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...trying to steal the provincial elections by stuffing ballot boxes in the Jan. 31 vote. Iraqi security forces in Anbar braced for trouble, at one point imposing a curfew, an increasingly rare move these days. U.S. forces in the province watched the situation warily, wondering whether the relative calm Iraq has known for roughly the last year would unravel in a matter of days or even hours. "The levels of violence can spike out of - almost out of control," said Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, the U.S. ground commander in Iraq. "We have to be mindful of that...
...chamber balladry, would disappear into the labyrinth of its swirling accompaniment if not for the sheer fact that it’s the album’s most beautiful adornment. Similarly, the relatively spare “No More Runnin” is a drawn-out, dreamy moment of calm on the album’s B-side, whose progression of successively hyperactive dance tracks terminates in the closer, “Brother Sport.”Debuted on the band’s last tour in long form, “Brother Sport,” a distinctively Lennox...
...companies should enjoy this calm, because it likely won't last. The Democrats will get around to the drug companies at some point. And if Congress pushes through a two-year ban, could that set a precedent for further DTC restrictions down the road? Are drug and media companies headed down a slippery slope with Congress? "Give them an inch, they'll take a mile - there's concern about that," Bolling says. "There's no question the Congressmen will take it as far as they can. This is a platform for them. This is, 'I am here to save...
...Crimson earned its first lead of the game off of a pair of Claire Wheeler free throws, making it 11-10. A layup from Berry and a three-pointer from Matera brought Harvard from 17-16 to a 22-16 advantage. “We just remained calm,” Delaney-Smith said. “Teams are always going to have runs; it’s how you react that dictates the outcome of the game.” Penn went on an 8-4 run over the next three minutes to pull within 26-24. The Crimson...
...economist, Summers has more credibility with Republicans than many other Obama officials do. He did an early stint in the economic back room of the Reagan White House and helped calm the markets during various mini-crises during the go-go 1990s. But Summers has long identified himself as a Democrat and has often leaned toward the left edge of the centrist economic consensus that has driven our recent financial history. "His solutions tend to be government-led, progressive structuring of the market for what he perceives as the greater social good," explains the new Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner...