Word: civilizations
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...debate, both sides faced tough questions from the IOP Fellows in an effort to inform their undergraduate peers on the main issues being tackled by candidates. Former Democratic Governor of New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen kicked off the event, reminding the debaters to “keep it civil.” Members from both sides relied heavily on impassioned political rhetoric to suggest just how much weight is resting on the election’s outcome. Grandiose statements like Krahel’s “America’s best days are ahead of us” attempted...
...prisoners of war and closing of all detention centers, withdrawing American forces from the Green Zone, and allowing the Iraqi government to void petroleum contracts signed by the American-run government. But the plan quickly slides into clichés, advocating such things as more funding for Iraqi civil society, more humanitarian assistance, and a greater role for intergovernmental institutions...
...better handling of Iraq’s reconstruction, saying that the U.S. should model its efforts on the rebuilding of Germany after World War II. Not only do the authors fail to provide any meaningful guidance on how Iraq can be rebuilt in the midst of a civil war, they devote only three pages of text to reconstruction, which, as in 2003, just doesn’t seem to be a sexy topic...
...taken with this slogan that they recently piled 11 disqualifying felonies onto the 10 listed in their state's constitution. The Mississippi attorney general said they could do so without actually amending the constitution, based on his creative reading of a 1998 federal court decision, but the American Civil Liberties Union disagreed. On Oct. 9, it filed a lawsuit in Hinds County, Mississippi, challenging the 11 additions, including shoplifting and timber larceny, as improperly adopted...
...sitting across from me in the diner has several names. These days he goes by Valentino Achak Deng, but in the African refugee camps he grew up in he was called Gone Far, for the hundreds of miles he walked when he fled the violence of Sudan's civil war. One girl nicknamed him Sleeper, for the time he was so exhausted he lay down in the middle of the road and tried to die. The other guy sitting across from me, next to Valentino/Gone Far/Sleeper, has just one name: Dave Eggers...