Pope, Reviving Weekly Audience, Stresses Europe's Christian Roots
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/international/worldspecial2/28pope.html
By IAN FISHER
Pope Benedict XVI used the papal audience to express what may become a
central theme of his papacy: the Christian roots of Europe.
Howard's false move
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1471887,00.html
By denying the lessons of his own biography, the Tory leader will make
trouble for us all
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday April 28, 2005
The Guardian
Michael Howard is an example of outstandingly successful immigration
to Britain. The son of an enterprising Romanian Jewish father who came
to Britain in 1937, he is one of the most accomplished and articulate
British politicians of his generation. Yet Howard is now conducting an
election campaign that deliberately plays on exaggerated popular fears
of the impact of immigration. In other words, on prejudice against
today's equivalents of his father.
The good soldier's revenge
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1471879,00.html
In Colin Powell's battle to block Bush's nominee to the UN, far more
is at stake than John Bolton's unsuitability
Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday April 28, 2005
The Guardian
From the redoubt of his retirement, former secretary of state Colin
Powell is beginning to exact revenge. His sterling reputation was
soiled, having lost most of the important battles within the
administration during the first term. While he lamented that he had
been "deceived" into presenting false information before the United
Nations to justify the Iraq war, he acted as the good soldier to the
end, giving every sign of desiring to fade away.
Democracy in the dark
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1471803,00.html
Leader
Thursday April 28, 2005
The Guardian
It is little wonder the government struggled so hard to keep secret
the attorney general's March 7 advice on the legality of war. It is,
in more ways than one, an extremely troubling document. The extracts
we publish today bear little relation - in tone or content - to the
so-called summary which was presented to both cabinet and parliament
as they weighed up the morality and legality of going to war in Iraq
just 10 days later. The March 17 document was stripped of all the
nuances, qualifications and caveats contained in the March 7 opinion.
It could not conceivably be regarded as a summary of the earlier
advice. Both cabinet and parliament were - to put it at its mildest -
kept unforgiveably in the dark. It looks rather worse than that: it
looks as if they were deceived.
'We were playing God, kicking people back'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1471733,00.html
The gates were thronged with desperate, pleading people. The
ambassador was locked in his office, ripping up secret documents.
Meanwhile, no one knew exactly how many rescue helicopters were
coming... Tomorrow marks 30 years since the scrambled, humiliating
evacuation of the US embassy in Saigon that marked the end of the
Vietnam war. Suzanne Goldenberg talks to some of those who were there
Thursday April 28, 2005
The Guardian
Evacuated 4pm April 29
The Ngo family ascribe their presence in the Virginia suburbs of
Washington DC to divine intervention. On the afternoon of April 29
1975, in those dreadful last hours before the fall of Saigon to the
North Vietnamese army, Toai Vuong Ngo, his wife Nghiem Lan Ngo, and
18-year-old sister Tuyet Lan Ngo, found themselves in the desperate
crush outside a side entrance to the US embassy, wedged between the
crowds and the locked arms of the marine guards at the gate.
Now there's no chance of moving on
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1471882,00.html
The timing of the leaked legal advice couldn't be worse for Blair
Jonathan Freedland
Thursday April 28, 2005
The Guardian
Could this be the smoking gun? In the last US presidential election,
Democrats waited desperately for the killer document that would
somehow blow a hole in George Bush's case for war on Iraq. Could the
Guardian's publication today of substantial parts of the attorney
general's advice to the prime minister on the legality of the war play
such a role in the final days of this campaign?
Mouse tactics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1471415,00.html
The loss of a number of Tory seats has been blamed on vote swapping.
Next week, tactical voting could cause more upsets. Sean Dodson
reports
Thursday April 28, 2005
The Guardian
Next Thursday, Christine Allison will visit her local polling station
in Guildford, Surrey, and vote according to the conscience of someone
she has only met on the internet. On polling day, she will go to her
local village hall and place her cross next to the Liberal Democrats
even though she is a lifelong Labour supporter. The 42-year-old
teacher has agreed to swap her vote with a partner nearly 200 miles
away, in the small market town of Selby in north Yorkshire, who will
in turn cast a vote for Labour even though she is an ardent Liberal
Democrat.
