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...hardly surprising that a whiff of desperation hung over the Administration as it tried to assign blame for the 48 harrowing hours of bombing in Baghdad. Some officials continued to insist that most of the insurgents were Saddam loyalists. Others said the sophistication of four nearly simultaneous attacks indicated the work of foreign fighters--Islamic radicals from outside Iraq, perhaps representing al-Qaeda or the related terrorist group Ansar al-Islam. Several Administration officials told TIME that Hizballah, the Lebanese Shi'ite militia, is becoming more active in Iraq. Pentagon officials leaked word that captured insurgents had claimed that Iraqi...
...which Iraqis adopt a new constitution and elect a government. But constitution-making is a deeply contentious business in Iraq, which has, pretty much since it was constituted as a nation-state by the British after World War I, been ruled by the Sunni minority. The Shiite majority, naturally, insist on nothing short of a majoritarian democracy, while the Kurds demand the right to govern northern Iraq as an autonomous component of an Iraqi federation (the consternation of neighboring Turkey). Right now there's substantial disagreement over how a constitution should be adopted - the key Shiite religious authorities have insisted...
...round in the courts. But in the court of public opinion, at least, the finger-pointing over what led to Terri's 1990 collapse at age 26 could get nastier. Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler (who want her kept alive), have suggested that her husband Michael Schiavo (who insists she would not have wanted to live in her vegetative state) physically abused her. He vehemently denies the charge. But one possible cause of her collapse could soon become an issue. In a 1992 medical-malpractice suit brought by Michael, bulimia was raised as a possibly significant factor...
...over the police and security forces of the country's north and east. But Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says he wants to keep the peace talks going, and though decisions in the LTTE are ultimately made by its enigmatic supremo, Velupillai Prabhakaran, the LTTE's operatives on the ground insist they too want no more bloodshed. "We're talking about peace, we're not talking about war," says Thaya Master, an LTTE spokesman...
...controversy over claims in the president's State of the Union address and other pre-war speeches about Iraq's yet-to-materialize weapons of mass destruction and leaks from White House officials about the identity of a CIA operative. Errant spin also undermines White House efforts to insist its account of post-war progress in Iraq is the most accurate one. "At a time when the economy is getting better and our policies are being vindicated," says a White House official, "this kind of stuff is killing...