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...worth remembering that even as Sadr makes blood-and-fire speeches about fighting to the death in Najaf, his militia in the holy city is pretty much an expeditionary force. Although they have a presence in every Shiite urban community, the Sadrists' organizational base is in the Sadr City slums of East Baghdad, where their capacity for challenging the authority of the U.S.-backed government may be even greater. Following new attacks by Sadr supporters on U.S. and government targets in the capital late last week, the government declared a curfew in Sadr City - but reports suggest it has been...
...from the U.S. in the late '90s. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled there was insufficient evidence to make it stick. Weeks of tension - the sport has also been tarnished by selection squabbles - poisoned relations within the cycling team. For a couple of days last week at its base in Buttgen, Germany, some members weren't speaking to one another...
...from the U.S. in the late '90s. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled there was insufficient evidence to make it stick. Weeks of tension - the sport has also been tarnished by selection squabbles - poisoned relations within the cycling team. For a couple of days last week at its base in Buttgen, Germany, some members weren't speaking to one another...
...middle work at this stage? "It's going to be damn hard to change the impressions of independent voters, who already know him, when he has 45% negatives" with them, concedes a Republican strategist. Democratic pollster Mark Penn argues, "Bush has been pursuing a suicidal strategy for the Republican base since the State of the Union, and he's dropping like a stone the entire time. He looks like he's beginning to reorient his campaign towards the center, but it is awful late to begin that...
...President's mislabeling of his pet was the handiwork of White House political guru Karl Rove. With America's population of cat owners far exceeding that of dog owners, Rove is said to have advocated the nomenclatural switch as a slam-dunk means of expanding Bush's national support base in an election year. The President's insistence on patting his golden retriever and calling him a Siamese during a recent Larry King Live had alarmed even Republicans, but the revelation that it was "just election-year politics" has allowed Washington to breathe a sigh of relief. "I'm satisfied...