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...millions of Iraqis, it's a familiar concern. The country has been facing its most deadly spasm of violence in a year: last month alone, attacks killed more than 600 Iraqis, many of them Shi'ites targeted by Sunni jihadis bent on sowing civil war. The country's universities have long served as the bulwark of Iraq's secular society, refuges from the sectarian strife that threatens to rip the country apart. But now violence has come to the campuses. A rocket attack on an engineering college in the heart of Baghdad two weeks ago killed two students and injured...
...city, seemingly taking into account public opinion even as it increasingly calls the shots. In March, the Chinese leadership nudged Hong Kong's aloof and deeply unpopular Chief Executive, Tung Chee-hwa, into resigning. That paved the way for Tung's No. 2, Donald Tsang, a gregarious, astute career civil servant with the common touch. Beijing has publicly backed him as the best man to run Hong Kong-even though some of the city's pro-China leaders openly question his "patriotic" credentials. Last week Tsang, 60, stepped down temporarily as the acting Chief Executive so he could...
...city, seemingly taking into account public opinion even as it increasingly calls the shots. In March, the Chinese leadership nudged Hong Kong's aloof and deeply unpopular Chief Executive, Tung Chee-hwa, into resigning. That paved the way for Tung's No. 2, Donald Tsang, a gregarious, astute career civil servant with the common touch. Beijing has publicly backed him as the best man to run Hong Kong?even though some of the city's pro-China leaders openly question his "patriotic" credentials. Last week Tsang, 60, stepped down temporarily as the acting Chief Executive so he could...
RULED ILLEGAL. The bookkeeping of BILL CEVERHA, 68, treasurer of Texans for a Republican Majority, a political-action committee formed by U.S. House majority leader Tom DeLay; in a civil suit brought by five losing Democratic candidates in 2002 Texas legislative races; in Austin. District Judge Joseph Hart ruled that in failing to report more than $500,000 in corporate political contributions-money used to boost DeLay's G.O.P. majority-Ceverha violated Texas election code. It's the first major ruling implicating someone linked to DeLay, who is embroiled in a series of ethical controversies...
...idealized Mr. Smith Goes to Washington imagery that the filibuster invokes, its uses have often been much darker. It was, for instance, one of the major means by which white segregationists blocked civil rights legislation in the 1960s. Republicans note that Democrats had a different view of delaying tactics when they were running the Senate. Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa has lately been one of the most outspoken defenders of the minority's right to filibuster, but in early 1995, he argued, "There is no reform more important to this country and to this body than slaying the dinosaur called...