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...religious mandate superseding any law. Meanwhile, several prominent national coalition groups composed of service agencies, Latino community activists, religious-based organizations and unions shifted from straight lobbying to aggressive activism. These alliances hoped a national chain of rallies would send the message to legislators that the pro-immigrant faction is formidable...
...invitation of rebel leader Charles Taylor, the man who last December launched the campaign to topple Doe, a former army master sergeant who had seized power a decade earlier. In January part of Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (N.P.F.L.) broke away and formed a separate faction led by Prince Yeduo Johnson, an army captain. Johnson and about 400 of his rebels captured, tortured and then killed Doe on Sept. 10, but about 1,000 of the slain President's followers still hold the executive mansion in Monrovia and are fighting on. A 6,000-man, five-nation West...
...fewer categories we have organizing the distribution requirement, the more choice students will have in selecting courses across the College.” We are compelled by the soundness of the committee’s findings and their decision to err toward empowering students with choice.Essentially, if each faction of the Faculty got their favorite discipline made a requirement, we would have a system of one course in each of nine areas like the Core Curriculum. Such a system would suffer the Core’s chronic problems; it would be a contrived and complex system that pigeonholes students into...
...country whose combination of capitalist economy and communist government has been a delicate balancing act, Hu's harkening back to socialist values could backfire, giving new life to a long-hibernating political faction. For years, as previous rulers Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin championed the market economy, a core of old-guard leftists in the Communist Party seethed. As long as China's economy grew and citizens traded in bicycles for fancy cars, though, they couldn't complain too loudly...
...militia loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Khalilzad concedes that al-Sadr is "a challenge that has to be dealt with." The preferred option would be for Iraqi security forces to take on al-Sadr's militias. But since the support of al-Sadr's faction is critical to al-Jaafari's hold on power, the Prime Minister is unlikely to authorize a crackdown. "Al-Sadr is possibly the greatest source of frustration for the U.S.," says a European diplomat. "Khalilzad knows he is potentially the most destabilizing force in Iraqi politics, but the Americans have zero leverage with...