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...most democratic country, the emir is drafting a new constitution that creates a parliament based on universal suffrage, even if he will appoint a third of the seats. The emir wins praise for scaling back military purchases; he believes they encourage corruption and that Qatar is too small to defend itself against a major attack anyway. Hamad has begun to reform the education system, with the ambitious aim of upgrading it to U.S. standards...
HANOVER, N.H.—Someone should have passed on a copy of this week’s Sports Illustrated to the Dartmouth football team. Maybe then it would have had an idea of what it was getting into in attempting to defend senior wide receiver Carl Morris. With SI’s flattering feature still hot from the presses, Morris broke four of his own team receiving records en route to the Crimson’s 31-26 victory...
...great resistance. In general, governments would like victims to disappear as quickly as possible so they can get on with other business. Victims are viewed as symbols of a nation's loss following attacks, but are soon dismissed as complicated and expensive to deal with. In the U.S., victims defend themselves in the courts using enormous punitive damages as a weapon. In France, courts provide victims only legal justice; the monetary assistance we get from the state is limited, and never assured...
...Prime Minister's latest round of banking reform proposals. In a withering attack, he accused Koizumi's new finance chief Heizo Takenaka of being a loose cannon, an unelected and unaccountable radical operating outside the system. And he finished with a direct salvo against the man he used to defend, telling Koizumi, "What is lacking most is leadership in coping with economic issues." When the barrage was over, the Prime Minister smiled wanly and thanked Aoki for his "encouragement...
...they’re so successful—they defend so very well, and they’re great with the little counterattacks,” said Harvard coach Tim Wheaton. “So even though we might have had the ball a bunch, they had some very dangerous chances...