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...ites, who make up 60% of the population but were repressed by Saddam's Sunni-dominated regime, a tremendous edge. With Saddam's Baathist structures gone, the Sunnis are disorganized and demoralized. Shi'ite religious institutions, by contrast, are strong. Among some in Washington, that raises the specter of a replay of the 1979 Iranian revolution, in which fundamentalist Shi'ite clerics took charge of the government, which proved hostile...
...decade. Governments realize that universities need more funds - but also know they can't provide them from budgets already overburdened by shrinking tax revenues and rising costs for health care, unemployment benefits and pensions. So politicians are looking at tuition fees to increase university funding; students see the specter of creeping privatization that could, they argue, make higher education unaffordable...
...rest of Europe and a greater localization of authority over French universities, allowing individual universities more autonomy over their budgets. Modest proposals, are they not? But the force of the protests already has government backing away from them because for many in France, such proposals raise the dark specter of an "élitist" and "undemocratic" system in which higher education will be reserved for the rich (as they inaccurately assume it is in America). But however much of an affront this may seem to the French ideal of égalité, a bit of inequality in pursuit of a decent...
...wants to look back and have to confront the specter of What Could Have Been...
Under an opposite, if unclear standard, Adolf Sannwald lost his life. Can we pass judgment on men who died under the confusing and terrifying specter of war? “I guess, at a certain point, we concede that death in battle, at least for honorable soldiers, and even for a bad cause, may finally erase all politics,” says Maier. “How else do we pick...