nothing that the Republicans are proposing that will have an impact on the price at the pump," Pelosi told reporters before adjourning Congress last week. "Yeah, 10 years from now, two cents; but what we are saying is, Free...
Solzhenitsyn was an icon of freedom to the Western world, but he did not return the esteem it heaped on him. As a man of enormous Christian faith, he regarded the West as spiritually deteriorated, and he sometimes baffled supporters and critics alike with his reactionary criticisms of Western democracy. In a searing speech to Harvard's graduating class of 1978, he observed that "a decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today...
...Vladimir Putin visited him personally to present him with a state medal. But he was never quite in step with the new Russia. To Solzhenitsyn, Russia meant the old Russia of the 19th century, a nostalgic, spiritual Russia of the soul. To Russians, Russia was something else - an increasingly Western and forward-looking and materialistic nation...
...western Chinese province of Xinjiang is a tense place at the best of times. Around half of the population are Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority that has long chafed under highly repressive Chinese rule, and it shares long borders with both Afghanistan and Pakistan, home to jihadist movements such as the Taliban and al-Qaeda. In the build-up to the Beijing Olympic opening day of August 8th, normally tight security in the region has been ratcheted up even more; in recent months, senior Chinese officials have boasted of capturing and jailing scores of would-be separatists...
...India A New Source of Terror At least 16 coordinated blasts rocked the western city of Ahmadabad on July 26, killing 45 people. Whereas previous attacks had been widely attributed to foreign militants, the Indian Mujahedin claimed responsibility for the bombings--raising the specter of domestic terrorism and highlighting mounting unrest among India's Muslim minority...