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A new BBC series called Britain From Above looks absolutely stunning. Using satellite technology, the producers have created interactive, dynamic maps of the country's modern migrations -- everything from watching a sped-up version of the hundreds of ships that pass through the English Channel each day to tracking the routes of London taxis through GPS signals. The resulting dance -- around one another,...
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Here at FP , we love Caijing . We named its fearless managing editor, Hu Shuli, to our list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals . And this is how John Pomfret, the Washington Post 's Outlook section editor, described the publication earlier this year in a fascinating review for Foreign Policy : An amalgam of Forbes , Fortune , and BusinessWeek , with a muckraking edge that makes it hard to...
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Andy Lyons/Getty Images In a pointed gesture, the U.S. Olympic team has voted Lopez Lomong, a member of the track team who gained American citizenship in 2007 after fleeing Sudan and spending a decade in a Kenyan refugee camp, as its flag bearer for the opening ceremony in Beijing. Lomong was abducted at age six by militiamen looking to recruit child soliders. He managed to escape with two other boys...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
When I spoke with McClatchy's Nancy Youssef a few weeks back, she couldn't stress enough how important Iraq's provincial elections were to the politics and stability of the country. A delay in the elections, she said, "fundamentally changes Iraq, because everybody was electioneering and politicking toward this fall, and suddenly that disappeared." Now, anonymous blogger Dr. iRack ("a Washington, DC-based...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
When it suits him, Jacques Rogge is fond of saying that politics shouldn't interfere with the Olympics. This spring, he said , "Politics invited itself in[to] sports. We didn't call for politics to come." So why was the International Olympic Committee chairman trying to broker a joint march of the two Koreas for the opening ceremonies? IOC president Jacques Rogge said Thursday that negotiations for...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
Guang Niu/Getty Images Editor's note: Zoe Chace is an independent public radio producer who is in Beijing for the Olympics. She is traveling with her friend and adviser Lizzy Berryman, who is fluent in Mandarin and lived in China four years ago. She'll be filing periodic dispatches for Passport about what it's like to be in the middle of the world's biggest spectacle, the 2008 Olympic Games. Got any...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Steve Clemons gives the Barack Obama campaign a good thrashing from the left today for the candidate's willingness to accept the resignation of his Muslim outreach coordinator, Mazen Asbahi. The Wall Street Journal reports that Asbahi, a Chicago lawyer, resigned because of questions about his ties to an Illinois-based Imam named Jamal Said who has been accused (though not...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
FBI I'll admit that the FBI has put together some very suggestive information about Bruce Ivins, the anthrax researcher who committed suicide last week. The key document is this one (pdf), an affadavit for a search warrant, in which Postal Inspector Thomas F. Dellafera informs us that Ivins was under suspicion for the following reasons: (1) At the time of the attacks, he was the custodian of a large...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Some straight talk from Moammar el-Qaddafi: What Iran is doing stems simply from arrogance," Gaddafi said during a visit to Tunisia after Tehran ignored another western deadline to accept an incentives package in exchange for full transparency on its nuclear drive. [...] "In the event of a decision against Iran, this country will suffer the same outcome as Iraq... Iran is not any stronger than Iraq...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Violence in Iraq might be declining, but a recently, there's been a troubling rise in the number of female suicide bombers in the country. Women account for 23 of the country's suicide bomb attacks so far this year, including two last week in Baghdad and Kirkuk that left nearly 60 people dead and 250 wounded. One anonymous Iraqi woman explained the motivation: The Americans took my husband. They destroyed...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Once middle-aged British intellectuals started paying to be waterboarded, it was only a matter of time before the controversial interrogation technique became a tourist attraction. Just next to the famous amusement park in Brooklyn's Coney Island, visitors can now experience the new "Waterboard Thrill Ride": It looks at first like any other shuttered storefront near the boardwalk: some garish lettering...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
China Photos/Getty Images With the Olympic torch making the final rounds in Beijing, the era of the global torch relay may be coming to a close. According to reports , both the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 torch relays will be confined within Canada and Great Britain, respectively. The London Olympic Organizing Committee apparently wants to "bring the torch relay back to basics" and showcase the...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Republican House Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter rips "Beijing George" Bush in a memo being passed around Capitol Hill: Today, in his final term, the wildly unpopular President George W. Bush boarded Air Force One bound for the Beijing Olympics and a meeting with his chum Hu Jintao, the dapper ruler of a nuclear armed, communist dictatorship. ... Perhaps our Compassionate Conservative-in-Chief...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Sean Gallup/Getty Images Rwanda's government ruffled some French feathers yesterday with the release of a 500-page report alleging that senior French military and political leaders had prior knowledge of the country's 1994 genocide and that French peacekeeping troops actively participated in the killings. Among those accused are the late former President François Mitterand and former Prime Minister...
