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...country and the world of this grave threat." The law would allow authorities to detain terror suspects for up to 18 days without charges. (Currently, police are required to release uncharged suspects within 36 hours.) Despite pressure from the U.S., the Philippines is the only Southeast Asian nation without such a law. But Arroyo's already-besieged government may have difficulty overcoming opposition from human-rights activists, who worry the police will use the measure to curtail suspects' civil rights. Other skeptics suggest that the government's plan may miss the point by failing to address the origins of discontent...
...Altair, the Bright Light” in 2005, “Affirmations” in 1971, and “The Jubilation of Falling Bodies” in 1978. He hopes to expand the international section of the store to bring in the works of more African and Asian poets...
...cult followings. "If I were planning a room inspired by [Arizona's] Green Tea with Ginseng," wrote interior designer Carelton Varney in the Palm Beach Daily News, "I'd go for an aqua-blue wall with a carpeting of rose pink, and I'd be certain to find an Asian print to use for drapery...
...admissions office also chose from an applicant pool that was more ethnically diverse than last year. The office said in February that more African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Native Americans applied for admission this year than in 2005. In addition, a record 51.6 percent of this year's pool was female. Today's announcement indicates that the acceptance rate for females this year was slightly higher than it was for male applicants...
...Friday morning Rice and Straw arrived at a South Asian-?migr? dominated math-tech magnet school, only to be greeted by about 200 anti-war demonstrators, including some 50 students who ?skived? - played hookey - to join the protest. Later in the day, students at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, established by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney in a rambling building where he and George Harrison had attended high school, booed and donned T-shirts that said, "No torture, No compromise." Saturday's planned visit to the Masjide Al-Hidayah mosque in Blackburn was scrubbed, according to the BBC, because some...