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...with a DShK heavy machine gun. Then, from behind us, came a whomp of an explosion that I knew wasn't a mortar. Across a grassy field, flame and smoke belched up from what had been a taxicab. With a sickening realization we knew that a suicide bomber had struck. What I didn't know until I got to the scene was that one of the victims was a colleague, Paul Moran of the Australian Broadcasting Corp. He was the first journalist killed in Gulf War II. The most likely suspect: Ansar...
...images dominating Arab and international TV coverage on Wednesday were those of more than 14 Iraqi civilians killed in Baghdad by what the BBC describes as two cruise missiles that struck a row of stores. That's precisely the sort of imagery Saddam Hussein wants to create by forcing the coalition into a battle for Baghdad. In their most optimistic scenarios, U.S. officials had imagined their forces being welcomed into Baghdad by cheering crowds, like those that had greeted the liberators of Paris in 1944. But Saddam may be nurturing a World War II image of his own - the brutal...
...Doctors at the Nanfang Hospital may have done all they can, but Chinese medical officials have not. World health authorities are frustrated with China's secretive officials for keeping quiet so long about an epidemic that appears to have first struck in Guangdong province back in November. After months of media blackout, Beijing now maintains that the worst has passed. Only five patients in China have died, they say, while 305 have fallen ill with atypical pneumonia?a figure that dates back to mid-February. But forays into several hospitals in the provincial capital, Guangzhou, show that at ground zero...
...also said that there is a balance to be struck between departmental sovereignty and the power of collective bargaining...
...Harvard struck first with barely a minute left in the opening period. Breaking out of the neutral zone, Crimson captain Jennifer Botterill approached goal from the right side and fired a shot from just past the blue line. The rebound went off a defender’s skate directly to freshman winger Julie Chu, who backhanded it in for the score...