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...interim Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi had repeatedly vowed to crush al-Sadr's illegal army but quickly acceded to a plan that would spare the shrine from assault. Al-Sadr, said Minister of State Qassim Dawoud, is now "as free as any Iraqi citizen to do whatever he would like in Iraq." But there's surely more trouble ahead. Having spent time inside the shrine, I saw firsthand the degree to which al-Sadr's supporters are devoted, armed and determined to fight the U.S. and the Iraqi government it brought to power. Here...
ARRESTED. U.S. citizen JAMES EL SHAFAY, 19, and Pakistani national SHAHAWAR MATIN SIRAJ, 21; in an alleged plot to bomb a subway station and possibly other locations; in New York City. The men were not believed to be linked to al-Qaeda...
...China, despite the lure of multimillion-dollar advertising contracts for the most winsome of gold medalists, the Games were as much about those who finished dead last in their events as about those who took home gold. How else to explain the giddy joy of Katura Marae, proud citizen of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu? The 14-year-old came in last in her heat of the 100-m dash, yet still clocked her fastest time of the season, 0.02 seconds behind Tit Linda Sou, Cambodia's lone female sprinter, who ran the best time of her life...
...groceries; don't even ask if you can shop for her. At home she likes a chicken or turkey sandwich for lunch. If she eats at the country club after tennis, she usually finishes only half and saves the rest for dinner. (The doggie bag is the senior citizen's medical-supply...
...affirm the republican values of equality and fraternity. But it's like pressing a button that doesn't work anymore." Especially in the socially underprivileged banlieues, where Jewish-Muslim tension is highest, the appeal to shared citizenship is more apt to reap mockery than reverence. "Being a citizen of France used to give everyone a kind of bulletproof vest, but now it's fallen off and we see each other as Jews, Arabs, whatever," Sebban says. Sebban tried Israel in the 1990s; he lasted four years. "It was a big disappointment," he says. He feels that many French Jews...