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Waddah al-Anbari's ordeal began on an afternoon in Baghdad early this year while he was out buying a new cell phone. The neighborhood seemed safe; Waddah didn't bother to lock his car door. He was about to cross a narrow alley when a car screeched up, blocking his way. Two men got out, thrust AK-47s into his ribs and pushed him into the floor behind the front seat. Climbing in the backseat, the men pinned him down with their feet and beat him in the torso with the butts of their guns. When he tried...
...children--sold his late father's house near Basra and moved to his mother's ancestral home in a quiet, dusty town west of Baghdad: Fallujah. "We were sure that there would be no fighting there. The Americans would not attack it, and the Iraqi army would not bother to defend it," he recalls, "because there's nothing important in Fallujah. It was like an old car that nobody wanted." As Sunni Muslims, the family thought they would fit right into the Sunni-majority town...
...also thrives on confrontation, which can rub tennis vets the wrong way. "I'm not sure if he knows the difference between a forehand and a backhand," says a tennis insider who requested anonymity. That wouldn't bother De Villiers--and it doesn't matter. Tennis doesn't need a tennis expert; it needs someone who can execute a business plan. It's your serve, Etienne...
...tactics employed by such organizations refuse to recognize how effective spectacle and controversy can be when the deck is stacked against an organization. If a student group incites criticism, its message has been heard, which is more than can be said about the group that does not bother to engage the student body...
...back on the podium it can ill afford a second league loss. Prediction: Penn 24, Brown 20.CORNELL (2-4, 0-3) VS. NO. 18 PRINCETON (6-0, 3-0)Wow. You’re in a fairy tale land. So pretty here. Don’t even bother with elective decision-making. Just sit back on the wings of a kindly dragon and enjoy this rainbow-shaded scenario while eating clouds made of cotton candy.Princeton’s senior QB Jeff Terrell, an archetype of toughness and experience against Harvard last week, falters versus Cornell’s second...