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Phillips said some of the stories were extreme enough to merit investigation: one student, who had registered when he was eighteen, led efforts to increase voter registration at his high school, and even voted in previous elections, was told he had never registered when he applied for his absentee ballot...
...basis for a third nationwide vote two months later, this time for a permanent government. If the draft fails to win approval, the process will be repeated in 2006. But according to the law governing the transition, if a simple majority of voters in only three of the eighteen provinces reject the constitution, that counts as a veto. This minority veto provision insisted on by the U.S. (with strong Kurdish support) was strenuously opposed by the Shiite leaders, and may yet be a source of tension...
...dreaded popular insurgency against foreign occupation and are cause for serious concern. However, it is easy to forget, because of their low media coverage in the U.S., that the bloodiest and most frequent attacks are not at Iraqi civilians. Attacks such as the early December massacre of eighteen young Shiite men, the January 2nd bombing of a National Guard bus or the January 5th bombing of a police graduation ceremony show that the insurgents do not enjoy the widespread popular support sometimes claimed but rather are resorting to fear-inducing attacks to cow the population into submission. Attacks on Iraqi...
...Ocean as complex because a number of plates converge there. The floor of the Indian Ocean--the Indian plate--is moving north at around 2.5 in. per year, about twice the rate that your fingernails grow. As it moves, it is forced under the Burma plate to its east. Eighteen miles below the surface of the ocean, stresses that had been gradually accumulating forced the Burma plate to snap upward. That was a huge geological event, eventually measured at 9.0 on the Richter scale. The dislocation of the boundary between the Indian and Burma plates took place over a length...
...proceed to go crazy in quite self-destructive ways. Coming from a country (Australia) where the drinking age is 18, this is quite bizarre for me—generally people have worked out that drinking until you’re sick is not fun by the age of eighteen and do not associate binge drinking with tertiary education. The behavior of people arriving at Harvard can generally be explained by a combination of a lack of experience and a lack of role models: there is a paucity of responsible adult drinkers to party with, since anyone over 21 quickly migrates...