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...this war and didn’t want it to happen.”Everyone applauded, then started chanting, “We don’t want war any more!” and “Iraq for Iraqis! Troops home now!”The next speaker was Jane Collins—author of “For Love of a Soldier: Interviews with Military Families Taking Action Against the Iraq War.” Collins urged the student protestors to remember the Iraqis and what they are going through, even though their stories are not always...
...course, much of the party's leadership on Capitol Hill, such as House speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as House and Senate Majority Leaders Steny Hoyer and Harry Reid, haven't picked candidates either, so the freshmen may have some cover when push comes to shove. But once all the primary voting is done, every superdelegate will theoretically be left to make up his or her own mind. And in that case, the biggest decision the Democratic Party could face in a generation may fall to the rawest of recruits. But, then again, perhaps that shouldn't be such...
...before the Wang Shi Bai Huo department store, Tourism Ireland photo displays showcased Irish monuments, Irish people, and Irish ales. Employees handed out pamphlets on study-abroad and travel. Women in fitted and fringed orange sportsuits handed out samples of Bailey's toffee liqueur. Nearly blocking a speaker at the front of the stage, an eight-foot tall poster advertised cheap flights between the two capitals. Tourism Ireland has since 1995 been promoting St. Patrick's Day parades in cities around the world such as Tokyo, Singapore and Moscow. This year two cities were added to the roster: Beijing...
...that about 60% of the seats would go to the conservatives," commented Mohammad Atrianfar, an advisor to technocratic forces around the likes of former President Akbar Rafsanjani. "But the situation speaks for itself," he added, pointing to the fact that the Tehran candidate with the highest votes, current Majles Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, still received a million votes less than the leading reformist candidate in the movement's electoral heyday...
...steady erosion in relations between the Obama and Clinton camps - less than a week has passed since Obama's foreign policy advisor (and TIME columnist) Samatha Power called Clinton "a monster" - was almost certainly one reason why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared on Tuesday that the chances of a joint ticket between the two Democrats were now impossible...