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...apparent as the showdown at Najaf provoked something close to a national crisis. Even though the operation had been ordered by Allawi's government, its deputy president Ibrahim Jaafari called for a halt to the offensive, and there were scores of resignations of lower-level regional government officials in protest of the clashes in Najaf. The government rushed to assure Iraqis that American forces would not enter the Imam Ali Mosque, and any fighting there would be done by Iraqi security forces. The problem was, U.S. commanders had reportedly concluded that the Iraqi forces in the city had trouble achieving...
...sports academies before the age of nine?regardless of their interest in athletics. Given such a concerted culling of China's 300 million youngsters, it's perhaps no surprise that in less than two decades of Olympic participation, China?which stayed away from the Games in previous decades in protest of Taiwan's participation?has transformed itself from a sporting afterthought with just five gold medals in 1988 to a juggernaut with 28 golds in 2000. By Sydney, China had climbed to No. 3 in the overall medals tally, trailing only the U.S. and Russia...
...global populace as if we were all one big, happy, left-wing underground, undivided by cultural differences, eagerly awaiting our chance to sock it to global capitalism. The authors' examples of multitude-style international activism--the World Trade Organization riots in Seattle in 1999 or the G-8 protests in Genoa in 2001--have a wan, quixotic air to them. "Eventually, perhaps, the seismic vibrations of each protest will resonate with the others," Hardt and Negri write, "amplifying them all in coordination, creating an earthquake of the multitude." Eventually. Perhaps. But so far the multitude is looking pretty uncoordinated...
...satisfied that President Arafat is serious this time." AHMED QUREI, Palestinian Prime Minister, withdrawing his resignation, which he had submitted to protest Yasser Arafat's failure to maintain law and order...
...case stems from an ongoing investigation into charges that another officer, Captain Annemette Hommel, mistreated Iraqis at the Danish base north of Basra. Hommel was formally charged with negligence. She denies any wrongdoing. Unwelcome Guests SUDAN Tens of thousands of people marched in Khartoum in a state-sponsored protest, above, against possible Western intervention in the war-torn Darfur region. The protesters said they would launch a jihad if Western troops set foot in the country. Australia and Britain have both volunteered troops for a military force to protect civilians in Darfur, where the U.N., U.S. and aid agencies...