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...towards the U.S. more troubling. Right now, the word from Najaf is that the Shiite leadership has no objection to the U.S. presence - as long as it is temporary. Of course there's a fierce struggle for influence among Shiite clerics right now, in which context a prominent pro-U.S. ayatollah was stabbed to death last week. And many Iraqi Shiites take their politics secular. But SCIRI's leadership has considerable influence in Najaf, and if they're alienated from the process launched by General Garner, political stability could prove elusive. If the U.S. objective is to exclude groups...
...ruling ZANU-PF party is five seats short of the two-thirds parliamentary majority required to enact constitutional change. Opponents fear Mugabe could change the constitution to appoint his own successor, dumping requirements for an election. Death of a Militant Kashmir Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir shot dead Saif-u-Islam, the chief commander of the powerful Hizbul Mujahideen militant group. Supporters of Hizbul, which is waging a violent campaign against Indian rule, said Saif-ul-Islam was tortured and shot after being taken into custody; police said he died during a gun battle. Thousands of Kashmiris joined a strike...
...When you apply to Wedontwant U, the selective university of your dreams—whoops!—you find seventy other kids with 1,500 SATs at your magnet school have done the same thing,” Mathews writes...
...George Will, who wrote, "The United Nations is not a good idea badly implemented, it is a bad idea." These sentiments were not expressed in isolation; the desire to "break" the U.N. was whispered in some of the lustier precincts of the Bush Administration as well. Indeed, the anti-U.N. campaign seems just the beginning of a grander conservative project: the scrapping of the old world order--the treaties and institutions that America helped create to stabilize the world after World...
...U-S-A, U-S-A,” he says, raising two fingers above his head...