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...Sadr City cordon was in place, Baghdad saw noticeably fewer murders. The episode revealed two important things. First, U.S. forces can ratchet down the killings in Baghdad, at least for a time, with basic tactics like roadblocks and military policing. And second, as of now, the militias so eager to kill civilians are reluctant to confront American troops. The Mahdi Army didn't attack U.S. forces in earnest even when they massed at the gates of Sadr City, ready to plunge into the area in search of a kidnapped U.S. soldier who remains missing...
...favor of the first Gulf War. He was one of the few Democrats to argue, correctly, on Sept. 23, 2002, that Bush's pre-emptive invasion of Iraq would be a serious mistake. Now Gore seems liberated, less awkward than he has ever before appeared in public and eager to propose more inconvenient truths?like the need for a tax on fossil fuels. I don't know if he's running for President. Probably not. But he should...
...defenders pushed out to the arc to pressure Trimboli as he attempted an opening. Driving to his left around the pressure, the sophomore point guard lost the handle, one of his six turnovers on the game and a season-high 28 by Vermont overall. The ball squirted to an eager Goffredo, who drove the length of the floor and drew a foul. Harvard’s captain, the Crimson’s best from the line at 91 percent entering Sunday, made sure the ball was in his hands the rest of the way, hitting 6-of-8 free throws...
...idea sometimes starts out small. In 1974, after earning his Ph.D. in the U.S., Muhammad Yunus was teaching economics at Bangladesh's Chittagong University. When a deadly famine struck the country, Yunus, eager to lend a helping hand, paid off the money owed to loan sharks by a group of impoverished villagers struggling to survive; they should repay him, he said, "when they could." Eventually they did, but that was not the most significant aspect of the episode. While the total sum was only about $27, that a stranger would trust them with his cash gave the villagers an appreciation...
...Belgian nationality is a recent invention. The country was born in 1830 when the southern, Catholic provinces of the Netherlands broke off with the support of other European powers eager to have a neutral buffer between France and the German principalities. The southern region of the country was for more than a century the richer part, with steel mills, coal mines and the cultural hegemony of the French language; the Flemish spoken in the north was considered little more than a peasant patois. But since the Second World War, Flanders has moved ahead, with higher income, lower unemployment...