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Both the success of the surge and the challenges awaiting Iraq are visible in Dora, a neighborhood in southern Baghdad that was the scene of some of the worst urban violence during Iraq's dark days. When Lieut. Colonel Ali Abbas Hamad, deputy commander of an Iraqi police brigade, first deployed in Dora in the summer of 2007, most of the neighborhood's Christians had been driven from their homes by jihadis and militias, and the residents that remained didn't dare leave their homes. "There wasn't a car in sight," Hamad told TIME. "The only person...
...years, the social conservatism of the western part of the county and the fiscal conservatism of the eastern part formed an unbreakable Republican lock in Hamilton. Democrats like Weil focused their efforts on urban neighborhoods and only occasionally picked up support from surrounding townships and cities. But this year the Obama campaign sees a chance to pick the lock. Four years ago, Bush won the county by less than 6 percentage points; in 2006, Democrats took over the county commission for the first time in 44 years. In 2000, the last time both parties had a competitive primary...
...Legend has not yet lived up to his name as a “legend” in the R&B world, but he is certainly a favorite of some industry greats. His rise to stardom can be largely credited to collaborations with the best and brightest of the urban music scene, from his beginnings playing piano on Lauryn Hill’s “Everything is Everything,” to his signing with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label in 2003, to the multiple collabos that followed with that Chi-town superstar. His work with...
...Nesson wrote. “They do this, not for the purpose of recovering compensation for actual damage caused by Joel’s individual action, nor for the primary purpose of deterring him from further copyright infringement, but for the ulterior purpose of creating an urban legend so frightening to children using computers, and so frightening to parents and teachers of students using computers, that they will somehow reverse the tide of the digital future...
...fitting title track for an album fueled by feelings of alienation. Here’s what happens: a long-haired Beck, oddly evoking Joni Mitchell, lopes inexpressively around the streets of a black-and-white Los Angeles. But he’s not as isolated as his new urban hippie vibe might lead you to assume—a moddish Anton Chigurh look-alike is stalking him, using the classic reconnaissance techniques of popping out from behind mailboxes and cartwheeling. And what does he do when he catches up to Beck? He hugs him, of course. So does our creepy...