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...Starbucks, a pair of Dunkin’s and even the venerable Peet’s do not, sadly, an ideal coffee shop make in Harvard Square. The cozy interior at Starbucks is too contrived; Dunkin’s plastic tables don’t provide the appropriately lofty setting; and Peet’s’ cramped counters make it just a little too small to accommodate a true campus kaffeeklatsch...
...Says Bennett: "Malaki's under a lot of pressure to rein in the militias and clean up the Ministry of Interior. He's got pressure from the Americans and the Sunni bloc in Parliament. Disbanding a corrupt unit of the police force looks good and proactive and decisive. He's making the right noises. The question is, how far can he really go? His main political support comes from the Sadr movement, which is connected to the militia that is doing a lot of the sectarian killing and infiltrating the police. He can only crack down on this...
...according to senior Fatah officials, Abbas went a step further: on Sunday thousands of armed, pro-Fatah policemen in Gaza were ordered to go on strike. When marauding police set fire to a bank, the interior minister assembled 3,000 Hamas militants to break up the strike. Gun battles ensued for the next three days inside the Gaza strip and in the West Bank. Eleven Palestinians were killed and another 150 were wounded, hospital workers...
...CHARGED. Colonel Alexander Sava, Russian army officer, along with three other officers; with espionage, by Georgian authorities; in Tbilisi. Georgia's Interior Minister accused the men of spying on the country's military, and claimed they were planning a "serious provocation." Russia called the charges unfounded and recalled its ambassador in protest. Relations between Moscow and Tbilisi have steadily worsened since the 2004 election of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has pledged to move the country toward the West...
...choose their standard-bearer until November. Although Royal's momentum is growing, she is bound to face some nasty challenges from within the party before then. Royal is by far the most popular of the left's possible candidates and perhaps the only one who can beat Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the likely presidential candidate of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement. Royal has avoided squabbling with party rivals--an indication, her campaign advisers say, of her determination to speak directly to the general public. She says her goal as a politician is to help people "construct their lives...