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Timing is everything in war, as in politics. The draft withdrawal agreement was signed on the eve of the Democratic convention and takes away a lever that anti-war activists had planned to use to push their party back into the White House. And while it's too soon to know how quickly U.S. troops will be leaving Iraq (and in what numbers), the tentative agreement opens the door for strengthening the American military presence in Afghanistan, where both parties agree it is desperately needed. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops will leave Iraq next year if present trends continue...
...Breaking Dawn it seems as though you purposefully avoid a fight scene at the end of the book. Had you planned that all along? -Travis Baldwin, Oxford, AlabamaThat is the original ending to the first rough draft I ever did of Breaking Dawn, back in 2003. It was always for me more like a courtroom drama, which is one of my few TV addictions, rather than a battle scene. It was always about outmaneuvering someone mentally; I knew that if it turned into a physical battle, there was never going to be a winner. That was the ending that really...
...security agreement they're pursuing would include a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops, which was demanded by the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki but initially resisted by Washington. In what may be another reluctant U.S. concession to al-Maliki, Iraqi officials say the current draft agreement strips the immunity given to private security contractors working with the U.S. military and diplomatic staff. Rice said Thursday that the U.S. side considers the pending deal acceptable, effectively leaving final approval to the Iraqi government and the parliament, which must ratify the pact after review by the Prime Minister...
...Zebari said the draft agreement would undergo review by a special executive council in the weeks ahead. But the final decision on approving the deal rests with al-Maliki, a Prime Minister who has become increasingly assertive of his independence from Washington as his stature has grown in Baghdad and abroad...
...have 'therapeutic optimism' - thinking that with the availability of certain treatments in the past nine years or so, the disease is curable and they are not infectious," Mayer says, adding that the result of his study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, will guide a national draft manual for AIDS social workers, to help them identify high-risk behaviors in the community...