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...assault of the kind the Marines staged against Fallujah in 2004. "We don't want to Fallujah Ramadi," said McClung, making me laugh. "We don't want to destroy the city to save it." McClung went on: Beefed-up local police forces would wrest the city from insurgents block by block instead, with local tribal leaders providing fresh recruits. Some new tribal flatfoots were already on the streets. The tide in Ramadi, McClung said, was turning. "It's getting better," McClung said. "I think Iraq in general is getting better...
...allowing the Mahdi Army to flip up to five houses a day. Many of the Sunni families forced from their homes have now gathered in an enclave in central Ghazaliya under the protection of a local sheik named Hamed Ne'ma Taher al-Obaydy, who has turned his block into an Alamo of sorts. Cartee's unit hopes to stop the onslaught before Hamed's holdout of about 1,200 people falls, but lately hopes on both sides have dimmed. "They're not surrounded yet, but they will be soon," says Cartee, a reedy young officer from West Virginia...
...limits of supposed industrial logic and, at times, involved attacks of a distinctly ugly nature. In Luxembourg, where Arcelor is based, Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker called for "a reaction that is at least as hostile" as the bid, and parliament considered a new merger law that would block the deal. In Paris, Finance Minister Thierry Breton lambasted Mittal's decision to make an unsolicited bid, accusing him of having "a grammar problem," while President Jacques Chirac searched for ways to stop the takeover. One former French Prime Minister, Michel Rocard, wrote an angry screed entitled "Europe Should...
...Michael Jackson’s “Ain’t No Sunshine” on “Street Opera.” But that’s not to say the album has only one sound; other tracks like “Block Rock,” arguably the best song on the album, and “Blue Armor” have harder beats that sound like those of Just Blaze...
...Crimson managed only 19 defensive boards. “[Albany’s offensive] rebounds absolutely clobbered us,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “It was one of our worst defensive rebounding games in three or four years. Overall, we had a poor block-out game.” “That was discouraging,” he added. “We talked about it at halftime and [still] didn’t do it in the second half.” Albany pulled down 11 rebounds in the first half and nine...