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...aggressive instincts ("My tactics are simple," he says. "Whenever we see the enemy, we go after them.") and his uncompromising belief that the future of Iraq must be non-secular. A Shi'a, he is married to a Sunni, and one of his sons is named Omar, a distinctively Sunni name. Accusations of pro-Shi'a bias have plagued the Army (which is predominantly Shi'a) since its post-Saddam reconstruction, but Ali says he does not tolerate any favoritism among his soldiers...
...According to Adams HoCo Co-Chair Omar M. Abdelsamad ’09, the tightened regulations have not substantially altered events in Adams, since the House already did not serve hard liquor at Stein Clubs prior to the ban. He also noted that putting a rule on the books does not always translate into practice...
...deal. ... When we aren't getting newsreels, we're getting routine footage of guerrilla clashes in the jungle. ... All this movie inspires toward the Cuban Revolution is excruciating boredom..." He wrote this in 1969, in a review of the flop Hollywood bio-pic Che!, with the not-very-Latin Omar Sharif as Guevara. Yet most of Ebert's denunciations apply to Soderbergh's movie, which dispenses with the exclamation point - and, in fact, with almost all of the compelling, sometimes contradictory drama in Guevara's life...
...more akin to that of North Korea, a country that gulps down foreign aid without reciprocal political concessions. And corruption is so rampant in Burma that NGOs worry about how much aid will actually reach the neediest victims. "One side of me wants to hope for openness," says Khin Omar, a Burmese former student activist who lives in exile in Thailand. "But the other side knows the regime is smart enough to let in aid and then close any window of opportunity for reform...
...revenge for the death of a rebel leader who was killed by police three weeks ago, but insist that the cease-fire is still in effect. "We abide by our announcement of a cease-fire. Today's attack was to level the score with police," Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar told...