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...democracy--all while waging a counterinsurgency campaign against an increasingly brazen assortment of militants who have killed more than 30 U.S. and British soldiers in the past two months. It's not going well. In Baghdad recent attacks on infrastructure targets left the power and water systems in worse shape than they were in a month ago; it is a testament to the slowness of the U.S.'s rebuilding efforts so far that the traffic lights have just begun to come back on. The enthusiasm Iraqis initially showed the occupiers has largely expired, replaced by disappointment and a growing belief...
...federal compromise, where both the national government and the state governments could have sovereign powers. And as the Constitutional Convention was about to break down in the hot Philadelphia summer of 1787, he set in motion the process that would break the impasse and, to a large extent, shape the new nation...
...cases like this the symbolism, over time, can shape the substance, and so there were people on both sides eager to rally their supporters by declaring the ruling a watershed. Even if the sodomy laws weren't often enforced, says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, who lost the Bowers case and was present in court last week, "the existence of these laws was an excuse for harassment and discrimination, and a labeling of a whole group of people for whom this is the primary form of physical sexual intimacy as deviant and criminal. A lot of people feel that that...
...present Franklin as a vigorous, flesh-and-blood person, not the somewhat frumpy figure we see on the face of a $100 bill." During the 84 years of his amazing life, it was a rare moment that Franklin, young or old, wasn't hatching an innovation that would shape American life. For that reason we chose him as this year's subject of our annual Making of America issue, which began last year with a bicentennial look at the incredible journey of Lewis and Clark...
...satellites spotted Iranian IL-76 cargo planes being loaded with wooden crates at Sunan. The frequency of the flights was unusual?normally no more than two flights a year take off from Sunan bound for Iran, according to U.S. government sources. But of greater concern was the size and shape of the crates, which indicated their contents. "It was cruise missiles," says an official in the Bush Administration. So sure was Washington of the jets' cargo that a complaint was lodged with China, which had allowed the flights to traverse its airspace to reach Iran...