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...accounted for only 4% of troops in the theater but more than 80% of those killed in battle. It took Perez nearly three years--along with a threat to quit and a pledge to serve at frigid Fort Drum in upstate New York for up to six years--to prevail. On Valentine's Day of 2000 he reported for training at Fort Benning...
Lawal may yet prevail. She has the support of the national government of Nigeria, which did not back the decision of the country's 12 predominantly Muslim northern states to adopt shari'a in criminal cases two years ago. The government of President Olusegun Obasanjo, a born-again Christian, has promised to back Lawal in another appeal. The case may end up in the country's supreme court. In March, Safiya Husseini, the first Nigerian woman sentenced to stoning for adultery, had her sentence dismissed by an Islamic appeals court in another state, in part because she was accused...
...backlash against a U.S. attack on Iraq has prompted them to declare their opposition. Both Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and the Saudis have emphasized the need for progress on the Israeli-Palestinian front before any action on Iraq could even be considered. If Powell and the Old Guard prevail over the hawks in the battle for President Bush's ear, he is unlikely to go to war in Iraq before assembling a broad coalition. And the building of such a coalition, as it did in 1991, is likely require pressure on Israel to both halt settlement activity...
Senate Democrats have begun pondering even tougher provisions, such as imposing criminal penalties for securities fraud now treated as a civil offense. And it seems a good bet that the Senate bill will prevail in conference over a weaker measure that the Republican-led House passed in April. The latest scandal has also breathed new life into legislation that would protect worker retirement accounts and change the way corporations report stock options...
...labor union, over the government's efforts to trim Italy's job-protection benefits. While two more moderate unions agreed to a labor-reform package Friday, CGIL chief Sergio Cofferati wants a referendum on the issue and vowed to call a general strike in the fall. But Berlusconi might prevail here too. His party and its allies in the National Alliance have an overwhelming majority in the ruling coalition that shields them from the whims of smaller, less predictable partners. As a result, Italians assume Berlusconi will serve out his five-year mandate - a novelty in a country that...