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Driving into Baghdad from the airport, I see other changes. In commercial districts, more shops and businesses are open than there were a year ago. Shoppers are taking the time to haggle with vegetable vendors--a contrast to the furtive, hurried transactions I remember. There are no queues at the gas stations. Baghdad even sounds different. In my first two days, I hear no explosions or gunfire. At the TIME bureau in the Jadriyah district, we get four to six hours of electricity a day, up from just two hours. This means there are long spells when you can hear...
...laceration in his leg. Wu then kicked through a window of the police cruiser. At the police station, he kicked a “Miranda Warning” poster off the wall. HUPD confiscated a fake Michigan driver’s license. During his last hearing at the Cambridge District Court, Wu was denied pre-trial probation. Wu’s friends said that the incident did not reflect Wu’s normal behavior, “We didn’t believe what happened the first time we heard it because Kai is such a very easy-going...
...holds so much sway in Pennsylvania politics actually grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He migrated to Philadelphia for college and stayed there after law school, in the district attorney's office. In 1977 Rendell audaciously ran against his boss and beat him in the primary. But his faith in himself hasn't always been so well placed. Rendell fell far short when he ran for governor in 1986, getting trampled, as it happened, by Casey's father and setting up a familial rivalry-one that continues in the 2008 presidential race now that Casey is Obama...
...volunteer effort, New Orleans is not recovering from Hurricane Katrina,” wrote Associated Press correspondent Brian Schwaner in an article last August that applies just as well today. “Beyond the happy mayhem of the French Quarter, entire neighborhoods are in ruins and the business district sags from the shattered economy. Thousands of people are homeless and squatting in vacant and storm-damaged properties, some just a few blocks from City Hall.” Returning to the French Quarter, I realized how suspended things seemed there, even amid the “happy mayhem...
...support was requested by Iraqi ground troops that were being attacked by that position," he said. He said that the Americans have carried out four air strikes overall since the offensive began. He also said that, at the request of Iraqi forces, British artillery fired on the al-Halaf district of Basra on Saturday...