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Perhaps most troubling are signs that the rising influence of Iran--a country with which Iraq waged an eight-year war and whose brand of theocracy most Iraqis reject--is exacerbating sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shi'ites, pulling Iraq closer to all-out civil war. And while top intelligence officials have sought to play down any state-sponsored role by Tehran's regime in directing violence against the coalition, the emergence of al-Sheibani has cast greater suspicion on Iran. Coalition sources told TIME that it was one of al-Sheibani's devices that killed three British soldiers...
...Sherwood, who is fighting a civil suit filed by a woman less than half his age with whom he says he had a five-year affair. No criminal charges were filed against Sherwood after his mistress, who is now 29, called 911 and told police Sherwood had tried to choke her during a backrub. But she has sued the four-term Republican from Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for $5.5 million, saying he repeatedly struck her, violently yanked her hair and tried to strangle her, promising after each incident never to do it again and begging her not to leave him. Sherwood...
...This entire affair reminds me too much of typical middle school-clique in-fighting - except that 13-year-olds don't hold the power of life and death over millions of people. What can we do to ensure that positions of power are held by more responsible, cooperative, civil adults? Jo Virgil Austin, Texas, U.S. It is absurd that New York Times reporter Judith Miller was put in jail for refusing to reveal her confidential sources and Rove remains in a job paid for by U.S. taxpayers. It's time for Bush to demonstrate true character...
...that 40 years later had grown into a publishing empire big enough to make him the first African American to snag a spot on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans. "Money," he wrote in his 1989 autobiography, Succeeding Against the Odds, "is perhaps the greatest of all civil rights bills...
...Keefe apologized for a campus-wide e-mail Thursday, September 1 entitled “Civil Unrest in Baton Rouge” that spread unconfirmed rumors of shoot-outs and robberies across the campus and the capitol city, worsening tension between the local population, largely white, and the refugees who are largely low-income and black...