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...most conflicts between Protestants and Catholics of any country in history. Following the decades of disputes and instability of the Reformation, the English Civil War, and reign of James II, Parliament passed the Act of Settlement in 1701 to avoid further future political crises. Of the act??s eight major provisions, two are still significant today: one that explicitly forbids Catholics from ascending to the throne and another that has been interpreted by some British legal scholars as forbidding Catholics from the Prime Ministership. Had Blair converted while in office, he may have set off an unnecessary legal...
...some point, though, caution stops and demonization begins. In 2006, when the Iranian nuclear myth was still gospel in Washington, Congress shuffled through the ‘Iran Freedom Support Act?? in response, legislation that permitted the exercise of sanctions by the White House “to support a transition to democracy in Iran.” The notion of these sanctions as in the service of freedom is not just an example of Ministry-of-Love levels of doublespeak, but plainly disingenuous: even under Iran’s potent religious leadership, democratic processes function there relatively...
...something that will later be replaced by “real” officers. Contractors should be fully incorporated into the government machine that is spending nearly 1 billion dollars a day in Iraq. This change would hopefully entail a serious reversal in how private contractors are expected to act??both in terms of restraint and also in how those who fail to act appropriately are dealt with, both in terms of standards and laws.The first step in this long transformation, however, is to remove Blackwater from Iraq...
...Weitzen said. “He came in when I came into the program—we both came in as newcomers together—so we had that bond going for us...He knows how I am as a player, how I play, how I act??on and off the court...
...Horst, Shields in particular maintains a witty, sarcastic outlook on the dire situation. His quips—the only moments of comedy in the second act??provide an effective counterpoint to the more lighthearted humor of the play’s beginning...