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...Sadr's unwillingness to disarm the Mahdi Army militia, which has a long record of inflammatory and often criminal behavior. In areas where al-Sadr's fighters hold sway, they use brute force to impose a strict Islamic code. They are frequently accused of kidnapping and assassinating those who resist them. Many Mahdi Army fighters have been absorbed into the Iraqi security forces and police, and in the aftermath of the Samarra bombing, many police vehicles in Baghdad were openly flying Mahdi Army colors--black and green. Sunni groups say policemen did nothing to stop the violence last week...
...career to advance, have time on their hands. Some of it must be spent on their immaculate hair and to-undie-for abs. But the main business of the day is bloodlust, with an emphasis on the lust. Romance authors--and who can blame them?--find it hard to resist the imagery. Women are "impaled," "scream to wake the dead" and constantly experience a rushing of blood. Not that all female characters are the bitten. There are women predators--gutsy, jaded, sexually voracious ladies of the night in need of a like-minded partner, be he a worldly lycanthrope (that...
...TRIVIAL IN some ways yet so memorable in others, that can waste time on the political calendar in ways that are clear only to history. Bush and Cheney have barely over 1,000 days left and things they want to get done. But to succeed, they need to resist as long as possible the forces that make Administrations irrelevant. "Some people in the White House are worried that this will hasten the start of the formal lame-duck period, which they were hoping to put off until after the midterm elections," said a Republican official. "This showed a weakened President...
According to Clapham, sperm were the last bastion of cells to resist patch-clamping...
...appointed by Summers to extend the central administration’s influence over their school.As Summers has gone about preparing his filet, even setting off small kitchen fires in the process, Kirby has found himself awkwardly caught between his boss and his Faculty, who have resolved to resist the president. The standoff ended over intersession, when the dean announced he would step down at the end of the academic year, but the tension that cost Kirby his job was four years in the making.Even those with front-row seats to the divisions between Summers and Kirby differ in their portrayals...