Word: westly
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...from government officials, says Samimi, "is like going to the wolves for help when the wolves have stolen your sheep." As the Obama Administration signals that it intends to devote more attention to the war in Afghanistan, many Afghans claim that in the name of fighting the Taliban, the West is ignoring abuses committed by its Afghan proxies. One of the worst offenders, alleges Samimi, is Abdul Rashid Dostum, an ethnic-Uzbek warlord who helped in the triumphant ousting of the Taliban in 2001, when, backed by U.S. special forces, he led hundreds of men on horseback to liberate...
...rightward tilt is a blow to President Obama's hopes that a new Israeli government might be willing to make peace with the Palestinians and various Arab neighbors. Netanyahu and Lieberman are pushing for the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which Palestinians say is a main obstacle to peace, and they are adamant that Israel should hang on to the Golan Heights, which was seized from Syria in the 1967 war. Netanyahu and Lieberman also say the army ought to return to Gaza and wipe out Hamas. During the campaign, Netanyahu said, "There will be no alternative...
...been imprisoned, humiliated and accused of being a puppet of the West, but I believe he is a Zimbabwean patriot in touch with the vast majority of his people. He has shown he has stamina." - George Bizos, a South African lawyer who was Mr. Tsvangirai's advocate during his treason trial in 2004, on critics who call Tsvangirai too naive or cowardly to address Zimbabwe's political and social ills (International Herald Tribune...
...Still, analysts expect extraordinary efforts to save jobs will continue. Asians "can't be as ruthless as in the West," says Pawan Budhwar, a professor of international human resource management at Aston University in Birmingham. "People are more sensitive in making these kinds of cuts. They will explore other options." As the global recession deepens, that's the best workers in Asia can hope...
Tricky's road to Paris started a year ago with a return home, to the hardscrabble Knowle West district of Bristol, England. That trip led to the release of his latest album, Knowle West Boy, a fusion of Britpop and hip-hop that Rolling Stone calls "Tricky's best since his 1995 debut Maxinquaye". For the 41-year-old artist, that journey home was a chance to take stock. "You can't just keep moving forward, you have to look backwards sometimes," Tricky tells TIME. Revisiting his own difficult childhood, Tricky found himself wanting to "talk for kids growing...