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...Sunni Insurgents The Players: Initially dismissed as the work of Baathist "bitter-enders" and a handful of foreign jihadists, the insurgency centered in the Sunni Triangle north of Baghdad has raged on for more than a year, and last week's death toll throughout the region suggests it is far from over. U.S. officials have come to recognize that the insurgency is in fact a diverse movement - some of its elements being foreign fighters such as the Jordanian Qaeda-linked militant Musab al-Zarqawi, others being former officers of the old army or ordinary Sunni Iraqis guided by nationalist...
...Bush, who promised to unite the nation after years of bitter partisan battle, the choices are also stark. As the country splits between the faithful and the secular, how does he continue to inspire the white Evangelicals, who support him in overwhelming numbers, while not alienating the independents or further inflaming the Democrats so that their turnout rises as well? And more important than the politics is the policy. How, for instance, does a devout President rally a country against an enemy that claims to fight in God's name without implying that this is a Holy War? "For every...
...liberal," Reagan said later. "I bled for causes. I had voted Democratic, following my father, in every election. I had followed F.D.R. blindly ... " By 1947 he was president of the Screen Actors Guild and found himself embroiled in the union wars ravaging Hollywood. Reagan came to believe that the bitter strikes in 1945 and 1946 by stagehands of the Conference of Studio Unions represented a communist attempt to take over Hollywood, and that belief changed his political views forever. In the subsequent era of the blacklists, Reagan not only cooperated in the purging of suspected communists but also served...
Maats said he received a range of “bitter and angry” e-mails from students, even after Matherites returned the gong...
...bitter campaign over the campus-wide referendum to increase the termbill fee exemplified the problems that arose when council decision-making was concentrated in the hands of Mahan and his allies—who apparently did not even recognize the disproportionate level of influence they were exerting...