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Caught off guard by the mayhem and powerless to stop it, U.S. officials could only offer general expressions of optimism. "Obviously it's a blow," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told journalists as her plane crossed Iraqi airspace after a five-day swing through the Middle East, "but whenever someone tries to tear them apart, [Iraqis] find a way to get back together." Over the weekend, President George W. Bush spent an hour on seven phone calls to Iraqi leaders, expressing condolences, thanking them for their appeals for calm and urging them to continue working to form a new government...
...Mona Cadena, a regional field director for Amnesty International agrees. "Time will tell whether it strikes a blow against lethal injections. But talking about having someone enter the death chamber to administer the drugs takes away the anonymity that [the current method of hooking the inmate up to a machine outside the room] puts in place and will force us to decide who will take responsibility for ending a human life, which is a hard thing to ask someone...
...Americans, the collapse of the golden dome could also deal a damaging blow to the political process of forming a broad-based new government. Since the main Shi?ite coalition in Parliament renominated the widely disliked Ibrahim al-Jaafari for the position of prime minister, the U.S. has been edging away from its Shi?ite allies in the government and lining up with secular parties, Sunnis and Kurds, all in an effort to bring more Sunnis into the cabinet. This is the key part of their plan to undermine the Sunni insurgency and begin the withdrawal of American troops...
...Physics concentrator Elizabeth B. Wood ’06, interviewed in Cabot House dining hall Sunday, said: “I think that the dismissal or resignation of Dean Kirby dealt a serious blow to the curricular review, and I think it was certainly poor planning.” Four individuals close to the University’s central administration told The Crimson last month that Summers forced Kirby to step down...
Physics concentrator Elizabeth B. Wood ’06, interviewed in Cabot House dining hall yesterday, said: “I think that the dismissal or resignation of Dean Kirby dealt a serious blow to the curricular review, and I think it was certainly poor planning.” Four individuals close to the University’s central administration told The Crimson last month that Summers forced Kirby to step down...