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...that of his government on the Iraqi military's ability to crack down on militants in Iraq's second-largest city. He and top security ministers traveled south as the operation got underway to supervise it in person. But the pretense that the operation was simply a crackdown on ragtag criminal elements fell by wayside as militias in Basra offered stiff resistance...
...Golden Globes was turned from a Hollywood party to a ragtag fake-news conference that should have been on public-access cable. The Oscar telecast may be missing many of its top attractions. The writers' strike has crippled or threatened other awards shows, but last night the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild bash went on - the first trophy mart of the year to be televised, thanks to a waiver from the writers. It is also the one show with no "little people" awards: no sound editors, no writers or directors, just the beautiful people on the screen. Thus...
...business in Congress is to funnel money, jobs and programs to his constituents, not to some ragtag guerrillas in a country no one cares about. But when he hears that the mujahedeen have a chance to evict the Russkies if only they're properly armed, he gets religion. He's a man with a mission: get the money to get the arms to Afghanistan...
...evidence also included 12,000 recorded conversations - including one in which the leader of the ragtag group, Narseal Batiste, spoke of waging a "ground war" - surveillance photos some defendants took of federal buildings in Miami, wish lists of weapons and a request for $50,000 given to an FBI informant purporting to represent al-Qaeda...
...Harvard Omahans have formed a ragtag group over the years. One of us usually circulates an e-mail toward the end of the summer, inviting all the new admits to an informal meet-and-greet—my year we barely filled the host’s kitchen table, and that’s about it for regular meetings. The whole Nebraska group joined the Oklahomans last December to watch our football teams in the playoffs, and all of us fit (with couch space to spare) in the Dunster House TV room. That game was the only time we?...