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Does Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have the political spine to deal with Iraq's No. 1 problem - the Shi'ite militias? There's a growing suspicion in Baghdad that he does not. Having promised, for the umpteenth time, to crack down on the sectarian death squads wreaking havoc on the Iraqi capital, the prime minister promptly turned around and castigated U.S. forces for doing precisely that. The Iraqi leader claimed that a predawn raid Wednesday on a militia stronghold by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers had been conducted without his approval, and said such attacks would not be repeated...
...words can throw a chill up the American spine as fast as the phrase, "or I'll sue." As in, "Pay up, or I'll sue." Even if you suspect that the threat's a crock, the real and imagined horrors of a briefcase-bully will send many of us wheedling for absolution just to stay out of court. We're cowards that way, shy about calling the bluff of those litigious little creeps who itch for a legal showdown over every petty spat...
...favorite movie, which could cook up enough nostalgia to feed a small country for days. If you want to see a grown man cry, all you need is the aforementioned title and 107 minutes of your time—23, if you start at James Earl Jones’ spine-tingling speech...
...story, for me, is that her pain is particularly bad when she lies in bed at night. On X-rays she has a little hip arthritis (a red herring) and quite a bit more spinal stenosis - a narrowing of the passages through which the nerves go from the spine to the legs...
...treatment. I am amazed at how little Anna (and her family) actually understand about what's wrong with her though. We spend a long time discussing arthritis, stenosis and pain. The only addition I can make to her treatment is a basic explanation of the anatomy of the arthritic spine, and some really simple advice based on this; we tell patients with stenosis to try and keep the low back more rounded. Slouch a little and keep your hips flexed in bed. This keeps the nerve-passages a bit more open. It seemed to help Anna. And it seems...