Word: cauldron
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...Iraq Your report on the full-scale assault to take back Fallujah from the insurgents [Nov. 22] reminds me of the Vietnam-era axiom: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Although reconstruction is supposed to begin as soon as we pacify the Fallujah cauldron, attempts at such rebuilding in the rest of Iraq have shown that it is impossible to begin the work and spend the budgeted money because of the lack of security for work crews. What contractor on earth would want to undertake such risks to work in Fallujah, the most dangerous place...
...Pavilion, just like its counterparts at Duke, UConn and Stanford, became more than a court on Friday—it transformed into a roiling cauldron of smoke and fire...
...terrible suffering of the Kurds continues apace in the cauldron of postwar Iraq, as the recent massive car bombing in the unofficial Kurdish capital of Kirkuk and the beheading of three Kurds by insurgents have gruesomely illustrated. These two vile acts are merely small additions to the long list of outrages suffered since the removal of Saddam Hussein. Kurds stand out as targets not only because of their ethnicity and language, but also because of their staunchly pro-American actions. The Kurds are deeply grateful for America’s creation of the “no fly zone...
...into this cauldron that the four American Blackwater contractors headed last Wednesday. Spokesmen for the company say the contractors, who typically travel armed with automatic weapons, were guarding a convoy of trucks loaded with food. But the reasons for their decision to drive through such a hostile neighborhood remain murky. Sources familiar with Blackwater's operations say an investigation will have to determine whether the contractors, one of whom had arrived in Iraq only two weeks earlier, received sufficient training in avoiding and responding to ambushes. Standard operating procedure for security teams like Blackwater's, according to a former private...
...shabu-shabu to expatriate Japanese businessmen, says owner Katsuhiro Niki. But lately, on weekends, 80% of his customers are non-Japanese. Harmony Watling discovered shabu-shabu during her honeymoon in Bora-Bora and had "so much fun" using chopsticks to swirl paper-thin slices of beef in the bubbling cauldron of water (the Japanese word shabu-shabu comes from the splashing sound). Local reviews call shabu-shabu "great date food," which puzzles Niki. "It's not for couples," he says. His wife Hitomi explains, "It's messy...