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...events: No weapons of mass destruction have been found; the Iraqis have not exactly thronged the streets to welcome coalition as liberators; Iraqi resistance to the occupation has persisted and escalated, and postwar Iraq appears to have presented al-Qaeda with new opportunities rather than dealing it a setback. And that underscores their reluctance to adopt any resolution that could be read as retrospectively sanctifying the war, and more importantly to be sanctifying the occupation. The French and their allies hold that it is only once Iraq is turned from a territory legally under U.S. occupation to a territory legally...
Recent efforts by social conservatives to amend the Constitution to prohibit gay marriage are deplorable and discriminatory. Such an amendment would undermine the fundamental notions of equality and freedom on which our country was founded and would mark a significant setback in the progress that gay people—and other traditionally oppressed groups—have made toward equality. It would offer no practical benefits to anyone and is an egregious, offensive intrusion into the lives of citizens who wish only to enjoy the same rights as everyone else. If there is to be a constitutional amendment regarding...
...unlikely architect of the President's latest setback in the Middle East is Yasser Arafat, the aging Palestinian Authority president who remains besieged by the Israelis in the ruins of his Ramallah compound, and had been left for dead politically by the Bush administration. Sidelining Arafat had been a precondition for the administration's renewed engagement in the stalled peace process, but the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas - appointed under strong pressure from the Bush administration - and his replacement by Ahmed Qureia is a reminder that Arafat still remains in charge of Palestinian affairs...
...Hambali's capture was a serious setback for JI, but the prospect of his replacement by Azahari is hardly comforting. "Azahari was put through the most senior level training courses in Afghanistan," says Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book on al-Qaeda in Asia. "He is charismatic. He has the ability to recruit. He's a very accomplished bomb maker. And his fingerprints are already all over [JI's biggest operations...
...Taiwan. Since Bilbao, Krens has opened three more Guggenheims, with mixed results: the Berlin museum, nestled in Deustche Bank's prestigious Unter den Linden address, has scaled back its programming, and the Guggenheim Las Vegas - one of his two museums in that city - has shut down. Despite that setback, Krens maintains the expansion plan is essential for the Guggenheim. "I came into this position with the belief that the historic model of the museum was on the edge of obsolescence," he says. "The issue isn't about the number of buildings or exhibitions, but the number of people you directly...