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...Iraqi Islamic Party, which had previously served in the interim government, has withdrawn from the election on the grounds that security conditions make voting impossible in most Sunni strongholds. Groupings such as the Assembly of Independent Democrats of Adnan Pachachi are hoping to secure some support from more secular, urban, middle class Sunnis and Shiites, but the national-list system will probably keep their numbers relatively small...
...pleas for postponement were turned down, some like Yawer and Pachachi chose to participate, while others like the Islamic Party withdrew, although they didn't actively call for a boycott. The wild card in the pack is radical Shiite populist Moqtada al-Sadr, whose organization has mass support among urban Shiite youth in Baghdad. Sadr, who has twice tangled with U.S. forces in epic confrontations, has hedged his bets, with some of his known supporters joining the UIA list under Sistani's auspices, while other spokesmen for his movement have publicly questioned the legitimacy of the election. Sadr appears...
Meanwhile, Kagan said that the Law School is taking preliminary steps toward establishing a joint-degree program with Harvard’s Graduate School of Design—and perhaps with MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning as well. But she said that the process is “still in the talking stages,” and she doesn’t expect the schools to finalize arrangements by next year—“unless we’re superhuman...
...Johnson's slovenly idealism came at the end of a great liberal pendulum swing. His attempt to throw money at urban problems created all sorts of unintended consequences. It hastened a new culture of poverty, subsidizing the collapse of poor families, reinforcing a plague of out-of-wedlock births and soaring crime rates. And Bush's attempt to confront tyranny with utopian bellicosity may presage the end of the conservative pendulum swing. It flies in the face of reality. The Iraq fiasco has weakened our military and our standing in the world. Indeed, our intemperate behavior has sent a powerful...
Among some Administration officials, an emerging view is that a deadline set by the new government may galvanize the project to train Iraqis. So far, only about 14,000 members of Iraq's army, special-operations and urban-warfare forces have been trained. The Pentagon says it needs more than 32,000. "A timetable may be our best ally," says a State Department official. "It may actually help us get the job done right and get it done fast." And neighboring countries might be more willing to help an independent Iraq with measures like the training of security forces...