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...then on the ninth day, everyone drew back. A delegation of Iraqi leaders led by Allawi's National Security Adviser, Muwaffak al-Rubaie, arrived from Baghdad to open talks with al-Sadr aides. U.S. troops suspended their offensive against the Mahdi Army, while the fighters who had battled the Americans hand to hand melted back into the sanctuary of the shrine...
Wang, who moved to Massachusetts after ninth grade, said he did not know Lin personally when they attended the same school, but that he did know Chang well...
...could not disagree more. I have spectacular roots, a spectacular sense of family and place." It's true that many stories about Kerry's early years focus on their nomadic quality, maybe because he had gone to seven schools on two continents by the time he was in ninth grade. And as for an acute sense of family, Kerry did not know the whole story of his father's family until he learned it in early 2003 from the Boston Globe, whose staff has been the most avid archaeologists of Kerry's past...
...Munich, says that German multinationals created some 780,000 jobs in Eastern Europe between 1990 and 2001, resulting in a net loss of 90,000 jobs in Germany. Of course, companies weigh more than the tax rate when deciding where to set up shop. According to Marin, taxation ranked ninth, behind factors like market access and production costs. But she expects German jobs to keep heading east. "The past is a good indicator for the future," she says. Paul Barnes, COO of KPMG Tax Services for Central & Eastern Europe, is working with a Bavarian client who tells him only...
Moore also displays a talent for catching poignant moments on film himself: the Marine recruiter handing his card to a ninth grader, the boy saying he wishes he was able to go to college without the fear of dying in the process, the military mom reading her son’s last letter, in which he criticizes the Bush administration. Sometimes Moore creates the moments, taking to the streets to get Congresspeople to enlist their children in the Army, exposing the hypocrisy of lawmakers who send other people’s children to die without wanting to sacrifice their...