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...fraudulent. Their concern turns out to be their own narrow, often dynastic interests. Those Arab states are ruled by monarchs and dictators who are practically all Sunni. Iraq is about 60% Shi'ite. A democratic Iraq would inevitably become the Arab world's first Shi'ite-dominated state-a prospect from which the Arab leaders recoil for reasons of bias or fear. They also recoil from any demonstration of the possibility-indeed, the popularity-of free elections. Aside from the occasional harmless municipal election, those Arab states have either no elections or ones with only the great...
Students echoed these sentiments and say they look forward to the prospect of studying under Barenboim...
...loyal international business clients, points out Tim Dillon, principal analyst of European telecom services for Virginia-based Current Analysis. SBC, whose name is little known outside the U.S. , has dumped stakes in a string of European telecom operators over the last two years. So while SBC cheers the prospect of extending its reach, Dillon suggests it's all about the name; SBC would be "crazy" if it dropped the AT&T brand from international services, he says. SBC, meanwhile, hasn't ruled out keeping it. Now that's showing respect for your elders. - By Adam Smith Profits By The Barrel...
...this past Saturday night, the prospect of another Harvard comeback over the Bulldogs was hardly unexpected...
...effective party discipline binding legislators once taken the seats in the Assembly guaranteed by their positions on their coalition's election lists filed in December. The only thing restraining an individual or faction elected on the UIA list from crossing the floor to side with Allawi is the prospect of facing the electorate again at some point in the future - assuming, of course, that in Iraq's next election, the candidates won't be campaigning in ski masks. (The identity of the vast majority of those standing in Sunday's election was kept secret for security reasons...