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...election promise shared by some of the major contenders in Iraq's election until about a week ago. This week, however, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi made clear that it would be reckless to call for U.S. troops to leave before Iraqi forces were ready to fight the insurgency. Now, Knight Ridder's Hannah Allam reports that the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance may now be retreating from its own campaign promise to call for U.S. withdrawal, adding a similar qualifier to the one touted by Allawi. She speculates that a combination of U.S. pressure and the reality of the insurgency...
...News sources The extensive newsgathering resources of the BBC make its Battle for Iraq page a one-stop shop of daily reporting. The Washington Post and New York Times have consistently provided quality coverage of Iraq, but some of the less trafficked outlets such as the Christian Science Monitor, Knight-Ridder newspapers and the Los Angeles Times are also quite good. For access to the news as covered in the Arab world, try the English edition of al-Jazeera...
...hardly changing his tune; he was simply emphasizing, as any candidate would, his fealty to the core beliefs of the vast majority of his electorate - beliefs which the U.S. media and administration have tended to ignore in their bid to project a fantasy persona onto Abbas as the White Knight who will deliver Palestinian consent to Ariel Sharon's peace terms...
...needs to change the perception that the war on terrorism is a war on Islam. The U.S. needs to be a neutral arbitrator that tolerates, supports and loves Israelis and Palestinians equally and fairly. Only then can the war on terrorism be won. Volak Sao Phnom Penh Phil Knight: Just do It Phil Knight, who is giving up his role as Nike's CEO while retaining the title of chairman [MILESTONES, Nov. 29], was a pioneer in the art of celebrity sports marketing, signing big stars to promote Nike products. He was selected by TIME eight years...
...Michael Jordan is God, then Phil Knight put him in heaven. By paying Jordan and other athletes millions to endorse his shoes, the chairman and CEO of Nike has helped turn them into household names ... [Knight] is the master of the mantra of the age ('Just Do It') and the proprietor of Nike's unmistakable swoosh, the icon that has turned the lowly sneaker into winged sandals ... Knight's stars are frontiersmen, exponents of an in-your-face brand of American optimism. And thus sports, as Knight has asserted, are 'the culture of the U.S.' By exporting the culture...