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With insurgents promising to sow chaos on election day, the mere act of casting a ballot has become a life-threatening proposition. Even in the holy city of Najaf, in the heart of largely Shi'ite southern Iraq, there are palpable fears of election-related violence. "Every day I watch when a car pulls up in the street," says Abbas Hamid Abdul Rezea as U.S. Marines erect concrete barricades across the road from his home at a school that will serve as a polling station. "Every day we are so scared...
...worked like this. He’d say something that needed the approval of the group—like “you’ve got to sow the seed”—and then he’d say “amen?!” like he was asking for our approval. Our job was to say “amen” back at him. If he didn’t hear enough responses, he’d start picking out individuals from the crowd of about 100 people and asking them individually...
...poisoning on the Kremlin, Russia did back Kuchma and Yanukovych as energetically as the West pulled for Yushchenko, which makes for an awkward status quo. Having failed embarrassingly in his efforts to engineer a pro-Russian regime in Kiev, Putin will likely opt for a waiting game, and discreetly sow discontent among the Russian speakers of eastern Ukraine. He'll be hoping that Yushchenko will be overwhelmed and, like his predecessor, turn to Russia for support. For all the external pressure on Yushchenko, he is already fully aware of one of democracy's sometimes uncomfortable iron laws: the people...
...state, in effect, that the networks, with a surplus of eager sponsors to accommodate, are selling horsemeat to the public in the guise of steak. How true. Most of the material that nowadays insults the intelligence and is billed as topflight entertainment is a combination of ham and sow's ear, with neither guise, nor, worse, apology. The blame for this does not belong to the consuming public, whose sense of taste and discernment, once fairly encouraging, has been hammered into near oblivion by several years of Gleasons, Godfreys and giveaways. It belongs to the producer networks, who, like their...
...status as a safety school for kids who didn’t have the scores, the grades or the clean arrest record to get into Harvard is becoming even more obvious. The Times Higher Education Supplement just ranked Harvard the best university in the world. Continuing to sow the seeds of mediocrity, Yale scored, you know, a respectable eighth. Even Stanford, famous for resembling the world’s biggest Taco Bell, managed to score higher...