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...usual, VW loaded the base model with standard features. Among them: anti-lock brakes, electronic stabilization, leatherette upholstery, a digital compass and a rollover protection system. The interior is tastefully decorated with metallic ornamentation on the instrument panel and door handles. With the top down, the car proved remarkably quiet thanks to touches like a pop-up wind deflector for the front winshield. Even footwell lighting comes standard...
...turbo-charged engines get smoother with each generation and this one performed outstandingly. The base model, outfitted with a six-speed manual transmission, provides plenty of pickup, barely noticeable turbo-lag and enough juice to handle lane changes at velocities well beyond the speed limit. The car's handling feels taut, and only the most sensitive of drivers will notice body-roll when cornering, due to the front-wheel drive setup...
Early on Oct. 18, five suicide boats, disguised as fishing vessels and crewed by members of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (l.t.t.e.), attacked a navy base near the picturesque Sri Lankan town of Galle. The raid?which destroyed two naval speedboats and killed one sailor?came just 72 hours after 100 sailors died in a suicide attack on a naval convoy, the deadliest in the nation's history. This violence dims hopes for a cease-fire in Sri Lanka's civil war, and further threatens its vital tourism industry, ravaged by war and by the 2004 tsunami. Tourism...
...government accepted previous official Japanese apologies for the country's aggression in World War II. He also acknowledged the responsibility of Japan's wartime leaders?including his own grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, a cabinet minister during the war who later served as Prime Minister. While parts of his conservative base publicly wondered what had happened to their hawkish prince, Abe's adjustments paved the way for his East Asian summits and offered reassurance that, unlike Koizumi, he won't let ideology get in the way of national interest. "Abe is a political realist," says Kent Calder, director of the Edwin...
...polls and let our voices be heard ... Take about five people with you and vote. It would be a sin not to." The Family Research Council has been e-mailing "No Time to Be Complacent" bulletins and held a Liberty Sunday turnout rally at the base of Boston's Beacon Hill that was televised to hundreds of church-fellowship halls, evening services and small-group meetings. These leaders have calculated that remaining aloof would just diminish their power. "You only gain clout by activity," says Michael Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association. His group plans to send...