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...More plausible, perhaps, is the suggestion on Wednesday by acting president Ghazi al-Yawer that the poll would go ahead unless the United Nations suggested it be canceled - and UN secretary general Kofi Annan on Wednesday said bluntly that credible elections could not be held on the basis of current conditions...
...personified in the demand by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani that Iraq's transition be managed by a democratically elected government, and that such a government be elected forthwith. Sistani had previously threatened massive street demonstrations to ensure that such a poll be held immediately, and it took UN intervention to coax him into accepting the January date. Sistani on Wednesday reiterated his demand that the poll go ahead on schedule, his remarks a reminder that further delay could bring new political instability...
...What he said was meant to scare voters, period. It was way over the top and, I think, un-American." JOHN EDWARDS, Democratic vice-presidential candidate, reacting to Cheney's comment...
...year-old Oxford-educated Briton who works as an editor in Paris and has lived there for 11 years. "I saw the movie Chocolat," he says, "and the idea of a British woman opening a chocolate shop and working in a French village seemed so wrong, so un-French. Then I read [Peter Mayle's bestselling] A Year in Provence and noticed that the first word is 'January.' I thought, No! The French year begins in September, when people come back from holiday. So I knew there was a book to be written." Determined to set foreigners straight about...
...Parliament is expected to approve the package but President Ahmet Necdet Sezer - a staunch secularist - may well use his veto. Still, Erdogan's conservative allies "have proved that when they wanted to they could put their foot down," Mehmet Ali Birand, a political commentator, told TIME. Party politics - nothing un-European about that...