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...More than two million—most of them middle-class professionals—have left the country, with another two million internally displaced. This means that, for those who remain, the numbers of doctors, professors, university teachers, engineers and technicians available to them sinks by the day. Meanwhile, central government has more or less ceased to exist, leaving the provision of social services to local sectarian strong-men and their militias who allocate these services on a mainly religio-political basis. In short, most Iraqis now live in localities governed by groups with insistent religious agendas...
...they are unable to control their followers outside Baghdad’s Green Zone, where they live, and uncertain regarding the terms and conditions under which the American military will choose to leave. To make matters worse, the presence of American military power makes the job of the central government more difficult still; U.S. military commanders on the ground are busy undermining its power by diverting major resources to local agents like the Awakening Councils in Anbar province. If you are a political leader, better to avoid difficult decisions, rather than take steps that will alienate some part of your...
...Annapolis. “It’s probably the most competitive regular season regatta for fleet racing for the entire spring,” Watson said of the co-ed event.Meanwhile, some of the Crimson’s more inexperienced sailors stayed in Cambridge to compete in the Central Series One regatta. The squad finished fourth in the field of 10.ST. MARY’S WOMEN’S REGATTAWatson and Wareham finished third in the A division to pace Harvard to a solid fifth-place finish at the St. Mary’s Women’s Regatta...
...Republican or a Democratic issue, and McCain reassured the public that you didn’t have to espouse torture to be a true Republican.So why has the senator voted against an anti-torture bill that his colleagues in the Senate passed?The Intelligence Authorization Bill bans the Central Intelligence Agency from using acts of torture. It calls on the CIA to follow the United States Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations in the treatment of individuals. For Senator McCain, this bill was a seminal opportunity to enact measures he has been advocating for years. The bill explicitly...
...prefecture, allegedly shot dead by Chinese riot control police, according to an eyewitness account quoted by Radio Free Asia. The escalating confrontation in and around Tibet is a nightmare for China's top leadership, but one, some diplomats believe, that could not have taken anyone in the central government completely by surprise. It pits the leadership in Beijing against its domestic opponents - who include not only Tibetan dissidents, but also separatist groups in the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang, as well as human rights and political activists throughout the country...