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...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is best. But not for the reasons he suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like...
...friend] print out my transcript request and he had to go to the registrar and basically beg them to accept it,” said Kouskalis. “I even had to take a digital photo of my signature and paste it onto the form...
...likelihood of low Sunni participation - and the resulting reluctance of many Sunnis to accept the outcome - could compound Sunni alienation from the post-Saddam order. Indeed, a discreet State Department poll recently found only 12 percent of Sunnis believe the poll will be legitimate or fair. Aware of the danger of escalating a sectarian civil war, leaders of the Shiite alliance have identified reaching out to the Sunnis as a top priority after the election. A Sistani aide told an Arab newspaper last weekend that the Grand Ayatollah believed "the representation of our Sunni brethren in a new government would...
...January 30 election, given its already-apparent flaws, is unlikely to be the final word on Iraq's immediate future. But it may well result in a transfer of the reins of power in Baghdad from longtime U.S. ally Iyad Allawi to Shiite religious-political leaders less inclined to accept Washington's tutelage. The election may well mark a turning point for post-Saddam Iraq, although in which direction is far from clear...
...political process and, on the basis of a consensus of national principles that he plans to negotiate with them in Cairo, to win their agreement for a cease-fire. Israel had rejected this approach while Arafat was alive, and it would be something of a retreat for Sharon to accept it now. But Abbas has given no sign he'd be willing to do things the way Israel and the U.S. would like them done...