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...Drew Erdmann, three years out of graduate school with a doctorate in history from Harvard, land the job of de facto minister of higher education in Iraq...
...necessarily being applied to the training of ministers. What their arguments fail to take into account is the systematically biased approach religious colleges take to teaching theology. States should only support the study of theology when it acknowledges religious choice and pluralism, or else they risk de facto state sponsorship of one religious mindset...
...institution-building in Haiti than they did a decade ago. When Prime Minister Yvon Neptune (a staunch Aristide ally) presented Alexandre to the press hours after Aristide?s farewell, they were both accompanied by Foley-a strong indication that the ambassador may now be America?s de facto pro consul now in Haiti. ?I think it?s very clear that the efforts made 10 years ago did not yield the intended results,? said Foley. ?There are a lot of lessons to be learned from that experience.? And a dire need to apply them right this time...
...barbed-wire fences that may eventually snake for as much as 750 km, dividing Palestinian territory on the West Bank from Israel. Inside the Peace Palace, Palestinian Ambassador to the U.N. Nasser al-Kidwa said the wall was not about security but about "entrenching the occupation and the de facto annexation of large areas of Palestinian land." The barrier strays from the Green Line that has demarcated the two sides since a 1949 armistice. Israel says the fence must jut into Palestinian lands to ensure security; the barrier's route near Ben Gurion International Airport, for instance, is meant...
...giving disproportionate weight to the Kurdish and Sunni Arab minorities. But Shiite dominance is precisely what the Sunnis are trying to avoid, and some of them are ready to die to avoid it. The Kurds are digging in their heels and demanding to be recognized as a de facto state within a state. Bremer, forced into an increasingly tricky balancing act, had initially hoped that the Ayatollah's objections could be overcome with some tweaking of the caucus plan, but Sistani brought his supporters out into the streets to make clear that it was a recipe for instability. The deadlock...