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...Guns for Hire Thank you for the article "America's Other Army," about the private security companies operating in Iraq [Oct. 29]. If the architects of the Iraq invasion had used some common sense - like deploying more troops - we wouldn't need military contractors. And if the Iraqi people had backbone and stood up to terrorists, our troops could come home. It seems that American blood is cheap to them. Gerry Turchi, Mooresville...
...Indeed, the artist wouldn't be ordinarily mistaken for a sexual-rights advocate. A tall man with John Lennon-style glasses, he looks more like a rumpled art lecturer than a rebel, and he cheerfully avoids the active political life of his late father, Haji Anwar, who was involved in the founding of the United Malays National Organization, Malaysia's ruling party since 1957. Even so, it is possible to imagine the directness of Zakii's compositions and calm, soothing brushstrokes as echoing his upbringing in a family of firm convictions. "I believe in certainty," he says. "Uncertainty...
...what Washington would call a textbook campaign. But the problem is the textbook itself," says Obama. There is something to that. The prospect of a woman President is so unusual that there is a real need to sell a textbook political image, the notion that Clinton wouldn't be much different from, or less tough than, any of her male opponents. There is a need to show her as solid and personally conservative - the sort of person who won't go crazy on us. And there is the ever present all-too-textbook reality of the Clinton machine: a campaign...
...chilling thought. I'm sure Edwards wouldn't want to win that way, and I'm not so sure he will. But Rhomberg's scenario wasn't at all implausible. It certainly raises the central issue of this Democratic campaign: whether Hillary Clinton's excellence as a candidate will be enough to overcome her family's garish political history, the undiluted hatred that will be directed against her and the demons that still haunt our nation...
...Much depends on how you define jihadist groups. "European penal law wouldn't recognize al-Qaeda as an organization," says Manuel Cancio, professor of criminal law at Madrid's Autonomous University. "It doesn't have hierarchical structure or leaders or clear lines of authority. So in this case, it's hard to say: are we talking about one organization or two?" Joan Queralt, professor of criminal law at the University of Barcelona, agrees. "The Mafia is the Mafia whether it commits a crime in Italy or in New York," he says. "But each jihadist group is distinct...