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...Sadrists, for their part, demonstrated their capacity to disrupt the peace throughout southern Iraq, and in the capital where they essentially run the vast Shiite slum known as Sadr City, which houses two million people. Mehdi militants confronted Coalition forces in a number of southern Iraqi cities, and at Basra they even managed to take Iraq's oil exports offline. Beside the firefights initiated by his militias, there were also tens of thousands of Iraqis on the streets demonstrating against the U.S.-Allawi offensive by week's end. Particularly worrying to the new government will have been the spectacle...
...legacy endures today, as scouts trawl China's vast countryside and jam-packed cities every year to find the best athletic prospects. Kids with tiny hips and flexible limbs are funneled into gymnastics or diving, children with lightning-quick reflexes are destined for table tennis or badminton, while beefier types are tagged as weight lifters. At nearly every elementary school around the nation, amateur anatomists measure youths' bones to predict their future heights, and the tallest are reserved for provincial volleyball, basketball or handball squads. "Just name the sport," says Xu Guangshu, former principal of the Shichahai Sports School...
...financial aid. Other proposals will stress greater personal control over health insurance and personal initiative rather than government programs to promote home ownership and retirement savings. One plan he may talk more about is the Newt Gingrich--led idea to lower health-care costs by computerizing the nation's vast medical records...
...temptation to reduce the deficiencies of Athens 2004 to charming historical echo stops cold when it comes to security. Even before Sept. 11, foreign governments were worried about Greece's lingering problems with domestic terrorism, its vast, unsecurable coastline and its proximity to the terrorist hubs of the Balkans, the Persian Gulf and North Africa. After Sept. 11, Greece openly asked for help with security and, in conjunction with its NATO partners, agreed on a cooperative strategy that is the obverse of the Powell doctrine. The plan, says a Western official, is to scare off terrorists with an overwhelming display...
...Multitude" is their word for a whole new kind of political entity, one made up of the entire population of the world in all its infinitely complicated, irreducible variety. But how can we the multitude--a vast, far-flung, inchoate bunch of people--reinvent democracy on a global scale? Hardt and Negri are glad you asked. The answer isn't simple--not like, say, electing some kind of international global parliament. Instead, Multitude insists that the new democracy can and must come not from the top down but from below, from the entirety of the multitude working and acting together...