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...chaotic and bitter for a new power-sharing deal among the Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds. The last best chance to restore order and hold Iraq together may be a dramatic ecumenical expansion of the Iraqi security forces under new leadership. We need to rectify the most serious error we made in Iraq after our initial military success and restore elements of the Baath Party, especially its former Shi'ite military leaders, to positions of power. Each of Iraq's neighbors, with the exception of Iran, believes that some version of this proposal is the best immediate course of action...
...vicious murder, but the killers may escape punishment, because they crossed a border that most of the world doesn't recognize. In January 2005, Elmas Guzelyurtlu, a Turkish Cypriot businessman living near Nicosia in the southern part of Cyprus, was awoken by intruders. They took him, his wife[an error occurred while processing this directive] and 15-year-old daughter into a waiting car, drove them to a deserted highway pull-off, and shot them in the head. The murderers then fled across the "green line" that has divided Cyprus since 1974. For a moment, it seemed that justice might...
jacket and goes off to apply for a job as a security guard at a five-star hotel. There he is mistaken for a journalist and whisked into a press banquet, one of many held in today's China to launch everything from[an error occurred while processing this directive] literacy campaigns to property developments. After a splendid meal - with an envelope of cash "for your troubles" - Dan has a revelation: all he needs to continue this charmed life is a fake business card and a nonexistent website. Thus begins Dan's career in journalism - and Geling Yan's shark...
...chaotic and bitter for a new power-sharing deal among the Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds. The last best chance to restore order and hold Iraq together may be a dramatic ecumenical expansion of the Iraqi security forces under new leadership. We need to rectify the most serious error we made in Iraq after our initial military success and restore elements of the Baath Party, especially its former Shi'ite military leaders, to positions of power. Each of Iraq's neighbors, with the exception of Iran, believes that some version of this proposal is the best immediate course of action...
...encourage you to forgive this error. There are obviously mitigating circumstances at work which seem to afflict even seasoned professionals. Errors are the fertile fields from which learning grows. By the way, I didn’t find that quote out there anywhere—in that form, anyway. But a quick search for “learning from your mistakes” indicates that a few minutes with a simple thesaurus yields a phrase pretty similar to mine...