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...weary Iraqis and Americans alike, al-Jaafari's gentility is a welcome antidote to the country's chronic acrimony. After weeks of negotiations, al-Jaafari, 58, has emerged as the favorite to become Iraq's first elected Prime Minister--the most powerful position in the incoming government. His main challenger has been Ahmad Chalabi, the former favorite of the Pentagon, whose relationship with the U.S. soured after he was accused of passing secrets to Iran. Though he commands little popular backing, Chalabi waged an aggressive campaign for the premiership, hoping to pick up support from uncommitted members of the Sistani...
Professors say there are two main models of university governance—a top-down model in which a university is run much like a corporation, and a more collegial model in which the FAS has a greater leadership role...
...officials say the harsh rhetoric last week was mainly intended to get Assad's attention, as were hints that the U.S. might authorize its troops in Iraq to conduct "hot pursuit" of insurgents across the border into Syria. The U.S. teamed up with France, long an influence in Lebanon, last fall to push through a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for all "foreign forces"--meaning Syria--to quit Lebanon. Damascus ignored it. French President Jacques Chirac, a personal friend of Hariri's, consoled the family in Beirut last week and may be more inclined to put real muscle behind...
...pain-management clinics such as those at Stanford and UCSF or the Wasser Pain Management Center in Toronto, doctors dive in with a broad array of therapies, devising a program that is tailored to the individual patient. The four main elements of such programs are drugs; injection therapies (nerve blocks like epidurals); physical therapy and exercise; and behavioral techniques that include relaxation training, biofeedback and psychotherapy. "If you ask most physicians how they would treat a patient, they would say, 'I use this drug' or 'I use that drug.' But there are many ways of treating chronic conditions that...
...Islam should be the official religion of the country and one of the main sources for legislation, along with other sources that do not harm Muslim sensibilities." IBRAHIM AL-JAAFARI, leading candidate for Iraqi Prime Minister, on the role of Islam in the new Iraq...