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...slack. "When the Americans go will depend on when our own forces are ready and on how the resistance responds after the elections," says al-Mahdi. Still, the Shi'ite leadership remains adamant that it will be Baghdad's call to make. Last fall Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the leading candidate on the Shi'ite slate, told TIME that the U.S. would leave when it was asked. "The decision will be an Iraqi one, not an American one," he said. "And we want this foreign army out of our country immediately. We cannot tolerate this presence on our soil...
...Hakim's new science textbook is meant for kids, but even a well-read adult might learn a thing or two--for instance, that Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras was a fashion trailblazer who insisted on wearing trousers, then considered an Eastern style, while his countrymen were still in robes. Such are the details that pepper the narrative of Hakim's The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way (Smithsonian Books; 282 pages). Hakim's chatty style and character-driven stories have won her legions of fans. At age 11, Ethan Denny in Athens, Ga., wrote...
...Hakim, 73, had never written for children before 1986, when she decided to try her hand at textbooks. Inspired by a University of Minnesota study that claimed kids retained 40% more information from passages written by journalists than by academics, Hakim, a former editor at the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and a onetime teacher, began working on A History of US. The series was everything that conventional textbooks were not. Her books were not written by a committee, are structured around characters and stories rather than facts and dates and were kid-approved before publication. Hakim paid local children to edit...
While such historians as James McPherson and David McCullough have praised her work, critics say Hakim, who is neither a historian nor a scientist, can be too politically correct and sometimes inaccurate. A school in Florida took A History of US out of its classrooms in 2002 after a parent complained that the passages on the Vietnam war were too liberal. "I try very, very hard to be fair," says Hakim, "and I feel a responsibility not to present my bias." But, she says, opposing viewpoints and complex ideas belong in books for middle-schoolers. "Their minds are much more...
...would dilute the impact of the Shiite vote, Sistani mandated a top aide to broker the deal that put the major Shiite religious parties, and many secularists and independents, under one umbrella in the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA). The UIA's electoral list is headed by Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), and its dominant figures include the top leaders of the Dawa party. The list also includes a handful of representatives of Sunni and Kurdish minorities, and independents ranging from former Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi to individuals associated with...