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...fruit. The two avenues are separated in some places by a single city block, and one is easily confused for the other. Now they seem worlds apart. Karrada In is buzzing: several new kebab restaurants have sprung up, and many shops have expanded. Karrada Out is the opposite, dark and empty, with most of the shops shuttered. Why? One explanation is that many of the businessmen have fled to Jordan and Syria. Another is that the Mahdi Army, Moqtada al-Sadr's Shi'ite militia, has taken charge of large portions of Karrada, extorting prrotection money from shopkeepers...
...toward elections managed in a way that has made inevitable a victory by conservative candidates; on the other hand, they fear that their inaction could return a uniformly conservative majlis, or parliament. For Hekmat and like-minded colleagues in the film industry, the latter outcome could only prolong the dark clouds that hang over their artistic activity...
Taliban insurgents are following through on their threat to target cell-phone towers if wireless firms continue providing nighttime service. Up to nine towers in southern Afghanistan have been attacked since last month. Why go after telecom? The Taliban believes informants use cell phones to alert U.S. troops after dark. According to the U.S. military, more than 50 high-level Taliban members were killed in 2007--many at night...
GIVING IN? Reluctant to be associated with the government, wireless companies have refused state security protection. And although the companies haven't admitted to caving in to Taliban demands, many Afghans have recently reported that their cell-phone service has been shut down after dark...
Watching “The Wire” wasn’t always easy, but it was always rewarding. Baltimore, as one character describes it, is “a dark corner of the American experiment.” This Sunday, that experiment ended. But for some of you, and for the sake of the country we hold dear, I hope it’s only just beginning. —Columnist Allie T. Pape can be reached at pape@fas.harvard.edu...