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...trouble sleeping. His mind replayed the gruesome scene over and over. He suffered changes of mood and was beset by anxiety about why the incident had happened. He went out on patrol the next day carrying with him classic symptoms of combat stress: the emotional, physical and psychological fallout from living through--or under the extended threat of--traumatic events. Said company commander Captain Patrick Rapicault, "You have to get over your feelings and keep on pushing, just for the simple reason that you have another 170 Marines to take care of and make sure they come back...
...concerted attack on the oil sector as a whole. Few top executives will talk about Yukos publicly, and most oil companies won't comment on their Russian investment strategies. But John Browne, BP's chairman, has defended his company's deal. When questioned earlier this year about the possible fallout from Yukos, Browne said: "At present, I would say - and I believe this will continue - that there has been no effect." That ties in with a common theory in Moscow that Khodorkovsky ran afoul of President Putin because he climbed into politics by financing opposition parties in last year...
...INDICATORS Take Cover New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer sued San Diego-based insurance broker Universal Life Resources, claiming it steered business to insurers in exchange for improper payoffs that pumped up the cost of individuals' premiums. Fallout from a similar claim filed last month against Marsh & McLennan pushed the U.S. broker to cut 5% of its workforce after third-quarter profits plunged...
...even greater concern to Allawi and his backers than insurgent actions elsewhere, however, may be the political fallout from Fallujah. The battle's long-term impact will be measured in light of the contest between the Coalition and the insurgents for Sunni hearts and minds in Iraq. The insurgency has been sustained by a strong nationalist sentiment among Sunnis, who had been the dominant social group in Saddam Hussein's Iraq - indeed, ever since the country was first created by Britain. A widely held sense of uncertainty over their future as a minority in a democratic Iraq had been compounded...
...Mapmaking has to stop in South Asia. Such attempts would not be acceptable [even] in disguise." Still, it's a start, and if nothing else, the proposal should give momentum to talks later this month in New Delhi between India's and Pakistan's Prime Ministers. - By Tim McGirk Fallout Over Funds LATVIA Prime Minister Indulis Emsis' coalition government resigned after legislators rejected his proposed 2005 budget. His coalition - the Baltic state's 10th post-Soviet government - held just 47 seats in the 100-member parliament. Counting In Kosovo SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO All 660,000 votes cast in Kosovo...