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...arrangements don't meet Shari'a edicts requiring compensation to be defined before work is carried out. The issue is significant, because although strict conformity to Shari'a is not needed, it could help win hearts and minds. But it isn't clear-cut: Shari'a legal opinions regarding oil vary, not only among the four schools of Shari'a jurisprudence, but even within them. - By Steve Zwick The Dinar Soars As Saddam's regime fell, the Iraqi currency rallied: a dollar used to buy 3,000 dinars but now buys only about 600. But that's nothing compared...
...paramilitaries have held on to southern cities and towns by taking full advantage of American reluctance to cause civilian casualties: they fire from machine-gun-toting pickup trucks parked at mosques and hide out in hospitals. Unusually strict rules of engagement prevent allied soldiers from shooting first at anyone who appears unarmed, which gives Fedayeen in street clothes a better opportunity to hit and run. The result is greater jeopardy for allied soldiers. But Washington knows it would pay a significant political price if it ordered its forces to abandon those restraints...
...Canada, the most seriously affected nation outside of Asia, three more patients died, bringing the total there to seven. On Friday a 29-year-old woman became the sixth SARS fatality in Singapore, while two new cases appeared outside Vietnam's capital?dashing epidemiologists' hopes that Hanoi's strict quarantine efforts had contained the disease. In Malaysia, where its government had maintained for weeks that there were no SARS victims in the country, the number of suspected cases leapt from zero to 59 in just a few days. Critics quickly assailed Kuala Lumpur for the same obfuscatory practices used...
...Beyond strict security considerations, domestic and international trade will contract as people brace for the worst and face higher investment risks. Further economic contractions based on these fears will worsen an already ailing American economy. Foreign policy wonks often neglect to mention qualitative factors like the psychological benefits of peace and a feeling of security both domestically and abroad. The surge in domestic sales of gas masks and duct tape reflect a real change in our quality of life, not to mention the new dangers of traveling abroad when the world sees Americans as warmongers...
...best of the stories, "Giant Strawberry Funland," features Abel, a high-school loser and would-be rebel stuck in a strict, conventional rural town. While his crude older brother tries to save the family's strawberry farm by turning it into a theme park, Abel sneaks away and reminisces about his frustrated relationship with a cute alty-girl who moved away. With no central gimmick to distract him, Ollmann fleshes out Abel and his world with thoughtful details like the way Abel's mother "used to laugh more when we were little but she wears her hair pulled tightly...