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...smacks of confusion and danger, even without the impact of the abuses by American personnel of Iraqi prisoners: semi-sovereignty mixed with insurrection, protracted ethnic-religious strife and discord over the nature of the yet-unformed permanent government. The U.S. military role will be subject to challenge under a quasi-Iraqi regime; both the definition of the U.N. mandate and U.S. support for it are up for grabs; international engagement is reticent; and the backing of the Iraqi people for a caretaker government indeterminate in both structure and jurisdiction can easily implode...
...about rape and murder and some very serious charges.” But the story is not being reported in terms of further abuse that has happened, but rather photos (and possibly videos) that will come out in the future. Any homicides in the prison are described in this quasi-future tense, because they will come to have happened only after people see photographs...
Initiatives Democratiques is planning a campaign to encourage more immigrants to become U.S. citizens by running a series of newspaper and television ads that, starting in September, will target New York City's 200,000 Haitians, some of whom are undocumented day laborers. "We are no longer a quasi-exile community who will return to Haiti shortly," Vernet says. "It is O.K. to be American." --By Peter Bailey
After that experience, Sun began the colorful website DigsMagazine.com as a “home and living guide for the post-college, pre-parenthood, quasi-adult generation.” The site breaks into four categories: lounge, nourish, host and laze. “I thought that these were the four essential building blocks of a happy home space, and that most design magazines only focused on presentation,” Sun says...
After that experience, Sun began the colorful website DigsMagazine.com as a “home and living guide for the post-college, pre-parenthood, quasi-adult generation.” The site breaks into four categories: lounge, nourish, host and laze. “I thought that these were the four essential building blocks of a happy home space, and that most design magazines only focused on presentation,” Sun says...