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...There's no easy answer here, because democracy isn't always the harbinger of freedom. The German elections of the early 1930s showed that something as mundane as a split between rival political parties whose combined share of the vote dwarfed that of the Nazis allowed democracy to enable totalitarianism. And many analysts suspect that truly democratic elections in countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan might, indeed, produce Islamist governments hostile to the West...
...POPEYE JONES, Wizards reserve forward The life of an NBA backup is so grand. Make heaps of money to watch a game from the best seat in the house, and, if your team stinks (see: Wizards), you can split after a quick shower, because all the reporters are in the other locker room. That won't be the case for Washington this season. Instead of hitting the town to party right after the game, players like Jones now will have to answer 45 minutes' worth of questions about what it's like to play with Michael Jordan...
With their strong showing this weekend, the team is very confident as they split the squad and head out on the road next weekend to the Brown and Notre Dame Invitationals...
...when asked whether they would support going to war against a nation harboring those responsible for the attack, Harvard students were split 49 percent in favor to 39 percent against...
...Afghan territory, the people of Peshawar are torn: on the one hand, they don't want to be isolated in the eyes of the international coalition against terrorism. On the other, many interpret U.S. actions as a hostile "crusade" against Islam in general. And so the secular-religious split at the heart of Pakistan manifests itself in the conversation of people on the streets and in the bazaars, who express horror at the deaths of thousands in World Trade Center, but in the next breath suggest it was all a cynical plot by Mossad to gain sympathy for Israel...