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...struggle for power in Damascus would be messy. Syrians say their worst nightmare is a political vacuum that leads to a civil war between the country's Sunni Muslims, who constitute 74% of the population, and its Alawites, a minority sect that claims 12% of Syrians, including the Assads. Many Sunnis harbor bitter memories of the regime's killing of 20,000 people in Hama in 1982, while the Alawites fear that Islamist groups will someday seek to avenge the slaughter. "It's a scary thing," says Joshua Landis, an American professor who has spent the past 10 months...
...including comix. This season's standout graphic novel focuses on one of the scariest of all horrors: high school. The title of Charles Burns' long-awaited book, Black Hole (Pantheon; 368 pages; $25), says it all. For many people-including myself, naturally-high school felt like an endless, inescapable vacuum without air or light. Unlike more conventional horror stories set among high school kids, where each one gets "offed" by a masked killer, Black Hole uses the worst parts of emerging adulthood, like changing bodies, alienation and sex, as the sources for a skin-crawling creep fest that will likely...
...though some have him pegged as a potential vice presidential candidate.“My impression is that there’s no clear favorites,” says UC secretary Ashwin Kaja ’07, who started his first semester on the UC this year. This power vacuum means any pairing is essentially on the table.A Gadgil/Haddock team seems unlikely, however, in light of tensions left over from the SAC race. Haddock sent an e-mail to members of SAC the night before voting took place, calling Gadgil out on preemptive campaigning—a move that...
...going to finish that bottle, here are some ways to keep it fresh. Simply popping the cork back in and refrigerating will work for one day. For up to three days, try VACUVIN ($15), which uses a stopper and a small plastic hand pump to create a partial vacuum inside the bottle. RESERVE ($190) introduces a layer of inert gas over the wine, keeping air out and wine drinkable for six days. The PEK WINE STEWARD ($219), right, uses inert gas and temperature control to keep wine full of flavor for up to two weeks...
...vote in the first national parliamentary elections since 1969. The government of President Hamid Karzai has an army of more than 20,000 and has begun to expand its authority beyond Kabul, the capital. But much of the country is still controlled by the warlords who filled the vacuum created by the Taliban's demise. And while the Taliban commands little political support, its fighters remain tenacious: the Taliban has launched more attacks on U.S. and Afghan forces in recent months than at any other time since 2001. To some Afghans, that's an indication of the insurgency's growing...