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...gained by waging a costly religious fight while the U.S. remains in the country. "The Shi'ites are an inseparable part of the resistance. We have to unite our efforts against the invaders, so we must be careful to avoid a civil war that will weaken us," he says. Contact between Sunni insurgents and Shi'ite militias like al-Sadr's Mahdi Army have been under way since the battle of Fallujah in 2004, with both exchanging expertise and manpower. "We have nothing against Shi'ites ... our dead are buried with theirs, as theirs are buried with ours in Fallujah...
...appointment has bought Bush some time, but allies of the White House say he must do more. They say Bush has the chance to right his second term if he is willing to follow through with a few more tough decisions, such as one to increase the social contact he has had with key lawmakers...
Fitzsimmons noted that Freed Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 and Larsen Professor of Public Policy Christopher N. Avery ’88 have developed a system that will help the admissions office “reach out to particularly hard-to-contact students from $40,000 and below and $60,000 and below...
...really confusing at times. It does require shifting gears a lot, which has been more or less difficult at times. But that said, they do dovetail very nicely. The intellectual work and the contact with people in medicine is a nice balance to the solitude of writing. Writing gives you a chance to exercise different parts of your brain and also to process what goes on in medicine. Medicine is like a conflagration of personalities and conflicts, both on personal and social scales. So writing is a really nice way, for me at least, to work out some...
...bound into spring like a line drive. Which is why following a spring-training regimen of muscle-stretching and flexibility exercises can be so important. Not coincidentally, the stretching regimen that most pro-baseball teams use may be the best way to go. Reason: baseball, compared with such physical-contact sports as football or such running-intense games as soccer, more closely parallels the average Joe's routines, according to Paul Fournier, strength-and-conditioning director of the Florida Marlins. "As in everyday life, we see a lot of muscle-use imbalance in baseball players," says Fournier. "Overuse...