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Total lunar eclipses occur when the sun, earth, and moon are in perfect alignment, an event that won’t occur again until 2010, according to NASA. The last lunar eclipse was on August 28th...
...Siri, a humanitarian coordinator with the U.N.'s mission in Iraq, referring to the bombing of the U.N. headquarters that claimed 22 lives, including the U.N. Secretary General's special representative to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. The following month, the U.N. withdrew from Iraq, returning only in August of 2004 in very small numbers...
...fall of 2006, Castine launched Crimson Cable, which developed a surprisingly feasible proposal for a business to provide cable via power lines to Harvard’s 12 undergraduate houses, only to see the proposal summarily dismissed by school administrators on the basis of largely superficial objections. Last August, Harvard University Information Services hired an outside consultant to evaluate the Crimson Cable proposal—but kept its results private until just this past week. While the report does raise some concerns regarding the equipment required for—and the liability to be borne by—Castine?...
...cease-fire had its origins in intra-Shi'a rivalries. Most observers were surprised last August when Sadr's Mahdi Army militia announced a six-month cease-fire, shortly after bloody Shi'ite infighting erupted in Karbala. Thousands of pilgrims had gathered in the city for a Shi'ite festival. Some Sadrists who turned up for the event got into an altercation with local security forces, who are largely loyal to the Sadr movement's chief Shi'ite factional rival, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC). Things escalated, and a street tussle turned into a gun battle that left more...
Leadership figures from the Mahdi Army have long accused government security forces of being under the sway of SIIC, which is led by Sadr's chief political rival Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Until August, the Mahdi Army and the militia wing of al-Hakim's movement, the Badr Brigade, were engaged in a running struggle for influence in southern Iraq, competing for control of everything from gas stations to sacred shrines. The Karbala incident seemed to shock both sides into cooling tensions. But the recent statements suggest the agreement is unraveling. If so, it could draw U.S. troops back into...