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...When I first arrived in Ramadi, the streets were deserted, and there were constant sounds of gunfire,” Munir said. “But by the time I left in November ’07, we never heard gunfire. Kids were walking to school. Marketplaces were open. Normal life was returning...
...It’s the first time I’ve heard somebody articulate that point concisely and succinctly,” Swift said...
...Harvard’s admissions office.The hope and angst juxtaposed on the wall’s face (where “Mr. Bush tear down this wall” stood spray-painted only a few panels over from “Zionism = Nazism”) underlined the story I heard from the dean: local students, aspiring to education’s holy grail, were soon discouraged by the unfamiliar exams demanded by the application process—another high wall that blocked their escape route in education.I couldn’t help but feel sorry for these students...
Apparently, resounding electoral defeat has left France's ruling conservatives a little hard of hearing. Because scarcely minutes after the opposition Socialists registered dramatic advances in the final round of country-wide municipal polling on Sunday evening, members of the French government claimed they hadn't heard the faintest note of voter disgruntlement. Despite a drubbing in towns and cities across France, officials in President Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet pledged they'd continue their reformist drive with even more energy than before...
...case is heard, the court would have to decide whether these add up to a conspiracy to subvert the secular nature of the Turkish state. The prosecutor is also asking that if found guilty, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and 70 other party members be banned from politics for five years...