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...immediate problem facing the U.S.-led Coalition is the impact on Iraqi hearts and minds of its efforts to suppress the violent challenges in the Sunni Triangle and in the Shiite urban neighborhoods. Wednesday the U.S. bombed the walls of a mosque compound in Fallujah from which insurgents had been firing on Marines. Coalition forces have killed scores of Shiites over the past week in battles in Baghdad and in the south, drawing condemnation even from some of the moderate Shiite clerics serving in the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council...
...admitting. The fact that after three days of fighting his forces remain in control of government facilities they seized in Najaf, Kufa and Kut, as well as the streets of the sprawling Baghdad slum of Sadr City, suggests the 30-year-old firebrand commands substantial support among the Shiite urban poor. More importantly, however, while more moderate and influential Shiite leaders such as Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani hedge their bets in response to Moqtada's challenge - calling on Shiites to refrain from violence but at the same time expressing sympathy for their grievances and condemning Coalition actions - many Shiites loyal...
There's a good reason that the terms birdie and eagle are part of the golf lexicon and the word peacock is not. "Let's be honest: golf clothing is pretty dorky," says Craig Tanner, CEO and founder of Urban Golf Gear (UGG), an "athleisure" apparel brand that combines performance technology with urban fashion flair. Tanner, who started the company in 1997, figured there would be a bigger audience for golf clothes when he saw Tiger Woods score a victory in just his third amateur tournament in 1996. "I knew he was going to go pro, and I knew golf...
...needs $8 billion? That's how much consumers overpay in mortgage fees each year, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Yet last week HUD withdrew a proposal that would force mortgage lenders to bundle fees into a simple binding quote that consumers could use while shopping. While consumers wait for reform, here are ways to guard against excessive closing costs, which average $700 a mortgage...
...culture of Times Square hit its stride. The world of the stage spectaculars converged with the new nightclub society that Prohibition did little to discourage. The evolution of Broadway theater brought forward Eugene O'Neill, George S. Kaufman and George Gershwin. Times Square became not just urban but urbane...