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...daily basis, and their attempts to help the Iraqi people rebuild a country sputter and stall in the face of a security nightmare. No one in the U.S. government or military can take pride in the postwar situation. Instead of planning to protect Iraqis' most precious resources, we became helpless witnesses to the chaotic looting and sabotage of an entire country. HARRY TUBMAN Pleasant Valley, Conn...
...daily basis, and their attempts to help the Iraqi people rebuild a country sputter and stall in the face of a security nightmare. No one in the U.S. government or military can take pride in the postwar situation. Instead of planning to protect Iraqis' most precious resources, we became helpless witnesses to the chaotic looting and sabotage of an entire country. Harry Tubman Pleasant Valley...
...that after surgeons operated on Averbach's spine, she spent four hours settling him into his bed. She hooked the 37-year-old father of four onto a cardiac monitor, a mechanical ventilator and an intravenous drip. It was hard, physical work for her and another nurse, lifting the helpless body of the tall, muscular Averbach, who works as a private weapons instructor. Then she introduced herself. With a name that any Israeli would recognize as Arab, Haeik says this is the moment when 1 in 10 of her Jewish patients recoils from her. "Hello, I am Naela," she said...
...Penn’s Caroline Stanislawski, when Bajin closed out a 7-5, 6-3 victory to clinch the undefeated season for herself and, more importantly, the Ivy title for the team. As the winning moment approached, she was feeling the pressure, but on the final point Stanislawski was helpless to reach Bajin’s backhand...
...case the upcoming dialogue between India and Pakistan fails to yield any progress. Then, says one commander from the Lashkar-e-Toiba, Pakistan's support will resume?covertly, as before. Several of the militants interviewed by Time failed to mask their sense of betrayal by Islamabad. "We feel helpless because we never thought that Pakistan would stop supporting us," says one ex-militant from the Lashkar-e-Toiba who recently gave up his cross-border attacks out of frustration. This indicates that ISI, despite its many denials of helping the militants, still flexes some power over the groups' chiefs...