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Kirkuk, with its mixed population of Kurds, Arabs and Turkomans, has long had the potential to be a sectarian powder keg. Under Saddam's Baathist regime, the Iraqi government forced out a large number of the city's majority Kurdish population and resettled the city with Arabs from the south. Now ethnic tensions are erupting as Kurds demand the return of Kirkuk to their control. The day I visited in March, a series of two car bombs and three roadside bombs killed 18 people. On April 1, at least 15 people, including eight schoolchildren, died in a suicide truck bombing...
...Kirkuk, with its mixed population of Kurds, Arabs and Turkomans, has long had the potential to be a sectarian powder keg. Under Saddam's Baathist regime, the Iraqi government forced out a large number of the city's majority Kurdish population, and resettled the city with Arabs from the south. Now ethnic tensions have flared as Kurds are demanding the return of Kirkuk to their control. The day I visited last month, a series of two car bombs and three roadside bombs killed 18 people. On April 1, at least 15 people died in a suicide truck bombing...
Bedecked in their powder-blue House T-shirts, slightly tipsy from early-morning cocktails, and with faces and coifs streaked with distinctive red paint, Matherites marched triumphantly through the Yard waving placards emblazoned with sexual innuendoes en route to greeting newly-Housed freshmen outside of Annenberg Hall...
...Given the crowded field, Texas Republicans would be better served by keeping their powder dry until March or later, Masset says. For the last 30 years, Republicans have followed a somewhat orderly succession process in picking their nominee, but this year's race is wide open. The last time there was an open race, Texas played a significant role that paid off later for the state's conservatives. In 1976, after a string of losses by challenger Ronald Reagan to President Gerald Ford, Texas gave Reagan a big win, making the race very close and setting up Reagan...
...salaryman has followed the Seibu Lions since he was 8, back when his family lived near the team's stadium in Tokorozawa, a sleepy suburb 40 minutes west of Tokyo by train. Clad in a powder blue Lions jacket, with a Lions towel wrapped around his neck, Koike spends the entire game bobbing like a prizefighter in Seibu's official cheering section, where well-drilled fans in blue and white drum and sing personalized anthems every time a Lion comes to bat. One player is missing though--superstar pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, who left for the Boston Red Sox this...