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...officials in Iraq say their troops are coming under attack an average of 20 times a day. Most are small-bore, hit-and-run sallies that fail to exact any injuries. Yet seven of the soldiers killed last week were hit by small-arms fire, RPGs or mines. The U.S. has not been able to prevent its foes from getting access to explosives and weaponry. Arms caches can still be found throughout the country, largely unguarded by coalition forces. U.S. officials say they have discovered 105 major military arms dumps and scores of smaller ones storing perhaps 1 million tons...
...fact, Forte! did not just bore its audience to death; it tried to dupe it. Many of the showcased “students” weren’t students at all. Of the 37 listed in the program, 19 were undergraduates and 18 were recent (or not-so-recent) graduates. That’s a phony count of 50 percent...
...above all, the Emmys are about entertaining us. Forget all the hogwash about their being "a celebration of the TV business" - once an awards show occupies three-plus hours of national television, with paid advertisements, its sole duty is to amuse and never bore us. (This is why I've never felt sorry for any actor or actress who goes over the acceptance-speech limit and gets played off stage: if they want to give long, self-indulgent, weepy speeches, they can give the awards at a private, untelevised ceremony at a nice restaurant in L.A. and talk as long...
...night of Aug. 29, the rebels had shot dead a colonel on the doorstep of his Kathmandu home, gunned down a former government minister, firebombed the ancestral country mansion of the Finance Minister, robbed two banks and announced a three-day nationwide general strike. Some of these attacks bore a strong flavor of retribution. Fifty-two-year-old Kiran Basnet, the colonel shot in the chest and head outside his home, had been earmarked to take charge of the army's anti-Maoist battalion. Ex-Home Minister Devendra Raj Kandel, shot and wounded last Friday, was noted for offering cash...
...conduct ourselves in a civilized fashion, shall we? Sherry? We're here to discuss mystery novels. As we both know, there are ominously looming mountains of them, and you don't want to waste your precious beach reading time with books that are doomed to bore, do you? Here instead are six of this summer's most tightly wound, delicately nuanced and deviously irresistible. Settle in and prepare to enjoy yourself. I'm afraid escape is quite impossible...