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Fresh arrests of al-Qaeda members in Iraq support the claim that the terrorist group is attempting to stir up even more trouble in the U.S.-occupied country. Hasan Ghul was captured on Friday by Kurdish forces in Northern Iraq after they were tipped off by the CIA, a U.S. official said. He is now in U.S. custody. Ghul is a "big al-Qaeda facilitator-operator," says the official. He's pegged as ranking in the top 20 of the group's hierarchy. The U.S. official continues: "He?s very high up in the al-Qaeda food chain...
Bugbear caused a stir on campus last June, when it infected machines in University Hall and resulted in several Harvard students receiving e-mails containing confidential memos and information intended only for administrators...
Amid all this media-generated controversy, it could be difficult for a creative work itself to stir up the culture. In 1994 Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction generated volumes of discussion about movie violence. In 2003 Kill Bill Vol. 1--which made Pulp look like Toy Story--landed nearly as softly as villainess Lucy Liu did when she collapsed bloodily into the snow in its climax. Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, involving a theory that Mary Magdalene may have been Jesus' wife and the mother of his child, intrigued readers and sold millions of copies...
...worm goes to school, gets punished for eating his homework and taunts his sister because "her face will always look just like her rear end." The wombat, a bearlike Australian native, accomplishes significantly less. A typical entry reads, "Morning: slept. Afternoon: slept. Evening: ate grass. Scratched." But he does stir to irritate his new human neighbors...
...prodded and provoked; and we never ceased to be amazed at the show’s ability to bring out the best, and worst, in the candidates. The benefits of such an amazing opportunity deserve to be recognized and should encourage an even more active pursuit of events that stir student interest in politics...