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...Sunnis refuse to cooperate, let them form separate states. Otherwise, they will continue to battle. The Shi'ites don't want to share the power that they have gained since Saddam's overthrow, and the Sunnis refuse to accept minority status in the new government. If dissolving the former Soviet empire and breaking up its satellite states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia made sense, why doesn't separation make sense for Iraq? Bob Mason St. Albert, Canada Consolidating post-Saddam Iraq could prove more expensive than the war itself. Meanwhile, there is growing resentment in the U.S. at the continuing loss...
...Monday night looked the next bright morning like merry little stalls offering hot tea and cakes to those enjoying the square's small outdoor skating rink. But the tents were covered with the national white and red colors of Belarus, frowned upon since President Alexander Lukashenko officially reintroduced the Soviet-era symbols back in 1995, and the 1000 or so people standing vigil around the tents didn't look like they were enjoying a day out with the family. Having spent a freezing night in the square, exhausted by sporadic scuffles with the police, or fighting back bulldozers threatening...
...DIED. LENNART MERI, 76, witty, charismatic first President of independent Estonia, following its 1991 split from the Soviet Union; in Tallinn. A survivor of a Soviet labor camp, he was a leader of Estonia's independence movement from the late 1980s until the Baltic state regained sovereignty. In his two terms as President, he pushed free-market policies and established close ties with...
...ites and the Sunnis refuse to cooperate, let them form separate states. Otherwise, they will continue to battle. Dissolving the former Soviet Empire and breaking up its satellite states like Yugoslavia made sense. So does separating Iraq...
...each character’s suffering in their simple styles. The mother’s dress was the piece de resistance, a frumpy black robe that evoked a pelican in its stuffy folds.The music, compiled by Dorin, is fundamental to the show. Although the mix of late twentieth-century Soviet chamber works and Chopin is overwhelming during the initial “Isle of the Dead” sequence, its more delicate application to the interludes between the scenes of “Pelican” is particularly well done, supplementing the haunted quality of the work...