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...feelings of a felon don't matter much in Mississippi, at least when it comes to voting, and that's unfortunate. If someone wants to vote, to in effect play by the rules, doesn't it make sense to encourage that person, to put a collective arm around her and say something like, Let's go give those numbskulls in Congress a piece of our mind? Wouldn't that make a past transgressor feel as if she had a stake in the system? Of course it would. In fact, a Sentencing Project study that tracked released felons from 1997 through...
...rapidly deteriorating conditions that underlie the political arm-wrestling recall the opening months of the wars that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia. "Ethnic cleansing" has continued apace inside Baghdad, as Shi'ite militias extend their control over mixed neighborhoods by violently forcing out Sunnis. But if the Shi'ite militias control much of the capital, reports suggest that Sunni insurgent groups are tightening their grip along road-transportation routes into and out of the capital. Such tactics have previously allowed the Sunni insurgents to choke fuel supplies into the capital. With that kind of virtual stalemate prevailing, Maliki...
...Then, without warning, came a thunderbolt. An old-fashioned stage direction might introduce it like this: Old enemy king-hits writer. Depression. Gurr thought he was winning the arm-wrestle of writing one of his plays when it struck. "The marrow turns tepid, the skin spongy, the eyes dry, the feet stepping ahead in a flat counting-to-ten kind of way," he writes. "You begin to identify with inert objects. A fence post, a wardrobe, a cut stump in the park. You see these things and see yourself in them: a dead thing with a faint memory of flowing...
...Atlantic and bought an upstart U.S. mobile-phone company called VoiceStream Wireless for $46.5 billion. Telekom's management was excoriated for paying an exorbitant price for the smallest operator in a crowded market, dwarfed by giants Cingular, Verizon and Sprint. But the bet paid off. Today, the U.S. arm of T-Mobile, the German mother ship's wireless unit, is still ranked fourth, but it is the fastest-growing part of the $75 billion company and well on its way to becoming Telekom's largest revenue source. In the first half of 2006, T-Mobile USA accounted...
...Maliki last summer was correct: The militias exist because Shi'ites feel insecure. And that feeling of insecurity has been deliberately provoked and reinforced by Sunni insurgents who have targeted Shi'ites. The Shi'ites are tired of getting blown up, and they believe that if they arm themselves and set up checkpoints in their neighborhood, they can provide their communities with the protection that the government and the Americans are failing to provide. So, it's like a B-movie standoff in which there are four people all pointing guns at each other, and nobody wants to be first...