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...lived under the scythe of war all their lives. A young Palestinian man laments that "9/11 legitimized the American presence in the Middle East" and insists that "We are fighting to make our homeland. It's none of their [al-Qaeda's] business." An Israeli journalist, discussing the Palestinian problem, mourns that "We're being held hostage by extremists from both sides." In Afghanistan, one fellow says of OBL, "If we find him, we'll tear him apart." Then Spurlock asks an old man about bin Laden's whereabouts. "Who is he?" is the reply. Spurlock says...
...rise to an official 40%, a figure that is much higher if millions of undocumented migrant workers are included. That massive immigration has transformed the north of the province, effectively establishing a Han majority and helping to turn what might have been a base for a festering separatist problem into a race-relations issue. Just as Inner Mongolia, now 70% Han, has been Sinicized, so too are Xinjiang and Tibet being flooded with Chinese arrivals. In Tibet, the migration has been assisted by a $4.1 billion railway completed in mid-2006 that connects Beijing to Lhasa...
...dropping of this other shoe makes the Pope seem more consistent, since there is much he clearly dislikes about American materialism and pop culture. Today he explained that "perhaps," after all, America's brand of secularism "poses a particular problem: it allows for professing belief in God... but at the same time it can subtly reduce religious belief to a lowest common denominator. Faith can become a passive acceptance... without practical relevance for everyday life. The result is a growing separation of faith from life." Combined with what he called our "individualistic and eclectic approach to faith," he said this...
...very Brown notion - sincere, well-meaning, international. It won't lead the evening news, which is his problem. But perhaps it should, which is ours...
...problem for Brown is how to position himself to take advantage of that change. "A lot depends on the mood after the Inauguration, as to whether the new U.S. Administration will want to be connecting to the multilateralist argument, in which case Brown will be in the right place," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Labour-affiliated think tank the Fabian Society...