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...first Independence Day celebration in 1948 and received its highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India), in 2001. DIED. Joe Rosenthal, 94, combat photographer for AP who in 1945 captured what became the iconic image of World War II?U.S. soldiers raising the Stars and Stripes atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, site of some of the war's bloodiest battles; in Novato, California. Rosenthal arranged a subsequent shot of the soldiers waving, leading critics to allege?wrongly, experts generally agree?that the famous photo was a setup. In fact, Rosenthal barely got the picture that boosted...
While there’s enough to do at Harvard to never require one to leave the Yard or the Houses, freshmen who venture beyond Mount Auburn or Prescott Street will be pleasantly surprised to discover that there’s more to Cambridge than the Pit, the Charles, or Cambridge Common...
...just as out-of-power Democrats across the U.S. are casting 2006 as their version of the Republicans' 1994, Kentucky Democrats are smelling blood as Fletcher's problems mount. All the while, McConnell has uncharacteristically stayed out of the fray, and kept his focus in Washington, where he is deputy Senate majority leader and Bill Frist's heir apparent. "McConnell was absolutely right in singling out [then-U.S. Rep.] Ernie Fletcher as the candidate most likely to win the governorship," in 2003 said John David Dyche, a Louisville lawyer and political columnist. "But [McConnell] has not been involved...
...termites," is radically new to the classical stage. "It's one of those things where, if you put something out in the universe and you really, really want it, it eventually comes back," says the northwest-Queensland-born, Brisbane-based Barton. "I remember sitting in the old car in Mount Isa and listening to my AC/DC but also my classical music and just thinking, It would be so great to have the didgeridoo with that...
...That kind of talk enrages Sunnis who face the brunt of the militias' murderous depredations. Adopting the same simplistic approach as their Shi'ite counterparts, Sunni politicians say Baghdad's security problems would disappear if only the U.S. would mount a major offensive operation in Sadr City. "They know the problem, the know the solution," says Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni. "So why aren't they doing something...