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...week a federal bill, modeled on Oklahoma's statute, was introduced in the U.S. Senate by a group of bipartisan lawmakers from across the country, including states in which hospital admission rates for meth addiction have soared in the past 10 years; in Arkansas, that rate has increased 17-fold since...
...will the new government tame the insurgency? Senior Iraqi leaders say Allawi's formula of tough talk, backed by U.S. military might, will give way to a more conciliatory approach. The consensus among leading politicians is that the only way to bring the Sunnis back into the political fold is to try to negotiate an end to the resistance. "This is the minimum we need to do in order to deal with the security situation," says Tawfiq al-Yasseri, general secretary of the secular National Democratic Coalition...
...Maidan," or Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev's Independence Square: the symbol of the civil disobedience campaign that erupted in November after Yanukovych "won" a vote marred by massive fraud and led to the Dec. 26 rerun. Yushchenko intended to call on the hundreds still camping on the Maidan to fold up their tents, and invite them back to the square on New Year's Eve to celebrate the orange revolution's victory. But as he was about to leave for the speech, two close allies, M.P.s Volodymyr Felenko and Taras Stetskiv, rushed into his office. Government sources had told them Yanukovych...
...years since, Mackinnon has seen her academic life fold into her extracurricular life, with her studies focused on the things she feels passionate about. Her mentor and advisor, Hazel Associate Professor in the Social Sciences Peter E. Gordon, writes in an email that in her academic work, “[Mackinnon] has a quiet intensity to her, and there is a discerning, moral disposition that characterizes all of her thought...
That’s part of what makes Narang so appealing, says Leino. “Sameer is like a born politician. He knows how to relate to virtually anybody. For a lot of people who are more shy, he kind of brings them into the fold...