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...creativity in the history of songwriting, a three-album epiphany--Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Highway 61 Revisited (1965) and Blonde on Blonde (1966)--in which cascades of surrealistic, high-art lyrics were married to the most elegant rock-'n'-roll musicianship. That was brought to a violent stop by Dylan's near fatal motorcycle crash in 1966, and when he resumed, the music--even the sound of his voice--was different...
...Committee beg to differ. Democrat Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have written to President Obama, urging him to fight the release. "We know that many terrorists captured in Iraq have told American interrogators that one of the reasons they decided to join the violent jihadist war against America was what they saw on al-Qaeda videos of abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib," the pair wrote Obama May 6. "The release of these old photographs of past behavior that has now been clearly prohibited can serve no public good, but will empower al-Qaeda...
...coming days and weeks, undoubtedly, a chilling tale will trickle out of the Pentagon and Camp Liberty as more details are revealed. But sadly this latest tragedy is unlikely to shock anyone familiar with recent years of statistics showing a steady rise in violent crimes within the U.S. military. Soldiers and Marines who frequently venture onto the streets of Iraq have a derisive term for fellow service members and military contractors who never leave the confines of military installations - known as Forward Operating Bases, or FOBs. Those who stay "in the wire" are often referred to with snickers as Fobbits...
Murders in which fellow soldiers kill one another while on duty have been rare, despite an apparent increase in violent activity within the ranks of the military. The last such case to gain widespread attention came in 2003, when Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar attacked fellow soldiers in Kuwait as his unit prepared to join the Iraq invasion. Akbar was sentenced to death. The case marked the only one of its kind to occur since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, until...
Palestinian election to be held today, it's doubtful that Abbas would even win the nomination of his own Fatah party, much less be able to beat a Hamas candidate at the polls. Hamas remains the majority party in the Palestinian legislature; it controls all of Gaza following a violent showdown in 2007 that saw Abbas' supporters ejected from power. Hamas may also be even more popular than Fatah in the Abbas-controlled West Bank, where free political activity is suppressed by Israeli and Palestinian security forces. (See pictures of Gaza after Israel's offensive...