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...than a preacher." In the process, Marumba says he wants to give birth to a new kind of Christian worker - "a person that can float above all the issues." Laverton's Wongatha Wonganarra Aboriginal community is luckier than some - it's dry. The first indigenous community in W.A. to enact plain-English by-laws to help its members stay out of trouble, it's a relatively peaceful and orderly town, with simple modern architecture and vegetable gardens - except when chairman Bruce Smith turns on his outdoor electronic keyboard: "I can make all the noise I want and entertain the fruit...
...that both bodies were appointed largely by outsiders rather than elected by Iraqis themselves. But even though former members of the IGC play a dominant role in the new governing arrangement, there remains a crucial difference: the new Interim Government has a limited mandate - it is not empowered to enact or change basic laws, and it's primary function is to facilitate and organize elections to choose its successor within six months. And it is the promise of imminent elections to replace it, rather than the makeup of the Interim Government itself, that has earned the process the consent...
...care where they end up, doesn't believe in the utility of literature. "Useless Knowledge," that's his passion, "the department of Why Bother?" The boys know Larkin's and Auden's and Hardy's poems by heart. But Hector also encourages them to sing Gracie Fields songs, to enact scenes from '40s film romances and, in a hilarious set piece, to polish their French by improvising an encounter in a brothel. Despite his peccadilloes - like the occasional grope when he takes them for a ride on his motorbike - the boys cherish Hector. He has given them the vocation...
...Iraqis on June 30, U.S. officials have been backpedaling rapidly in recent weeks, making clear the envisaged "sovereignty" would be partial at best. That's because a new Iraqi government won't control any of the armed forces within its borders, and it may not have the power to enact new laws or reverse those proclaimed by the occupation authority. That, say U.S. officials, is because the primary purpose of a new government is simply to organize elections scheduled for next January. But in the absence of an electoral law, and in light of the fierce opposition by Sistani...
...Keller says she believes that Harvard’s implementation of the Core served primarily as an inspiration to other schools struggling to enact their own reforms...