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...capital. Electricity is much more reliable outside Baghdad. There are almost no power cuts in the south, a region that often had six or less hours of electricity a day before the war. Schools are mostly back to normal, and commerce is booming as goods flood in across the Turkish and Kuwaiti borders. The military presence of the U.S. in the north and the British in the south is far less visible than are the U.S. forces in and around Baghdad. Despite sporadic ambushes, the foreign troops are largely tolerated by locals, who tend to view them as a necessary...
Despite a flood of speculation by officials in the U.S. and Iraq, no one really knows who is responsible for the increasing pace and skill of the resistance, which makes it doubly hard to devise an effective defense. As polls show American popular approval for the mission in Iraq beginning to sag and as political sniping in Washington intensifies, the Bush Administration is struggling to cast dismaying events in a hopeful light. "The more progress we make on the ground," declared the President, "... the more desperate these killers become." That struck many as an Orwellian way to measure U.S. success...
...Nature will become angry if we are arrogant." Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesian President, after a flash flood blamed on deforestation killed more than 100 people in North Sumatra province...
...Composed of six short acts, The River tells the story of two women, Irene and her daughter Mary, who explore language and femininity as a rising river threatens to flood their home. Through Nov. 8. 8 p.m. Tickets $5; $4 students, $3 Adams residents. Adams Pool Theater...
...first round of applications for the Class of 2008 begin to flood Byerly Hall, admissions officers are again facing the challenge of luring high-achieving black applicants to Harvard...