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...called for a "yes" vote on the document. This was clear from talking to voters in the Shi'ite areas. However, because of security restrictions, TIME reporters were unable to visit Sunni neighborhoods where attitudes toward the constitution differed from Shi'ites'. Residents of these areas, reached by phone said there were many people in the streets ready to vote against the constitution, but these reports could not be independently confirmed. Under the rules of the Transitional Administrative Law, the constitution will pass if a majority of Iraqis vote for it and two-thirds of voters in any three provinces...
...often succumbs to the genre, reverting to its poor, contrived conventions. (Honestly, does every girl talk to her new crush while taking a bubble bath?)Particularly disappointing is the way in which Drew and Claire’s first real connection is depicted: all-night phone conversations with random people who pestered you on the plane do not happen. Worse yet are the numerous occasions in which Claire attempts to take a “mental snapshot” of Drew and mimes an invisible camera. Such a cutesy representation of internal thought should never again be enacted on film?...
...segment of the street is appropriated by the imposing presence of the twinned structures that stand like sentinels guarding Harvard turf. This impression is only magnified by the center’s position on the fringes of the campus. So much for fitting in. When asked, in a phone interview, about this pseudo-privatization of public space, Cobb said “Everything in life is a choice. There are trade offs. Preserving the garden was absolutely crucial.” And in order to preserve the community’s historic garden behind the GSD and CGIS, the center...
...There’s never been a book to focus on Lincoln’s melancholy and to gather together all of the material related to the melancholy and make sense of it,” Shenk says in a phone interview...
Initiative is a beautiful thing, and apparently Cabot House resident Allegra J. S. Lichauco ’08—who started the petition for Cingular to improve cell phone service in the Quad—isn’t the only one who can claim it. It turns out that the folks over at Cingular Wireless have a great deal of initiative themselves—so much so that, according to their Northeast Region Public Relations Representative, Alexa G. Kaufman, they approached Harvard University nearly a year ago about improving cellular reception. “We?...