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...Moqtada Sadr. Sadr appears to be using the opportunity to regain political traction against rivals in organizations such as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which is the most influential party in the ruling coalition of prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. But Sadr's efforts are based on articulating a common nationalist agenda, specifically by demanding a timetable for U.S. withdrawal. It's a canny move for the populist firebrand who has thus far hedged his bets by running candidates in the election but staying outside of the process himself: That?s because the call...
...KATIE BROWNELL already knows how to keep boys from reaching first base. Brownell--the lone girl in her upstate New York Little League program--pitched the first perfect game in the history of the league, on May 14. The young hurler struck out all 18 batters, leading her team, the Dodgers, to a six-inning, 11-0 victory over the Yankees in Oakfield, N.Y. The shy sixth-grader, who honed her skills playing with her two elder brothers, also boasts a .714 batting average. Sometimes during the season, her mother told reporters, Brownell's teammates teased her, saying she should...
...special respect for the U.S. military, the kind that is unique to liberated people. During the Korean War, American G.I.s gave Pae's father Hyongchol Pae their rations when he was a starving refugee from bombed-out Seoul. They eventually taught him English on a Korean air base and helped him immigrate to the U.S., where he could thrive as an artist, raise a family. From his vantage point in history, the artist Pae had quietly drawn the connections between the U.S. military and freedom...
...language. Increased diplomatic contact does not arise in a vacuum—it requires strong domestic advocates. This already exists in Indonesia—a better relationship with the last superpower has obvious, tangible benefits. In America, such contact can most easily start in our universities, with their significant base of curiosity and knowledge of the outside world. To this end, Harvard’s East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, or even the Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences ought to hire a preceptor to teach Indonesian—just one. That...
Third: “Energizing the base.” Oh, how this dream shall never die. Unfortunately, it has become a quadrennial mantra for defeated Democrats. If only we had fully excited “the base”—by which proponents mean liberals and minorities, or the proletariat masses that never vote—the Democrats would have won. Well, no. Elaine Kamarck’s “The Politics of Evasion” about 1988 showed the same result as Mark Penn’s “Analysis of Voting Patterns?...