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...most Iraqis - especially Shi'ites - agree. Neither Maliki nor President George Bush want to commit to a timetable, but if Sadr can orchestrate a groundswell of support - and he is adept at rousing his followers into a fury - the Prime Minister and President could find themselves pushed into a corner...
...behind a long line of trucks and buses belching diesel fumes into the warm night air. The cause of the holdup: an army truck lying mangled in a roadside ditch, another victim, said one of the hundreds of onlookers, of the treacherous narrow and winding roads in this northeast corner of the country. Up ahead, soldiers were hammering steel pins into the hard earth to winch the wrecked vehicle up onto the road. The scene was chaotic. A few cars had managed to wend their way through the crush of traffic and were trying to slide under the low-slung...
...have been flocking to its dining outlets, offices and boutiques. Issey Miyake is among the retail tenants of this $3 billion cathedral of commerce-but the leading fashion designer is hoping that shoppers and office workers will also make tracks for an intriguing, sleek structure located in a grassy corner of its 25-acre site...
...shrinking size of the Japanese family that is raising pressure on parents. Where young couples would have once been able to draw on the extended clan for support and advice, urbanization and atomization have amputated those ties. "Families are more isolated now, and parents are backed into a corner," says Jun Saimura, head of social work research at the Japan Child and Family Research Institute. "In the old days, if young parents had a problem, they could seek advice from the neighbors in their community. But that local community is weakened...
...College—to step in as FAS dean. “It’s been a long journey and an encouraging one,” Rudenstine said of Knowles’ health. “With a little more time, we might really be turning the corner.” Knowles’ absence at this spring’s many Faculty meetings and within University Hall has been a jarring one. “The outpouring of concern from the Harvard community has been wonderfully sustaining for Jeremy and all the family,” Jane Knowles...