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...Duke scholar is currently at work on a book on George Sand and is the editor of the journal Differences...
Were thousands of Iraqis buried alive during the allied operation against their front line last February? U.S. Army officers say that as tanks equipped with plows and bulldozers punched holes in the 70-mile-long Iraqi defense strip, enemy soldiers who refused to surrender were trapped under avalanches of sand. Colonel Anthony Moreno, commander of a unit that followed the initial U.S. breakthrough, recalls seeing arms protruding from the sand. "For all I know, we could have buried thousands," he told New York Newsday...
...Massachusetts shares with North Dakota the dubious distinction of having the most restrictive parental involvement laws in the nation," Weld said. "The reality is that the number of teen pregnancies has skyrocketed in Massachusetts. We can either ignore this reality by sticking our heads in the sand or we can take responsible action to protect the lives of these young women...
...What's depressing is the obviousness with which someone nominated has to prevaricate and sand off any rough edges," Parker says...
...guerrilla conflict, suddenly turned into an even more bloody set-piece struggle. Tamil fighters, known as Tigers, dropped their usual tactics of ambush and evasion to launch a 3,000-strong force against a government base controlling Elephant Pass, a narrow, one-mile causeway, surrounded by marsh, beaches and sand dunes, that connects the mainland with the Tigers' heartland, the Jaffna Peninsula...