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After being asked to step out while a pediatrician conducted a typical physical examination for his teenage son, John Doe No. 5—allegedly an anonymous victim of sexual abuse—became overwhelmed with emotion as the dark memories of his own physical examinations as a child came flooding back...
...play the victim card, arguing that Maliki and the Americans had attacked him and his loyalists, even while allowing the militias of his Shi'ite rivals to prosper - as well as the U.S.-paid Sunni militias that are now being integrated into the Iraqi police and army. He can reasonably argue that he is the one true Iraqi patriot, the Iraqi leader the Americans fear most. How else to explain the attack on his Mahdi Army while he was observing a unilateral cease-fire? Furthermore, like Hizballah in Lebanon after the Israeli invasion in 2006, the Mahdi Army can claim...
...series against San Diego, the Crimson lost 7-2 after All-American Brian Matusz struck out 16 Harvard batters. The Toreros routed the Crimson 18-2 in the second game and 12-0 in the third game.During the series, San Diego starters fanned 34 batters combined. Harvard also fell victim to a no-hitter in the third game.“The three pitchers we’ve seen are the best pitchers we’ve seen all year and probably will see,” Vance said. “They’re going to get millions...
...different. It is not just that we don't want to confront the costs and consequences of that conflict when we are out for a good time at the movies. It is also that we don't want to acknowledge that this war has largely been fought by a victim class whose motives for joining the military are rarely noble or exemplary. These are people for whom the military - with its enlistment bonuses, its promises of health, educational and even travel benefits - represents their best chance to escape a minimum-wage life. It is a measure of their desperation that...
...Green Zone across the Tigris River, heard the distant rumble of a launch and then, seconds later, a crash that rattled windows and sent residents looking for cover. Karrada, home to a number of Shi'ite politicians, is often targeted by Sunni insurgents; Sunday morning it was the accidental victim of other Shi'ites. In an interview with the BBC, Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq, said that he believed that Iran was behind the assault on the Green Zone. Petraeus and the U.S. military have been blaming Iran's Quds special forces...