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...waiting and watching their TVs, for news of any violence or disturbance. Once they hear that voting is going normally, they will come out." He said that at his polling station, the Muhammad Baqr al-Hakim Boys' High School, there was actually less security this time than on Jan 30. One reason, he said, is that "the Iraqi security forces have learned from the [previous] elections, and are now more strategically positioned--they don't all crowd around one spot." Another lesson from Jan 30: "We learned which neighborhoods are likely to be troublesome, and which are calm...
...decision to remain closed was the right one. “I don’t think it’s as disruptive as having a condensed fall semester,” Ke said. His main concern, he added, is that Tulane’s winter semester begins on Jan. 17, before Harvard’s fall term exams are complete. The delay in reopening Tulane and Loyola is mainly a result of the condition of the city of New Orleans, not the damage sustained by the universities themselves, officials at both schools said.“The city just...
...Well, only 1,200 days to go-which means, of course, that Bush has plenty of time to resurrect himself; in fact, he will probably survive several boom-and-bust cycles before Jan. 20, 2009, rolls around. The ways of presidential resurrection are many. We've seen sagging Presidents revive their fortunes in a trice. In 1995 Bill Clinton had to insist that he was "still relevant" in a city that had fallen in love with Newt Gingrich's Republican revolution. But a few days later, he was a hero again after his eloquent handling of the Oklahoma City tragedy...
...going to miss these guys." Not enough, apparently, to vote for them. Whereas 20 years ago the Greens relied on people under 30 for most of their support, today their base is aging and the bulk of their vote comes from Germans in their 40s and 50s. Jan Böttcher, a 27-year-old law student at the Free University of Berlin, voted for the fdp, with their emphasis on free-market policies. "The big difference between us and the '68 generation is that we don't feel any real revolutionary drive," says Böttcher. "We feel...
...Sunni Arabs make up barely a fifth of Iraq's population but were the dominant political class until the fall of Saddam Hussein. The majority of Sunnis sat out the Jan 30 general election, but leaders like Mutlaq were persuaded in the summer to join a committee to draft the constitution. The U.S. believes that drawing the Sunnis into the political process is the key condition for defeating the insurgency. But even those Sunnis that entered the process have rejected the draft charter, citing several controversial clauses. Their main bone of contention is federalism: while Shiite and Kurdish parties favor...