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...intimidation to go to the polls, the real author of Sunday's election -Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani - confined himself to a simply thanking voters for turning out, and expressing regret that his own Iranian birth prevented him from joining them. It may be easily forgotten in the post-election spin that Sunday's vote was not the Bush administration's idea-quite the contrary. The U.S. had never intended for Iraqis to democratically choose the body that would write their new constitution; Washington had envisaged an election only after a constitution had been written by a body appointed...
...Knucklehead." Roosters. "The new divide is between the true believers who want modern Labor to stand up and fight for our policy beliefs and the machine men, with their over-reliance on polls, spin doctors, the daily media cycle and a command-and-control style of politics." Third Way. "The taxi driver was trying to steal my property, and Kim Beazley's trying to steal the Labor leadership off Simon Crean - and I'm happy to tackle them both...
...instead of leading the charge, has erected barriers between the U.S. and the rest of the world by unilaterally implementing his policies on Iraq and other global issues, with alarming consequences. At some future time, Americans will wake up to a cold, even hostile world, and no amount of spin from a political strategist like Karl Rove will be able to explain it away. Colin Wakefield Johannesburg My reaction to your choice of president Bush as Person of the Year went from revulsion to amazement to the realization that there was no alternative. This man has shaped the world...
...With communications in disarray, many families couldn't contact one other. "Our minds were going around and around like spin dryers," says Cummins resident Wendy Treloar, whose three farmer sons escaped the fire. "We just didn't know where everyone was." Beaten back by flames from one neighbor's house, Leith Holman and a friend raced to save another home. In 30 years on the peninsula, Holman has seen many fires, but none like this, he says: "It went through the scrub like a fireball, lighting up hundreds of yards in front of the main fire, just roaring with this...
...real world in getting students ready to become workers in the postcollege world. Vocational schools like DeVry and Strayer, which focus on teaching practical skills, are seeing a mini-boom. Their enrollment grew 48% from 1996 to 2000. More traditional schools are scrambling to give their courses a practical spin. In the fall, Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., will introduce a program called the Odyssey project, which the school says will encourage students to "think outside the book" in areas like "professional and leadership development" and "service to the world." Dozens of other schools have set up similar initiatives...