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...decades ago will be allowed to vote in Kirkuk. Turkey - as well as leaders of the city's ethnic Turcoman and Arab populations - fear this will decisively tip the electoral balance to give the Kurds control over the contested city. The Turkish military is warning, bluntly, that it would deem Kurdish control of Kirkuk unacceptable, and that it might view such an outcome as grounds to intervene. These are no idle threats, warn the respected mediators of the International Crisis Group, who warn that the situation is already at boiling point and an outbreak of hostilities that draws in Turkey...
...Hours after the embassy truck bombing, Zarqawi's group was on the Web, taking responsibility for four car bombings across Baghdad, including one "near the Australian embassy." That the group would deem Australians as fair game is hardly news; all those who support democracy in Iraq - Iraqis and foreigners alike - are targets of the insurgents. A document Zarqawi's organization posted on the Web last April left no doubt. Claiming that the burning and mutilation of four American security contractors in Fallujah was justified under Islamic law, it listed Australians among "enemy" nationals: "Japan by helping Americans they became...
...Pentagon found Harvard Law School to be in violation of the 1996 statute, it could cut support to all branches of the University from nearly every federal agency, amounting to more than $400 million annually in lost funds for Harvard—a penalty that the Court might deem “excessive,” Fried said...
There may even be a biological basis to all this. The human brain continues to grow and change into the early 20s, according to Abigail Baird, who runs the Laboratory for Adolescent Studies at Dartmouth. "We as a society deem an individual at the age of 18 ready for adult responsibility," Baird points out. "Yet recent evidence suggests that our neuropsychological development is many years from being complete. There's no reason to think 18 is a magic number." How can the twixters be expected to settle down when their gray matter hasn...
...work. Certainly, if you do poorly on a paper it is comforting to have an excuse for your failure, namely that you didn’t spend much time on that assignment. Were you to do poorly on a paper you wrote without the delay of procrastination, you might deem yourself mediocre. An alternative explanation is that students procrastinate simply because they can: as academic superstars, they don’t need to utilize all of their time. No matter how you slice it, as long as there is a reading period there will be two extra weeks to procrastinate...