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...spring of 2003, when it became clear that the U.S.-led coalition would invade Iraq, he and his family--his mother Haseeba, three brothers, their wives and six children--sold his late father's house near Basra and moved to his mother's ancestral home in a quiet, dusty town west of Baghdad: Fallujah. "We were sure that there would be no fighting there. The Americans would not attack it, and the Iraqi army would not bother to defend it," he recalls, "because there's nothing important in Fallujah. It was like an old car that nobody wanted." As Sunni...
Until then, don’t expect us to be quiet. We know that silence is betrayal. We know that not only is it our right to dissent, it’s also our responsibility. And we know that when we speak out, what we say and do can reverberate far beyond the echo chamber of the ivory tower...
...wasn’t for the men’s soccer team, the single Crimson squad able to quiet at least a few of the thousands of Tigers fans that came out on Saturday, we’d be in real trouble. Thankfully, though, the team’s 3-1 victory provided for a bit of satisfaction to take away from the horrible, terrible, no good, very bad weekend...
...usual, VW loaded the base model with standard features. Among them: anti-lock brakes, electronic stabilization, leatherette upholstery, a digital compass and a rollover protection system. The interior is tastefully decorated with metallic ornamentation on the instrument panel and door handles. With the top down, the car proved remarkably quiet thanks to touches like a pop-up wind deflector for the front winshield. Even footwell lighting comes standard...
...case puts Stair Galleries in quiet Hudson—a riverside town of about 8,000 people more than 100 miles north of New York City—in the spotlight...