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...Iraq, perhaps for better, but probably for worse, has become a state with a sectarian political system much like that of Lebanon. This means that, in any election, the majority of people will vote along sectarian lines to elect leaders of their own community. It is then the task of these same leaders to reach a consensus amongst themselves over power-sharing and the division of government resources. The fact that Iraq possesses huge revenues from oil should, in ideal circumstances, make this process that much easier...
...Massachusetts State Senate will vote this week on Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 ‘s $1 billion ten-year plan to bolster the life sciences in Massachusetts. The bill, which passed in the House on Feb. 28, is designed to aid the biotechnology industry, spur job development, and entice talented professors and researchers to the Bay State’s state universities. The bill would provide $500 million for lab construction and $250 million for research grants and post-doctoral education at the University of Massachusetts’ Worcester and Amherst campuses. The remaining...
...Senate has approved a $2.1 billion increase to its proposed budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—by far Harvard’s largest source of federal dollars. Thursday’s vote came two days after University President Drew G. Faust testified before a Senate committee in favor of boosting the Institutes’ budget. NIH’s funding has seen a real-dollars decline in the last three years, leading many scientists to criticize Congress and the White House for stifling biomedical research. “The 13-percent loss in real dollars...
...inform you: you lost these municipal elections, and badly," wrote Laurent Joffrin, editor-in-chief of the leftist daily Libération in his Monday editorial. "With a Soviet-grade excess of hypocrisy, your accomplices, spokespeople, and your Prime Minister have maintained the contrary, [but] this first vote held just 10 months after your election has resulted in a resounding repudiation...
...tickets captured France's third-largest city, Toulouse, after 37 years of conservative domination. They also claimed Strasbourg, Saint-Etienne, Blois, Caen, Reims, Metz and Rouen from the right. Leftists were meanwhile returned to power in Lyon, Lille, Rennes, and Montpellier, taking 49.5% of the nation's popular vote versus 47.5% for the right. Sarkozy's governing conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) averted near total collapse by narrowly hanging on to Marseille, and standing firm in bastions like Nice, Orleans, Le Havre, and Bordeaux...