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...reprinted a Japanese inscription from a memorial for a group that had helped suppress the Boxers. It was really culturally mixed up.” AAWA members discussed changing the name of the party with the Fox’s president at the time, and began contacting professors to bolster a case for racism in the Fox’s choice to name a pajama party after what Ho calls “a very very bloody, very ugly chapter in Chinese history.” The resulting criticism of the party was more intense than it had ever been...
...reprinted a Japanese inscription from a memorial for a group that had helped suppress the Boxers. It was really culturally mixed up.” AAWA members discussed changing the name of the party with the Fox’s president at the time, and began contacting professors to bolster a case for racism in the Fox’s choice to name a pajama party after what Ho calls “a very very bloody, very ugly chapter in Chinese history.” The resulting criticism of the party was more intense than it had ever been...
...only issue of concern connected to his aborted transfer to Iraq. According to former senior U.S. military officers and others interviewed by TIME, sending a convicted abuser back to Iraq to train local police would have sent the wrong signal at a time when the U.S. is trying to bolster the beleaguered government in Baghdad, where the horrors of Abu Ghraib are far from forgotten. "If news of this deployment is accurate, it represents appallingly bad judgment," says retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who commanded a division in the first Gulf War. "The symbolic message perceived in Iraq will likely...
...crime in Germany. The photos have helped spark a debate about Germany's wider role in the world as well. As (bad) luck would have it, the first set appeared on the same day that the German Defense Ministry unveiled a security report that argued its military should bolster its presence overseas to levels not seen since World War II to address emerging threats from terrorism and weapons proliferation. That would be quite a change. Germans, mindful of their own history, have only in recent years agreed to dispatch troops abroad, mainly for peacekeeping or humanitarian missions. Volker Perthes, director...
...consolidation of the rest behind an expanded security barrier - has been put in the deep freeze by the crises in Lebanon and Gaza. Questions have arisen about the propriety of a real estate deal he made years ago. And he's generating further controversy by seeking to bolster his shaky ruling coalition through courting a far-right political faction leader, Avigdor Lieberman, who has called for the forced relocation of Israeli-Arabs into the Palestinian Territories...