Word: mud
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...relentless mud slide of insurgency and civil war in Iraq is leading to unacceptable strategic disaster for the U.S. There appear to be no viable paths to follow in order to avoid it. Neither "staying the course"--whatever that Bush strategy now means--nor the Democrats' idea of exiting by timetables offers a semblance of success. Both approaches produce only nightmares: general chaos; Iraq's center taken over by terrorists emboldened by victory over America, their pockets bulging with Iraqi oil money; southern Iraq controlled by pro-Iranians or Iran itself; and Iraq's neighbors picking at the nation...
...half a hectare or so of potatoes and barley, was one of the first in Banja to build a pit latrine three years ago. It's a simple affair: a hole in the ground, 1 m across and 3 m deep, covered with a concrete slab and surrounded by mud walls, a thatched roof and a bamboo door. Outside the toilet is a plastic watering can, which Worku has jerry-rigged to dispense a trickle of water for flushing. His neighbors, he says, "came and asked me why I built it and how it worked ... I told them what...
...Dark and the Chronicle of Higher Education's News Blog, to name just a few. This summer saw the addition of two Ivy-focused blogs: IvyGate and IvyLeak. Today they get profiled in the Brown Daily Herald and the New York Sun (question for the latter: why?), and the mud flies. Here's a quick summary of both pieces...
...When it came time to lay that down, that’s when we had some pretty heavy rains for about a week straight,” Sullivan says. “The rubber would have been fine but the sand would have been mud and that wouldn’t have worked. But, that was the only real delay that happened with that...
...Aides said Democrats may offer the measure as a privilege motion, or as an amendment to a Defense Department reauthorization bill - but Republicans said they don't worry that it would pass. "While we're fighting the war on terror, they're throwing mud again the wall to see what sticks, not really understanding who the enemy actually is," said Ron Bonjean, spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert. "It's a political ploy to get attention." Republicans take solace in the fact that the President has a bigger microphone, and is about to enter a season where the nation...