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...line Sauls, a 31-year-old Parisian who emigrated to Orlando 10 years ago, was back to pay her respects. Just before she moved from France, one of the last things she did was to sit atop Morrison's tombstone, tell him about her plans to live in the U.S., and say goodbye...
...recent break from Iraq, I found myself sitting in Washington, D.C., at a bar on Connecticut Avenue within walking distance from the White House. I was there catching up with a longtime friend, who was eager to hear stories about life in the world's most prominent war zone. I explained that on average daily existence is a mix of thrills, horror and boredom. Whole afternoons pass in which nothing much happens as I sit in TIME's Baghdad bureau outside the Green Zone, essentially under house arrest since kidnapping threats make venturing out too dangerous even with a squad...
...felt at least a dozen other explosions in Iraq to some degree. Most often a blast somewhere in Baghdad echoes in the city as I sit in my bedroom/office, and it feels like a single beat from a bass drum at a rock concert. Sometimes the bombs are nearer, though. The one near the bureau the other day was close enough to feel in my jaw. There was the sound of the blast, the shake of the windows and the instinctive clamping of my mouth, which for a moment felt as though it were twisted shut with the sharp turn...
...Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. The country has been politically gridlocked since November when six ministers - including all five Shi'ites - quit the government. Siniora and his allies accuse Hizballah of pushing an agenda on behalf of Iran and Syria. The frail government has survived strikes and an indefinite opposition sit-in that has paralyzed central Beirut. It retains broad support among Lebanese Sunnis and Druze, and the sympathy of moderate Arab states and the West. The Shi'ite community, Lebanon's largest sect, overwhelmingly sides with the Hizballah-led opposition. Lebanon's Christians are divided between the two camps...
...greatest asset. So you better not be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Just look at who is driving cabs and who is in the kitchens. It is the latest people who got here, you know? It's the entry-level jobs. You can sit there and raise all the hell you want about an immigration bill and building borders. But we all seem to assimilate pretty well, that is just my attitude on it. It is a tricky issue but I don't think we are built to be an isolationist country-we never have been...