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OT: Not Sold On Clinton |
Not Sold On Clinton
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR200702110=
1168.html
By Robert D. Novak
Monday, February 12, 2007; Page A17
The buzz in Democratic circles for the past two weeks has been over
the decision to raise money for Sen. Barack Obama by two or three
multimillionaire liberals from Hollywood who were thought to be
supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for president. An explanation
that this is the movie industry's delayed reaction to some of
President Bill Clinton's policies is not credible. The real reason for
the defection is more troubling for Clinton's campaign.
In fact, the Hollywood defections have the same root as resistance to
Clinton's candidacy among less glittering Democratic activists
throughout the country. A substantial number of them do not want to
participate in a coronation of the former first lady because they
still doubt her viability as a presidential candidate. They question
both her positions on the issues and her skills on the campaign trail.
Kasparov's Gambit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR200702110=
1170.html
By Fred Hiatt
Monday, February 12, 2007; Page A17
If any ordinary person predicted trouble ahead for the cocky and
seemingly untouchable KGB-regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin,
you might say he ought to have his head examined.
But if the head happened to contain one of the most formidable brains
of our era, you might at least listen to the argument. Garry Kasparov,
legendary world chess champion and now a leader of Russia's political
dissidents, possesses such a brain. And having peered two or three or
10 moves into the future, Kasparov says that Putin's petro-Kremlin
autocracy may be more brittle than it seems as it approaches a
promised presidential succession next year.
Opportunity For Turks And Kurds?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR200702110=
1167.html
By Richard Holbrooke
Monday, February 12, 2007; Page A17
IRBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan -- Whatever happens in Iraq, we must try to
limit the terrible fallout from the war. The place to start should be
with our indispensable NATO ally Turkey, the front-line state of the
post-Cold War era, whose relations with the United States have
deteriorated dramatically in the past six years.
The immediate issue is raids by Kurdish terrorists across Turkey's
border with Iraq, which divides an area inhabited on both sides by
Kurds who have long felt that they deserve their own country. Despite
centuries of enmity, rapprochement is in the long-term interests of
both Turkey and the Kurds of northern Iraq. But such an effort would
be controversial and could be undertaken only with strong American
encouragement.
Military Ties Iran To Arms In Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR200702110=
0479_pf.html
Explosives Supplied To Shiite Militias, U.S. Officials Say
By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, February 12, 2007; A01
BAGHDAD, Feb. 11 -- Senior U.S. military officials in Iraq sought
Sunday to link Iran to deadly armor-piercing explosives and other
weapons that they said are being used to kill U.S. and Iraqi troops
with increasing regularity.
During a long-awaited presentation, held in Baghdad's fortified Green
Zone, the officials displayed mortar shells, rocket-propelled grenades
and a powerful cylindrical bomb, capable of blasting through an
armored Humvee, that they said were manufactured in Iran and supplied
to Shiite militias in Iraq for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi troops.
Across Arab World, a Widening Rift
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR200702110=
1328_pf.html
Sunni-Shiite Tension Called Region's 'Most Dangerous Problem'
By Anthony Shadid
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, February 12, 2007; A01
CAIRO -- Egypt is the Arab world's largest Sunni Muslim country, but
as a writer once quipped, it has a Shiite heart and a Sunni mind. In
its eclectic popular culture, Sunnis enjoy a sweet dish with raisins
and nuts to mark Ashura, the most sacred Shiite Muslim holiday.
Raucous festivals bring Cairenes into the street to celebrate the
birthdays of Shiite saints, a practice disparaged by austere Sunnis.
The city's Islamic quarter tangles like a vine around a shrine to Imam
Hussein, Shiite Islam's most revered figure.
The syncretic blend makes the words of Mahmoud Ahmed, a book vendor
sitting on the shrine's marble and granite promenade, even more
striking.
Notoriety of President Morales Roils Area's Bolivian Community
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR200702110=
1590_pf.html
By Pamela Constable and Karin Brulliard
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, February 12, 2007; A01
On weekend nights, the dance floor at Cecilia's Club in Arlington
County pulsates with strobe lights and salsa dancers. But one recent
Saturday afternoon, this social hub of the region's large Bolivian
population became a sober forum for debate on the political storm that
has convulsed the immigrants' native country and sent shock waves
through their quiet, prosperous community.
The storm has a name: Evo Morales. He is the charismatic indigenous
leader whose election as Bolivia's president just over a year ago
brought new pride to the impoverished South American nation. Now, his
radical rhetoric and friendships with foreign leftist leaders such as
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez are causing consternation in both Bolivia and
the United States.
Obama Questions Rivals on Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR200702110=
0669_pf.html
Candidate Tells Iowans His Stance on War Sets Him Apart
By Anne E. Kornblut and Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, February 12, 2007; A04
CHICAGO, Feb. 11 -- Sen. Barack Obama, circling through Iowa on Sunday
before returning here on Day 2 of his presidential launch, challenged
his Democratic rivals to lay out specifics for withdrawing U.S. troops
from Iraq and declared that the thousands of lives lost so far in the
war had been "wasted."
The senator from Illinois later said he regretted his choice of words,
telling an interviewer that he meant the troops' sacrifices "have not
been honored" by an adequate policy.
Clinton's Search for Common Ground Gets Mixed Reviews in N.H.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR200702110=
1397.html
Senator Says She Won't Support Defunding Troops
By Chris Cillizza
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Monday, February 12, 2007; Page A03
KEENE, N.H., Feb. 11 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) touted
the politics of the possible Sunday during her inaugural visit to New
Hampshire as a presidential candidate, a message that found an
energetic but not ecstatic reception in town-hall meetings and house
parties across the state.
Clinton veered away from drawing simple conclusions on issues such as
the war in Iraq and health care, insisting that each is a complex
problem that does not lend itself to a simple solution.
