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Sidelights.
If you do not mirth you will certainly have madness--G.K. Chesterton
Over 70 percent of Americans believe Saddam Hussein should be sentenced to death if he is found guilty of the charges against him, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. Leftist anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was paid $11,000 to give an hour-long speech at State University College in Oneonta, New York. The payment are up nearly 30 percent of the school's annual lecture budget. ... Meanwhile, retired Army officer Scott Rutter, a FOX News analyst who fought in Operation Iraqi Freedom, also spoke at the college. He was paid $600. The Congressional Blue Dog Coalition, a group of moderate and conservative House Democrats, issued a report showing that in the last four years, the federal government has borrowed more money from financial institutions and foreign governments than in the previous 224 years combined. According to a Harvard University survey, 93 percent of college students trust the American military to "do the right thing" some, most, or all of the time. Eighty-five percent felt the same way about the President.
Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister of modern Singapore, was quoted in Time warning of problems in Southeast Asia if Islamic extremists prevail in Iraq. "If the jihadists win there, I'm in trouble here.... Their attitude would be 'we've beaten the Russians in Afghanistan, we've beaten the Americans and the coalition in Iraq. There's nothing we cannot do. We can fix Southeast Asia too.'"
Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez has ordered 160 missionaries out of the country, declaring them to be spies sent to prepare for an American invasion.
A survey by an employment law company recently determined that only 38 percent of Americans who called in sick from work in 2004 were actually ill.
The United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ruled that ...
- MALAYSIAN GIANT NOW TRADES IN USA; BANK OF NEW YORK-SPONSORED ADR OPENS...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 4, 1993 700+ words
...that has attracted investors to Southeast Asia. MBf Holdings is engaged in...stock on deposit with the Bank of New York. CUSIP No. is 552980104. ADRs...that reflects the region (Southeast Asia) in which it operates: dynamic...
- THAI Announces First Nonstop Flight From New York to Bangkok; Fastest Service...
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 29, 2005 700+ words
NEW YORK -- Thai Airways International Public...announcement of a new nonstop route from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport to Bangkok...will provide the fastest flight from New York to Southeast Asia. The 17-hour, 8,711 mile, over...
- Relief Efforts Underway in Southeast Asia; Looking into Police Brutality in New...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 9, 2005 700+ words
(From CNN News) LIN: So sad. So sad, indeed. Harris Whitbeck reporting on the telephone from Panabaj, this devastated area, where a series of landslides has now buried an entire town, and that the government is weighing the possibility that the rescue operation will stop, and declare this entire
- The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War...
- Magazine article from: The Historian Craft, Stephen G. September 22, 2000 700+ words
...The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II. By Robert J. McMahon. (New York: Columbia University...American empire in Southeast Asia" (x). Although...build an empire in Southeast Asia, this empire was not...
- Southeast Asia: A Concise History.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Wheeler, C.S. March 22, 2003 700+ words
Southeast Asia: A Concise History...Heidhues. (London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000...geographic category of Southeast Asia seems deliberately designed...historical overviews of Southeast Asia are infrequently published...
- Women of Southeast Asia.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Andaya, Barbara Watson March 1, 1998 700+ words
...mainland and island Southeast Asia (religion in Thailand...recently published Southeast Asia: the Human Landscape...Routledge: London and New York, 1997, p. 76] graphically...Java, but in mainland Southeast Asia there is still a lack...
- Nationalism in Southeast Asia.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Aljunied, Syed Muhd Khairudin October 1, 2007 700+ words
Nationalism in Southeast Asia By NICHOLAS TARLING New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp...history of nationalism in Southeast Asia will, for certain, persist...studies on nationalism in Southeast Asia have suffered from two key...
- China's foreign aid activities in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast...
- Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs Lum, Thomas Fischer, Hannah Gomez-Granger, Julissa Leland, Anne February 1, 2009 700+ words
...Hemisphere), and Southeast Asia--with an emphasis...research done by the New York University Robert F...Latin America, and Southeast Asia grew from less than...by Latin America and Southeast Asia. The study suggests...
- Environmental Change in Southeast Asia: People, Politics and Sustainable...
- Magazine article from: The Geographical Review Zurick, David January 1, 1998 700+ words
...notes, index. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. $65...and the environment in Southeast Asia. By considering environmental...of ecotourism throughout Southeast Asia. In sixteen chapters by...Environmental Change in Southeast Asia sets out to examine in diverse...
- Delegitimizing global jihadi ideology in Southeast Asia.
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Southeast Asia Ramakrishna, Kumar December 1, 2005 700+ words
...11 al-Qaeda attacks in New York and Washington, DC, a terrorist...radical jihadi terrorism in Southeast Asia requires action on two tracks...the global jihadi threat in Southeast Asia over the medium-to-longer...global jihadi ideology in Southeast Asia must combine both ...
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