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...Fortunately, we have Ghosh to describe the situation in Baghdad. Otherwise we would have to rely on the ever optimistic, honeyed official government reports, which would have us believe Iraq will soon be free of anarchy, death and destruction - a claim that has been made since that mission accomplished banner was displayed behind President Bush in the halcyon days of May 2003. Philip A. Roe Stamford Bridge, England Ghosh's story made me believe there are only two ways to deal with the mess in Iraq. One is withdrawal of all the troops and letting the Iraqis sort...
...night of my birthday party I noticed the neighbors across the street weaving colored lights into the trees of their huge yard frontyard, unfurling a Koranic banner from their second-story balcony, and arranging dozens of chairs around their veranda. Within an hour their guests had taken up all the parking spaces in a three block radius, and a speaker attached to an immense sound system began congratulating everyone on the Twelfth Imam's birthday. The voice launched into an excited sermon, detailing how God concealed the Mahdi -- the last in a line of Shi`ite imams descended from...
...Baron Cohen throws himself recklessly into all manner of potentially dangerous situations. The crowd at the rodeo starts booing Borat when he sings the "Kazakhstan national anthem" to the tune of "The Star Spangled Banner." A group of young louts in an RV get Borat almost as drunk as they spout their beery misogyny. And there's an eerie scene in a revival tent where he accepts Christ as his Savoir and babbles in tongues. As if honoring the intensity of the believers' fervor, Baron Cohen does not act up - he goes with the holy-water flow...
...Hilton proves that money and privilege do not buy class. Lisa Fulford Orlando, Florida, U.S. The War That Never Ends The seething hatred in the Middle East [July 24] has been festering for far too long. The rich and powerful nations of the world must band together under the banner of the U.N. and act to stop the carnage once and for all. Greg Murphy Halifax, Canada Time to Hang Up the Spurs? time criticized bush's unilateral foreign policy [July 17]. But your story demonstrated the ineffectiveness of multilateral diplomacy by pointing out that "since joining multilateral talks over...
...seething hatred in the middle East has been festering for far too long. The rich and powerful nations of the world must band together under the banner of the U.N. and stop the carnage once and for all. Greg Murphy Halifax, Canada...