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...according to a Demos-Eurisko poll published last week in the left-leaning La Repubblica daily. The Prime Minister did make one enormously popular announcement last week: during a political chat show on TV, he said Italian troops would begin pulling out of Iraq in September. For a brief moment, even the opposition was praising him. But after a phone call from President Bush, Berlusconi clarified his remarks, telling reporters he only "hoped" for a withdrawal. Opposition leader Francesco Rutelli quipped: "It's a world record - the withdrawal of an announced withdrawal in half a day." The center-left opposition...
...view of television cameras and press conferences. While the Pentagon names each dead soldier, few details are released of those injured, and no photographer is permitted on the tarmac when the casualties from Iraq are unloaded at Ramstein Air Base near Landstuhl. For these soldiers, Landstuhl is a brief hiatus, perhaps a week or two before they are dispatched home or returned to the war. Here, they are neither liberators nor occupiers, neither vilified nor celebrated. They are simply patients, struggling to come to grips with their wounds - and to start the process of healing...
...three men stepped out of an alley and fired rocket-propelled grenades, splitting apart the vehicle. In the brief moment he was conscious, he saw the blinding flash of the explosion and the dead body of his gunner sprawled across the back seat. Days later, doctors in Iraq e-mailed surgeons at Walter Reed to say that Jurgersen had flatlined twice in the field hospital in Balad, before being flown to Landstuhl. Like many other soldiers who've landed here during past two years, it was not Jurgersen's first evacuation. Last June, he survived a bullet that pierced...
...guns are coming out. Next week, TIME has learned, Southwest Airlines will file a friend of the court brief in support of the pilots' challenge. For Southwest, one of the nation's biggest airlines and one which, remarkably, has never had a fatal accident in its thirty years of flying, to be the first major airline to take such a decisive step puts real momentum behind the move to throw out the Age 60 rule. "Times are changing," says Southwest spokesman Linda Rutherford. "We are losing some really good pilots...
Auslander’s 14 brief sketches exhibit flashes of brilliance but also leave his readers hungering for more. With none of his stories running longer than 23 pages, Auslander has yet to prove that he is capable of offering his readers a fully-developed, multi-dimensional character...