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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Some of Few's men recently came upon a station wagon riddled with bullets. Inside were the bodies of a man, a woman and a young child--all murdered. While searching for gunmen in a house a short distance away, the soldiers came across a white burlap sack hung on a door; it contained a human head. There was no sign of the victim's body, which may very well have joined other decapitated corpses periodically seen floating down the Diyala River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: The Small-Town War | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...None of these heads would have rolled under Gates' predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, Pentagon officials suggest. Rumsfeld was loyal to a fault, and generally would back subordinates rather than sack them, since he would view that as tantamount to a rebuke of his own stewardship. He applied this kind of pre-emptive backing to big mistakes - like the poor execution of the military's occupation of Iraq - and lesser ones too, like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Gates the Anti-Rumsfeld? | 3/12/2007 | See Source »

...truth universally acknowledged that one’s Facebook.com profile is closely correlated to one’s success in the sack. Attractive Facebook.com photos often lead to sexual victories; landscape profile pics usually suggest an unattractive lone ranger. Now, thanks to PeopleRadar, the game has become official. PeopleRadar, Facebook.com’s recent addition to its development platform, allows users to rank profile photos on a scale of 1 to 10. “I’d been thinking about doing a ‘Hot or Not’ site for students,” says...

Author: By Caitlin A. Meares, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Like Facebook, But More Exploitative | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...Morrissey (perhaps a mere gay man with rhythm), but you can amuse yourself with this imaginary brush with stardom for hours and hours to come.THE AMERICAN DREAMAfter the show, you get to hear incredible C-list conversations. Examples: “Wow! I fucking loved those sack dresses! Brilliant!” “I’m just so glad to give back to causes such as heart disease!”You then peer across the room, desperately searching for Britney Spears, who you do not find. This is OK. In many ways, New York Fashion Week...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taken from the C-List: My Adventures at Fashion Week | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...does not want to be pushed into abrupt firings or show signs of yielding to pressure. He answered with a testy no! to reporters who repeatedly asked him whether he planned to jettison Chief of Staff Donald Regan, and an aide insisted that the President had no plans to sack CIA Director William Casey. But it is now quite probable that both men will be departing from their posts within the next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Heavy Fire | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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