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Like most of Bellow's novels, Herzog was in essence Bellow's story: woman-crowded, it reflected his fractious marital and personal history. He married five times, engaged in spirited, sometimes acrimonious quarrels with his three sons, lovers, other writers, old friends. In order to write, he claimed, he needed to tear up his life...
Where, indeed? The U.S. believes that nation-building efforts and the success of last October's presidential election have drained local support in former Taliban strongholds. There's irony in that, since the Taliban initially gained power because of its ability to quell fractious warlords and restore order. Now Hamid Karzai's government is sending out feelers to former Taliban fighters, offering some of them amnesty if they take a public oath of loyalty to the new Afghan constitution...
...With regional polls coming up in two weeks, and a fraught race already emerging for next year's national vote, fringe parties like Mussolini's are punching way above their weight. And Berlusconi is going out of his way to attract new allies and keep current members of his fractious coalition government onside. Take the anti-immigrant Northern League, which got less than 4% of the vote in 2001 parliamentary elections. The League's bombastic founder, Umberto Bossi, who's just returned to the fray a year after suffering a stroke, pulled his top lieutenant from his post as Reform...
...gets the top job, al-Jaafari, a physician by training, will have to display a surgeon's dexterity to hold together fractious Shi'ites, cool off restive Kurds and reach out to disaffected Sunni Arabs--all while figuring out how to accommodate a U.S. military presence that is widely resented but still indispensable to the country's security. It helps that al-Jaafari is acceptable to most of Iraq's ethnic, religious and political groups; opinion polls last year identified him as one of Iraq's most respected politicians. "He is not a divisive figure, and in Iraq today, that...
Holding the vote, of course, will be challenge enough amid the chaos. But that's only the start. There is every indication that Sunday's vote will lead to a fractured, and highly fractious, Transitional National Assembly, in which no single party will command a clear majority. The new government's ability to deal with both the insurgents and the U.S. will be circumscribed by multiparty politics--a whole new notion for Iraq. It will be, as democracies usually are, noisy, messy and unpredictable...