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...Hussein but outraged by what almost two years of occupation has done for her city. A more pro-U.S. view can be found at Iraq the Model, where three Iraqi brothers sound off at all who doubt Iraq's prospects for realizing President Bush's vision. And the BBC offers a unique online election diary of people inside Iraq, including ordinary Iraqis, a U.S. officer and an American civilian contractor...
...News sources The extensive newsgathering resources of the BBC make its Battle for Iraq page a one-stop shop of daily reporting. The Washington Post and New York Times have consistently provided quality coverage of Iraq, but some of the less trafficked outlets such as the Christian Science Monitor, Knight-Ridder newspapers and the Los Angeles Times are also quite good. For access to the news as covered in the Arab world, try the English edition of al-Jazeera...
Sources: UPI; New York Times; Reuters; Los Angeles Times; New York Times (2); BBC...
...docudrama Pompeii: The Last Day (Discovery, Jan. 30, 9 p.m. E.T.) did not set out to be a VSDM. That changed with the Indian Ocean tsunami, when entire habitations were, like the Roman city in 79 A.D., erased by a rumbling from beneath the earth's crust. A BBC co-production (as is Dirty War), Pompeii gives a scientific blow-by-blow of Vesuvius' eruption. More interestingly--and with more resonance today--it tries to tell the disaster's human story...
...also hook up the same line to his TV. Instead of selling basic cable-style packages, which often force consumers to pay for channels they don't want, PCCW opted to offer a content menu that is almost entirely ? la carte. Fees for individual channels?among them BBC, HBO, the Disney Channel and MTV?start at about $2 a month. Subscribers can readily drop channels and sign up for new ones on a monthly basis with a few clicks of their remote controls. "I like the freedom," says secretary Leung Man-fung, whose pay-TV bill comes to just...