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...there are signs of a movement from within the parties to reign in the excesses created by the two-party dominance. In January, the Kurdish parliament announced plans to merge the two administrations. Barzani told TIME that one of the driving forces in merging the administrations was to prevent abuses created by individuals within each party. "The aim was to have some constitutional institutions in the country so that the PUK and the KDP and together with the other parties could become civil society parties, so that law will be the ruler in this country, so that there will...
...Sadly, their reign did not last long. Wintry economic conditions rendered their bloated budgets unwieldy, and each year audiences arrived in smaller and smaller numbers until they were insufficient to justify the spectacles orchestrated for their consumption...
DIED. JOHN PROFUMO, 91, former British War Minister who resigned from the Cabinet in 1963 after lying to Parliament about his affair with a prostitute, Christine Keeler, then 19, whose other clients included a Soviet diplomat; in London. The Profumo scandal hastened the end of the eight-year reign of the Conservative government and encouraged the rise of a combative press...
...paralysis of what, of FAS? That’s the dean’s fault, not Larry’s fault.”“This is rule by the mob,” she added.That “mob” might not reign at all of Harvard’s schools, though.Alan M. Dershowitz—the Frankfurter professor of law who went on ABC’s “Nightline” last year to defend Summers—noted, like many of the president’s supporters, that FAS is just...
...plot concerns a convent of French nuns on the eve of the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution. The protagonist, Blanche de la Force (Kathy D. Gerlach ’07), struggles with her beliefs, her fellow sisters, her martyrdom, and the impending fate that awaits her and the rest of the Carmelites, as they are sentenced to death in the name of the Republic...