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...would be easy to dismiss Muqtada al-Sadr as little more than a street punk. That may be a mistake when dealing with a man who appears to have established himself as the de facto ruler of a huge chunk of Baghdad - the Shiite ghetto once known as Saddam City, now renamed Sadr City in honor of Muqtada's uncle, the legendary martyred anti-Saddam rebel cleric Muhammad Bakir al Sadr. Sadr City could be described as the Compton of Iraq, but its 2 million residents make up 8 percent of Iraq's entire population. A substantial domain, then...
...this adaptation, Herrera has cut a significant chunk of the play’s less important scenes and removed some of the heavy Christian dialogue. But the play’s success still depends on Richard’s ability to capture the audience from...
...Middle East. Saddam turned Iraq's branch of that party into a front organization serving his Tikrit family mafia and his own Stalinist cult of personality. And that inevitably produced the bungling that led Iraq into the disastrous wars with Iran, Kuwait and the United States. Nasser lost a chunk of Egypt; Saddam lost all of Iraq...
...risks of rowing on the river when there’s still ice on it is that our boat can hit a floating chunk of ice,” said junior Jen Shaw. “It’s especially hard because the ice chunks are moving on the river and they reflect the sky so they blend into the river, and it’s dark when you’re going under a bridge...
...Black and White boat pulled under Anderson bridge, a chunk of ice scraped its side near the stern...