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...Tehran; it had been confined to a single base outside Baghdad and was monitored by the U.S. Nobody had accused the Mujahedin-e-Khalq of any atrocities on Iraqi soil, and al-Maliki's decision to evict the group smacked of tokenism. Sunni politicians seized on the eviction as proof that al-Maliki was doing Tehran's bidding...
...Sunnis, the failure to smash the Mahdi Army is not so much an indictment of al-Maliki as proof of a U.S. double standard. Salam al-Zaubai, a Sunni and one of al-Maliki's two Deputy Prime Ministers, complains that U.S. forces treat the militias with kid gloves. "When they attacked the Sunni resistance, they flattened entire cities, like Fallujah," he says. "But when it comes to Sadr City, their approach is different. Why?" For their part, residents of Sadr City ask why the U.S. is attacking the militias--seen as Robin Hood figures--when they should be looking...
...spine-tingling fun. But was any of it real? A handful of scientists and scholars brave enough to risk their reputation entered the field to find out. In her fascinating new history, Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death (Penguin; 370 pages), Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer prizewinning science reporter, tells the story of their decades-long effort to establish whether supernatural forces were more than sideshow illusions. They never came to firm conclusions, but their struggle to connect the dots makes for a captivating and even poignant tale...
...Piper remained an enigma no skeptic could fully penetrate. But even she would not be accepted as conclusive proof of a supernatural realm. As the years went by, the psychic researchers themselves passed on to the next world. Predictably, spiritualists reported that some of them started sending back "messages" from beyond to old friends. Or perhaps even that was just another spiritualist charade. In the field of psychic research, the Big Questions always ended in the realm of the Big Maybe...
...peace prospects of the area. If he succeeds, by neutralizing Hizballah and convincing Israel's enemies, at least for a while, that it's not worth picking a fight, Israel could win a greater sense of security, while its patron, the U.S., could point to Israel's experience as proof that standing up to militant Islamists pays off. But as the fighting escalates beyond what Olmert's government once imagined, the odds against him have grown. If the battle ends with less than a demonstrable victory for Israel--an outcome he has insisted is unsatisfactory--then Hizballah and its backers...