Iran Softens Tone, Declares Readiness To Resume Talks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR200702110=
0334_pf.html
President and Top Negotiator Reject U.N. Call to Freeze Nuclear
Program
By Craig Whitlock and Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, February 12, 2007; A12
MUNICH, Feb. 11 -- Facing the prospect of broader international
sanctions, Iran's president and national security chief on Sunday
offered to resume negotiations over their country's nuclear program
and eased up on some of the contentious rhetoric of the past,
including threats to destroy Israel.
In Munich, Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, briefly met
with European diplomats for the first time since talks collapsed in
September and said Iran was willing to return to formal discussions.
Passing the Buck on Health Care
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/opinion/12mon1.html
President Bush's new budget would extend the administration's warped
priorities deep into the realm of federally supported health care
programs.
Taming the Deficit, Together
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/opinion/12sawhill.html
By BILL FRENZEL, CHARLES STENHOLM, WILLIAM HOAGLAND and ISABEL SAWHILL
We propose a balanced package of spending cuts and revenue increases
that could eliminate the deficit in five years and set the nation on a
sustainable course for the long term.
Why Are the Pacifists So Passive?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/opinion/12yoochu.html
By LYNN CHU and JOHN YOO
Congress has every power to end the war - if it really wanted to. It
has the power of the purse.
Ritual Fades Into Blur of Drinking and Fighting
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/world/americas/12tinku.html?ref=3Dworld&p=
agewanted=3Dall
By SIMON ROMERO
Several political organizations in Bolivia are pushing to preserve
endangered traditions like Tinku, an ancient ritual once widespread
throughout the Andean world.
No News From Iran's Leader on Nuclear Program
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/world/middleeast/12iran.html?ref=3Dworld
By NAZILA FATHI
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pulled back from making a promised
announcement about "good news" in the country's nuclear progress.
Putin Seeks Expanded Ties With Saudis on Arab Tour
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/world/middleeast/12saudi.html?ref=3Dworld
By HASSAN M. FATTAH
The Russian president's overnight visit was part of a three-day tour
of the Middle East intended to bolster bilateral ties with major Arab
countries.
Obama Plan Has a Critic in Australia
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/us/politics/12aussie.html?ref=3Dasia
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Senator Barack Obama's proposal to withdraw American combat troops
from Iraq by 2008 was denounced by Australia's prime minister, John
Howard.
Believing Scripture but Playing by Science's Rules
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/science/12geologist.html?ref=3Dus&pagewan=
ted=3Dall
By CORNELIA DEAN
As a paleontologist and a creationist, Marcus R. Ross has produced
academic work that contradicts his own beliefs.
For Clinton and Obama, Different Tests on Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/us/politics/12campaign.html?ref=3Dpolitic=
s&pagewanted=3Dall
By PATRICK HEALY and JEFF ZELENY
Weekend appearances gave both campaigns a chance to road test their
strategies for dealing with the war in the primaries and beyond.
Across the Great Divide: Investigating Links Between Personality and
Politics
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/arts/12part.html?ref=3Dpolitics&pagewante=
d=3Dall
By PATRICIA COHEN
What seem to be ordinary, everyday objects to some people can carry a
storehouse of information about the owner's ideology.
The No-Name Brand Behind the Latest Flat-Panel Price War
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/technology/12olevia.html?ref=3Dbusiness&p=
agewanted=3Dall
By DAMON DARLIN
In the battle for the market share in big-screen TVs, an upstart made
a splash by selling its sets for almost half its regular price.
'Uncertainty'
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/books/12masl.html?ref=3Darts
By DAVID LINDLEY
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN
David Lindley's book on Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
provides a useful pr=E9cis of the mind-blowing progress of physics in
the early 20th century.
Testing times
Conor Foley
February 12, 2007 4:28 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/conor_foley/2007/02/testing_times_for_i=
nternationa.html
The next few weeks could pose a crucial challenge to the international
human rights movement. The international criminal court (ICC) is
shortly expected to issue indictments over crimes committed in Darfur,
while peace talks in Uganda could lead to a suspension of the
indictments issued there. The issues involved are complicated and a
reasoned and well-thought out response will be vital.
The ICC was created at a conference in Rome in 1998, which agreed its
statute. It initially struggled against huge hostility from the United
States. The Bush administration bullied over 100 countries into
signing bilateral agreements pledging immunity from prosecution to
American citizens accused of committing atrocities on their soil.
Congress even passed a bill - the Hague invasion clause - authorising
the president to attack Holland if any US citizen was ever brought
before its court.
The age of offence
Jeff Jarvis
February 12, 2007 3:40 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jeff_jarvis/2007/02/are_campaigns_and_c=
onversation.html
John Edwards' presidential campaign hired - and then muffled two
bloggers because they'd written controversial blog posts criticising
Catholic politics and such, with words their targets would call
indelicate.
This makes me wonder whether campaigns and conversation are
incompatible. Or perhaps we'd just better get used to honesty - in the
form of bluntness and transparency and frankness - as a new phenomenon
of politics.
Blathering bishops
Stephen Bates
February 12, 2007 11:45 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/stephen_bates/2007/02/blathering_bishop=
s=2Ehtml
The Bishop of Winchester was the latest senior member of the Church of
England to say it at the weekend: that American Episcopalians are no
longer Christians.
The Rt Rev Michael Scott-Joynt, the fourth in seniority in the
church's hierarchy and a figure of stately pomposity - not to say
conceit, since he thinks he ought to have been Archbishop of
Canterbury in preference to Rowan Williams - wrote that allowing the
American Church's woman presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori,
to attend this week's meeting of Anglican primates in Tanzania would
"destroy the authority of the communion".
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