http://worldmeets.us A nonprofit journalism project that gathers and translates the world's news and views about the United States en-us http://worldmeets.us http://worldmeets.us/images/wordonlogo.rss_siteid.gif Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:20:58 -0700 http://worldmeets.us/financialtimesdeutschland000110.shtml "Just as Al Capone was indirectly convicted and taken out of circulation because of tax evasion, the remaining investment banks will likely be attacked in a roundabout way rather than a frontal assault. The indictment of Goldman Sachs is therefore one of the most important moments of the entire financial crisis." Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:20:57 -0700 RSSPECT-001072900 http://tinyurl.com/36m4un8 "The US is preparing to pivot from domestic regulatory reform to a push for a tough new international capital regime after the weekend’s G20 and International Monetary Fund meetings glossed over differences between leading economies. ... But the different positions of senior central bank and government officials from several countries expressed to the Financial Times on the sidelines of the G20 meetings in Washington suggested that a final international agreement remains a challenge."-- COLUMNIST Tom Braithwaite Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:20:32 -0700 RSSPECT-001072899 http://tinyurl.com/2f9pdn9 "The death of Dorothy Height reminded America that Rosa Parks — famed for refusing to vacate a whites-only seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama — was not the first, or even the second or third, black woman, to have driven the civil rights agenda in the United States. Height was the warm, yet calculating presence around which civil rights turned. As far back as the 1930s, she had enlisted First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to her cause, and in the years that followed worked tirelessly to improve the circumstances of women of all colors, as well as blacks of both sexes. Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:20:05 -0700 RSSPECT-001072898 http://tinyurl.com/2epoo8v "The physicist and astronomer William Gordon achieved international prominence by conceiving, constructing and operating the world’s largest radar-radio telescope, at the Arecibo Observatory just south of Puerto Rico. The telescope, completed in 1963, has a 300m (1,000ft) antenna. It is cradled in a small valley and collects signals from beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. Capable of transmitting the strongest radio waves and receiving the weakest ones, it can receive signals from anywhere in our galaxy." Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:19:41 -0700 RSSPECT-001072897 http://tinyurl.com/25rqwnd "At the age of 18, while on his summer holidays from the University of Miami, Mike Zwerin was the trombonist in Miles Davis’s Nonet at the Royal Roost club in New York. This band was famously to record its music the following year in the album that became immortalised as “The Birth of the Cool”, but by then Zwerin had graduated and gone into his father’s steel business." Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:19:19 -0700 RSSPECT-001072896 http://tinyurl.com/24wvswv "Of all the world title bouts that Arthur Mercante refereed in a 50-year career at the top, the most acutely awaited was undoubtedly the first contest between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier for the latter’s world title at Madison Square Garden, New York, on March 8, 1971. The bout had become symbolic in the public mind for several reasons even before it took place. It was Ali’s first appearance in a world title fight since he had been stripped of his title four years before for refusing to be conscripted into the US Army. There was a widespread feeling among his admirers that the crown no boxer had succeeded taking from him was morally his." Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:18:56 -0700 RSSPECT-001072895 http://worldmeets.us/thefrontierpost000045.shtml “Obama's AfPak special envoy Richard Holbrooke must think Pakistanis are stupid, or else he's being too clever by half.” -- EDITORIAL, The Frontier Post Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:18:34 -0700 RSSPECT-001072894 http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/905104/-/fm39aa/-/index.html "Nice things first. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a tough guy. President Museveni, another fairly tough guy, is hosting him this weekend. Possibly more than any Iranian leader before him – to the extent that he wields the power the supreme leader allows him– MrAhmadinejad stands out for his solid stance against those he considers enemies of Iran." -- COLUMNIST Bernard Tabaire Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:18:08 -0700 RSSPECT-001072893 http://tinyurl.com/27trt8q “It's not what the U.S. has done but what it has sought to do that seems to have made all the difference in changing the world's view of the U.S. ... At least Obama is trying.” — EDITORIAL, Khaleej Times Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:17:30 -0700 RSSPECT-001072892 http://worldmeets.us/estadao000029.shtml “Little by little, American White Anglo-Saxon Christians are losing their elite status.” — COLUMNIST Gustavo Chacra Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:58:11 -0700 RSSPECT-001072622 http://worldmeets.us/interfax000001.shtml Who is responsible for monitoring children after they are adopted by parents in another country? That's the question at the heart of a controversy over a Russian child adopted by American parents. The seven year old, Artem Saveliev, was 'rejected' by his adoptive mother, and sent back to Russia alone on a long-haul air flight from Tennessee to Moscow. This article from Russia's Interfax examines Russian reaction to the case and a new treaty now under discussion, called for more monitoring of adoptive families. Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:56:55 -0700 RSSPECT-001072621 http://worldmeets.us/iraqoftomorrow000006.shtml “Iran didn't want to bet on a losing horse. It appears that secular Iraqis - like Allawi's Iraqi National List - will be the big winners.” — COLUMNIST Muhammad Sadqiyan Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:56:06 -0700 RSSPECT-001072620 http://tinyurl.com/23nee53 "Billed as a small shuttle, the unmanned X-37B heralds the next generation of space exploration. It will be the first craft to carry out an autonomous re-entry in the history of the US programme. But its mission - and its cost - remain shrouded in secrecy. The Air Force said the launch was a success but would give no further details." Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:55:44 -0700 RSSPECT-001072619 http://www.debka.com/article/8730/ “Our military experts describe the X-37B as the first unmanned space craft able to carry out combat missions outside Earth.” — Debka File Staff Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:55:17 -0700 RSSPECT-001072618 http://tinyurl.com/y46nybh “Internal challenges are complicated by a new and largely unexpected diplomatic danger: our blighted ties with U.S.” — EDITORIAL, Jerusalem Post Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:54:54 -0700 RSSPECT-001072617