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This time, the civics lessons were more muted - though, sure enough, some viewers of Revenge of the Sith argued that the rise of the sinister Chancellor Palpatine, who gains unlimited power by lying to the Senate about an imminent military threat from a nonbelligerent force, was analogous to the actions...
Uzbek president Islam Karimov doesn't take kindly to criticism. He's branded opponents as Islamic extremists and imprisoned over 6,000 of them in a penal system where, according to the U.S. State Department and the U.N., torture is "routine" and "systematic." But after the Uzbek military reportedly killed...
At the Kuwaiti parliament last week, a crowd gathered quickly, noisily, in one of those convulsions of public feeling that impel strangers to converge on a single spot. They were not there to protest. Dancing, singing and launching fireworks, some 300 men and women came to celebrate a breakthrough political...
"It makes one laugh, how ignorant U.S. soldiers are." MOHAMMED SHASIQ, Afghan student, on reports that American soldiers desecrated a copy of the Koran at the Guantánamo Bay naval base to intimidate Muslim prisoners. The reports have sparked anti-U.S. demonstrations in Afghanistan and other Islamic countries...
Some leaders sneak out of their country during an uprising; others become paralyzed by mass demonstrations. But when Uzbek oppositionists rose up in the eastern city of Andijan last week, Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov sent in the armor. Communications with Andijan were cut; foreign TV news broadcasts to Uzbekistan...