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...This comes after the recent revelations of the now infamous email sent by a Duke player hours after the alleged crime, in which he joked he was going to have more strippers over and "kill the bitches'; defense lawyers do not dispute that message's authenticity, though they insist it has no bearing on their clients' culpability. "The police said [the new e-mail] came from a confidential informant, but we have reason to believe it came from the police, hoping it would make all the players nervous," says one defense lawyer. "That didn't work." A spokesperson...
...Hakim, the man who heads the coalition of Shi?ite parties. Al-Hakim currently seems more concerned with unifying Iraq's Shi?ites with those in Iran. That goes against the Sunni and Kurdish interests as well as the wishes of Iraq's other neighboring countries. Khalilzad must insist that al-Hakim use his influence on behalf of the interests of all Iraqi people, the region and the world. Alex Ohan Toronto...
There is a small but hardy band of researchers who insist the dropout rates don't quite approach those levels. They point to their pet surveys that suggest a rate of only 15% to 20%. The dispute is difficult to referee, particularly in the wake of decades of lax accounting by states and schools. But the majority of analysts and lawmakers have come to this consensus: the numbers have remained unchecked at approximately 30% through two decades of intense educational reform, and the magnitude of the problem has been consistently, and often willfully, ignored...
...Europeans know that, which is why in the coming months they will insist, ever so delicately, that Iran be offered expanded incentives along with the threatened penalties. The really bad news for Washington hawks is that the only incentives that matter are those that can be offered by, you guessed it, the U.S. And if Washington balks at offering Tehran what most of the international community would regard as reasonable security guarantees, it won't only be Iran that finds itself isolated...
...Hakim, the man who heads the coalition of Shi'ite parties. Al-Hakim currently seems more concerned with unifying Iraq's Shi'ites with those in Iran. That goes against the Sunni and Kurdish interests as well as the wishes of Iraq's other neighboring countries. Khalilzad must insist that al-Hakim use his influence on behalf of the interests of all the Iraqi people, the region and the world. Alex Ohan Toronto Forgiveness Forestalled Simon Robinson's essay "Is forgiveness always divine?" [March 20] discussed the decision of the Rev. Julie Nicholson, an Anglican vicar who lost her daughter...