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...officials are hoping that Sadr will largely abandon Kalashnikov politics and focus his movement more on social causes as the need for militias to protect neighborhoods from Sunni extremists recedes. "I kind of think it will hold," Crocker said of the ceasefire. "The Shi'a are just as sick of militia violence as the Sunnis are." But Sadr is notoriously unpredictable. And while allowing for some optimism, U.S. officials remain unsure what will unfold. "It truly is a wait-and-see moment," Petraeus said...
...Peggy Noonan suggested that George W. Bush reconsider the name. “Homeland isn’t really an American word,” the former Reagan advisor opined in The Wall Street Journal, “It has a vaguely Teutonic ring--Ve must help ze Fuehrer protect ze Homeland!” Noonan seems to have struck the source of the visceral unease that the term provokes. “Homeland Security” resembles a call for devotion to safeguarding some German “fatherland” or Soviet “motherland...
...knew...We had an atrocity to prevent.” With this vague decree as their unwavering motto, Martens and his colleagues sense that the Salinas is guilty, before they even know what he’s guilty of. Vagueness is a tool Kertész uses efficiently to protect his novel from the passing of time. Despite the major changes that the last half of our century has seen, his work is still as relevant and readable today as it was on its release 31 years ago. Applicable to a modern readership, it has not been bogged down...
...videos and more - much of it for free. "What is surprising is that no one in India has done it sooner," says Rajjat A. Barjatya, managing director of Rajshri Media, Rajshri Group's digital-media and entertainment arm. "This model hasn't worked for Hollywood because they are extremely protective of their content and their domestic market is huge. But for India, this is the future." In November 2006, Rajshri released the romantic drama Vivah on its website, Rajshri.com, the same day it hit theaters. Within a week of its premiere, the film had been viewed online more than...
...Iraq, Cassidy's job was to protect the serpentine convoys that carry food, fuel and mail to and from Kuwait. On a routine mission in August 2006, a roadside bomb blew up 10 yds. (9 m) from his armored humvee. There was no apparent damage to the humvee or the four men in it. But for two to three minutes after the attack, Cassidy lost his hearing, and he quickly developed a bad headache. The next day medics diagnosed a minor concussion. "Since that time," he wrote in a January 2007 statement, "I have been plagued with migraine headaches every...