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...What was deferred? Federalism has remained a roadblock and the Sunnis' red line issue. They absolutely reject the idea of "federalism"-meaning empowered regional districts similar to the Kurdish region in the north-for the Shi'ites, saying it will lead to the breakup of the country and allow Iran undue influence over the south. This issue has been pushed through over Sunni objections causing the Sunnis to threaten to veto the constitution when it comes up for an Oct. 15 referendum. It's unclear how seriously to take this threat, because the constitution can only be vetoed...
...they claim as a Kurdish city, but which was ?Arabized? under Saddam Hussein. The Sunni Arabs are pushing back against the Kurdish claims on Kirkuk and Shi'ite demands for a similar autonomous region in the south. Sunni negotiators oppose federalism because they believe it would lead to the breakup of Iraq, but they're also worried that if the Shi'ites and the Kurds control their own regions, they'll horde the oil revenues rather than share them with the oil-parched central part of the country - the so-called Sunni heartland...
...very fine margin of error. Lose your purchase on the air and go into a spin, and there's almost no way to pull out of it. "The attitude needs to be very, very precise," says Thagard. "You can pick up heat so fast you get a breakup...
...which is difficult to produce secretly. Nuclear-radiation leaks, even in minute quantities, can be detected. But making a nuclear bomb isn't impossible. Under the apartheid regime--at a time when it was subject to international trade sanctions--South Africa managed to build six of them. (Until the breakup of the Soviet Union, South Africa was the only nation to willingly and verifiably give up its entire nuclear arsenal.) Leaving aside North Korea's claims that it possesses the Bomb, there are already seven declared nuclear powers--the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, China, India and Pakistan--with Israel...
Think for a minute of some of the things that have happened since June 17, 1969, when Oh! Calcutta! opened to almost universal boos from the critics: the first moon landing, Watergate, gas shortages and surpluses, the breakup of the Beatles and AT&T, the demise of miniskirts, the birth and death of the yuppie, Rocky I, II, III and IV. A changing world, you might say, and shake your graying head. But calm down. There is some stability. In Manhattan and São Paulo, audiences are still paying to see Oh! Calcutta! and watch eight actors and actresses take...