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...five times what he made last year. But he has the dean's job only because his predecessor, Abdul Jabbar Mustafa, was taken at gunpoint from his house on New Year's Eve and shot twice in the head in one of a series of political assassinations in the northern Iraqi city that police have been unable to solve...
...help foster democracy while earning money has been a strong draw for Iraqi emigres. After decades of exile in the U.S., Sabah Khesbak, 50, flew home to Baghdad last October and landed a $500,000 contract for his engineering company in Tustin, Calif., to design four suspension bridges in northern Iraq...
...with in one chapter out of twelve. The book argues that Americans have historically defined their identity in terms of four major components: race (white) which involved the enslavement, subordination and segregation of blacks, the massacre of Indians and the exclusion of Asians; ethnicity (British and then Northern European) which led to the mutual exclusion after 1924 of southern and eastern Europeans; Anglo-Protestant culture including deep religiosity; and an ideology (the “American Creed”) articulated in the Declaration of Independence and other central documents. Happily in the past half-century, Americans have pretty...
...role of women in the new military. As war loomed, we dispatched 18 reporters and photographers to the region. Many of them were embedded with U.S. troops, but we also kept a team in Baghdad as bombs rained down on the capital, and a team in northern Iraq, where the Kurds were launching their own war against Saddam...
...Lake Winna-Bango...the far northern shore, lives a huge herd of moose, about sixty or more. And they all go around in a big happy bunch, looking for nice tender moose-moss to munch...