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When people ask me what a war correspondent's life is like, they're usually expecting tales of high drama and great danger, of intolerable mental strain and how-the-hell-do-you-manage physical stress. After three and a half years in Iraq, I have so many stories of that ilk I may never need to pay for my own drink again. But as difficult as working in Iraq can be, many in the press corps here will tell you that, often, the hardest time is when you're not working. For a journalist, life in Baghdad is about...
...When the floods subsided-after months, in some places-the road was covered with piles of sand that towered above graders and took weeks to shift. Not for nothing is the roadhouse 50 km east of the border called Hell's Gate...
...draws a steady stream of tourists, who set off like explorers, their four-wheel-drives and caravans laden with water, food and fuel. Of the 100 vehicles a day that travel this stretch of Highway 1 in the dry season, Clarke says, around 60 belong to tourists. Even a hell ride has its allure...
...what the destiny of Iraq will be." For a second, I thought I recognized the expression on his face. It's the one I had seen on the faces of my fellow passengers on the flight into Baghdad--that mixture of fear and resignation, just before the descent into hell...
...writing, even as his deadline was moved up when other books on Katrina started to appear in bookstores.And there were many other books, including Douglas Brinkley’s “The Great Deluge,” Michael E. Dyson’s “Come Hell or High Water,” and Ivor van Heerden’s “The Storm,” among others. But Horne’s book has received its fair share of praise, and has been called “the best of the Katrina books thus far?...