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A Dark-Horse Republican to the Rescue?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7490174/site/newsweek/
Whispering about Haley Barbour and wondering about ideology and
personality.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Howard Fineman
Chief Political Correspondent
Newsweek
Updated: 2:39 p.m. ET April 13, 2005
April 13 - People here remember Haley Barbour as a slightly raffish
Mississippi good ol' boy with a low center of gravity and a syrupy
drawl who became chairman of the Republican Party, made a bundle as a
tobacco lobbyist and then went home to—of all things—become governor:
A shrewd inside player, but not someone who automatically springs to
mind as presidential material.
Haley Barbour
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Summit Talk
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7492281/site/newsweek/
While Bush and Sharon spelled out their differences, White House aides
were upbeat about Israel's plans to withdraw from Gaza.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey
Newsweek
Updated: 6:38 p.m. ET April 13, 2005
April 13 - Prompted by reporters, the president and the prime minister
left no one in any doubt about their sharp differences over Israeli
plans to expand a handful of settlements in the West Bank. Speaking
outside George Bush's Texas ranch after their Monday meeting, the
president insisted the situation was simple. "Israel has obligations
under the Roadmap," he said, standing beside Ariel Sharon. "The
Roadmap clearly says no expansion of settlements." Sharon, for his
part, insisted that the settlements in question were already major
population blocs and would remain part of Israel under any final
agreement with the Palestinians.
What Ricin?
Colin Powell and British authorities pointed to a poison plot as
justification for the war on Iraq. But a jury says the case didn't add
up.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek
Updated: 7:09 p.m. ET April 13, 2005
April 13 - A much-touted ricin-plot terrorism case in the United
Kingdom ended in a muddled verdict today, raising new questions among
U.S. officials about the ability of British authorities to secure
convictions against major terrorist suspects.
Ricin
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The politics of poison
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1460238,00.html
The overhyped ricin case has played straight into the hands of Howard
and his asylum scaremongering
Polly Toynbee
Friday April 15, 2005
The Guardian
The most explosive issue in this campaign burst out again yesterday
with the collapse of the ricin trial. "Asylum and immigration" are the
public words that tell of unspoken passions on race, Britishness,
Islam and other things winked and nudged at in "Are you think what
we're thinking?"
The trial of police murderer and ricin plotter Kamel Bourgass ended in
chaos as eight other Algerians were set free with no terrorist
conspiracy found. After wild claims of a massive terror plot, finding
out that Bourgass was a murderous but inept loner, whose ricin recipes
were never tried, embarrassingly echoed the failure to find WMD in
Iraq. But the Conservatives were more interested in the asylum
implications. With triumphant glee the Mail splashed: "Murdered
because we've lost control of our borders". Eight of the nine men were
illegal immigrants and Michael Howard was quick in his press
conference yesterday to claim that 250,000 people refused asylum have
never been deported.
Blair has delivered on some of the left's historic demands
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1460247,00.html
Old Labour sympathisers can re-elect the government with enthusiasm
Robin Cook
Friday April 15, 2005
The Guardian
Earlier this week I addressed an audience in Sheffield of impeccable
Labour credentials. The cumulative total years' party membership in
the room would have been numbered in thousands. In the discussion that
followed, one questioner commented that my speech had sounded like old
Labour. She herself held 40 years of membership and I believe she
intended the observation as praise rather than criticism. What was
revealing though was her evident surprise that it was possible to make
a persuasive old Labour case for this government.
A stick to beat Cuba
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1460236,00.html
US bullying of the UN human rights group must stop
Ian Gibson
Friday April 15, 2005
The Guardian
Kofi Annan last week told the UN Human Rights Commission it needed
reform. Its loss of credibility, he warned, was harming the UN. Human
rights groups such as Amnesty International have argued that the
manipulation of the commission by member states for political purposes
is damaging its ability to serve the millions who suffer appalling
abuses.
There is no more striking example of this than the way in which the US
annually uses the commission as a platform to attack Cuba - and then
uses its condemnation to justify the continuing blockade of the
country. This year more than 4,500 intellectuals, including Mikhail
Gorbachev and five Nobel prize winners, have signed a letter calling
on member states to reject Washington's resolution on Cuba when voting
takes place in the next few days.
Ian Gibson
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Britain ups the heat on Cyprus
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldbriefing/story/0,15205,1460063,00.html
Simon Tisdall
Friday April 15, 2005
The Guardian
Britain is steadily increasing pressure on the Cypriot government to
demonstrate greater flexibility in reunification talks with
Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus that are expected to resume soon.
