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...spokesman told TIME that $3.7 billion in Kurdish money was handed to the Coalition Provisional Authority. So far the Kurds have collected about $1.4 billion of that. They also want assurances that the Kurdish-dominated north will retain the autonomy it has enjoyed since the end of the first Gulf War, when the U.S. established a no-fly zone to protect the Kurds, and that the new Iraqi constitution will not impose Islamic law, as some prominent Shi'ite clerics have demanded. But some Kurdish ambitions could trigger ethnic disputes that would reverberate beyond Iraq's borders. The Kurds' election...
...written constitution for post-World War II Japan prohibits the country from going to war. For decades, that curb on Japanese militarism was much appreciated by Asian nations colonized or brutally occupied by Japan (China, Korea and Taiwan) during the war. But since the Gulf War of 1991, when Japan felt humiliated by its inability to contribute anything but a large check, the country has reappraised its constitutional pacifism. Starting in 1994, it started sending small military missions to troubled countries such as Cambodia and East Timor. New laws were passed to allow the missions, and the troops never fought...
Earning the top seed means the difference between having to meet probable third seed St. Lawrence and the eventual fourth seed (most likely Princeton or Yale) in the ECAC semifinals. The gulf in talent between the top three and the rest of the field is measurable, so Harvard would benefit greatly from avoiding the Saints and Big Green until the final...
...fears surrounding the grand experiment of 1970 were never realized. Instead, a new kind of dynamic developed—one where men felt free to go to dinner unshaven, and women wandered down with curlers still tangled in their hair. The gulf between Harvard and Radcliffe, once widened by rules and geography, narrowed. The move set the stage for further integration. Many students, including Barbara and Phil, wore armbands to commencement in support of the equal admission of women...
...that the customers Kodak will target--like direct marketers who want to customize their flyers or retail chains that need variable posters--represent a $30 billion market that's growing at a 12% clip. Once again, Kodak's recently acquired portfolio of products is arranged to bridge the gulf between traditional and digital printing...