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...Kurdistan, the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party and one American flag superimposed with Sylvester Stallone as Rocky. An elderly man in a blue pinstriped suit and wire-rimmed glasses came and introduced himself. "My name is Sami Feli. On behalf of the Kurdish people and Iraqi people I want to thank the American and coalition forces and George Bush and Tony Blair. We thank them a lot," he said. He got warmed up, and a crowd of teenaged boys surrounded him. "We as Kurdish people have gotten no benefit from Arab leaders." He gestured to his audience. "Have I not said...
...encourage and even beg the U.S. soldiers to take Najaf. They said fedayeen irregulars were forcing local members of the al-Quds militia to fight by gathering their families and threatening to shoot them if they did not oppose the Americans. At one point, locals came out to thank the Americans for killing the area's Baath party leader, who they said had been executing civilians. The Baath leader, they said, had been killed in an air strike on a fedayeen stronghold...
Lory Manning, director of the Women in the Military project at the Washington-based Women's Research and Education Institute, wonders what women serving so ably in Kuwait and Iraq will do if they are pulled back from the front lines. "I hate to think their thank-you is 'Sorry, girls, you can't do this anymore,'" she says...
...made its position clear. People do not want poetry mixing with their popular music any more than they want Fred Durst speaking in full sentences. Avril Lavigne's level of complexity and Alanis Morissette's version of irony will do just fine for the drive to the shore, thank you. The two legendary exceptions are Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Both have a poet's gift for turning common words into indelible images and a rock star's knack for churning out melodies that make their poetry subliminal. They bring the pain and the noise...
Harvard students and alums, as well as members of the Jewish clergy, gathered to thank the donors at HBS before taking a bus to the new building for a tour and ribbon cutting...