To the consternation of Greek Cypriot officials, Britain is pushing
for direct trade links between the EU and the internationally
unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).
It is also backing direct flights between the UK and northern Cyprus
and the disbursement of €259m (£177m) in EU assistance to the TRNC
authorities, rather than via the Nicosia government.
Cyprus
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Turkey
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The real legacy of Andrea Dworkin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1460107,00.html
Much has been written this week about the influence of the radical
feminist - apart from the truth: that she set the women's movement
back 20 years, says Havana Marking
Friday April 15, 2005
The Guardian
"Just for the record," said Andrea Dworkin, in 1997, "I do wash my
hair - actually it's rather soft and it's rather curly." It was a
touching moment on Radio 4's Woman's Hour when Dworkin managed to
laugh off the personal insults she constantly received. It was an
example of how brave and maligned she had been in her life and how her
appearance had been shockingly used against her time and time again.
Andrea Dworkin
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Schwarzenegger meets his match
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1460049,00.html
For the first time most Californians disapprove of their film-star
governor, as nurses' protests force a U-turn
Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Friday April 15, 2005
The Guardian
Something is rotten in the state of Arnold. Just five months ago the
governor of California seemed unstoppable: propositions were passed,
opponents were reduced to "girlie men", and the talk was of Washington
and the first foreign-born president of the US.
But, in the wake of a series of political miscalculations, Governor
Schwarzenegger's poll ratings are in a slump, his closest colleagues
are questioning his judgment, and he has been forced to reduce his
ambitious plans to make 2005 the "year of reform".
Schwarzenegger
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California
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China's people problem
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3868539
Apr 14th 2005 | HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI
From The Economist print edition
Problems recruiting and retaining workers, particularly skilled ones,
are raising the cost of doing business in China
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CAN China—population 1.3 billion—really be running short of people? In
many of the most important parts of its booming economy, the answer,
increasingly, is yes. Though China has a vast pool of unskilled
labour, firms in the south now complain that they cannot recruit
enough cheap factory and manual workers. The market is even tighter
for skilled labour. As the economy grows and moves into higher
value-added work, the challenge of attracting and retaining staff is
rising with the skill level, as demand outstrips supply. The result is
escalating costs for firms operating in China. "If you think that
China is a cheap place for labour, think again," says Vincent Gauthier
of Hewitt Associates, a human-resources consultancy.
A bloody revolt in a tiny village challenges the rulers of China
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1460263,00.html
Jonathan Watts in Huankantou where protesters angry at corruption and
poverty repelled 1,000 riot police. But now fear is replacing
euphoria.
Friday April 15, 2005
The Guardian
There is a strange new sightseeing attraction in this normally sleepy
corner of the Chinese countryside: smashed police cars, rows of
trashed buses and dented riot helmets.
They are the trophies of a battle in which peasants scored a rare and
bloody victory against the communist authorities, who face one of the
most serious popular challenges to their rule in recent years.
In driving off more than 1,000 riot police at the start of the week,
Huankantou village in Zhejiang province is at the crest of a wave of
anarchy that has seen millions of impoverished farmers block roads and
launch protests against official corruption, environmental destruction
and the growing gap between urban wealth and rural poverty.
China Is Pushing and Scripting Anti-Japanese Protests
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/international/asia/15china.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JOSEPH KAHN
China's manipulation of popular indignation against Japan to stir up
patriotic sentiment carries big risks, analysts say.
Europe Urges Linking Lifting of Chinese Arms Ban to Rights
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/international/europe/15embargo.html
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
A vote in the European Parliament urged linking the embargo question
to human rights improvements in China.
Bankrupt and Swamped With Credit Offers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54745-2005Apr14?language=printer
When Chapter 7 Filers Wipe Out Their Debts, Card Firms Jump
By Caroline E. Mayer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 15, 2005; Page A01
Overwhelmed by more than $60,000 in debt, Lenya Garcia filed for
bankruptcy protection last July. In January, her case was completed
and her debts -- mostly on credit cards -- were dismissed. Less than a
month later, a rash of new credit card offers began arriving in the
mail.
"I was very surprised," said the 36-year-old Bronx bookkeeper. "I
figured my credit history had a big smear on it, and it would take a
long time to get credit." Initially Garcia threw the offers away, but
then she had a hard time renting a car without a credit card. So she
took the next good "preapproved" offer -- 14.9 percent interest and no
sign-up or annual fee -- and signed up at the company's Web site.
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