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...morning rush hour in Baghdad, and the emergency-room staff at Yarmouk Hospital is bracing itself for another grim load. Insurgent groups routinely mount their biggest attacks during the commuter crush: the heavy traffic guarantees them a high death toll, and the ensuing snarl-ups prevent police and military units from giving chase. For medical workers like Dr. Jalal Taha Emad, an emergency-room surgeon, each day begins with a foreboding of the mayhem to come. "When I am on my way to work, I sometimes look at people in the cars around me and wonder how many of them...
...pockets. "I was shocked when I saw some policemen taking money and new clothes from the damaged cars," says Hasan. But the crowd also included some selfless Iraqis who decided to take the injured men to Yarmouk rather than wait for ambulances to wind their way through the gridlocked traffic...
...would doubtless be a circus, a revisitation of the carnival ugliness that infested public life in the 1990s. Already there are blogs, websites and fund-raising campaigns dedicated to denigrating her. According to the New York Observer last week, these sites aren't getting much traffic-yet. But they will. I remember several conversations with Senator Clinton after her health-care plan was killed 10 years ago, and she was clearly pained-nonplussed by the quality of anger, the sheer hatred, directed against her. That experience would be a walk in the park compared to the vitriol...
...site--after Washington ponied up some extra food aid--but when the inspectors arrived, all they found was an empty hole. With that incident in mind, U.S. officials last week cast a skeptical eye on new satellite images of the North Koreans hard at work on another big dig. Traffic around the mouth of a tunnel has intensified recently, and heavy equipment has been spotted hauling materials, possibly including cement, into the hole, according to a U.S. official briefed on the latest intelligence. That could mean technicians are plugging the shaft to conduct an underground test. Or not. "Could...
During the day, it is possible to linger over a long lunch, watching the Tremont Street traffic through the floor-to-ceiling windows. A steady stream of regulars comes to examine the week’s offerings, usually leaving with several sandwiches worth of spoils...