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While we earnestly hope that the new Iraqi government will be secular, pluralistic and tolerant, and will foster friendly relations with the U.S., a great deal of planning and hard work will need to be done in order to ensure this. Given the current administration’s track record thus far on long-term planning, the future of Iraq’s fledgling democracy is anything but certain. The election is a decided bright spot in our dealings with Iraq, but a difficult and dangerous road ahead remains...
...opens opportunities to freshmen without being at expense of upperclassmen and acts as a way to foster connections,” Koncsol said.Koncsol also started a group for Union Dorm residents on thefacebook.com called “Quincy is for the people (namely, Us),” in response to the group set up by the dissatisfied Quincy residents...
...easy to come by. Though parliament is expected to confirm her nomination this week, Tymoshenko remains a divisive figure. Roman Bezsmertny, another M.P. for Our Ukraine, which is allied with Tymoshenko's party, called on fellow deputies to vote against her because he believes she'll foster disunity - despite the fact that it was her forceful rhetoric that helped keep demonstrators' spirits high during the street protests that brought Yushchenko to power. But questions persist about her integrity, especially about how she acquired her wealth - estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars - during the mid-1990s when...
...tomboyish aspiring writer, Sutton Foster is a total delight, with gangly limbs always on the move, the comic timing of a vaudeville vet and a voice that can shake the balcony. She burst onto Broadway two seasons ago as the star of Thoroughly Modern Millie; she's even better here, a great singing comedian in the Carol Burnett mold. Maureen McGovern is a little stodgy as the mother, but the whole ensemble--including the men--meshes perfectly. If only the score by Jason Howland had a few decent tunes, Little Women might have been a real banquet. --By Richard Zoglin
...many books have been written about him as by him. A Taiwan newspaper has even suggested that his visage may one day grace a Japanese banknote, as does that of Meiji-era novelist Soseki Natsume, a Murakami influence. Others he admires, Murakami has admitted, include Fitzgerald, Carver, David Foster Wallace and Tim O'Brien, all of them Americans. Indeed, Murakami's fondness for U.S. pop-cultural references has moved local critics to complain that he worships the West at the expense of things Japanese...