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Born in Los Angeles in 1905, five years before the picture people came west from New York and Chicago, Anna May grew up watching movies made on the streets near her home. Her laundryman father tried to beat (literally beat) a dutiful girl's sense into her, and told her...
The announced departure of Douglas Feith, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, may be a sign of new wisdom at the Pentagon.
Violent as these storms were, they also did some good. For the first time in recent memory, snowpack in much of the West is running well ahead of average, and that signals relief for the drought-plagued region. Even so, says NOAA drought specialist Douglas LeComte, it's too early...
It says something about the collapse of American illusions in Iraq that a deal along those lines with an elected government might be the closest the U.S. can get to declaring victory and heading home. For Iraqis like Karim al-Saadi, the government that is born on Jan. 30 will...
Throughout Iraq, the hopeful anticipation of the coming exercise in democracy is tempered by an ever present dread. On patrol in Mosul last week, Pangelinan's unit stopped in front of an old man's house. As Americans handed out candy to neighborhood children, Pangelinan asked the Iraqi how he...