Word: tolls
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...they care about is this: as the current war grinds on, as Iraq's death toll starts to approach Saddam's deadly legacy, as the Sunnis lose more and more of their power, as memories fade, Iraq's Sunni will think of Saddam's rule as a golden era. They'll remember Saddam as the leader who kept Iraq together, kept them on top and prosperous, kept the Shi'a and the Kurds in their place, and kept the Iranians from invading during the Iran-Iraq war. They may never look at Saddam as Saladin, the Muslim general who liberated...
...anti-American as it is aimed at intimidating Shi'ites who were perceived as U.S. collaborators. For two years Shi'ites showed remarkable restraint in the face of repeated provocations in the form of bloody terror attacks by Sunni insurgents, but the ferocity of those attacks eventually took its toll. And the Shi'ites did not take kindly to the U.S. strategy of wooing reluctant Sunni politicians to join the political process, which they took as a sign of weakening U.S. resolve. Their anxiety turned into anger in February 2006 when a massive bomb destroyed the Golden Mosque in Samarrah...
...INCIDENT, AS THEY CALL IT, took a commercial toll, but musically the Chicks have never been stronger. The instrumentation on their fourth album keeps a toe in country, yet the songs are the best kind of pop--smart, instantly memorable and fussed over until they sound effortless. Not Ready to Make Nice broadcasts their grievances, but Bitter End and So Hard (a sing-along about infertility) prove that complicated songwriting for the masses still flourishes...
...Basic Vision (Snowden, et al). For those of you who also made the mistake of enrolling in a science core with a midterm the Monday before Thanksgiving. Cheers, Sara Dear Sara,I have recently found myself on some academically shaky ground, and it’s taking a real toll on my inbox. Everyday it piles up with reminders of my failure: worried TFs wondering why I missed the past three sections, irate professors demanding office hour visits, senior tutors wanting to “sit down and talk.” I’ve been over quota...
...killed in greater numbers than anywhere else in Iraq. Since June, the U.S. effort to quell sectarian violence in Baghdad has drawn thousands of troops to the country's capital, where the world's attention remains largely focused. But outside of Baghdad, U.S. forces are suffering the heaviest death toll these days as they continue to wage a grim, uncertain struggle to defeat insurgents in the predominately Sunni province of Anbar. Tallies of the war dead from August to November show that more than two-thirds of the U.S. casualties in Iraq were outside Baghdad, with four...