Whether that can come with other freedoms and social harmony is a short-run question now plaguing many a mind.

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Although he himself might not see it, he said, the day of racial justice and harmony in America would come.

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He still backs what he calls the principle of privatisation, but new-model Mr Klaus implies that change must not come at the cost of social harmony.

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The current administration has suffered from a bankruptcy of ideas, calling only for social harmony, but failing to come up with any alternative solutions which address the causes.

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Americans of all political stripes can agree on certain essential goals, such as how we must preserve the world's natural wonders for generations to come and how we must live in harmony with this world of finite natural resources.

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The question is whether relations between Harmony and Norilsk will remain, well, harmonious in the months to come.

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Mr. MOHAMMED ABDEL BARRI (East London Mosque): This community has come a long way over many years and--to maintain the peace and harmony, and I hope we'd be able to cope with it.

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Like the Chinese in Malaysia, the Malays in Singapore have come to terms with their minority status and are thankful, sometimes grudgingly, for racial harmony especially when they see what is happening in Indonesia.

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