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Easy Targets IRAQ Defying the continuing U.S. military crackdown on insurgents within Iraq's Sunni triangle, suicide bombers struck simultaneously at two Iraqi police stations in towns north of Baghdad Saturday, killing at least 18 and injuring dozens more. In a separate attack, a civilian cargo plane made an emergency landing at Baghdad International Airport after apparently being struck by a surface-to-air missile, the first plane to be hit since major combat operations ended in May. The weekend's assaults came a day after guerrillas co-ordinated a series of attacks in Baghdad using rockets mounted on donkey...
...NGOs, restricting free and open discourse in foreign nations. Consider this double standard: If the Global Gag Rule were applied domestically—to restrict the participation of American NGOs in our national abortion debate as a condition of their receiving federal aid—it would be struck down as patently unconstitutional. Such a double standard appears particularly misguided when we consider that many of the foreign NGOs we seek to gag operate in countries presently lacking many of the democratic freedoms enjoyed here...
...random sampling of Harvard students, words such as “hideous,” “dilapidated,” “shithole” and “vomit-inducing” immediately sprang to mind. Upon further reflection, respondents added that New Haven also struck them as “seedy,” “scuzzy” and “ghetto-fab minus...
Eight events after her record setting performance, Chang struck again...
...grandfather, Roy Insley Jennelle, passed away gently on Tuesday. He faced his last Veterans’ Day like each Nov. 11 before it—with solemn pride. He served the Navy in the Pacific during World War II, where his ship struck a mine and sank. He survived to a Purple Heart and a multitude of questions—first among them, why he deserved a different fate than those shipmates who died in the 12 hours before rescue arrived. As a religious man, such questions were supposed to have answers...