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...July, virtually all of those camps were shut down and some survivors are now coming home. As Meher-un-nissa and her friends walk around their village of Pandarwada in eastern Gujarat, they pass the charred ruins that were their homes and the canvas tents they are now forced to occupy. Encountering an elderly Hindu lady, the children fall silent, waiting for a smile or a nod?the usual greeting in a village where everyone knows one another. But the woman refuses to acknowledge them. The local mosque has been destroyed, and someone has scrawled on a nearby wall...
...sixth-grade history textbook vows that "Arabs and Muslims will succeed, God willing, in beating the Jews and their allies." Even a member of the royal family concedes, "We can't say we didn't know what was going on. People who stood up against it were told to shut up. The government let it get out of hand...
Bush officials tried to shut down the cross fire on Thursday, telling USA Today that no full-scale invasion could take place without a "significant provocation,'"such as the invasion of Kuwait that started the Gulf War. That's a far cry from the policy Bush unveiled at West Point last month, when he warned nations harboring weapons of mass destruction that the U.S. reserves the right to make preemptive strikes against them. And because hardly anyone thinks Saddam Hussein would be foolish enough to repeat his 1990 mistake, it suggested anew that Washington is engaged more...
...several years the government has staged periodic cybercafe raids, usually on the ground that online pornography and violent computer games pose a moral hazard to the nation's youth. But such concerns are only a small part of the campaign to shut down what is, for many Chinese, the main artery to the Internet. What worries control-crazy officials is the Internet's tangle of unmanageable links, which give Chinese uncensored access to "reactionary" news and information sites. Since 2000, the number of Net users in China has quadrupled, to 38.5 million; by 2005 China is set to overtake...
...Hong Kong of late is no longer an expat town. The flow of eager Westerners has slowed, for better or worse, and third-generation Hong Kongers?the descendants of refugees?seem eager to shut their doors to abode seekers. Lanchester is smart enough not to predict the future of Hong Kong, but one wonders if the city's endless capacity for renewal?its greatest gift?will survive without the constant influx of new schemers, dreamers and refugees to clap fresh eyes on that bustling harbor, and breathe deep its pungent fragrance...