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...attack came from a senior al-Qaeda leader abroad. None of this reassures Moroccans about the future. The goals of greater democracy and tolerance of all religions are at the heart of King Mohammed VI's social program. But there is now ample reason for the government to crack down on Islamist groups, and a long-stalled antiterrorism law - decried as authoritarian and repressive - got new life in the wake of the attack, clearing a major legislative hurdle last week. Even before the bombings, expected advances by Morocco's two Islamic parties led the government to postpone nationwide local elections...
...that its views no longer raise a campus eyebrow. Nobody cares to discuss The Salient’s long, meandering article defending anti-homosexual bias. Its author, Gladden J. Pappin ’04, wrote a letter to The Crimson last semester in which he declared that Harvard should crack down on homosexuality as it had in the 1920 secret court uncovered by a Fifteen Minutes scrutiny. Now, many months later, he has written to “correct several misunderstandings...
...wrote Primary Colors, the scaldingly funny roman a clef about Bill Clinton--Joe has emerged as one of America's premier political journalists. I'm thrilled to have him at TIME, even if he occasionally questions the wisdom of hitting the road for another round of motel rooms and crack-of-dawn pancake breakfasts. "I don't really know why I keep doing this," says Klein. "It goes against all sanity, but you really do live for the moments when politicians surprise you--and I don't mean when they screw up, because that's never a surprise...
Arafat's machinations are having an effect. Dahlan is finding it hard to crack down on militants, as he must to win Israeli cooperation in any peace plan. That's partly because last week Arafat ordered the head of Preventive Security--a plain-clothes police agency in the West Bank--not to cooperate with the security chief. And Fatah's militant arm, the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, released a communique in which it stated that it refused to comply with Abbas' and Dahlan's calls for an end to terrorism. "We will not halt our resistance," it read, "as long...
...felt like if I could keep it up and keep the pressure on this guy he was going to crack sooner or later,” Nguyen said...