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...first glance, the deadlock over Iran's nuclear program looks like a crisis in the making: The International Atomic Energy Agency board started a new meeting Monday in Vienna to discuss sending Iran's case to the UN Security Council; the U.S. plans to share with allies what it claims is new evidence that Iran's real intent is to build nuclear weapons, rather than simply a civilian energy program; and Iran defiantly warns that if the matter is referred to the Security Council, it will resume industrial-scale uranium enrichment - the activity that most concerns the West, given that...
...Still, Khalilzad may have an overly rosy view of things. There have yet to be any indications of a new willingness among those same officials to make the real compromises needed to break the deadlock over forming a government of national unity. And the sectarian upsurge appears to have boosted the political momentum of forces outside of Khalilzad's sphere of influence, foremost among them the firebrand Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr...
...Staff of the ethics committee-which is only beginning to get up and running after a partisan deadlock that's lasted for 13 months-did not return phone calls Friday for comment. Jan Baran, an attorney who has often represented elected officials caught in ethics cases, said Justice may be ?saber rattling? since the ethics panels cover congressional rules and not criminal offenses, which are Justice's province alone. But if Justice is really just trying to warn Congress to crack down on sleazy conduct, ?I think they're correct.... Not only the Department of Justice, but I think...
...says Shockey nonetheless informally recuses himself from such activity. Scofield said Alexandra Shockey, also a former Lewis aide, is still free to lobby Lewis himself, and other committee members-and her last name is certainly well known around the panel. The ethics committee, paralyzed last year by a partisan deadlock, never formally blessed the arrangement, Scofield says...
...said, Parliament would be dissolved, and all its seats would all be put up for election. Fearing that prospect, the House of Commons acquiesced—and ratified the treaty on Major’s terms. In Britain and similarly structured polities, a no-confidence vote can resolve the deadlock between the prime minister and Parliament. Either the prime minister wins a parliamentary majority in the subsequent election, or the popular vote leads to a new leader in office. At Harvard, by contrast, the confidence motion comes from a body that is itself unelected. As a result, the no-confidence...