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...explosives past checkpoints because women are rarely, if ever, searched due to cultural norms that forbid public touching between men and women. That hole in the safety net was made abundantly clear on May 14, when a female suicide bomber successfully eluded several checkpoints and assassinated an Iraqi Army captain just a few miles from the Yusufiyah Community Center...
...smoke intensified, Wayne Dammert, a banquet captain at the club, stumbled into a hallway jammed with a hundred guests. The lights flickered off and on, and the smoke started to get heavy. But what he remembers most about that crowded hallway is the silence. "Man, there wasn't a sound in there. Not a scream, nothing," he says. Standing there in the dark, the crowd was waiting...
...executive and former president of Germany's main business lobby, said what happened at Telekom was "reprehensible and disgusting," comparing it to the "methods of the East German Stasi" secret police. "This is not capitalism," he said. "It's not my understanding of the market economy." If a captain of industry condemns Deutsche Telekom with such vigor, the judgment of the average German is not likely to be any more forgiving...
...Many of the Al-Madinah girls willingly accept the limits, even when they chafe: "Allah comes before basketball, before a million dollars and before everything," says team captain Fatima Benfakiah, 18, who moved to New York from Algeria at age 2. Benfakiah admits that living with restrictions can be frustrating, at times - "It's not fair, but it is something you can get over because this life is not eternal; it is the afterlife that counts...
...Iraqi Army base where the captain was killed, Rohling drives this point home. "You need to strike a balance when you deal with the Qarghuli," he tells two junior Iraqi Army officers. "I understand that you can't demonstrate weakness, but you can't come on too strong, either. Today is the hottest day of the year so far, but I need cool heads, okay?" They nod in agreement...