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...third of Iraq's territory, was at the heart of the country's bloody insurgency against U.S. troops, which raged for more than three years. In 2006 local sheiks and former insurgents began to band together to form the Awakening movement. With funding from the U.S. military, the movement fought a fierce battle in 2007 against al-Qaeda-led insurgents, inspiring similar programs in other areas of Iraq. The Awakening is largely credited with quelling the insurgency and bringing stability to Anbar and Baghdad. Now many of Anbar's 35 parties carry names that emphasize either tribal or Awakening ties...
Needing a three to even the score and force overtime, the Crimson’s freshman point guard Brogan Berry fought off the press, and pushed the ball down the right side of the court. But with Berry looking to feed one of her sharp shooting co-captains, Dartmouth players swarmed her passing lanes. Somewhere in the traffic, the ball popped out of Berry’s hands and into those of the Big Green’s Darcy Rose...
...Scheider, 75, with mournful eyes and the granite jaw of a Toltec deity, had a great movie '70s. He fought the great white shark in Jaws; he helped Gene Hackman search for Frog One In The French Connection; he smoked up a storm and underwent terminal angst as Bob Fosse's surrogate in All That Jazz. To Scheider's tough guy, Mel Ferrer, 90, was Mr. Soulful Softie, scoring as the hobbled puppeteer opposite Leslie Caron in Lili and as Prince Andrei in War and Peace, where he costarred with the fourth of his five wives, Audrey Hepburn. Before movies...
...lifelong contrarian. She served in South Africa's Parliament from 1953 to 1989, fighting her government's repression of the country's black majority and the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and his fellow antiapartheid fighters. From 1961 to 1974, it was a battle she fought alone as the Parliament's sole anti-apartheid member...
Where, oh where, is Jobs? Recuperating, we're told, from a hormonal imbalance that may or may not be related to the pancreatic cancer he fought off with surgery in July 2004. It's O.K., Jobs says, vowing to fight this thing, whatever it is, while continuing to run Apple...