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...religious extremists with close ties to Iran, who have murdered and tortured thousands of Sunnis? Even the Shi'ite leadership-in the person of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (sciri)-has acknowledged the excesses. "We call upon our faithful security forces," al-Hakim said last week, "to continue strongly confronting terrorists but with more consideration to human rights...
...Once upon a time, there were two hip-hop crews at Harvard, and they had the world at their fingertips: The Witness Protection Program and Tha League...
Briony is quick to jump from one assumption to another as “evidence” accumulates. Upon reading an obscene draft of a love letter written by Robbie and intended for Cecilia, Briony recasts the family’s trustworthy friend as the perverted “maniac,” and when she chances upon the two lovers in the library, she has the “exhilarated notion” that she has just delivered her sister from a brutal assault...
...really lining up for anything at all? Have we Americans been outwitted by the line? Sports teams have a starting line-up, concerts have headliners, and most of us would never think to write against the lines on notebook paper. Duke University has an entire subculture based upon waiting in line for basketball tickets. When I went to get my driver’s license, my family’s main concern was not if I had the ability to single-handedly operate a motor vehicle; it was, “Do you think the line will be too long...
...Aristide two years ago. Although most of the 802 polling stations were ill-prepared for the hundreds of thousands of people who began lining the streets before dawn, by the time the sun was overhead queues were moving steadily and voters were proudly displaying their thumbs, stained by markers upon their exit from the polling booth...