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...Beijing beat Delhi on securing a deal to build a pipeline through to Burma's gas fields. The race for resources has helped make Burma the frontline in a larger struggle for influence in Southeast Asia. The threat of unfettered Chinese influence in Burma is one of Delhi's main ripostes when Western allies question India's ties with Rangoon...
...beaten so badly that the force of blows broke his arm. Several hundred protesters were dragged off in waiting police wagons, the rest took refuge in the cool halls of the Supreme Court, where the blood of the wounded pooled on the white marble steps of the main entrance. "There is blood on the steps of Pakistan's Supreme Court," said Ahsan. "The people of Pakistan have a right to protest, yet they have been brutally attacked. This whole situation is as noxious as the tear gas itself...
...evident: in the prowling camera and elliptical editing, the pile-driving music (a surprisingly formulaic score by Denny Elfman), the gigantic, pore-probing closeups of the actors' faces, the vigorous ersatz-realism. Everything moves so much and so fast that the movie seems both gutsy and brainy. But the main strategy is to keep viewers' pulses racing so they concentrate on the action, not the message...
...with speaker James Q. Wilson, a former Harvard professor and Moynihan’s close friend, who said the deceased politician never assigned blame to individuals for the often high rates of poverty, unemployment, and incarceration in the black community. Instead, Moynihan saw slavery and persisting discrimination as the main culprits, Wilson said. Geyser University Professor William J. Wilson said that local editorials at the time “embellished” Moynihan’s words and quoted only his most “bold” and “attention-grabbing” statements out of context...
...main question over Sunday's election appears to be which of Yuschenko's rivals - Yanukovych or Tymoshenko - finishes first; the President's party is almost assured of third place. That, of course, is when the real intrigue will begin, since neither Yanukovych nor Tymoshenko is expected to win an absolute majority, meaning that the politicians will again retreat behind closed doors in search of a new coalition deal...