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...fact is, the realities coexist: this is a country working to move on amid a shooting war that will not end. For soldiers and citizens alike, there are still many ways to die in Iraq, and the coroners who tidy away the dead have seen them all. Rifle fire. Roadside bombs, or improvised explosive devices, as the U.S. military calls them. RPGs. Mortar fire. Suicide car bombs. Some days it feels as if Iraqis opposing the U.S. presence are throwing everything they can at the young soldiers and the locals helping them rebuild the country. Some weeks are better than...
...Amid the intermittent rain, the crowd chanted “Promise, promise liberation, all we see is occupation...
...Texas cop with sunbaked skin grimly appraises the wedding-chapel murder scene. Nine, 10 bodies--an entire bridal party, including the white-gowned bride--are splayed on the floor amid hundreds of spent shells. The cop detects the fatal precision of professionals in this atrocious tableau: lives dispatched cleanly, corpses draped just so. "If you was a moron," he drawls, "you could almost admire...
...resorts where the ranks of sun lounges and sunburned bodies seem to stretch on forever. With only 50 rooms, the hotel is a labor of love for its owners - and therein lies much of its charm. The two-story buildings, with their louvered shutters and wide verandas, are set amid wide lawns and behind a screen of casuarina trees that block out the sprawling modern resorts lining much of the rest of the beach. The staff treat guests with a slightly absent-minded graciousness that's distinct from the sometimes forced politeness that seems to be the norm elsewhere. Rooms...
...popular support for his economic reforms. If Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party can extend its slim parliamentary majority (it currently holds 244 of 480 seats) he will be able to claim a mandate to implement more radical changes. Opinion polls put his personal approval ratings at more than 60%, amid signs that the fragile economy is at last in recovery...