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Ultimately, Berresford killed an initial compromise, although the proposal had seemed to command the support of many universities and even some of her staff, Saller says...
Holding the vote, of course, will be challenge enough amid the chaos. But that's only the start. There is every indication that Sunday's vote will lead to a fractured, and highly fractious, Transitional National Assembly, in which no single party will command a clear majority. The new government's ability to deal with both the insurgents and the U.S. will be circumscribed by multiparty politics--a whole new notion for Iraq. It will be, as democracies usually are, noisy, messy and unpredictable...
...Here is the great irony of modern China: in the 15 years since the deaths in Tiananmen Square, the mainland has undergone unprecedented economic growth that has lifted millions out of poverty. Yet, amid China's still-incomplete transition from command to market economy, many among the class of workers the country's nominally Marxist-Leninist leaders are supposed to protect?the Lumpenproletariat?are experiencing the very capitalist dystopia Marx envisioned. "There's more economic development than ever before, but workers' rights are overlooked," says Li Qiang, director of the New York City-based rights-monitoring group China Labor Watch...
...word, but what an effect. This “amen” was a command and a question, an exclamation and an accusation. This “amen” reached out and grabbed...
...These retro games don't have the eye-popping graphics of today's hot sellers, but that doesn't make classics like Centipede and Missile Command any less addictive. To find out how well the updates replicated the originals, I asked a dozen Time staff members to test them. The verdict: Anthology most faithfully re-creates the Atari classics, whereas Flashback is a disappointment, lacking in both depth and performance...