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...want a glimpse into the challenge the U.S. faces as it tries to prevent Iraq from coming apart, consider the plight of Salim Izzat. Five months before the U.S. invasion last March, Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime ordered Izzat to vacate his farm outside the northern-Iraq town of Dibagan, 50 miles southeast of Mosul. The command was part of the regime's systematic, 15-year-long campaign to populate the predominantly Kurdish reaches of northern Iraq with ethnic Arabs. Kurds like Izzat were pushed out of their homes by force; dissenters, including Izzat's brother, were executed...
...held Kashmir the permanent border, to be patrolled by the U.N. Both countries have spent billions fighting along the LOC for more than a half-century. Now both can surely live in peace with an LOC border for many more years and use the billions saved to improve the plight of their people. Lochan Bakshi Edmonton, Canada A President for the People Re your article "Inside the Mind of Howard Dean" [Jan. 12]: Dean is a sensible, intelligent, moderate former Governor who has proved he can balance budgets and create jobs. He is optimistic and straight talking. His background...
...think it says a lot about the candidates. The candidates on the ballot are only the ones that care about the plight of black people in D.C. enough to show support for them,” Terry said. “The others don’t even want to lend their position to fight for the disenfranchised. It would have been a minuscule effort to show their support, to put their name on the ballot, to show that they care whether the residents of Washington, D.C. have a voice in determining the policies...
...seven Canadians? Well, consider the plight of sophomore forward—and Calgary, Alberta, native—Charlie Johnson. Johnson watched the game with Grumet-Morris and said it was a “big mistake,” since Grumet-Morris grew up outside of Chicago and (apparently) knows many of the U.S. players...
...acting is full of satisfactions and surprises. Law has movie-star musk and the craft to fill his peasant garb with a heroic sensitivity. Kidman seems uncomfortable early on, but she takes strength from Ada's plight and grows steadily, literally luminous. Her sculptural pallor gives way to warm radiance in the firelight. Portman lends a tender ferocity to the widow aching for the presence--the memory, really--of a good man's body next to hers. As for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, voting is now officially closed; Zellweger should take it by acclamation...