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...sectarian cleansing. A large portion of the mostly Sunni middle and upper classes has fled the country; Jordan and Syria together now have nearly 2 million Iraqi expatriates. Inter-sect marriages have become less and less common. Zahra's father has refused to give his younger daughter permission to follow in her sister's footsteps and marry a Shi'ite. "He is the same man," Zahra says in her father's defense. "But the situation around him has changed. Now if he allows a daughter to marry a Shi'ite, people will ask questions...
...Administration's legal arguments are hardly frivolous, but are they hypocritical? Sure, although they're also clever. They show the Bush Administration strengthening the President's power by exploiting U.N. backing for the war. Claiming to follow international law, the Administration now treats suspected terrorists in Iraq pretty much however it wants...
...hypocritical. We're talking about an Administration that initially claimed it didn't need further U.N. authorization to overthrow Saddam Hussein. But look more closely: what the two cases show is less Bush's à la carte approach to international law than an Administration shrewdly exploiting global pressure to follow international law while advancing presidential power and, at the same time, trying to lend legitimacy to a failing Iraqi court system...
...encounter in later life," says interim president Derek Bok. Harvard isn't the only institution rethinking what and how to teach its students. Yale, Rutgers and the universities of Pennsylvania and Texas have recently made similar changes, and now that Harvard has joined the club, others are likely to follow...
...When "playing mas," or masquerading in Carnival, partiers follow an organized caravan called a "band" that they have already registered with and chosen a costume from. Some outfits tend to be conservative, like the simple cotton sailor suits worn by one group. Others have elaborate sky-high headdresses and makeshift tails made of feathers that a peacock would envy. But by far the most noticeable are the decorated bikinis worn by the beauty queens - which leave just enough to the imagination. Of course, it simply isn't enough to just watch; being a person of action, I felt the need...