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...Whether motivated by fear of their leader, fear of the wrath of his victims, fear of the invaders or simply by patriotic sentiment, many thousands of Iraqis have taken up arms against overwhelming odds despite the coalition's exhaustive efforts to facilitate their surrender. That underscores the depth of the challenge that may lie ahead in pacifying Iraq. Many Iraqi forces are no longer in conventional military formation, but have adopted guerrilla tactics to face a more powerful enemy. Tuesday's sandstorm attack on the 7th Cavalry, for example, was carried out by members of the Fedayeen Saddam, a youth...
Saddam has made a different calculation. He believes that in the event of war, fear of his wrath and uncertainty over his demise will press his men into one last battle. Crossing the heavily mined no-man's-land near the Kurdish town of Chamchamal in recent weeks, two Iraqi deserters have brought tales of a buildup. They say Saddam is pushing heavy armor and ammunition forward. A Kurdish security official, among the first to interrogate the men, says, "They don't want to, but Baghdad is ordering these units to fight...
...travel on dirt? Do you haul a livestock trailer? It wouldn't remove the stigma, though. As long as some people are living larger than average, they will be targets for grumpy puritans and prohibitionists who, if they ever manage to get their way over SUVs, will refocus their wrath on "professional style" kitchen ranges or riding mowers above a certain horsepower...
...Minutes of classes at the Extension School cancelled due to the hellacious wrath of Mother Nature. 60: Minutes of Leo Damrosch’s undergraduate class, English 185: “Wit and Humor,” that were cancelled when Damrosch misread a sign that announced the cancellation of Extension School classes...
...addition, the jacket design is of singularly dubious merit. In an attempt to avoid portraying actual Transformers and earn the wrath of Hasbro’s legal department, _Eugenesis_ instead features a black and white photo of junked automobiles on the cover; part of a faux Penguin Classics design for the entire book (closer inspection reveals the publisher to be “Polyhex Classics,” a Transformers reference, naturally). With these wrappings, the book could easily mingle unnoticed alongside _Middlemarch_ and _The Canterbury Tales_. Whether it deserves such illustrious company is somewhat questionable. Like...