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...militia are gone from Zubayr, but Dr. Hussein is apprehensive about a breakdown in security in the town. "It is very unsafe," he says. "There is no police force, no administrative apparatus of any kind." The British have instituted a 7 p.m. curfew but have few spare troops to patrol the streets. During the day, the town appears to be getting back to normal, with foodstuffs appearing in the market. But normality has its limits...
Chen suffered a nervous breakdown in January and spent several weeks in the hospital...
...Sensing another linguistic breakdown, I backtracked, checking how my question had been rendered into Kurdish, and whether the gesture had anything to do with the answer. In fact, the translation was right on, and the gesture was a succinct analysis of Ansar theology: They had approached Islam ass-forward. Ansar's philosophy, explained one Sufi, was one of "hate, hate, hate...
...sounds as if the draining of the swamp of Middle East extremism is on hold for now, the Arab opposition to the war should have come as no surprise. In September 2000, bitterness toward the U.S. began to harden again. One reason was the breakdown of the U.S.-mediated Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which the U.S. blamed on the Palestinians. Another reason was what Arabs saw as American backing for Israel's strong military response to the Palestinian intifada. In any discussion about Bush's policies, no Arab will fail to remind you that the President once called hard-line...
WORCESTER, Mass.—In the end, what the Harvard faithful will probably remember about the Crimson men’s hockey team’s 6-4 loss Friday is its breakdown in the third period, when BU scored three goals in five minutes to break...