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...majority. But the price of that restraint has been to give the Kurdish minority the means to blackmail the majority, which in turn sets the scene for an acrimonious aftermath. The Kurds want to resolve such contentious issues as Kirkuk while their power is at its peak; the Shiites insist it should be done on the basis of a consensus achieved in the new Assembly. And the electorate that put the Shiites in power - and their mentor, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani - are unlikely to accept the legitimacy of any such far-reaching agreements achieved on this basis. Sistani himself never...
Although they insist that the Schiavo saga was an extreme example, Republicans aren't giving up on the issue of end-of-life care. The Senate Health Committee is set to hold a hearing this week on end-of-life issues, and there is talk among some members of introducing a federal version of Terri's Law, which would give other people in similar right-to-die cases access to federal courts. Members only have to look at their state counterparts to get other ideas: a conservative Democratic lawmaker in Michigan has introduced a bill that would bar spouses caught...
Despite the contention surrounding the school—and the fact that the fledgling institution still has no building or full faculty—the administrators insist that, come August, school will be in session...
...only that they maintain the autonomy they have enjoyed for over a decade under the protection of the Allied ?no-fly? zone, but also that their domain be extended to include the fiercely contested oil-rich city of Kirkuk. They want a greater share of oil revenues, and also insist on keeping their ethnic militia - the peshmerga - intact, simply incorporating it under the umbrella of the Iraqi national army but making it the de facto defense force of the Kurdish region, into which no other national army units would be allowed to enter. In essence, the Kurds are naming...
...told me they hope that Hamas and Hizballah will respond similarly to the peaceful desires of their people, that they will emphasize stability, economic development and social services and avoid military posturing and attacks on Israel. Yes, the U.S. still considers Hizballah a terrorist organization, but it won't insist on the disarming of the group's militia, as required by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559, before Lebanon's May elections...