Word: pollinger
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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The polls opened a minute after sunrise in Baghdad today. With most cars banned from the road for security, an eerie quiet filled the streets at a time when the horns of morning traffic would normally begin their daily cacophony. Moments after 7 a.m., as the first voters walked through...
Abu Fahdil desperately wanted to vote today, but both of his legs are broken, and he's stuck in a Baghdad hospital bed. His relatives have been busy rebuilding the walls of his house brick by brick from the rubble that remained after two suicide car bombers recently exploded themselves...
As polls closed across Iraq on Thursday, many having stayed open an extra hour into twilight to accommodate a surge of voters, Arabic news channels had yet to report a single attack on a polling station anywhere in the country. According to local news channels, rocket attacks continued against U.S...
Islam Online, a popular website that posts news about the insurgency, reported that insurgents in restive Anbar province were even seen manning checkpoints to protect voters from attacks by Al Qaeda. In Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, locals described long lines and no major attacks. The polling centers in...
Even in a sterling year for college football--Notre Dame's resurgence under former New England Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis, an unexpected hurrah out of near-octogenarian coach Joe Paterno at Penn State and no silly postseason polling controversies--Bush, 20, stood out. Says Texas head coach Mack Brown...