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...time being, Tulane is holding onto fall tuition, using it to rebuild and repair its facilities. While the university has pledged to reimburse students who have chosen to withdraw, many displaced students wish the funds could come sooner. Those enrolled as visiting students elsewhere will continue paying Tulane’s tuition—regardless of how much their host school might cost. The arrangement benefits students going to places like Harvard, where tuition is waived and the education comparable. But those spending their semester at more modestly priced institutions feel somewhat cheated...
...also threatened not to ratify an agreement that would have allowed more intrusive UN inspections and to start enriching uranium despite international pressure not to do so. Opponents of taking the matter to the Security Council worry that, if pressed further, Iran might throw out inspectors altogether and withdraw from its obligations under the NPT as North Korea did last year and Saddam Hussein's Iraq did in the mid 1990s. The absence of inspectors in Iraq was one reason why Western intelligence on Iraq's program proved so inadequate, though Iran is known to already have a more advanced...
...relative safety of the edge of town. A little girl cups her ears with her hands and wails each time firing breaks out. A 5-year-old boy gingerly waves a white flag. Insurgents duck and weave across housetops a few blocks away, trading fire as they withdraw back into their nest in the Sarai neighborhood...
...insurgents withdraw, only to resurface in a flanking movement from the west, trying to snipe at Green Berets looking to the east, sparking another long fire fight. When things quiet down, it isn't for long. Although the U.S. inflicts heavy punishment on al-Zarqawi's men, the Americans also absorb losses. During a raid by Delta Force operators of Task Force 145 in western Tall 'Afar, insurgents put up fierce resistance at a house believed to be sheltering one of the city's top al-Qaeda operatives. Eight Delta men are wounded, two so seriously that...
...less likely to pre-empt anything when youre keeping those resources bottled up in Washington, when youre shutting firehouses in New York so you can open oil refineries in Iraq, and when your best answer to poor intelligence is to torture prisoners at random, deport potentially valuable sources, and withdraw from the community of nations...