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...that as long as they fear the possibility of U.S. military action against them, they're a lot more comfortable with the U.S. bogged down and vulnerable in Iraq. And even if both sides move toward a diplomatic rapprochement, the Iranians are unlikely to treat Iraq separately from the wider standoff. On that score, Tehran learned a nasty lesson in Afghanistan: As recounted this week by James Dobbins, the former Bush Administration official who led talks with Iran and others on Afghanistan shortly after 9/11, Tehran played a major role in toppling the Taliban and replacing it with a democratically...
...Voldemort gets a political grip on the wider wizarding society, Ron, Harry and Hermione spend more and more time in hiding, at Grimmauld Place and elsewhere, and their story takes on some of the claustrophobia of Anne Frank's diary. In fact, the parallels to World War II are near-explicit: the Death Eaters agitate for the rounding up of Muggle-born wizards and "race traitors" the same way Jews and their sympathizers were rounded up under the Third Reich. The Ministry of Magic comes to resemble The Ministry of Truth from 1984, complete with a pseudo-Fascist bureaucracy...
...Average age for first use, meanwhile, is just over 15 years. Legislators fear that legalizing a substance already popular among young people will carry a heavy future price tag, as other freely traded drugs have had. Though annual social costs linked to cannabis are currently estimated at $1.26 billion, wider use could send them rocketing closer to those attributed to alcohol - over $50 billion - and tobacco, nearly $61 billion...
...Will the wider world be as receptive? Of the 15 tracks on Fragmented, eight are in English, so language isn't necessarily a barrier. But resources and market perceptions might be. Chris Sy, chairman of the Philippine Association of the Recording Industry and managing director of EMI Philippines, is cautious. "Not being from one of the traditional repertoire centers of the U.S. or the U.K., it takes a lot for a label to ... risk time and money on a Filipino band," he says. "A Filipino act has more of a chance to break [overseas] in a niche genre like jazz...
...lengths to which some students have gone to cheat their way into college reflect a wider crisis in Vietnam's higher education system, which hasn't grown fast enough to meet demand from students eager to get ahead in Asia's second-fastest-growing economy...