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...solve real problems, and build to create these professorships and provide significant support to students,” Mauzy said. In enacting these changes, the institute is refocusing its mission on providing real-world solutions to problems facing democratic governance, officials said. “We aim to turn the Institute into the world’s leading center for understanding the reciprocal relationships between the quality of the institutions and practices of democratic governance and the persistence of urgent social problems,” Ash Institute Director Anthony Saich, who is currently in China, said in the press release...
...York Times said Sony’s XEL-1 was like “looking out a window. With the glass missing.” OLEDs have much superior viewing angles, so that, unlike the typical laptop LCD screen, they won’t go dark when you turn your head away from perpendicular. But the coolest aspect of all is that they can be “printed,” using an inkjet printer, onto other materials. That means you can wear a shirt with a video on it. Or roll up your screen...
...principle, the Sunnis have traditionally been strongly opposed. Among the Shi'ites, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) has favored the idea a super region in the south, but the movement of the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has insisted on a strong central state. But the proposal to turn Basra into an autonomous region is comes not from the Supreme Council, but rather from a coalition of Shi'ite independents and the small Fadila Party, which dominates in the province. (See TIME's pictures of the week...
...contracts that Baghdad's Oil Ministry says are illegal. In his comments last week, Prime Minister al-Maliki made it clear that the central government must have full responsibility over security, sovereignty and "other issues". "If there is no clear vision of the political system and sovereignty, we will turn into real governments fighting each other," he said...
...ball. "He has had a lifetime love of politics, lived in Hawaii ... Can I get two tickets?" Mossman has had to decline offers of $10,000 sponsorships because he cannot provide the eight-seat tables for the would-be donors. "It kills me when I have to turn people away because we don't have any more tickets." (Read about the 2001 Inaugural balls...