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...most of his life, al-Jaafari thought less about how to run a government and more about how to topple one. In the 1970s, al-Jaafari, a physician, was a rising star in the Islamic Dawa Party and fled with the leadership to Iran and then Britain in the 1980s when Saddam outlawed the movement. He speaks English well but not with the facility of a native speaker and prefers to conduct interviews through an interpreter. Since becoming Prime Minister, al-Jaafari has lived within the Green Zone in what had been one of Saddam's favorite palaces...
...Britain's Betfair, an online sports-betting exchange, has an unusual format and an unusual strategy for an Internet gambling company: it tries to be squeaky clean...
Unlike the majority of its online rivals that have set up shop in jurisdictions such as Gibraltar or the Isle of Man, Betfair is based on mainland Britain. And unlike most competitors, it won't accept bets from places where online wagering is illegal, including the U.S. Indeed, it doesn't actually book bets; rather, it matches up bettors, for a fee. The strategy has won it plaudits at home, including an award for enterprise from Queen Elizabeth. And it enabled the company to attract Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as financial advisers--a coup, given the nervousness...
...Jackson said. She also said that in deciding the scope of the Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment, the Court has often looked to the rest of the world. In its first Eighth Amendment case, Jackson said, the Court looked to the legal systems in Britain and India for guidance. Jackson read a passage from an article that Posner had written in 1996 where he advocated looking abroad to find the grounds to invalidate a law punishing drug possession too harshly. “Well, I do like to be on both sides of an issue; that...
...transform Japan into "the U.K. of Asia"-a regional power on which the U.S. can rely not only for diplomatic support, but for military assistance all over the globe. It's a nice idea, but Ward insists that the analogy ignores the deeply shared roots between the U.S. and Britain, to say nothing of long years of close military and bureaucratic cooperation. "For Japan to emulate Britain," says Ward, "would be a quantum leap...