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...They told us we don't have a place in our government, and we don't know why.' THAIR AL-SHEEKH, priest at Sacred Heart Church in Baghdad, after the Iraqi parliament scrapped a provision in the country's election law that guarantees seats for Iraqi Christians...
...There is an effort to come up with an appendix regarding the minorities later on.' NASSER AL-ANI, Iraq's presidential-council spokesman, saying such a provision is difficult to implement given the nation's lack of census data...
...playground for spies, as Berlin was during the Cold War. But the new boom market was different; KGB agents weren't likely to blow themselves up to make a political point, and the middle-class whites in the CIA couldn't easily pass for Arabs to infiltrate an al-Qaeda cell. Ferris makes use of locals to sleuth out information. But he and Hoffman have a bigger, wilder plan. The notion is to plant incriminating data on a plausible corpse and create a fictional CIA spy who the terrorists will believe has penetrated their ring. (British intelligence hatched this idea...
...grasp the difference, imagine if the Democrats had nominated Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. Republicans would have slammed them as profligate, divisive and militant but not as foreign. Even racists couldn't deny that Jackson and Sharpton are fully American. In fact, because slavery ruptured ancestral ties of language and culture, African Americans often have fewer transnational connections than Americans whose forebears traveled voluntarily to these shores. Our national vernacular is filled with antiblack euphemisms, but cosmopolitan isn't one of them...
...this memorable Al Pacino quote from the otherwise disappointing “The Godfather III” had to apply to one player on the Harvard football team right now, it would be Cheng...