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...made clear that he wants the interim constitution signed last Monday amended before it takes effect on June 30, to eliminate the de facto veto power it grants the Kurdish minority over a permanent constitution. Sistani did, however, advise his supporters on the Iraqi Governing Council to sign the document, because failure to do so would have provoked a crisis that could delay the July 1 hand-over of power by the U.S. And Sistani and the Shiites are so keen to see the U.S. out that they're willing to deal with the Kurdish veto later. (The Kurds, incidentally...
...also because a marriage license opens the door to a multitude of federal and state benefits granted to wedded couples, including inheritance rights and Social Security survivor's benefits. That's one reason the consolation prize of civil unions is unsatisfying to gay activists, unless it comes with a document that opens the same doors as a marriage license. "Call it, perhaps, a marriage, family and partnership license," says Elizabeth Birch, a former executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights organization...
...film remains a potent document, in gritty, memorial black-and-white, of malevolence and heroism portrayed in the starkest terms. Schindler (Liam Neeson) is a reluctant savior. "He didn't come to Poland to save Jews," survivor Leon Leyson says in Voices from the List. "He came to Poland to make his fortune." Keeping his Jewish workers alive was at first just good business, then a matter of stubborn pride and finally a humanist crusade for which his beneficiaries are ever grateful. "He was life, he was maybe future," says Rena Finder...
...Harvard students should read this collection, value their experiences here and document them,” says Sullivan. “What’s scandalous today becomes quaint and humorous later...
...That had taken a major step forward at the weekend with the adoption by the IGC of a draft Basic Law, or interim constitution, which was subsequently approved by U.S. administrator J. Paul Bremer. The document represents an interim political consensus designed to avoid an intra-Iraqi battle for power, and as such reflects a hard-fought compromise on questions such as Kurdish autonomy, the rights of women and the role of Islam. Its democratic federal provisions, underpinned by a bill of rights guaranteeing freedoms familiar in the West, would make it something of a model constitution among Arab nations...