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...last week now comprises some 200,000 men, with its hardened core numbering some 40,000. Besides a daily drumbeat of attacks that have killed hundreds of Iraqi security officials, politicians and civilians, they have also expanded their capability to hurt U.S. forces. The suicide bombing of a Mosul mess tent last month that killed 18 Americans may have seized the headlines, but equally disturbing are three roadside bombings in the past week in which two Bradley armored vehicles and an Abrams tank have been destroyed by improvised explosive devices, killing their occupants. Observers believe the insurgents...
...Hoffman, who gave Murray his first major dramatic role (over the objections of director Sydney Pollack) in 1982's Tootsie. "But he's a tough, working-class guy, and he has a very strong sense of right and wrong. I don't know how it works, but if you mess with it, well, he would have done very well in Golden Gloves had he chosen to go that route...
...MESS O'POTAMIA That's what Jon Stewart dubbed the Iraq war. Can TV's hottest satirist make...
...polls, and the pundits' predictions were growing more dire. Undecided voters would break for Kerry. No President had won with an approval rating below 50% so late in the campaign. More than 60% of Americans thought the country was on the wrong track. The war was a mess. It's eternally tempting for politicians to trade away principles while campaigning and say they will reconcile things when they win. But Bush aides insist that wasn't in their playbook. "Campaign meetings I was in when the President was 8 points down felt the same as campaign meetings when the President...
...Since President Hu Jintao assumed full control of the government in September, there have been several signs of a widening crackdown on freedom of expression: the shutdown of A Complete Mess, a politically pluralistic university chat site; the firing of several prominent journalists; and the canceling of classes taught by a Peking University professor who openly criticized China's propaganda system in essays, interviews and lectures. Last month when a Guangdong newsweekly published a list of 50 "public intellectuals," the state-run People's Daily responded with a sharply worded editorial attacking the concept: "What is meant by 'public intellectual...