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Across Baghdad, especially on the city's east side, the Mahdi Army continues to operate from de facto safe havens. The Americans cooperate with local leaders and cannot be too aggressive, lest they upset the fragile truce that has mostly held since the end of August. But as U.S. troops leave the Iraqi capital the balance of power may once again shift to the militia. The mortars were a reminder that the Mahdi Army is waiting the Americans out, not giving way to them...
...August, Lee had packed his things to return to Harvard when his boss on the campaign told him they wanted him to stay on through the semester as a paid campaign staffer...
...says he was not able to visit home between August and January, so the other staff members and volunteers became like family. He and three other members of the New Hampshire office’s New Media staff had their four desks placed together in a square...
...grudges that explode into confrontation and recrimination and in which most characters are revealed to be cheating, abused or somebody's unknown daughter. That format, which fed decades of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford weepies, still raises its head occasionally--in the HBO series Big Love or Broadway's August: Osage County. And it's at the soapy, singing center of most Bollywood films. But it couldn't be less attuned to an American movie culture that wants to appeal to young males. They're looking for horror-film screams, not a wounded heart's cries for revenge and release...
...According to a poll conducted this week for various Florida media, almost a quarter of Florida Democrats say they'll be "less likely to support" the party's nominee if their state's delegates aren't seated at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August - and by seated they mean counted in the final tally to choose the presidential nominee. Florida has more than 4 million registered Democrats, but even just taking into account the 1.7 million Florida Democrats who voted in the January primary, that's still a potential alienation of some 400,000 votes, on a peninsula...