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...Sunday, Hizballah, the militia and Shi'a Muslim political party, pulled out of the governing coalition along with Amal, another Shi'a political party. Hizballah and Amal, which together represent almost all of Lebanon's Shi'a, had been demanding four new cabinet positions on the grounds that their resistance against Israel during the war over the summer merits greater representation in government...
...country without participation from the Shi'a parties. The constitution specifies that the country's president must be Christian, its prime minister must be Sunni Muslim, and that the speaker of parliament must be Shi'a Muslim. It doesn't, however, say what the balance of the cabinet has to be. But it would be practically impossible for the government to have legitimacy and effectiveness without any Shi'a, who are, after all, the country's largest religious group...
...handed W. his presidency in 2001. But if Baker is now laying the groundwork for another bailout of the man he once referred to as Junior, he can also thank Bush for bringing him back to center stage at a time of genuine national crisis. Baker has held three Cabinet posts, overseen a fourth agency and run five presidential campaigns. Untying the Gordian knot that is Iraq would cement his reputation as one of the nation's premier wise men of the past 30 years...
...lost. It's gone forever." The "time famine"?a result of clogged roads, demanding employers, inadequate childcare services and slow Web connections?would "shape the politics of the future," he said. Not only did he have a plan to reduce these pressures, Beazley said, but when formulating policies, his Cabinet would consider their likely impact on families in terms of time as well as money. Opponents may call it a gimmick. But Labor says its evolving brand promises a fairer, safer, more caring future. Beazley may share Howard's nostalgia, but he'd like to convince Australians it's time...
...long line of bad omens, which include the creation of the Baker committee and the ever louder drumbeat of gotta-change-strategy rhetoric emanating from Washington in recent months. "There are changes coming [in America's Iraq strategy]," says Zuhair Humadi, a former general-secretary of the Iraqi cabinet of ministers. "Rumsfeld leaving is the first step...