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...Dritan, Shain and Eljvir Duka are illegal immigrants from the former Yugoslavia, but they look and sound like Americans. They wear sports jerseys and speak with New York accents. The eldest, Dritan, arrived in the States when he was 5. He can't remember living anyplace else. When they were small, the Duka brothers worked as models in New York City. Eljvir appeared in a rock-music video, Dritan was an extra in Law & Order, and Shain was in a commercial for the World Wrestling Federation...
...just 5% today, as an affirmative-action policy created a prosperous Malay middle class that had never before existed. In Asia, only the nations of Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Brunei rank higher than Malaysia in the U.N.'s Human Development Index. Most impressively, while other multiethnic nations like Yugoslavia, Sri Lanka and Rwanda fractured into conflict, Malaysia has largely kept peace between groups that include Muslim Malays (about 50%); Buddhist and Christian Chinese (roughly 25%); Hindu, Sikh and Muslim Indians (less than 10%); and indigenous peoples, who abide by many faiths including animism (around 10%). "Our biggest achievement...
...Andelman proposes an analogy between America’s contemporary attempts to remake the world in its own image and the country’s 1919 efforts to do the same. Then, as now, the moralistic mindset of the United States prevented it from comprehending what Japan, China, Iran, Yugoslavia, and other nations truly needed for peace. So, the uninspiring implication is, proceed with caution.Ultimately, Andelman’s only meaningful insight is that international politics cannot be conducted without extensive knowledge of other nations’ religions, allegiances, needs, hopes, and histories. Of course, he is by no means...
...gained fame in Argentina in the '80s for prosecuting human-rights abuses committed by the country's ruling military junta. In 2003 he signed on for a nine-year term as prosecutor at the ICC. Unlike earlier tribunals--such as U.N.-sponsored courts for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone--the ICC is able to prosecute atrocities in conflicts that are still raging...
...last thing we want is a Yugoslavia or an Iraqi situation at our doorsteps.' GEORGE YEO, Singapore's Foreign Minister, warning that sanctions to topple Burma's military government could drive the country into civil...