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...that a draft of the Iraqi constitution has been accepted by the Iraqi National Assembly - but not, presumably a "final, final draft" as negotiations appear to be continuing in the hope of securing Sunni support - some form of the charter is set to go before the Iraqi people for an Oct. 15 referendum. It was pushed through over Sunni Arab objections to "federalism," which they say will spell the dismemberment of Iraq. A process that was to showcase Iraq's unity and bring disgruntled Sunnis into the political process has instead deepened divisions and stoked distrust...
...heels so much that President George W. Bush called SCIRI leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim to ask him for more flexibility. The president failed to convince the cleric. Other accounts say the Americans in the embassy gave up trying to broker deals two days before the parliament accepted the draft...
...critical to include clear guidelines about how the money is to be used. So be sure to have an experienced trusts and estates attorney draft the trust. Addiction specialists advise that money for housing, food, medical care and rehab be paid directly to the providers. You can create incentives, making your daughter's direct receipt of any money contingent on her passing regular drug tests. You might also provide more access to money after a specified period of being clean. Incentives, however, will tend to protect your money more than motivate your daughter, says David Crausman, a psychologist...
...unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleag[u]es, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed." Plessy was the infamous 1896 ruling allowing "separate but equal" accommodations for blacks and whites. After the memo emerged, Rehnquist drafted a letter to a Senate ally in which he claimed that Jackson, by then deceased, had requested the memo "as a rough draft of a statement of his views." When contacted by a reporter, Jackson's former secretary denied that her boss ever supported Plessy; later, Jackson scholar Dennis Hutchinson...
...early draft, Keillor sketched a fizzled romance between his character and Streep's, then later cut it. But when Streep arrived on the set, she said she had based her whole character on the earlier version. Fine--the romance was back in. Keillor planned to make Lohan's character a failed songwriter on the fringes of the show. But before shooting began, he read a newspaper interview in which Lohan said she was going to play Streep's daughter. "I thought, Well, sure. Of course. Gives it a new wrinkle," Keillor recalls. Enter Lohan the daughter...