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...careful of confusion. He refers to the absence of pro-American representative government, and ignores the factual if fragile mechanism for political participation in place. Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric is troubling, but it was endorsed and he empowered by democracy; in the end, he will have to reckon with the same. So when White House language describes Iran as antagonistic to the ideal of liberty, what it means is not that political liberty does not exist there to some extent, but that it is dissatisfied with the result of that liberty. The similarities persist: sometimes...
Humanitarian agencies reckon that there are 750,000 Iraqis in Jordan and 1.5 million in Syria. Fewer than 30,000 have returned, and many of them will simply join the ranks of the 2.4 million who are classified as "internally displaced persons"--living in Iraq but unable to return to their old neighborhoods because they are now run by sectarian militias. That hasn't stopped the Iraqi government from declaring that peace is at hand. Welcoming one recent batch of returnees, Ali Dabbagh, spokesman for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, said, "We are eager to have Iraqis return and live...
...Some reckon the higher rates are due to differing cultural standards. Although China's Communist Party once deemed gambling to be one of the "six evils" (along with illicit drugs, human trafficking, pornography, prostitution and superstition), Eastern religions such as Buddhism and Taoism don't strictly condemn gambling. "Gambling is seen as a morally recognized way of making money," says Peter Ong, chairman of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, which oversees Hong Kong's Even Centre gambling-addiction program. The American Psychiatric Association classifies pathological gambling as an "impulse control disorder," along with kleptomania and pyromania. But throughout Asia...
...interview where I will be able to brag about how I can tell whether a two-cycle engine is running too rich or too lean by the sound of it. And society gained no great benefit from the cement flagpole foundation that I set into some ledge. But I reckon that each of these things is good for the mitigation of at least two or three weeks within the interminable routine of Cambridge. And perhaps we might all find ourselves a bit more relaxed, a measure more engaged in our academics, a flair more creative, and a lot more invigorated...
...soon turn their guns on Iraqi forces as on al-Qaeda. In addition, strengthening a Sunni stronghold in the middle of the country goes a ways toward cementing the very partitioning of Iraq that the Bush team has long sought to avoid. Which means the U.S. has to reckon with its new Sunni allies on roughly the same terms that lobbyists calculate the tenuous support of Senators they don't really trust: the question isn't whether you can buy the Sunnis; it's whether they will stay bought. "These people used to be America's problem, so America...