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...felt like to gaze over Baghdad from the window of his ninth-floor room. Coming back from each long day of work, he would find the panorama of the city stretched before him. Staring at it, he said, he would try to imagine what the workers on the ground were thinking, what the shopkeepers were worried about that...
...Critics argue that while reporters may place themselves in less danger when they embed, they sacrifice a level of objectivity that is necessary to fairly represent the conditions on the ground...
...this has to do with the relentless assaults on foreclosed homes. "We're seeing a shift in crimes," Bublak says, noting that people used to just steal property from the outside. Now, in addition to vandalizing the property, stripping its bones and using the yard as a dumping ground, thieves have zeroed in on the homes' utilities. "Forty percent of foreclosed homes in Modesto get their power stolen," says the Modesto Irrigation District's Louis Maceira,who can often be found locking or removing meters from these homes...
...government is unable to provide electricity, or security concerns have prevented them from maintaining electrical lines. We've given out in this area in the last few months hundreds of microgrants of $1,000 or $2,000 to help small businesses develop and get their feet off the ground...
...case of Iraq, it is under American occupation, not our occupation. The Americans organized elections there and a government arose out of those elections. Since then we have accepted that government and helped it. Iraq is our neighbor. They are Muslims. We have cultural and political common ground. So what's this talk of terrorism? Take the example of Lebanon. Is the presence of Hizballah really a terrorist one? Who then killed Imad Mughniyah [the reputed master-terrorist and Hizballah collaborator who was assassinated in a bomb attack in Syria in February]? What Israel is doing Gaza... is there...