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...speech in Ferizaj, Clinton famously told the Albanian crowd: "No one can force you to forgive what was done to you. But you must try." Dani traces his own tolerance to his mother, who always taught him to have basic respect for others. Even during the war, Dani recalls, he did not have the feeling of "hate that others had." Then again, he adds, "I don't know how I'd feel if they'd killed my father. I want to think my ideas wouldn't be different, but I don't know...
...Iraq or Afghanistan and bring with them prejudices against Muslims. But his main focus is Kosovo, where he says the "status" question - of when and how to extend independence to the Albanian-majority nation - has become a way for political leaders to distract citizens from more concrete problems. Basic infrastructure is decrepit (electric power is cut twice a day in Ferizaj), the unemployment rate is the highest in Europe, and organized crime and corruption are on the rise. "If we had a government that was accountable, independence would have been a natural outcome," he says. "Instead some...
...basic problems are unchanged: people in the projects don't have the same educational and economic opportunities others do, and they feel like they're being shut away in their dismal neighborhoods because the rest of the country doesn't want them," says Raphaël Cazenave, a resident of the northern Paris suburb of Bondy who works with schoolchildren from the area. "The way these youths are expressing their anger and disgust is entirely destructive and stupid. Yet they'll keep doing it just as they have since 2005, because nothing has changed since...
...skepticism is well founded. Five years ago, the government passed a similar helmet law but backed down in the face of popular opposition. In fact, for an authoritarian regime, Vietnam's government has an awful lot of trouble enforcing its most basic traffic laws - motorcyclists regularly ignore red lights and pull into traffic without so much as a glance around. Not only do teenagers talk on mobile phones while driving, they can increasingly be seen sending text messages, eyes darting back and forth between the road ahead and their fast-tapping fingers...
...immediately invalidates her entire article. Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton is a house grounded and supported by almost exclusively European brands...all of Lin’s examples of how Project East has perpetuated the grave social and environmental problems in East Asia stem from this conglomerate. Here a basic understanding of the industry is essential; Lin obviously didn’t realize that there is a difference between the effects of large, Western brands in East Asia versus the effect of the brands that Project East promoted, which were small, Asian brands...