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...institutions. There is progress, of course. Kenyans last week rejected a new constitution backed by lackluster President Mwai Kibaki - elected just three years ago in a wave of reformist zeal - because of concerns that the proposals vested too much power in his office. (Kibaki promptly sacked his entire Cabinet.) Voters in Ghana, Senegal and Zambia have all elected opposition parties since the turn of the century. Such peaceful shifts prove that institutions in some countries are becoming strong enough to survive change and are not merely dependent upon, or at the mercy of, whoever sits in the presidential palace. Ethiopia...
...before had found evidence that Iraqi police were torturing detainees at a secret prison in Baghdad. Soon after he was told about it, al-Jaafari announced he was launching a full investigation. But even he has no illusions about how much control he actually has over his Cabinet. He didn't really make the appointments, he notes. Instead, the political parties "divided the government in shares," like warlords divvying up fiefdoms. "When [the Prime Minister] is responsible for forming the ministries," he told TIME wistfully, revealing the weakness of his position, "his ability to control them will be better...
...template for the travails of Iraq, as well as a once and future job description for how to deal with fractiousness and tumult. The elections are unlikely to provide any party with a governing majority, forcing contending groups to compromise once more and produce the kind of jigsaw Cabinet that has proved not to work so far. The new Prime Minister is likely to discover that he must act as al-Jaafari has: as a mediator and patchwork maker. Some analysts, attempting political clairvoyance, have said that the lack of a strong leader may then tempt one faction or another...
...course of his nine-month term, al-Jaafari, by his own admission, has acted less like a strong-arming leader and more a playground monitor. Still, he is proud of negotiating to get more representatives of the large Sunni minority, which dominated Iraqi politics under Saddam, into the Cabinet. Al-Jaafari also pushed to bring in Sunnis to help write the constitution. While al-Jaafari stops short of welcoming Baathists back into the government, his actions, say Western diplomats, have brought Sunni politicians into the fold and may reap benefits including broader participation in the Dec. 15 elections. But each...
...cabinet of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard’s umbrella organization for public service, elected Alicia Rodriguez ’07 as its next president at a meeting last night in the PBHA Parlor Room. Rodriguez, who is currently PBHA secretary, ran on a platform of developing student leadership, increasing recruitment, improving access to Harvard resources, and tightening focus within PBHA’s 77 community service programs. “It’s important to make sure we don’t let in so many programs that the programs we do have cannot make...