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More than two months have passed since 8 million Iraqis braved death to go to the polls, but still they have no new government. The new National Assembly met for a second time on Tuesday, with agreement on the makeup of a new executive branch as elusive as ever. So deep was the discord, in fact, that the Assembly failed even to choose a Speaker. Instead of showing signs of progress to an increasingly impatient electorate, the session portrayed the new legislature as a hung parliament. As tempers flared among legislators, TV coverage was cut off in order to stop...
...Tuesday's failed assembly session highlighted the fact that the Kurdish-Shiite negotiations are not the only sticking point. There had been broad agreement that the post of Assembly Speaker would go to a Sunni Arab as part of an effort to draw that community into the new polity, but when acting President Ghazi al-Yawer declined the post, legislators could not agree on an alternative. The mortar shells exploding outside the chamber may have served as a reminder that none of the Sunni elements in the Assembly right now can be deemed representative of a community that mostly stayed...
...suppose this is representative of a continuing relationship between the Agassiz neighborhood and Harvard that seems to be bearing some fruit,” said William Bloomstein, a representative from the Agassiz Committee on the Impacts of Development (ACID), the group of residents that negotiated the agreement...
Under the agreement, Harvard will carry out 1.6 million square feet of construction over the next 25 years in the North Yard-—currently home to the Law School, the Divinity School, and the science departments of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—in exchange for providing “community benefits...
They hope to convince Harvard to enhance Oxford Street by planting trees, noting that the agreement included this specification...