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...first of those things will be students’ right to list affiliation with the group in the yearbook. McLoughlin said he will be providing the list of registered groups to the yearbook this week, and those groups are the only ones that the publication will accept from seniors...
There will be a number of ways for liberals to respond to another questionable election loss like that of 2000. Maybe people will just take it in their stride and accept the horrors of a lame-duck Bush administration. Then again, in many other countries stolen or rigged elections can trigger riots—though that is unlikely to do much, even if people do have the right to bear assault rifles again. No, the secular and sensible will probably just have to grin and bear the following four years much as they did the last four and hope that...
...nature engaging the members of the Union" to be written in French. "This is built on a Napoleonic-era pretension that French is somehow more airtight than other languages," sighs Jacques Bille, a professor of business communication at the Sorbonne. "A lot of people in France just can't accept that English is the working language of Europe...
...wrong side of power, and Sistani wants to make sure it comes out on top this time. He has been adamant about elections because he believes Shi'ites can get what they want at the ballot box, and the rest of the world will have to accept it. Some Sistani aides say there is an implicit warning in that: if Shi'ite expectations of electoral victory are thwarted, Sistani could call his followers to rebel. "He does not think of jihad now," says Ali al-Mousawi al-Waath, Sistani's agent in the Baghdad shrine district of Khadimiya, "but that...
...Washington wants is to help someone like al-Sadr rise to power. "Sistani's the most moderate ayatullah in sight," says a Western diplomat in Baghdad, "and the U.S. needs to see eye to eye with him on basic political steps." That means the Bush Administration may have to accept that the version of democracy it went to war to create in Iraq may not be the one it gets. To achieve a stable, free Iraq, there's no going around the power--and preferences--of Grand Ayatullah Sistani. --With reporting by the Iraqi staff of TIME/Najaf, Massimo Calabresi/ Washington...