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...Many of the dead bodies on the streets of Washash in recent weeks have been those of the main male figures of Sunni households, whom Shi'ite death squads typically target in order to frighten a family into abandoning a home. U.S. soldiers who continue to operate in Washash don't believe the ongoing sectarian violence flows just from frictions on the streets there anymore. Instead, they put blame squarely on Mahdi Army operatives from outside the neighborhood, militants who U.S. soldiers say are out to turn Washash into a Shi'ite bastion for al-Sadr on the west side...
...they are fertile ground for spying, for money-raising, for arms-buying." Granatstein also noted that Montreal is the center of the Canadian aerospace industry and has sophisticated information technology firms as well as a significant share of the country's pharmaceutical research and development sector, reportedly a favored target of Russian industrial espionage globally. There's also Canada's close proximity to the U.S. "We're next door to the U.S.; we know a lot about what the Americans are doing. That might be of interest to others. I'm thinking more of our foreign affairs department, our defense...
...challenging conventional wisdom about how to make Champagne. These vignerons reject the use of pesticides, borrow winemaking techniques from Burgundy and produce small-batch cuvées that seek to reflect the particular character of the vines they lovingly tend. At Larmandier-Bernier in Vertus, target="_blank"Pierre and Sophie Larmandier stunned their relatives - and turned their back on a 200-year family tradition - when they stopped using herbicides a decade ago and cut back on grape yields. "It was a radical change, and some people thought we were mad," Pierre says. Francis Egly in Ambonnay...
...path to power than her predecessors--she was 47 and had raised five children before she ran for office the first time--but by rising rapidly in an institution where getting ahead has always meant waiting in line for your turn, she ensured that she would have a large target on her back. Now the qualities and impulses that fueled her rise--making bold moves, keeping and settling scores, trusting only a small circle of loyalists--could be disastrous in a new role that is all about building alliances that can get you to 218 votes...
...Throw up B) Do it again covered in honey while a swarm of killer bees is let loose C) Take 100 underprivileged children shopping at Target D) Brave the Macy's sale...