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...thought it would be great to do a toile that showed scenes of now--what people are doing in an urban environment, what they look like--but to do it as beautifully as possible," says Paul Simmons, 37, one of Timorous Beasties' designers. From afar, Glasgow Toile is a lovely wash of red on white. But step closer and it's not so pretty. In one scene, a junkie uses drugs in a graveyard--"the moral tale being if you shoot up, you will literally end up in a graveyard," says Simmons...
...Afar, a city 30 miles west of Mosul populated almost entirely by Iraqi Turkoman, was overrun by terrorist groups this summer. In early September, the U.S. Army laid siege to the town and the ensuing two-week battle was so fierce that the Turkish government complained that Americans were killing innocent Turkoman civilians. Many Mosul residents worry that Tal Afar was a dry run for their city...
Handling the heaviest fighting would be the soldiers of the battle-hardened 1st Battalion of the 14th Infantry Regiment. Stationed in Kirkuk to the north, the 1/14 battalion knows something about the feints and vanishing acts of the insurgents, having faced them in Najaf, Tall 'Afar and elsewhere. The 1/14 would follow the 1st Battalion of the 26th Infantry Regiment, which would hit Samarra first, crossing a long bridge leading into the city to secure a staging area for the troops that would pour in afterward. Just past midnight on Friday morning, the 1/26 moved. The 1/14, not far behind...
Visiting From Afar...
Taken at face value, the Billionaires for Bush certainly seem to fit in with those booing yesterday’s nomination of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., from afar. Ask any of them about recent trends in domestic and foreign policy and they will coo rapturous praise for the White House’s current occupant. And his opponent...