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...report addresses three main concerns about the legislation’s impact on University research—restrictions on publication, personnel and laboratory access. It urges the University’s scientists to avoid restrictive pressures affecting changes from the laboratory to the academic journal...
...This express lane to the nomination was crafted by party bigwigs and state parties to favor frontrunners and avoid a divisive primary season that leaves a bloody, bruised nominee to face the President. Ironically, it initially looked like the system would favor outsider Howard Dean, who won the pre-primary season before killing his campaign with a dreadful last month before Iowa. During that month, Democrats who weren't Deaniacs took a long look at Dean and decided the party needed the candidate least like the former Vermont governor. That was Kerry...
...earning some extra cash doing a patriotic duty. The pilot who flew me into Baghdad had been flying FedEx planes just a month earlier. Now, here we were, screaming through the desert on a C-130, banking back and forth in a series of nauseating maneuvers in order to avoid what he called “smoking fenceposts.” I call them rockets...
...take no for an answer from Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Baghdad. Indeed, it is a measure of the difficulties facing Bremer that Sistani, by far the most popular and influential leader in Iraq today, has steadfastly refused even to meet with any U.S. officials so as to avoid being seen to bless the occupation. And Sistani is considered a moderate, who has counseled restraint and avoided challenging the Coalition Provisional Authority - except when Bremer initially ignored his insistence that Iraq's next government be directly elected...
...population, have the most to gain from direct democracy, and their leaders are suspicious of political arrangements that might dilute the strength of their majority by giving disproportionate weight to the Kurdish and Sunni Arab minorities. But Shiite dominance is precisely what the Sunnis are trying to avoid, and some of them are ready to die to avoid it. The Kurds are digging in their heels and demanding to be recognized as a de facto state within a state. Bremer, forced into an increasingly tricky balancing act, had initially hoped that the Ayatollah's objections could be overcome with some...