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...this viscerally relevant.Political assassinations happen all over the world, but there is something distinctly American about the act, some combination of violence, theatricality, and grotesque individual ambition that resonates in the bones of the culture. As Sondheim sees them, America’s Presidential assassins—there are nine, five of whom got their man—are a petty, volatile, and above all fame-hungry bunch, turning the American Dream back against the country that brought it into being. “Everybody’s got the right to their dreams,” goes the opening...
...hour tests in the span of either three or four weeks. This investigation is a part of a larger, longitudinal study, funded by the National Science Foundation, that began about five years ago, to test the abilities of musical and non-musical children as they progressed from five to nine years old. The researchers said they expect all of the data to be collected by this coming spring and then subsequently to be used for further analysis. “It takes a long, long time to do a longitudinal study, and we wanted to get a quick answer...
Featuring a key-note address by a former CIA agent, traditional bánh-mì Vietnamese sandwiches, and a “sexual” poetry reading, the third summit for the New England Union of Vietnamese Student Associations brought together Vietnamese students from nine different schools in a two-day event hosted by the Harvard Vietnamese Association this weekend. “We tailored the entire summit program to expose students to Vietnam not only in terms of its history and culture, but also modern Vietnam in an economic and political sense,” said...
...influential tribal sheikhs and the Fadila Party, winning a majority won't be easy in the face of concerted opposition from Maliki's Dawa Party and his sometime ally-sometime foe Sadr. Less certain is the reaction from the Supreme Council, which has long favored a semi-autonomous nine-province "super region" in the south (which it would have a fair shot at governing) rather than a smaller one in Basra, governed by Fadila. "We are not participating in this because we are busy with other things," says parliamentarian Redha Taki, the head of SIIC's political relations department...
...when the U.N. mandate expires. But it's too early to pop the champagne. The bilateral U.S.-Iraqi security pact is by no means a done deal: it must still be ratified by a fractured parliament. The Cabinet vote had only one nay to 27 ayes, but nine Cabinet members chose to withdraw from the final tally, a foreboding sign of the controversy the agreement will face in the legislature...