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Like the wild, but vain, windmilling of arms by traffic cops hoping to prevent an imminent accident, the signs emanating from Baghdad - as well as Amman and Washington - suggest that as bad as things are in Iraq, they are only going to get worse. Events over the last couple of days have made the following grimly clear: President Bush can't rely on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to stop the sectarian warfare, according to Bush's own national security adviser. Al-Maliki is beholden to arch-sectarian Moqtada al-Sadr, who this week showed his clout by ordering...
...brother's death can't be in vain," says Juan Patricio Quispe Mamani, whose brother was killed by the military October 2003. Quispe is president of the Association of Families of the Fallen in Defense of the Gas, an organization formed in honor of the 67 killed in 2003 and who demand the extradition of ex-President Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada from the U.S. - where he has lived since he resigned three years ago - so that he stand trial in Bolivia...
...appealing doesn't work, the other way to change the law is going through Congress - but prosecutors have already tried that route, in vain. Lay's conviction was vacated because he died in July. Federal prosecutors tried to get a bill introduced letting criminal convictions stand even if the defendant dies before sentencing and appeals - and sought to make it retroactive to a few days before Lay died. But no legislators sponsored the bill, and it wasn't discussed before Congress adjourned. Still, Lay attorney Michael Ramsey says he will be shocked if the closing of the criminal case...
...brain partly shuts down. The implications for our understanding of the illness are significant, argues Mondraty, a psychiatrist at the Peter Beumont Centre for Eating Disorders. Once it's full-blown, he says, anorexia "is not really about societal pressures to be thin or about the patient being vain. There is a neurological disturbance here that makes it very hard for patients to get better...
...condolences from across the globe, would have watched as Lyndon Johnson announced on national television that the time had come to overcome, would have seen Congress finally pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Friends and strangers alike would have assured them that their daughters had not died in vain - that they had awakened the conscience of a nation and helped liberate a people; that the bomb had burst a dam to let justice roll down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. And yet would even that knowledge be enough to console your grief, to keep you from...