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...video opens set against a mountainous backdrop with religious chanting and fluttering flags. Footage shows U.S. forces arresting Iraqis, with civilians diving for cover or, bleeding, being helped away to seek medical care. An unknown voice then introduces the goals of Jaish Ansar Al Sunni and makes clear that Iraqi religious fundamentalists direct the armed organization. The voice speaks of a desire to defeat the American "infidels," but also to set up an Islamic state not controlled by "treacherous agents" loyal to the United States and Israel...
...will survive past his presidency. The hardest choices about funding manned exploration will come at the very same time those crumbling entitlements require more money too. When John Kennedy first put the nation on the path to the moon in 1961, he had the cold war as his backdrop. Each step closer to the Apollo landing was also a victory over the Soviets, a struggle that animated Kennedy's dream long after his presidency. The war on terrorism does not help Bush in the same way. Putting a man on Mars will not help find Osama bin Laden...
Against that backdrop, Rose presents a difficult case. His credentials for the Hall of Fame are superb--no player has had as many career hits--but before he can be voted on by the baseball writers (who initially have the power to grant that ultimate honor), he must be reinstated in the good graces of the game. Only the commissioner has that authority. And no commissioner thus far has seen fit to pardon anyone, because the lifetime ban has been an almost perfect immunization against the gambling virus...
...haul," he said. "But I feel vindicated." The timing couldn't be better for Fox: this week he plays host to Bush and 32 other hemispheric heads of state at the Summit of the Americas in Monterrey. The rich industrial city sits in Mexico's cowboy north, a favorite backdrop for Fox and his conservative National Action Party (pan). Mexicans now wonder if Fox's immigration win - which may grant temporary U.S. legal status to millions of Mexican migrant workers - can help him revive other reforms, from tax policies to the judicial system. Fox started his presidency with an amazing...
With its neat rows of classrooms and its white domed mosque glowing against a backdrop of misty hills, the Hidayatullah Islamic school on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi seems the very picture of peace. "Yes," smiles Nyupeno, a school administrator, "it's quite cozy here...