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...first white people we've seen in years." We asked about the militant bases in the area. Adam said all outsiders - both the militants, and the Ethiopian and U.S. warplanes that hunt them - were a curse. "The Americans bomb. The Ethiopians bomb. And the ICU threaten us on the ground," he said, using the acronym for the Somali Islamic Courts Union, driven out of Mogadishu by a U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion. "None of these people are from here...
...Rice and Abbas both looked grim as they exited their afternoon meeting in Ramallah. A presidential adviser told TIME that Abbas had rebuffed Rice's pleas that he resume negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, broken off as the Palestinian death toll mounted during Israeli ground and air attacks in Gaza. Israel launched its operation in retaliation for a shower of long- and short-range rockets from Palestinian militants...
...pass and fired the ball in the Stony Brook goalie’s face for a close-range goal to broaden the lead. “I think the guys just made a few better decisions.” Tillman said. “We got a few more ground balls, we played a little smarter. All in all, it wasn’t really complicated, the guys just did a good job executing.” Harvard racked up an early lead, 3-0, in an aggressive first period. Stony Brook squandered a man-up opportunity earned...
...It’s potentially the case where we won’t come to a consensus where everyone agrees,” Palfrey said. “But we will do our best to find common ground and to prescribe what we think are the best approaches to this...
...Baghdad find shelter wherever they can in the most dangerous city in the world. Just outside the Karada district, there is an abandoned Iraqi military base from the Saddam Hussein era that looters had reduced to little more than piles of rubble strewn around the cement slabs in the ground. Displaced from other parts of Iraq, these people have taken up shelter in makeshift houses on the otherwise deserted grounds. Among them is Hadi Shaker Hamadi and his clan, cobbling together a shelter of cinderblocks, scrap wood and cardboard. They and the 70 or so other families here take charity...