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Remember those educational videos about photosynthesis or the American Revolution that your teachers used to show you in middle school? The videos would explain battle maneuvers through a series of dots and arrows, and for the rest of your life you'd think of the United States' war for independence as basically a very elaborate football play...
...Updike is known for authoring more than 50 books over the course of his decades-long career, winning two Pulitzers for his works “Rabbit is Rich” and “Rabbit at Rest.” He spent more than two decades at The New Yorker and was also noted for his poetry and short stories...
...said to them, ‘Let me just tell you something: if you don’t let John Updike into the Signet Society, you’re going to regret it for the rest of your lives,’” Maccoby said yesterday...
...will do all over the country on polling day. But the Kurds were furious. While ethnically mixed Diyala is under the jurisdiction of Baghdad, the province's northern section is predominantly Kurdish and falls along the fuzzy but increasingly agitated fault line that separates the Kurdish north from the rest of Iraq. The Kurds complained that the Iraqi army might interfere with their votes and insisted on matching its deployment with Peshmerga forces. After a flurry of helicopter shuttles between Kurdistan and Diyala and well over 40 hours of stubborn negotiation, U.S. commanders last week brokered a deal that will...
...province. "The Kurds like us because we bring that stability. The Iraqis like us because we bring that stability ... I would not be surprised if you had a U.N. peacekeeping force here, in this part of the world, along the 140 line [dividing Iraqi Kurdistan from the rest of Iraq] as this thing matures and develops, to keep two belligerents away from each other...