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...sweeping right to appropriate the property of others for its own commercial use unless it is told, case by case and instance by instance, not to,” wrote the Board of Directors of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), a major trade group, in an Aug. 19 statement on their website...
...forces will not be staying forever. Anxious about slumping domestic approval, the Administration has recently been suggesting that troops may be drawn down as early as next spring. But each time the U.S. signals a likely pullout, the political factions in Iraq jockeying to write a draft constitution, due Aug. 15, immediately signal back that they have less incentive for making concessions on issues as basic as the role of Islam, oil revenues and political power sharing. Said an American involved in the negotiations: "The more it looks like the U.S. is gonna leave, the harder...
...guerrillas step up their campaign to derail the referendum on the Iraqi constitution in October and a new national election in December. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld flew to Baghdad on July 27 to pressure the country's feuding political leaders to agree on a draft constitution by the Aug. 15 deadline. The constitutional committee has made limited progress on some thorny issues, such as the role of Islam in a new government, but it's at odds on others. Kurds in the north and Shi'ites in the south, for example, are demanding a loose federal form of government that...
...Korean nuclear problem is decidedly more acute today than it was before the negotiating process began two years ago. Thus far, the fourth round of talks has been as fruitless as the previous three. After 13 days of meetings without substantive progress, negotiations were recessed until the week of Aug. 29. The participants?North Korea, the U.S., South Korea, Japan, China and Russia?have yet to reach even the most basic accord. Still, none of the governments committed to this exercise in conference diplomacy is willing to admit failure...
...good thing MARTHA STEWART knows how to fill the hours with domestic projects. The lifestyle mogul has agreed to extend her court-imposed home confinement three weeks, until Aug. 31, after reports that she violated the terms of her house arrest. Stewart may have irked authorities by unrolling her mat at a nearby hatha yoga class and tooling around her suburban New York estate on a Kawasaki Mule four-wheel-drive vehicle. Imprisoned for lying about a stock trade, Stewart will still be freed in time for the fall debuts of her new TV programs, the syndicated daily talk show...