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Eyes peering through slits in black masks, the commandos creep up the floors of the Baghdad apartment building, ready to pounce. Their target is Omar Tamimi, an insurgent believed to have carried out the January assassination of the governor of Baghdad province. In the past, the responsibility for such high...
Up 1-0 after a gritty first-period effort, the Crimson (20-9-3) surrendered two second-frame goals in quick succession, giving the Big Red (25-4-3) a lead it would hold until the clock wound down, the buzzer sounded, and the Whitelaw Trophy was wheeled out onto...
Flash forward to 2003: M.I.A., now living in London, releases “Galang” as a single, kicking off a dizzying succession of critical plaudits. Her sound defied easy description from the start, echoing out like a siren’s song on that first single: often incomprehensible...
Perhaps. But why the elaborate public gymnastics by the Syrian government to avoid the appearance of cooperation with the U.S.? A succession of Syrians offered me the same explanation: Assad-or perhaps the necklace of security and Baath Party officials who surround Assad-didn't want to appear to be...
Walls didn't belong to anyplace growing up. Her father was an itinerant electrician who dreamed of being an inventor; her mother was an occasional schoolteacher who dreamed of being an artist. Both were failures at everything. But they chose to spin their inability to stick to anything as a...