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...member parliament. In practice, it is a dictatorship. The ruling Baath Party has controlled all branches of government since it took control in 1968. The party's Revolutionary Command Council supposedly determines government policy; in fact, it does the bidding of Saddam, its chairman since 1979. The parliament rubber-stamps all council decisions. Last October Saddam officially won 100% of the vote in a referendum on his presidency, with many ballots cast in blood as a show of dedication...
...China's National People's Congress, when it opens March 5 to rubber-stamp Wen's promotion to Premier, will complete a generational changing of the guard. The enigmatic Hu Jintao, already named last year to lead the Communist Party, is set to succeed Jiang Zemin as President. Meanwhile Wen, 60, will replace Zhu Rongji. He has some size-14 hobnailed boots to fill. The brilliant but overbearing Zhu, 74, brought China into the World Trade Organization and hacked away for a decade at the stultifying vestiges of the command economy. For the world's most prominent businessmen, including Microsoft...
...bomb site that hasn't been cleared up since the 1940s. It's a fun, vivid world." MCKELLEN'S most vivid role may be the powerful and sagacious magician Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, but he looks remarkably human as he reclines in an armchair dressed in rubber slippers, leather trousers and blue T shirt. After years as one of Britain's most distinguished stage actors, McKellen's turns as Gandalf and The X-Men's twisted Magneto have helped those films rake in a staggering combined gross of nearly $2 billion. He has twice been nominated...
Lily L. Brown ’04 read a poem that responded to a reading from a poetry workshop in the English Department. “Rubber Gloves for the Curators,” by Caitlin E. Barrett ’03, was inspired by her job at the Peabody Museum...
...possible to have it both ways—that is, to allow many more students to study abroad while at the same time not compromising the College’s academic integrity. To achieve this, Harvard will need to ensure the integrity of abroad programs—not by rubber-stamping students’ petitions, but by actively participating in, and running, its own programs...