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...struggle could sometimes ennoble them. Naipaul's fiction career had two peaks?first, in 1961, with A House for Mr. Biswas, the epic of an Indian in Trinidad who wants to build a home of his own, then in 1979, with A Bend in the River, the story of Salim, an Indian in Africa who tries to start a new life despite the anarchy spreading through the continent. Naipaul's protagonists were new to English literature, but his prose had the opposite virtue: simple and severe, it had a classical elegance that many felt had gone out of fiction since...
...regional terrorist groups like Ansar al-Islam, the Kurdish fundamentalists, and for foreign fighters crossing the still unsecured border from Syria, according to U.S. and Iraqi security officials. "Many kinds of criminals and terrorists come into Mosul from Syria. It's like the Super Bowl for them," says Salim Kako, a top official of the Assyrian Democratic Movement, which represents many Christians in Mosul. The outsiders have mixed with Mosul's homegrown fundamentalist Islamic opposition and a potent Baathist resistance fueled by the city's large number of unemployed soldiers. This stew of local and outside insurgents is stepping...
...Still, Yudhoyono's bookish side could translate into a wonk's caution when he assumes office. "Everything is calculated with S.B.Y.," says Salim Said, a military analyst who has known Yudhoyono for two decades. "He is too careful most of the time." Former colleagues agree that Yudhoyono is given to long, sometimes woolly deliberation before making decisions. He likes words like "comprehensive" and "integrated," says Marsillam Simanjuntak, a fellow Minister in the administration of former President Abdurrahman Wahid: "He is very methodical and orderly, and it's almost as if he feels sinful if he leaves some aspect neglected...
...want a glimpse into the challenge the U.S. faces as it tries to prevent Iraq from coming apart, consider the plight of Salim Izzat. Five months before the U.S. invasion last March, Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime ordered Izzat to vacate his farm outside the northern-Iraq town of Dibagan, 50 miles southeast of Mosul. The command was part of the regime's systematic, 15-year-long campaign to populate the predominantly Kurdish reaches of northern Iraq with ethnic Arabs. Kurds like Izzat were pushed out of their homes by force; dissenters, including Izzat's brother, were executed...
...Salim Majhoulf, a student at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs who asked Gemayel about his stance towards Hezbollah, said he received an understandably “political response” that eschewed direct labeling of the group as a terrorist organization...