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...boil. Following a call to arms by a radical, power-hungry cleric named Muqtada al-Sadr, thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites declared war against a military that had freed them from a heinous dictator. In cities across Iraq, Shi'ite militants united behind the goal of casting off the yoke of occupation by killing or capturing any foreigner, military or civilian, they came across. Together with the fighting in Fallujah, the Shi'ite uprising produced the bloodiest eruption of violence since the war began. In the past week, 46 U.S. soldiers and more than 460 Iraqis were killed. Seemingly overnight...
Under the yoke of a stifling Crimson rush headed by junior linebacker Bobby Everett and his one-and-a-half sacks, Cornell managed just four yards of total offense and no first downs on its first two possessions of the game...
...college students, are the only group of voters who have both the luxury of relegating economic concerns to the background and the extra time to spend actively promoting our social views. We’ll be under the yoke of money and taxes and jobs soon enough. Whatever our social views, let’s vote with our hearts, not our wallets, while we still...
...present in court last week, "the existence of these laws was an excuse for harassment and discrimination, and a labeling of a whole group of people for whom this is the primary form of physical sexual intimacy as deviant and criminal. A lot of people feel that that yoke has been lifted...
...ultimately rationalized his policies as a way to liberate the Iraqi people, as shown by choosing to label the project “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” True freedom, however, will never come for the Iraqis as long as they feel that they are under the yoke of an imperialist foreign invader...