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Iraq remains a very dangerous place. Since May 1, when Bush stood on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln near a banner reading MISSION ACCOMPLISHED and said that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended," 74 members of coalition forces have died, 64 of them American. In addition to the Britons killed last week, a U.S. Marine died at Hillah when his armored vehicle rolled over as it rushed to reinforce a group of ambushed Marines, and a soldier was killed when a bomb exploded near his vehicle on the road to Baghdad airport. In Najaf, a soldier...
Queen said his attention to the bartending course resulted from a complaint lodged by the parents of a secondary-school student enrolled in the Summer School. The parents objected to the large banner with which HSA advertised the course in Harvard Yard during Summer School move-in. HSA’s promotion of alcohol to an audience including many minors, they wrote in an e-mail to Queen, was inappropriate...
...said that Queen had seen the banner in question and approved it before it was displayed...
...arrived to open the clinic, an unknown assailant shot her three times in the head. Her murder may have been simple anti-Americanism, since it followed one of Osama bin Laden's bellicose edicts. But the New York Times reported that members of the Alliance--which flew a banner emblazoned with the Arabic for "And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life, and who accepts me will never go hungry"--had received threats after local imams denounced them for allegedly handing out Christian literature and evangelizing to Muslim youth...
Graduates marching toward banner-filled Tercentenary Theatre were faced with placards of another sort Commencement day, as they passed roughly a dozen members of an anti-gay rights group carrying signs with messages such as “God Hates Fags...