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...maintenance of Austrian democracy then it should attentively watch Austrian political developments and sustain close diplomatic ties so that, in the case that Haider ever tries to subvert democracy in the name of fascist governance, the E.U. still has political leverage with the Austrian government. Isolating Austria will only allow hatred and xenophobia to ferment and diminish the chances of diplomatically forestalling political crisis should the Austrian government ever actually turn to undemocratic practices...
What are they thinking? I ask myself this question during intersession, as I wearily look at the piles of books and papers hiding the floor of my room. I allow myself to address the question only after my last final, when my answer is less likely to be biased by the stress of exam period...
...decision to pursue a trade war over bananas was sharply at odds with its handling of similar agricultural issues. Consider this: today, even with the tough trade restrictions still in place, Chiquita controls 20% of the European market. By way of contrast, the USTR has negotiated with Japan to allow American companies a 3% share of the Japanese market for rice...
...most of the Karen villagers who live close to the God's Army base still believe the twins have the supernatural strength to defy the Burmese army and allow them to return to a peaceful life free of outside interference. Plee, the refugee Karen woman, nostalgically recalled a Christmas feast in 1998 in Ka Mar Pa Law, where the main dishes were a giant lizard, monkey, deer and wild vegetables. "We ate three times a day, and there was singing and dancing all night...
...justified. Nine years later, Lewis Oliver, a lawyer who had filed a wrongful-death suit on behalf of Davis' relatives, discovered a photograph taken by a police officer moments after Davis was shot. It showed him clutching only a set of keys and a toy car. Rather than allow the case to go to trial, the city settled the lawsuit for $500,000. Last year brutality charges against two Albany cops accused of beating college basketball star Jermaine Henderson in a police garage were dismissed after the city paid Henderson $60,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit...