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...These were whiffs of change rather than full-blown breakthroughs, and there were those who discounted their import. The North Koreans had succumbed, it was said, only because of pressure from China and some folding by the U.S. on who should be at the table. Skeptics insisted that Rafsanjani was just playing local politics; he was hoping to reinvigorate his flagging, centrist political party for next year's parliamentary elections by appealing to Iran's pro-American, pro-reform majority. But make no mistake: none of this would be happening were it not for George W. Bush. He invented...
...road to central Baghdad lies across a partly blown iron bridge. The bridge is unable to support tanks, so the Marines will have to take it on foot, which will let them be the first U.S. forces to hold ground in the suburbs of Baghdad...
DIED. DAVID BLOOM, 39, NBC News correspondent embedded with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq, whose ebullience and tireless filing made him one of the war's best-known reporters; of a pulmonary embolism, which caused him to collapse 25 miles south of Baghdad. Hair blown by the wind and face streaked with soot, he filed many of his reports from the "Bloommobile" he designed--a tank equipped with a camera mounted on a gyroscope that allowed him to broadcast on the move. A father of three, he covered the O.J. Simpson trial and the Clinton White House...
...When two Bradley fighting vehicles got stuck in the mud, dozens of irregulars, armed with a machine gun, tow missiles and a chain-firing cannon, tried to crawl up to them. Another group attempted to paddle across the Euphrates river, shooting RPGs as they approached. Their five boats were blown apart on the water. All of these attacks ended similarly. "It's not a fair fight," says Major Kevin Dunlop. "Trucks with machine guns against tanks and Bradleys can only have one outcome. We are slaughtering them...
...tents were miserable, and the weather even worse. One day, the shamal winds stirred up a huge sandstorm. With gusts to 60 m.p.h., we could hear Marines pounding the loosening tent stakes back into the ground. Despite their efforts, one tent was blown over, scattering all the medical equipment...