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...Much of the violence that has occurred in the troubled Muslim south in the past two years has?at least officially?remained a mystery. The government has blamed unknown "bandits" or criminal gangs for the mayhem, which has included more than 50 cop killings, a spate of arson attacks on state schools, numerous bombings, and assaults on military and police posts. But no one in the government is talking about faceless crooks now. The military precision of last week's attack on the army base, which coincided with the burning of 21 schoolhouses in the district, and was followed...
They smell good enough to eat--but don't. A spate of food-inspired perfumes has hit the market, including Cartier's Le Baiser du Dragon, which is laced with hints of chocolate and caramel, and J. Lo's Still Jennifer Lopez, which features top notes of sake. "Rum, licorice, milk and rice flavors are now used in perfumes frequently," says Jean-Michel Duriez, a perfumer for Jean Patou Paris. The company's latest scent, Enjoy, carries notes of black-currant bud, green banana and pear. Observes Michael Edwards, author of the yearly guidebook Fragrances of the World: "Gourmand notes...
According to a U.S. official in Iraq, Ansar is transforming itself from a dispersed remnant into reconstituted cells operating locally under the guidance of leaders who escaped to Europe. Few fighters are as qualified to carry out the recent spate of suicide-bomb attacks in Iraq as the men trained in Ansar's camps. Before the war, according to a Kurdish intelligence operative who recently briefed a team of Pentagon officials, Ansar soldiers training to be suicide bombers were given elaborate mock funerals to prepare them mentally for their martyrdom. After recently interrogating two captured fighters, the Kurd believes there...
...recent spate of warm and sunny weather may be helpging to stores crowded...
...minute, two years ago, we all felt silly for having cared so much about Monica and Gennifer, for obsessing over Britney, for indulging a spate of shark attack stories in what turned out to be a year in which there were fewer than usual. Newspapers proclaimed “The Death of Irony,” and a nation resolved to rethink its priorities in the face of tragedy. The Onion, perhaps sensing what was to come, published the headline, “A Shattered Nation Longs to Care about Stupid Bullshit Again.” Now, sure enough...