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...that covers southern Iraq. There Shi'ite army deserters and Marsh Arabs who rose in rebellion after Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War carry on their fight against Saddam. But they fear that their struggle may be doomed now that Baghdad has undertaken the systematic despoliation of the age-old Shi'ite sanctuary in the marshes. Over the past 20 months, according to captured documents and engineering plans now trickling out of Iraq, the government has nearly completed work on a huge project of four major canals and dozens of dams and embankments that will sap the water from...
...elect representatives to govern on their behalf. This does not imply the sort of telephone democracy we have seen recently in which representatives simply follow the whims of popular opinion. Often, leadership means leaders "following their own opinions in matters that affect us." At any rate, this is an age-old, ongoing debate in political philosophy; a resolution has yet to be reached, contrary to what Reiter would have us believe...
...age-old question, right up there with who shot J.R., what's in Al Capone's vault, and where's Jimmy Hoffa...
...Pope's speech was the latest episode in the age-old struggle to reconcile science and religion. The year's most intriguing book about God was produced not by theologians but by 60 world-class scientists, 24 Nobel prizewinners among them. Cosmos, Bios, Theos gives their thoughts on the Deity and the origin of the universe and of life on earth. For instance, the co- editor, Yale physicist Henry Margenau, concludes that there is "only one convincing answer" for the intricate laws that exist in nature: creation by an omnipotent, omniscient God. While many scientists are skeptics or are still...
Just look at the tenure system. This age-old process, installed at Harvard and most other American colleges, allows too much room for incompetent, apathetic or uncommitted professors...