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Lying on a beaten-up hospital bed with two bullets in his right leg, Amar Ali Najim has plenty to complain about. A few hours earlier, the Baghdad policeman had responded to reports that a gang of thieves was menacing a market. Arriving on the scene, Najim and his colleagues walked straight into a trap, presumably set by the gunmen who shot him and two other cops. But even in his current state, immobile and connected to an intravenous drip, Najim, 37, is upbeat. Things in Iraq are getting better, he says: "The violence has dropped by half. We still...
...draped posters of the grinning Palestinian leader on copper pipes left exposed by previous Israeli assaults. A motley collection of supporters--including Palestinian schoolchildren, a marching band and a dozen members of Arafat's Fatah Party on horseback--rallied outside the quarters, chanting Arafat's nom de guerre, Abu Amar. President Bush has declared Arafat a "failed" leader, the Israeli Cabinet has vowed to "remove" him, and Israel's Deputy Prime Minister has called for his assassination, but the 74-year-old is walking as tall as ever. "I feel good," he told a visitor...
...raid. In the streets and suqs of the capital the next morning, shop owners congratulated one another with handshakes and kisses when they arrived for work. "If this street could talk, it would tell you that Uday would take a girl off the street and rape her," says Amar Abdul Amir, 45. "But no one could say anything. Before I was afraid to talk to Baath Party members. Today I feel...
Government prosecutors say they are worried that lawyers could become intermediaries who help communicate messages from their clients to other terrorists. Yale University law professor Akhil Amar says concern is understandable, "but the government should come up with its own honors list of lawyers who could meet security clearances." The military model, by which lawyers are picked from a slate of officers, "could be easily adapted to all these situations," Amar says...
Second-year Harvard Medical School (HMS) student Amar Dhand is Harvard’s sole Canadian Rhodes winner this year...