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...foresee alcohol affecting Passim’s culture. “We’re just providing something else for customers and giving them an option that they didn’t have before,” he said. Smith said that Passim’s lack of a bar and its limited alcohol offerings—only two types of beer and wine and no hard liquor—would prevent the venue from becoming drunken and noisy. Smith said that so far, the move to serve alcohol has been a “resounding success...
...winning more votes than any presidential candidate before him and having the largest Democratic congressional majorities in a generation (which are even larger when you consider that they do not include the “solid South” conservative Democrats of old), Barack Obama and his administration still lack sufficient votes just to bring urgently necessary—not to mention popular—legislation to a vote...
...club,” and despite a recent rise in female participation at the IOP, she felt that her gender ultimately served as both an asset and a liability in her bid for SAC President.Cox entered the IOP as a freshman and was initially put off by the lack of diversity in its forums. “There was basically a feeling when you came to an IOP event that there were a bunch of men,” she said. “They were all very similar and knew everything about politics.”Eventually drawn back...
Major General Hassan Kareem Abbas, commander of the Nineveh Operations Command, which oversees the province's Iraqi police, national police and army units, says there are several factors to blame. First of all, he says, the lack of political accord among the province's diverse population as well as tensions with the neighboring region of Kurdistan, which lays claim to Nineveh's oil-rich city of Kirkuk, have fostered an environment of political uncertainty. (See 10 ideas changing the world right...
Insufficient boots on the ground, coupled with a lack of basic services such as electricity and water, high unemployment and a disenfranchised Sunni population that until recently was governed by members of the minority Kurdish population, made the city kindling for the insurgency. But things are changing. American troops in Mosul have doubled over the past several months, according to Col. Gary Volesky, brigade commander of the 3rd Heavy Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. January's provincial polls also brought a Sunni party, Al-Hadba, to power, a development that is expected to lessen some elements of the insurgents' support...