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...Saudi monarchy, calling for "expanding the role of its people in determining their future." But the trouble with elections is that you have to live with their results. And this one suggests that many Saudis - like their counterparts in Iran and Algeria when they first got the vote - prefer anti-Western militant Islamists over pro-Western reformers...
...world leaders] prefer to be dictators, we should give them no legitimacy,” he said. “There is no way to separate security from the question of a free society.” The crowd at the JFK Jr. Forum responded with a standing ovation...
...scuffling of fingers along guitar strings, richness of cello and violin, and gentle vocals. While the Paradise Rock Club, the band’s second stop on this tour, is relatively intimate, the band will have to be capable of a lot more sound than they seem to prefer on the album. The band’s sound is so inviting, it’s as if you’re sitting in a carpeted room with the band splayed around you, maybe with a window view of a mid-sized European city—not quite the crammed floor...
...level of donations across the region. “We probably have a day to a day-and-a-half on the shelf right now,” said Richard Benjamin, the chief medical officer of the American Red Cross New England region. “We would much prefer to have three or four days on the shelf.” Benjamin estimated that the number of individuals with safe blood but are rendered ineligible by the questioning process “makes the difference between having a copious supply of blood and not having blood on the shelf...
...Davis said that students who prefer their cables have nothing to fear from the encroachment of the wireless vanguard...