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Thursday, August 11, 2005
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  • U.S. army soldiers slow down for a flock of ducks while patrolling the northern Iraqi city of Mosul (US Army/Spc. David J. Nunn)
    U.S. army soldiers slow down for a flock of ducks while patrolling the northern Iraqi city of Mosul (US Army/Spc. David J. Nunn)

    Ousted!

    On Tuesday, Baghdad’s mayor was ousted by the Badr Brigade militia and replaced by a political rival. Today in Iraq, power is accruing to non-democratic militia groups, many of which are supported by Iran and impose conservative religious rule where they are active.

Ousted!

Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, former senior adviser on governance to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, and author, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Times Books, 2005),
and
Dan Murphy, Arab World correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor
-on the ousting of the mayor of Baghdad, and the role of militias in Iraq's future

» Larry Diamond (The Hoover Institution)
» Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Times Books)
» The Christian Science Monitor

Arianna in the A.M.

Arianna Huffington, syndicated columnist, editor of the HuffingtonPost.com, and author, Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America (Miramax, 2004),
-on Judith Miller, the drug war, and whether adultery should be a fireable offense in the US Army
» The Huffington Post

Peering Eyes

Laurence Tribe, professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School

and
Douglas Kmiec, chair and professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine University
- on the origins of the implied constitutional "right to privacy"

» Laurence Tribe (Harvard Law School)
» Douglas Kmiec (Pepperdine University)

(Not So) Hip-Hop

MC Frontalot, AKA Damian Hess, "nerdcore" rapper
- on an emerging sub-genre in hip hop
» MC Frontalot

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