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...several cases of beer. Young males are turning to marijuana, says Boyle. Life can be grueling for kids on the surrounding outstations; parents often take them for extended visits to relatives or for ceremonies and they miss large chunks of learning. Few students achieve anything beyond the most basic education standards. Although, spurred by teachers, some at Yiyili are about to aim higher. One of Boyle's scourges is passive welfare, in particular the indigenous work-for-the-dole known as the Community Development Employment Program. "At 16 they're eligible for the CDEP," the principal says. "The participants...
...Iran during the Saddam years, Sadr's movement remained inside Iraq operating underground. And in the chaos that followed the toppling of Saddam, Sadr's movement quickly filled the vacuum in the vast Shi'ite slums that house more than half of Baghdad's population, organizing security and basic services and turning what is now known as Sadr City into a vast stronghold. SCIRI's Badr Brigade, although smaller, was trained by Iran's Revolutionary Guard during its years in exile, and may be an even better organized Shi'ite militia than the Mahdi Army. It is integrated into some...
...take some risks. Our troops need to be relocated from the safety of their forward operating bases right into the middle of Baghdad. That will mean more U.S. casualties. And if this doesn't reduce the violence over the next few months, we may have to change our basic strategy...
...blogosphere-approximately 1 million Sunnis would be stranded on the Shi'ite side and vice versa. "The human catastrophe would be extraordinary," said an Army colonel. If partition happens, an Iraqi official told Reuters, "Iraq as a political project is finished," and chaos ensues. Colonel Hammes identified a more basic, undeniable problem: "Talking about a new strategy is useless until we get a new team-in the Pentagon, in the Administration. These guys have screwed up everything. They haven't got the credibility to implement anything...
...deep as 12 ft., which skaters can barrel down, building enough speed to coast along the walls and climb the rim. All bowls--round, oval and peanut-shaped--are descended from the ur-bowl of skateboarding, an empty swimming pool. But park design has moved far from the basic pool formations. "Now it's about taking those and intersecting them," says Hollyday. "I have to keep thinking of the next shape...