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...launched RPG attacks at a U.S. convoy had run into a nearby house. Cobra Company stormed the place--and found an old Bedouin, his three sons and their wives. The soldiers apologized, and the old man offered them a glass of chilled water and a warning. "Unless you catch Saddam and show his head to the people," he said, holding his clenched hand up as if he held a fistful of hair, "they won't believe he is gone. This will not end." In Tikrit and in Washington, U.S. soldiers and politicians suspect that he is right...
...never been higher. Right now in the U.S. there are almost 3 million students in special-education classes specifically because they can't read. Most of them are probably dyslexic. But there are other slow readers who are simply overlooked--ignored in crowded classrooms or dismissed as discipline problems. Unless corrective action is taken, their self-confidence often crumbles as they see other students progressing. Even worse, their peers may taunt or ostracize them--a situation that Sean Slattery's mother Judy remembers all too well. "Sean cried for four hours every day after kindergarten," she says...
...heavy rain as Chatuchak's drainage system can easily overflow. As much of the market is given over to selling pets and wild animals, you could end up wading shin-deep through feculent, brackish ooze. Not a good call if you've been scratching your infernal mosquito bites raw?unless, of course, you intend to go shopping for tetanus, septicemia or worse...
...path to peace is to slowly draw them into the Palestinian Authority, and commit them to the political agreements he negotiates with Israel. Israelis are not impressed, insisting that any further progress on the "roadmap" requires a Palestinian "war on terror," and that Israel won't make further concessions unless they see action. But Abbas refuses to launch a Palestinian civil war, and insists his way is actually working, bringing the calm that almost three years of Israeli military action failed to achieve. The Israelis say the "hudna" simply gives them breathing space to reorganize and rearm, and that without...
...other - Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the militants of Fatah and Yasser Arafat. He rules at Arafat's pleasure, and the only leverage Abbas has is to threaten to quit. He has repeatedly used that device in his clashes with Arafat, and he does the same in Washington, warning that unless the U.S. can squeeze more concessions out of Israel, he'll be out of the game...