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...half-dozen Muslims—and just two Muslim women—in the upper parliamentary chamber. The baroness looks forward to following the 2006 U.S. mid-term elections up-close. “I’ve always had an interest in U.S. politics as a parliamentarian in the UK,” she said in an interview yesterday. “The timing seemed to be perfect.” Her study group will focus both on liberalism in the Muslim world and on American and British policy choices after Iraq, the IOP announced. Flug, who began...
...slaving for a Chechen boss in a makeshift crematorium that is the region's only neutral zone because it accommodates the dead from both sides of the conflict. Although he eventually returns home with Misha, Viktor and the penguin soon have to flee from a Kiev mafia boss turned parliamentarian. Their escape route involves a yacht trip to Argentina with a Bosnian-Serb family wanted as war criminals. Luckily for Misha, Argentina boasts islands inhabited by birds of his breed. After stints in Ukraine and Chechnya, what more could a tuckered-out penguin ask for? Flightless birds aren...
...fundamental charges made by the Council of Europe last week are accurate: that, since 2001, 14 European countries have, to varying degrees, been complicit with "extraordinary renditions," the cia's system of moving suspects to countries where they were, or may have been, tortured. Dick Marty, a Swiss parliamentarian who led the Council's investigation, slammed what he called a "reprehensible network" of European nations that, he said, allowed the cia to operate on their soil, provided stopover points for suspects en route to a torture location, or exchanged information with U.S. intelligence that eased the torture process. This system...
Today, a visitor and guest of the University, the Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is greeted with posters for two events, at the Kennedy School and at the Center for Government and International Studies, both bearing a lengthy disclaimer that while the organizers welcome “dialogue” and all that good stuff, these events should not be taken as endorsement of Hirsi Ali’s views, nor should she be considered “to be representative for the Dutch public opinion on these issues.” It may be worth reminding the community that...
...amended its constitution to say that “changes to the Bylaws require a majority vote” of members casting ballots.But at the time, the council overlooked an existing clause in its constitution requiring a two-thirds majority for changing the bylaws.The council’s parliamentarian footnoted the constitution to say that “the two-thirds requirement for amending the Bylaws is null and void, and the majority requirement is operative.”But last month, representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 tried to turn back the clock. He proposed a constitutional...