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...Police have arrested more than 90 people for their alleged roles in this week's massacre. Washington and international human-rights groups are calling on Nigeria to prosecute and punish those responsible. "It's time to draw a line in the sand," Human Rights Watch researcher Corinne Dufka said in a statement. "The authorities need to protect these communities, bring the perpetrators to book and address the root causes of violence." But even if that happens, the violence is unlikely to end altogether...
...victims to tell their stories for the book Vows of Silence, published in 2004. They eventually got the Vatican, even under John Paul II, to take their allegations seriously, but Church watchers say Benedict's current mission to canonize his predecessor is another reason Rome won't want to punish the Legion too harshly. "The Legionaries of Christ are going to withstand this [latest] blow," says Elio Masferrer, an expert on the Catholic Church in Latin America at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Rome, he predicts, "will not take any meaningful action" - just as it hasn't, he argues...
Third, more Ross Perots. Vicious-circle politics thrives because while gridlock sours the public on both parties, the out-of-government party (particularly if it's also the antigovernment party) benefits anyway. That might change were our political system filled with latter-day Perots, cranky independent candidates determined to punish both parties for not getting anything done. In the early 1990s, the original Perot combined an assault on the way government did business with a demand that it climb out of debt. Like the public itself, Perot believed there was a commonsense, nonideological way to cut the deficit, if only...
...insist that government just get out of the way. Republicans would still disagree profoundly with the Obama Administration's favored remedies, but they would feel greater pressure to amend rather than kill them. Perots would create a countervailing pressure against those partisan zealots who are constantly threatening to punish Republicans for giving the White House an inch. (See pictures of how Presidents age in office...
...China tensions flared anew on Feb. 2 as the Obama Administration reaffirmed the President's plan to meet with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and China denounced the U.S.'s $6.4 billion arms deal with Taiwan. Beijing has warned against the meeting and says it will punish U.S. companies like Boeing and United Technologies for selling arms to Taiwan, even though they are obligated to do so as participants in the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program...