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...that keeping Sunnis out of the process would deny the new government legitimacy. Democracy in Iraq will strip the Sunni minority of its traditional elite status, and the insurgents may hope to further deepen their alienation from the new order so that they continue to serve as a social base for a long-term insurgency. Also, an election that brings the Shiites, many of whose leading parties are traditionally close to Iran, to power may also suit their agenda, because it will leave much of the Arab world uncomfortable with the outcome...
...anymore. I couldn't take seeing the hopelessness and the frustrations and the kids being miseducated and not doing something about it. I prayed on it, talked to a couple of people about it and decided to run. I could win politically because I know how strong my base is out here...
...stumbling into Science Center C at 9:15 in the morning is about as pleasant as being Prince Harry at a Holocaust memorial. You study for hours, yet all you can remember is that song you heard on the radio the day before. Maybe it was Ace of Base? Dates, facts, basic grammatical constructions, all sneak out of your brain like rats following the tune of the Pied Piper. Or was it the Three Little Pigs...
...COURT-MARTIALED. LANCE CORPORAL MARK COOLEY, 25; CORPORAL DANIEL KENYON, 33; and LANCE CORPORAL DARREN LARKIN, 30, British soldiers suspected of mistreating Iraqi prisoners in 2003 while setting up a food depot in southern Iraq; at a British base in Osnabr?ck, Germany. Much like the U.S. abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, the case came to light through disturbing photos of Iraqi detainees being beaten and humiliated. Prime Minister Tony Blair denounced the images as "shocking and appalling," but staunchly defended the work of the 65,000 British troops who have served in Iraq. The accused soldiers, who maintain they...
...Worker unrest is particularly rife in Guangdong, one of China's main industrial centers, where exports surged 24% to $190 billion?one-third of the national total?last year alone. Yet base assembly-line wages in the Pearl River Delta, the province's manufacturing belt, have been virtually frozen at about $80 per month for the past decade, according to a recent survey by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. Factor in inflation over roughly the same period, and average pay in real terms has declined by as much as 30%. The reason: China's rise as a manufacturing...