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Baghdad nights are full of menace. The smoke of looted, burning buildings turns the sunset blood orange. Once darkness falls, tracer fire arcs across the sky like red fireworks. It's dazzling but dangerous. One recent salvo came down on a gasoline tanker, setting off an explosion that killed a man and injured several others...
...started the third set against Emilie Scribot, the nation’s fifth-ranked player, the team score was tied at three. As a hundred-strong crowd converged to watch her match in the sunset, Bergman realized that the host Crimson’s chances of advancing to the NCAA Championship round of 16 in Gainesville, Fla. rested entirely on her shoulders...
...sunset last Monday, Jay Garner climbed to the top of the 4,000-year-old ziggurat in Ur in southern Iraq and looked down over the remains of the city of Abraham's birth. The former three-star general, assigned to invent a democracy from scratch, was preparing to preside the next morning over the first freely convened meeting of Iraqi leaders in memory. "There we were, at the birthplace of civilization, and we were about to create a democracy," says Garner. "I had tears in my eyes...
Backed by other Republicans, Hatch authored a proposal to repeal the PATRIOT Act’s 2005 sunset, or expiration date, making the legislation permanent...
...written in haste during a period of anti-terrorism hysteria—its provisions responded to the panic of the time by granting the government overly-extensive powers. And many in Congress, uncomfortable with all of its provisions, voted for the act with the reassurance that the sunset clause would eliminate the legislation a few years later...