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...Kirkuk will be an early test for any new political order: The Kurds are pressing to have it included in their domain on the basis that much of its Arab population was settled there after Saddam had forcibly removed a large segment of the Kurdish population. That demand is fiercely resisted by the city?s Arab and ethnic Turk populations. Tensions are running high in the flashpoint city, with neighboring Turkey threatening to intervene to stop a Kurdish takeover - reconciling Kurdish and Sunni interests in Kirkuk at the national level could prove immensely challenging...
...where she and Ken moved in 2001. Now she pours her creative energies into Street Light, a newspaper for the homeless that she co-edits. Not only are the vendors homeless, so are many of the reporters, writers and board members. "We try to give a voice to this segment of society that is not just ignored but almost treated like untouchables," says Barratt. Her official role at the paper is to find stories and sign up people to write them, but she ends up doing nearly everything. "I'm the only one on the editorial staff who's retired...
...return to human scale wasn't always on the minds of architectural visionaries?sometimes just the opposite. The second segment of the Mori exhibition is given over partly to proposals by such architects as Japan's Kenzo Tange and Arata Isozaki for spectacular megastructures that are cities in themselves, endless systems of fabrication in which the built world is everything and nature is just that green fluff that Wordsworth used to go on about. These are dystopian imaginings, the last word in alienation, though it isn't always clear whether the architects who conceived them were much troubled by that...
Heading into the most crucial segment of the season, Harvard appears to have eradicated the bad taste of last year’s losses to the Killer P’s—two defeats of over 20 points against Penn, and two last minute setbacks at the hands of Princeton—and feels assured that at long last, this year will be different...
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, while blasting Summers as a “liberal Clintonista,” pounced upon Franklin’s grammatical irregularity in a segment of his radio broadcast billed as a “feminist update” Wednesday...