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Bremer, in an angry eight-page reply appended to the draft, rapped Bowen for "misconceptions and inaccuracies" and for expecting the CPA, amid postwar chaos, to follow accounting standards that "even peaceful Western nations would have trouble meeting within a year." Among the details Bremer may have trouble explaining: at a press conference last spring, he said the CPA had approved "fundamental" internal controls for the Health Ministry before handing it over to the interim government. But, the report notes, his staff members said they were "unaware of the basis" for that assertion. --By Timothy J. Burger
...people blame price wars among pubs for encouraging binge drinking. In Lace Market, the city's most popular nightspot, a gin and tonic is $2.70, and a butterscotch schnapps shot is $2.40 - compelling prices in a university town. Moreover, the government itself seems to lack a coherent alcohol policy. Amid reports implicating drink in 13,000 violent incidents near pubs and clubs each week - and 47% of all violent crimes - Home Secretary Charles Clarke last week blamed booze for the 6% rise in violent crime in the third quarter of 2004. "We are building a massive problem for the future...
...other time too. Beside the sorrow of our frail humanity there is also the glory of our genius. Amid the shock and grief at our common helplessness before a cruel ocean, there is also this: when Huygens sent back those wondrous pictures from the surface of Titan this past Friday, we were reminded once again of our stubborn little common human greatness...
Holding the vote, of course, will be challenge enough amid the chaos. But that's only the start. There is every indication that Sunday's vote will lead to a fractured, and highly fractious, Transitional National Assembly, in which no single party will command a clear majority. The new government's ability to deal with both the insurgents and the U.S. will be circumscribed by multiparty politics--a whole new notion for Iraq. It will be, as democracies usually are, noisy, messy and unpredictable...
...Here is the great irony of modern China: in the 15 years since the deaths in Tiananmen Square, the mainland has undergone unprecedented economic growth that has lifted millions out of poverty. Yet, amid China's still-incomplete transition from command to market economy, many among the class of workers the country's nominally Marxist-Leninist leaders are supposed to protect?the Lumpenproletariat?are experiencing the very capitalist dystopia Marx envisioned. "There's more economic development than ever before, but workers' rights are overlooked," says Li Qiang, director of the New York City-based rights-monitoring group China Labor Watch...