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Just half an hour into 2007, the mood among Andrei Sannikov's guests is somber. They crowd around the television in his apartment in the Belarusan capital, Minsk, to watch a news bulletin that interrupts the usual festive programming. "We have signed a new natural gas supply contract on unfavorable terms," announces Belarusan Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky. Sannikov, a former member of the government and now an opposition activist in the country memorably described by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as "the last true dictatorship" in Europe, interprets the statement for his guests. "Russia has given itself...
Despite being named on a federal watch list as "needing improvement" this year, CRLS has made academic gains, specifically on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System examinations...
...that I believe Saddam got a raw deal. Some opponents of his execution say the trial's flaws - compounded by the climate of intimidation surrounding it, during which two defense lawyers and a judge were assassinated - are sufficient to justify sparing his life. (Human Rights Watch outlines the trial's deficiencies here: http://hrw.org/reports/2006/iraq1106/). But it's doubtful that any proceeding held in Iraq today would have turned out any differently. The fundamental question before the tribunal's judges - whether the prosecution could prove Saddam's direct complicity in the Dujail massacre - was settled when prosecutors produced killing orders...
...used the gallows at Abu Ghraib to silence opposition and dissent. In doing so, he had controlled Iraq for over two decades, but he created a generation of enemies. And some of those enemies, who never forgot their fathers and brothers who disappeared in the night, were there to watch...
...bags of rocks. In another life not too long ago, Hamed was a businessman who spent days tending to his various shops. Now Hamed's afternoons go to checking on the Sunni families crowded into the houses around his. Often at night he joins the neighborhood lookouts keeping watch on rooftops, eyeing the newly claimed Mahdi Army territory that sits literally across the street. "The situation is too much to bear," says Hamed, who wraps himself in a long brown robe lined with faux fur as he walks the neighborhood compound. "If the Americans cannot do something to help...