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...poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Other tracking polls by Gallup and Zogby gave Kerry the lead but showed Dean in command of second place with more than 20 percent of the vote...
...Mather high command further claims that Kirkland residents sent the gong to the Russian monastery currently seeking the return of the Lowell House bells to Moscow...
What remains unclear is whether the jihadists can ever command the popular support required to become a sustainable guerrilla force. Military analysts say that while the jihadists' numbers are growing, the insurgency still doesn't constitute a significant threat to U.S. forces. "We're dealing with onesies and twosies," says retired Army Lieut. Colonel Ralph Peters, referring to the number of insurgents typically involved in each assault. "We're not dealing with waves of Iraqis coming over the walls of our compounds in mass attacks." Khaled, the leader of the jihadist cell outside Baghdad, acknowledges that U.S. forces have killed...
Some of the headscarf’s opponents have said that it should be banned not because of integration problems, but because it is supposedly archaic and a symbol of the oppression of women. But Muslim women choose to cover their heads to obey God’s command of modesty, which applies to both men and women. If a woman freely chooses to wear the headscarf, it is not oppression. It is simply a matter of obeying a religious...
...join his peers in Cooperstown, N.Y. Since he last managed, the salaries of top managers like Joe Torre and Dusty Baker have risen to levels Rose could only have dreamed about when he was in the dugout. Money is what makes Rose hustle, and he would dearly love to command the big money now available to managers. But how can Commissioner Selig ever trust Rose not to fall back into his old betting ways? I will be astonished if Pete ever puts on a manager's uniform again...