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...federal compromise, where both the national government and the state governments could have sovereign powers. And as the Constitutional Convention was about to break down in the hot Philadelphia summer of 1787, he set in motion the process that would break the impasse and, to a large extent, shape the new nation...
...that gets to the heart of the problem: Most Iraqis do not support the insurgency, but they are increasingly estranged from the occupation. Opinion surveys, to the extent that these are reliable in a society where expressing contrarian opinions has been to court death, find that a majority want the Americans to stay, but they can't understand why a power that was able to vaporize Saddam's regime within three weeks has been unable to guarantee the electricity supply to Baghdad. They want their immediate problems addressed, and they want to see a clear timetable and program for restoring...
...offer only material aid; others aid plus the Good News. Others such as the International Bible Society and Discipling a Whole Nation (DAWN) will concentrate solely on spreading God's word. Not for decades has Evangelicalism enjoyed such an Iraqi beachhead. DAWN's Rich Haynie says that to the extent that the Allied bombardment induced Muslims to question their god, "we could say that the war was a ripeness moment...
...militant group - because he knows that armed with little more than the roadmap and the support of Israel and the U.S., he's unlikely to win a Palestinian civil war. Abbas has almost no independent political base, and his ability to deliver depends to a considerable degree on the extent to which he is able to win Yasser Arafat's backing - that may be the chief reason European and Arab diplomats have continued meeting with Arafat to win his support for implementing the "roadmap" despite Washington's official policy of ignoring the PA leader. And while U.S. officials have...
...media muzzling comes as a nasty shock to Chinese publications, which were being granted greater latitude by leaders anxious to atone for having concealed the extent of the SARS crisis. In recent weeks, newspapers have called for more oversight of political leaders and exposed the case of a young graphic designer beaten to death in police custody. But the Beijing New Times, apparently stepped over the line with a commentary called "China's Seven Disgusting Things," which accused the National People's Congress of being undemocratic and asked, "who elected these delegates...