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...Iraqi forces. It took the Americans and their Iraqi partners the better part of a week to regain control, and a U.S. battalion had to be recalled from Fallujah to help. The attackers "showed a degree of local command and control we have not seen before," says Brigadier General Carter Ham, commander of U.S. forces in Mosul. "The willingness to stand and fight signaled to me that something has changed." Also, rebels in Mosul have launched an intensive campaign of hit-and-run operations, kidnappings and beheadings. The bodies of victims are being dumped around the city. At least...
...November, the BSO collaborated with Harvard in presenting a conference to celebrate the work of 95-year-old composer Elliott Carter, whose works the BSO will perform this season...
...would the Hermit Kingdom decide to throw open its doors to foreign cameras? Some experts think it's part of an effort by the regime to soften its image abroad. "The North Koreans are desperate for good publicity," says Aidan Foster-Carter, a Korea scholar at Leeds University in Britain. "Since they're incredibly bad at [p.r.] themselves, it makes sense to have foreigners do it for them." Director Daniel Gordon suggests that the project was authorized by Kim Jong Il himself. "Permission for something like this must have come from the very top," he says. Despite his unprecedented access...
...fraternity of presidents. For the most most part they forgive one another for the insults they have endured on the political battlefield. And then, once they get their library centers up and functioning, they reach out to one another. Last week, when both President Bushes and President Carter joined Bill Clinton for the opening of his new Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark. (Gerald Ford, 91, did not feel up to the trip), they got drenched in the rain like everyone else. But afterward they and their wives got to dry out in the Clintons' private apartment...
...with platelets and parasites. But unlike CSI, House is more interested in ideas than technology: Is the human touch overrated? Are concepts like "death with dignity" just feel-good lies? Funny, probing and unsentimental, House may shock the systems of viewers used to sweetie M.D.s like ER's Dr. Carter. But as an honest look at techno-medicine and the prerogatives of genius, it's a tonic. --By James Poniewozik