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...conservative-controlled legal system raised a lot of questions. It certainly didn't conform to the way these things have been handled in the past in Iran, and close observers of the political process view it as a politicized issue between the two factions. For ordinary Iranians, though, even those following the domestic power struggle, the trial is less of an issue...
...create a community," Somerville says. "It's as though the choir is embracing the congregation...
...wasn't necessarily to pray. He just wanted the community to come together," Illingworth says, adding that the choir tradition served a similar purpose even though many students were hostile towards the Harvard establishment...
...launched fierce attacks on U.N. forces when the peacekeepers attempted, in line with a peace agreement signed last year by the government and RUF leader Foday Sankoh, to disarm rebel forces. But despite the agreement, and the fact that Mr. Sankoh was made a government minister even though he leads an army that terrorized the country by systematically dismembering civilians, the rebel fighters have shown no interest in disarming. To do so would break their grip on the rich diamond fields that have financed their insurgency...
...majority Sinhalese, who are largely Buddhist, making up about 75 percent) are likely to demand de facto control over the Jaffna peninsula as their price. In acceding to such a demand the government would concede defeat in a campaign that has cost the army thousands of casualties. And even though Kumaratunga's war powers proclamation allows her to shut down newspapers, that's unlikely to stop Sri Lankans from questioning whether the war is worth fighting...