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...hours that night, U.S. planes dropped bombs, gunships strafed rebel positions near the shrine, and tanks shelled militia hideaways as explosions filled the sky over the Old City with billowing smoke and a deadly orange glow. U.S. military commanders said they were merely "shaping the battlefield" in case a frontal assault was ordered. But al-Sadr is adept at divining when to back down. On Friday he promised to "turn over the keys" of the sacred shrine to representatives of Sistani, the most revered Shi'ite religious leader, who has been out of the country for weeks while receiving cardiac...
COLIN FARRELL'S frontal nude scene was cut from A Home at the End of the World when test audiences found it "distracting." Wow. There's someone Farrell hasn't flashed...
...phone companies' quick response to Citron's frontal assault "is a sign that they are worried about losing customers," says John Hodulik, a telecom analyst at UBS. There's a risk of cannibalizing their existing business, but it's one they have to take. Cable companies, on the other hand, can go after an entirely new market, connecting Web phone service to existing broadband customers...
...forces had planned to renew the offensive against Sadr's men in the Imam Ali Mosque after cease-fire talks broke down last Saturday, the government in Baghdad had once again jammed on the brakes. That was because it had become clear to Prime Minister Iyad Allawi that a frontal assault would wreck the national conference designed to produce an interim legislature and imperil his prospects for achieving popular legitimacy. The Najaf issue eclipsed the conference's agenda and dominated discussions on Saturday and Sunday after hundreds of Shiite delegates angrily denounced the planned action in the holy city. Although...
...with mind-numbing choices about their retirement and health care, are going to warm to plans that require more decision making. Even Bush partisans aren't sure about the agenda's appeal. "I'm not spinning you," insists a Bush adviser after pitching the plan. "Much." Indeed, Kerry's frontal assault on Social Security privatization in his acceptance speech signaled that the Democrats think the smart money is on dismissing Bush's vision of an "ownership society" as a Darwinian world in which seniors and the middle class can lose everything to the vagaries of the market...