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...sheeted door is shut with a squeak. It is mid-day in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, but there is little activity on the usually bustling streets of the neighboring market. Ethiopian soldiers are busy rooting out alleged al-Qaeda terrorists and members of the Islamic Courts Union, which held sway over the city and most of the country until the end of 2006. At the smallest hint of trouble, the soldiers are quick to respond with bursts of gunfire in all directions. The last thing my interviewee wants is lead pouring in through her front door...
...tribal alliance in Anbar province. Maliki has offered a tentative embrace of Sittar's "Awakening" movement, in which Sittar banded together tribal leaders in Anbar to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq alongside the Americans. Few other Sunni leaders on the political stage in Iraq now hold as much sway as Sittar, who has made no secret of his desire to take on a larger leadership role in the country. A formal political alliance between Sittar and Maliki would leave little room in the political sphere for Sunnis affiliated with Tawafiq, which is thought to have ties to elements...
...nail salons. Industry representatives argue that conditions in these jobs are no worse than those in other competitive service sectors. But these are trades that often go unnoticed. Unlike many manufacturing jobs, these positions aren't vulnerable to outsourcing, but they?re losing protection as domestic unions lose sway. "There's no reason these jobs have to be unsafe or very low-wage jobs," says Fox. "These could be good jobs. And these are all jobs that are more or less here to stay...
...opiates or harmful heavy metals, and perhaps confirm contemporary reports that Schiller died of tuberculosis - thereby disappointing conspiracy theorists who claim he may have been poisoned by Freemasons. The poet himself probably wouldn't have cared what fate befell his remains. "The Weavers of the Web - the Fates - but sway/ The matter and the things of clay," he wrote in his philosophical lyric The Ideal and Life. "Safe from each change that Time to Matter gives/ ... The form, the archetype, serenely lives." And so it will, whichever skull takes the crown...
...while Democrats make a show tonight of unfolding cots to nap and debate through the night, it is important to remember that they are doing this more to convince their Republican colleagues to sway Bush, rather than out of any real desire to inherit the war themselves...