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What kind of permanent law will Iraq's new national assembly write after it is elected?
A week ago the Iraqi parliament failed to finalize their draft Constitution. Unfortunately delegates were not able to meet a compromise and extended their deadline to another week. As the new deadline looms several sticking points are still hanging, including federalism, the role of Islam, the distribution of natural resources and women’s rights.
Take 2
Vance Serchuk, research fellow in Defense and Security Policy at the American Enterprise Institute
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Juan Cole, professor of modern Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan and author, Sacred Space And Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam (I.B. Tauris, 2002) ...
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Juan Cole, professor of modern Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan and author, Sacred Space And Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam (I.B. Tauris, 2002) ...
The Pill Gets More Bitter
Jim Copland, director of the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy and managing editor for PointofLaw.com
- on Merck's courtroom loss last week, plus listener calls
» Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy
» PointofLaw.com
- on Merck's courtroom loss last week, plus listener calls
» Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy
» PointofLaw.com
Greasing Hands
Steve Inskeep, host of NPR's Morning Edition
- on the increasing flow of oil from Africa
» "The Race to Share in Nigeria's Oil Bounty" (NPR)
» Steve Inskeep (NPR)
- on the increasing flow of oil from Africa
» "The Race to Share in Nigeria's Oil Bounty" (NPR)
» Steve Inskeep (NPR)
Mary Jane Hypocrites
Walter Kirn, in for Andrew Sullivan at andrewsullivan.com, has an equal-opportunity, non-partisan good government proposal we really like:
The next time a presidential candidate makes his ritual drug confession, I think they should be given a choice: serve out the prison term or pay the fine that applied ...
World Mayor 2005
Bloomy still doesn't know if he'll get to keep Gracie Mansion as a party space for the next four years, but the creators of the World Mayor Award have included him in their short list of 65 candidates.
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Other noteworthies: Gavin Newsom (San Francisco),