The world in brief
Posted: August 16, 2009 at 4:19 a.m.
QUOTE OF THE DAY "Having spoken and no one, neither in China nor Russia, have applauded, it seems to be that the soldier rulers have started to backtrack." - Josef Silverstein, a professor emeritus at Rutgers University, after Sen. Jim Webb secured the release of American John Yettaw, who was sentenced to seven years of hard labor in Burma.
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