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...what can the U.S. do? Aides to Bush say the unrest roiling the Muslim world hasn't shaken his faith that democracy helps relieve extremism in the long run, because the prosaic work of governing tends to make ideological politicians more pragmatic. "Elections are just the start in his view," says a senior Administration official. It's encouraging, U.S. officials say, that powerful Muslim figures--including Iraq's most influential cleric, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, and even some leaders of Hamas--have tried to quell the unrest over the Danish cartoons out of fear of a collapse...
...some of the shine has gone off Thaksin's reputation. In the south, Muslim-majority provinces are wracked by ethnic conflict, violence that Thaksin's critics say has been exacerbated by his administration's heavy-handed military response to unrest, which won international notoriety when 78 people died in police custody after being arrested in Oct. 2004. Opponents condemn Thaksin's placement of relatives in key positions-his cousin, General Chaisit Shinawatra, was first made army chief and then the military's supreme commander, and his brother-in-law Priawpan Damapong serves as deputy chief of the national police...
...Tigers deny responsibility for recent attacks on the army, blaming them on spontaneous Tamil uprisings. Tiger political chief S.P. Tamilchelvan says the Sri Lankan army and its paramilitary squads have provoked such unrest. The Northeast Secretariat on Human Rights, which receives some funding from the Tigers but is reputed for its independence, has recorded the death of more than 70 Tamil civilians since Rajapakse's election, killed by the army or plainclothes death squads. The killings include the execution-style shooting of five Tamil students, the assassination of a Tamil parliamentarian in church on Christmas Eve, and the murder...
...while Faculty members stress their commitment to reforming undergraduate education, many worry about the unrest created by Kirby’s abrupt departure and its implications for professors and administrators...
...With much left to accomplish and growing unrest among professors, the curricular review faces significant challenges in coming months...