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...Kuwait ever comes to exist, the complaints about a lack of democracy may be moot. The Emir has promised to restore the parliament and increase political freedoms in general. No one claims to have spoken to a Kuwaiti who doubts that pledge. "After liberation," says Professor Ibrahim, the Egyptian sociologist, "I foresee Kuwait as an ever more democratic state -- and for that alone it is worth fighting for. But more, you would be fighting for all the principles that the people in the Arab world aspire...
...during the day, she works the night shift, a schedule that usually allows her no more than four hours of sleep. "My kids tell me I'm always tired," she says. Amy Schwartzman, 35, a law student at Tulane University, gets up at 9 a.m. and, what with classes, moot court and work as a research assistant, often does not get home until 10 p.m. That's when she studies or unwinds. Nights of tumbling into bed at 3 a.m. make her feel "as if my brain isn't moving as quickly as it should," says Schwartzman, noting that...
...that lacked congressional approval. "The number is widely inflated," he says. "A lot of them don't count, since they were for limited circumstances and for short periods of time." In his view, the fact that the congressional war-power clause has sometimes been ignored does not render it moot. Says Van Alstyne: "The extent to which the allocation of war powers has been disregarded for the past 25 years is no reason we should continue to disregard...
...state of Massachusetts is not Boston University. Silber could not (even if, and that's a big if, he wanted to) abolish individual rights by decree. His critics hysterical assertions are essentially red herrings; they border on the moot simply because such a parade of horribles cannot be implemented by any governor. Rather than slavishly follow the media's largely irresponsible soundbite fixations, the citizens of the Commonwealth should see in Silber the administrative ability, intelligence, courage and leadership of which Massachusetts is in such dire need...
...this is all moot on this side of the Pacific. Ten days ago, I was sitting in the Sydney Football Stadium rooting on Mal Meninga and the Raiders...