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...Marcel J. Paraplex Wonder Cabinet of Minor Curiosities
...five cabinet positions left vacant in Tuesday's swearing in of a new Iraqi cabinet - and the decision by Sunni vice president Ghazi al-Yawer to boycott the ceremony - suggest that democracy and civil war are not mutually exclusive in Iraq. To be sure, the cabinet of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari- the first government chosen by Iraqis themselves in a half-century-is an historic milestone. It is difficult to envisage circumstances in which Iraqis would be prepared to surrender their hard-earned right to choose their leaders. Unfortunately, democracy has not resolved the ethnic conflict among them, which...
...time, Harvard took no legal action against the Pentagon, but a coalition of 31 law schools and faculty groups—calling themselves the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR)—filed a suit against six Bush administration cabinet officials, charging that the Solomon Amendment was unconstitutional...
...Earlier today Iraqi legislators ended a three-month impasse by approving a Cabinet for new Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. The new Prime Minister is a Shi'a, the new President is a Kurd, and--as always, of course--the Transportation Secretary is Hispanic." --JON STEWART...
...Silvio Berlusconi resigned last week after a disastrous showing by his center-right coalition in local elections. One partner, the Union of Christian Democrats (UDC), withdrew its ministers; another, the National Alliance (AN), threatened to do likewise. So Berlusconi quit, but quickly formed a new government by reshuffling his Cabinet. He appointed former Treasury Minister and Berlusconi loyalist Giulio Tremonti as deputy PM in place of UDC chief Marco Follini, who has distanced himself from the floundering leader. The Prime Minister had enjoyed the longest uninterrupted span in power since World War II, but his popularity has taken...