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President Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq on Monday, leaving the White House secretly Sunday evening to fly to Al Asad airbase, in Anbar province, for meetings with U.S. military commanders, Iraqi leaders and some of the approximately 10,000 American troops stationed there. The trip kicks off a pivotal week for Bush, as Washington girds for a series of progress reports from U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus on Sept. 10 and 11 that may determine how many U.S. troops will stay in Iraq - and how long they will stay there...
...Monday, during his surprise visit to the al Asad air base in Iraq's Anbar province, Bush got a different kind of briefing from Capt. Lee Hemming, a Marine helicopter pilot in Anbar...
...Nancy C. Andrews, dean for basic sciences and graduate studies at Harvard Medical School (HMS), will become the first female dean of Duke University’s medical school, Duke announced Monday. She will be the only woman leader at the nation’s top 10 medical schools once Barbara J. McNeil finishes her term as interim dean of HMS on Saturday. Duke has previously had a female president—Harvard Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane—and some of its schools have been led by women, but Andrews’ appointment to the top post...
...sporadic clashes broke out Monday night in the Shi'ite holy city, which was packed with pilgrims celebrating the birth of a revered 9th century imam. Gunmen from radical cleric Moqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army were operating as a security force for the pilgrims, whose periodic marches to Shi'ite shrines attract attacks from Sunni insurgents. Once in the city, though, the militia clashed with gunmen of the Badr Organization, the armed wing of the rival Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC...
...Pakistani official told newspapers Monday that Musharraf has sent representatives to London this week to discuss a power-sharing pact with Bhutto. A decision is expected within days. Washington is encouraging such a deal in the hope that together Musharraf and Bhutto can capture Pakistan's moderate middle and help save the country from extremists. This reasoning overlooks the fact that Musharraf has helped fuel many of the problems that his country now faces - but the sense of urgency is almost palpable. When a group of opposition politicians, human rights activists and journalists met in Islamabad on the last Friday...