Word: westernness
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...Friday about why Obama scheduled then cancelled a visit to a military hospital in Germany. But most things broke his way: Iraqi leader Nouri al-Maliki all but mimicked his timetable for redeployment of troops; French President Sarkozy all but endorsed him; even the prayer he left in the Western Wall had leaked before week's end. For all that, though, it will be some time before we know whether independent voters who are not yet sold on Obama, will come to see this campaign swing as a reassuring part of the puzzle...
...offers internships to the sons of tribal sheiks, hoping to create a more peaceful mind-set in these future leaders. To bolster the point, the organization's office is decked with bloody photos of gun victims. Using funding from Yemen's banking and telecom sectors, and grants from Western governments as well as its own, the Dar al-Salaam sends theater groups and poets to enlighten tribes and schools. It also runs awareness campaigns, emblazoning water bottles and street signs with an anti-gun logo - a Kalashnikov with a red slash drawn through...
...Mandela would not be so lionized if he weren't black. The hype that surrounds him is based on the remorse of Western liberals for the sins of their great-great-great-grandfathers. Jerzy Frenkiel, Frederiksberg, Denmark...
...Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe met on July 21 and agreed to assign representatives to power-sharing negotiations. The meeting was a victory of sorts for South African President Thabo Mbeki, who had previously been criticized for his passive role as the conflict's designated mediator. Yet wary Western nations, suspicious of Mugabe's vocal and repeated vows to maintain power, nonetheless toughened sanctions against the President and many of his senior advisers...
...about why it was Karadzic who got arrested and not Mladic. Serb security sources have indicated that it was by trailing individuals thought to be linked to Mladic that they happened upon Karadzic. (Rasim Ljajic, president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, denied reports that Western intelligence services had offered the telling tip. "We didn't need anyone's help in this matter," he says...