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...conflicts are threatening to become even more complicated. Besides the Arab-Kurd and Sunni-Shi'ite divides, there has long been a struggle among rival political parties for supremacy among the Shi'ites. Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki recently called for amendments to Iraq's constitution to strengthen the central government's power at the expense of the country's 18 provinces. This week, Maliki's rivals in the southern Shi'ite bastion of Basra submitted a petition demanding a referendum in the oil-soaked province aimed to turning it into a semi-autonomous federal region akin...
...gift, donated by a group of 240 supporters of the museum will strengthen the Busch-Reisinger’s collection of post-1960 German art, HAM Director Thomas W. Lentz said yesterday...
...protests and political opposition; ruling parties will find winning re-election a lot harder. Since the end of communism, the region has introduced some of the world's most business-friendly policies, including, in Estonia, axing corporate taxes. Such policies are unlikely to disappear immediately. "If anything, we will strengthen them, to improve education and encourage innovation," says Juhan Parts, Estonia's Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications. Whether he feels that way several months from now will depend on just how low Estonia and its neighbors sink. - With reporting by Adam Smith/London
...Obama administration that reinserts itself into the UN instead of overtly acting against its wishes would strengthen this international body significantly. Instead of the UN and UN peacekeeping troops viewing themselves as acting counter to the will of the United States, they would see themselves as carrying out the will of the more truly United Nations...
John McCain's selection of Palin, a former Pentecostal Christian, as his running mate was supposed to help strengthen his appeal to religious voters. Republican strategists knew that undecided religious voters broke heavily for George W. Bush in the last weeks of the 2004 campaign, and they hoped Palin's candidacy would sway those voters to the GOP again this year. Instead, those late deciders - including white Evangelicals - appear to have split between Obama and McCain...