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...commander thought he went as a liberator and arrived with scant ground troops. The local leaders the British picked to rule were weak and derided as puppets. Iraqis rebelled with attacks that stunned the occupiers in their ferocity. Ultimately, the occupiers had to use brute military power to crush the insurgency, hoping that stories of men, women and children being killed indiscriminately wouldn't cause the public back home to lose its nerve. Quelling the dissent proved deadly for 2,200 British troops and some 10,000 Iraqis, and the country never did settle down by the time the British...
...more disposed toward the Republican Party," says Teixeira. "We're seeing the emergence of a new Democratic Party. It's more pragmatic and less ideological. And it's unified in its desire to defeat a Republican Party that's widely viewed as stopping at nothing to crush the opposition...
...Hankerson works, for health reasons--he has multiple sclerosis, and she suffered disabling complications while pregnant with their daughter Maelyn, now 10 months old. (Rose also has a daughter, Zaria, 4, from another relationship.) Both Rose and Hankerson grew up in Delaware Terrace, and Hankerson says he harbored a crush on Rose from age 11. But it was just two years ago that she finally relented to his flirting--"'cause I was ready for one of the good guys," says Rose. She says she signed up for the course "to save our relationship" from constant arguments, especially about...
...Incredible family as a typical, if unique, American family. Elastigirl berates her husband for taking the wrong highway exit as the family careens through the city in a rocket. Mr. Incredible loses his potbelly by bench pressing boxcars. His daughter Violet turns herself invisible when her school crush looks...
...steps is out of step, and the whole room knows it. He floats around the dance floor with partner in tow like a sexual butterfly. There he is, spinning and winning all the girls. I would kick his ass if it wasn’t for the huge man-crush I have at the moment. I watch The Guy Who Can Swing Dance and wish I had chosen the “dance unit” in 10th grade gym class instead of dodgeball...