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...clutch of farmhouses as a platoon of Estonian infantry closes from the rear. The Americans are part of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment's operation to seal off a stretch of villages hugging the Euphrates in the Jafr Sakhr region, about 60 miles southwest of Baghdad. "Go round 'em up," a U.S. officer hollers, and male villagers of military age--one with his crying 3-year-old clinging to his neck--are sifted out. A humvee approaches and stops in front of the lined-up Iraqis. From within, a passenger, face masked, raises or lowers a thumb as each...
...things I've learned is that sometimes words have consequences you don't intend them to. 'Bring 'em on' is a classic example...
Neshoba County sheriff Larry Myers said last week that there would eventually be more arrests. "It's satisfying to know they got one," says Chaney's mother Fannie Chaney, 82, in New Jersey, "but they need to get 'em all." Said Billy Wayne Posey, one of those convicted in the 1967 federal trial: "This is like a nightmare." It's also a day of reckoning that mothers like Goodman and Chaney feel is long overdue. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/ Philadelphia and Deirdre van Dyk/ New York
...charisma and the electoral love voters showered on him. These politicians are like the hordes of rappers obsessed with being the next Tupac. In his song “In Da Club,” Fifty Cent complains: “They like me; I want ‘em to love me like they loved Pac.” Substitute “Clinton” for “Pac,” and you’ve summed up what John Kerry has been thinking for the past year...
...worth the small added inconvenience of an additional checkbox on the termbill. I trust that the council will be sensible enough to keep rare the opt-options on the termbill, and if it isn’t sensible (admittedly a distinct possibility), we can always vote ’em out. And failed logic against HRL would have one believe that since every opt-out-option for every possible objecting group is not structurally possible, it is not fair to allow only one or a few groups to opt-out. But change is incremental, and it seems reasonable...