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...Ousting Jaafari, however, won't necessarily improve the prospects for creating a unity government that reverses the trend towards civil war. Here's why the problems cited by Jaafari's critics may persist even if he is replaced, particularly by Abdul-Mahdi, who appears to now enjoy U.S. backing...
...level," says Dr. Cindy Parker of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, Md. That means that where people are most at risk from floods, so are hospitals and water-treatment plants. As we have seen in New Orleans, the health effects of losing those facilities persist long after the water has receded...
...amidst a hallucination, and Moko works out his romantic issues through pornography and chocolate malt balls. The obfuscatory imagery of Alexis Zabe’s cinematography imparts a sense of lethargy to Eimbcke’s otherwise graceful tale, but the force and beauty of this film persist. “Duck Season” might have been just a troubling perturbation of the blissful security of youth, but it shows us another kind of bliss, extolling the journeys we take and the wonderful people we meet along the way. Bottom Line: Despite its pretensions, “Duck Season?...
...Though the Quad recently added Saturday hours this fall and increased its coursepack reserves, complaints persist about both issues. The Quad Library is only open until 1 a.m. from Monday to Wednesday, and closes at 10 p.m. on Thursday night...
Even if it does, the broader issues raised by the current furor are certain to persist. To some, the dispute over the cartoons is a bellwether of a deepening divide between Western societies and Islam, a civilizational clash on issues as basic as the role of religion in society and the limits of liberty. Although the controversy has revealed degrees of cultural ignorance on both sides, it has been fueled by a brew of willful misunderstanding, manipulation and opportunism--all of which became combustible in the political climate that prevails in much of the Middle East today. In that sense...