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...Verlag, owner of Der Spiegel, the country's largest newsmagazine, and Axel Springer Verlag, which owns Bild, Germany's biggest circulation newspaper - announced they were going back to the old rules. "Out of a feeling of responsibility for future generations, we recommend to others that they too put a halt to the state-ordered dyslexia and return to classic German spelling," the publishers said. The committee rolling out the reforms - the Kultusministerkonferenz (a compound word allowed under the new regime, since one part cannot be written independently) will hold talks in Vienna next week to decide whether the reforms need...
...victory. But the risks of a direct assault on militiamen holed up in the mosque quickly became apparent as the showdown at Najaf provoked something close to a national crisis. Even though the operation had been ordered by Allawi's government, its deputy president Ibrahim Jaafari called for a halt to the offensive, and there were scores of resignations of lower-level regional government officials in protest of the clashes in Najaf. The government rushed to assure Iraqis that American forces would not enter the Imam Ali Mosque, and any fighting there would be done by Iraqi security forces...
...latest cease-fire in Najaf may be a telling measure of the political balance of forces in the new Iraq. Having launched an armored offensive into the Shiite holy city after vowing to destroy Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi militia, U.S. commanders abruptly called a halt to offensive operations on Friday as truce negotiations between Sadr and the interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi continued. But a new truce wasn't exactly what Allawi and the Americans had in mind when they vowed earlier in the week to finish the fight and break the back of Sadr's forces...
...caucus in Baghdad last weekend to choose delegates to the conference was scuttled after the ballot box was found to be stuffed with patently false photocopied ballots. Six of the parties called for an investigation; the seventh stalked out, effectively invalidating the entire vote. Meanwhile, in an attempt to halt a process they feel unfairly benefits the Shi'ites and the Kurds, many from the disgruntled Sunni political establishment refused to show up at all. And groups with support in restive western Iraq charged that the conference served only the interests of the Americans. "We consider...
...front of a driftwood composition, it was relaxing and even fun to do two-minute sketches in a variety of materials. I got a bit ahead of myself early on, when I decided that I, too, could imitiate Jackson Pollock—an episode which came to an abrupt halt when my ink splattered not into a beautiful pattern on my paper but rather into a less desirable blob on the shirt of the budding artist standing next to me. I also learned that raspberries are deceptively complicated structures, and I would do my artistic talents too great a compliment...