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...bipartisan task force for the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations recently took of what Russia has already done in Ukraine: "A country that has in the space of a single year supported massive fraud in the elections of its largest European neighbor and then punished it for voting wrong by turning off its gas supply has to be at least on informal probation at a meeting of the world's industrial democracies." Reunification Other neighbors are uncomfortable, too. Russia and Germany agreed in the final days of Gerhard Schröder's Chancellorship to build a pipeline bypassing Poland...
...change the law to allow terrorist suspects to be detained without charge for up to 90 days, and the use of control orders to incarcerate suspects in their own homes, have been directed solely against their communities. The killing by police of an innocent Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, wrongly assumed to be a suicide bomber, and the recent shooting of Mohammed Abdul Kahar during a raid on his family home in east London - police later admitted that the raid was "wrong," as a suspected chemical bomb was never found - have reinforced these fears. Yet many of the measures taken...
...been a mixed bag--the prosecution of the Lackawanna and Portland cells ran smoothly, while al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui took a federal court on a wild grandstanding ride worthy of Slobodan Milosevic or Saddam Hussein. The judges who hear the appeals may affirm that civilian courts are the wrong venue for Gitmo detainees, but the debate is too important--and too complex--to cut the judiciary...
...report on freedom of the seas noted that the ship sailed out of Miami and made references to the Statue of Liberty, so readers might be left with the wrong idea about where the ship was built. The world's biggest cruise ship was built in Finland; it took about 7 million working hours to complete, in a nation of about 5 million people...
...Plain English, Let's Make It Official" [June 12], it was wrong for essayist Charles Krauthammer to argue against bilingualism by comparing the Hispanic immigrants of the U.S. to the Québécois of Canada. Francophones sailed up the St. Lawrence River almost a century before the English did. That means that the French and the French language deserve at least some kind of official status and recognition in North America...