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...policies," says Dowell. Ironically, the mullahs may be suffering some of the consequences of their own success. Their 20-year revolution has seen Iran's demographic majority shift decisively from the countryside to the cities, while an Islamic version of women's empowerment has become a major force. The number of female students at Tehran's university grew from 25 percent in 1979 to 55 percent today. Whereas the primacy of the clergy had been an established principle in Iranian village life, the urban youth who now make up a growing plurality of the population tend to vote overwhelmingly...
...prosecution's effort wound down, there was a general consensus that all four cops were trapped by evidence that implicated them in the most damning way possible: Gunshots that traveled up Diallo's leg, indicating he was prone when some of the shots were fired; the sheer number of bullets discharged by the police; and an earwitness's testimony that there was a pause in the shooting, suggesting the cops may have had a moment to think before they continued firing. By the time the first cop took the stand, the defense had their work cut out for them...
Despite the two early goals, Springer got stronger as the game went on and came up big for the Crimson with a number of key saves late in the third period when the Huskies came close to stealing the title...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences' top priority this year will be to increase the number of junior and senior professors, Dean Jeremy R. Knowles said yesterday...
...winter, when the capital, Harare, was shut down by two days of riotous protests against fuel price hikes. With little prospect of an economic turnabout to deliver urban voters, Mugabe now faces a "long march" back into the countryside before April's parliamentary elections. And the arrests of a number of opposition campaigners on minor charges before Sunday's vote may only be a foretaste of what could prove to be Zimbabwe's most bruising political contest...