A friend in need
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1471407,00.html
A wealth of social networking sites that cater for all interests has
sprung up on the net . But, as Natalie Hanman reports, the really
successful ones have moved on from their original purpose
Thursday April 28, 2005
The Guardian
Man's best friend may be a dog, but that hasn't stopped millions of
people trying to find more mates of the human variety. A few years
ago, social networking sites — which are used to virtually connect
friends or business partners — became the place to go for those in
search of social solace. Friendster was the hottest ticket to
popularity, providing an online portal to meet friends and, more
often, find dating partners. But since then, the site has stalled and
MySpace, launched in September 2003, is the new favourite.
MySpace
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Natural acts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1471397,00.html
Simon Bisson explores the future of virtualisation technologies - from
new chipsets to the next stage of the flexible business
Thursday April 28, 2005
The Guardian
Virtualisation - a way of dividing up the resources of a computer to
run multiple execution environments, such as different operating
systems - has been around since the dawn of commercial IT, running the
mainframes that were the backbone of business. It is only recently
that virtualisation technologies have moved on to the x86 servers that
fill today's machine rooms, but it looks like becoming one of the most
important and useful technologies of the next decade.
The first x86 virtualisation tools had quite a task, creating virtual
machine images that could run on processors designed to only work with
one operating system and one set of applications. These were
applications that had to work around the processor rather than with
it, committing unnatural acts to keep their images virtual.
Virtualisation virtualised virtual Virtualization virtualized
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Berlusconi fights back with broadside at left
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=633670
By Peter Popham in Rome
28 April 2005
Silvio Berlusconi launched his new government with an attack on what
he called "the hegemony of the left" in the Italian media and the
judiciary.
"The Italians have common sense," he said, "they don't want to hand
over the reins of government, too, to the left, because democracy is
founded on checks and balances and they know [with the left in power]
there would not be full democracy."
Families of Iraq war dead prepare to do battle in court
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=633721
By Robert Verkaik, Legal Affairs Correspondent
28 April 2005
The families of British soldiers and Iraqi civilians killed during the
Iraq conflict will seize upon the publication of the Attorney
General's advice to support their claim for a full judicial inquiry
into the war.
Lawyers representing 40 Iraqi families, who have already brought legal
actions in the UK courts, said the revelation that the government knew
the war might be illegal radically changed the complexion of their
case.
Dim Sum Under Assault, and Devotees Say 'Hands Off'
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/international/asia/28dimsum.html
By KEITH BRADSHER
A report suggesting that eating many kinds of dim sum regularly may be
bad for your health angered many people in Hong Kong.
Dim Sum
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After Decades as Nonpersons, Syrian Kurds May Soon Be Recognized
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/international/middleeast/28syria.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By KATHERINE ZOEPF
Speculation that President Bashar al-Assad is planning to do something
about the "Kurdish problem" has been circulating widely.
In India, a Meal and a Chance to Learn
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/27/AR2005042701927.html
In India, Free Lunches Boost School Attendance Among Girls
By Rama Lakshmi, Page A18
An innovative government program that provides free lunches to
students is boosting school attendance among girls.
Mexico's Attorney General Resigns
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/28/AR2005042800015.html
Official at Center Of Political Dispute
By Kevin Sullivan, Page A19
MEXICO CITY, April 27 -- Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha,
one of the highest-ranking members of President Vicente Fox's cabinet,
resigned Wednesday night over a polarizing controversy surrounding his
office's prosecution of Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Filibuster Vote Will Be Hard to Predict
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/27/AR2005042702088.html
Undecided Republicans Are Big Unknown
By Charles Babington, Page A04
As few as two or three uncommitted GOP senators have left Democrats
and Republicans uncertain who might prevail in an eventual showdown in
the battle over judicial filibusters, sources in both parties said
yesterday.
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