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...night. Automatic gunfire provides an unsettling sound track for daily life. The threat of violence makes parents afraid to send their kids to school, merchants wary of opening their stores and law-abiding Iraqis nervous about going out after dark. The Americans have tried to blame pro-Saddam saboteurs for the collapse of order. Lieut. General David McKiernan, head of the U.S. land forces in Iraq, said last week that Baghdad's breakdown was largely the result of an organized resistance engineered by Saddam loyalists. But other military officials say this is secondary to the main issue: restoring the minimum...
...demonstrate that they are the only force that can hold the country together. And it is a win-win situation for them: if they win and crush GAM, they are heroes. If they fail to solve the Aceh problem within six months or a year, they blame the politicians for not giving them the resources or time to finish...
...Adding to these woes is the knowledge that Taiwan's health-care system is itself partially to blame for the crisis: an astonishing 94% of the island's SARS victims have become infected inside hospitals. The hottest zone of all seems to be Hoping Hospital, where to date 120 people have been infected and 20 have died, including four staff members. Last week, Cloudy Wang, a 33-year-old nurse at Hoping, refused to return to work, together with 22 of her colleagues. She says her experience at Hoping left her "shattered" and killed her faith in hospital administrators...
...favorite use of the barrels was for drinking water. Since the buy back operation and the health warnings that accompanied it, local people have begun to complain of tender skin and other ailments. These could be real or psychosomatic. But villagers have no doubt who will be to blame for any health problems: the Americans. "They deliberately let people cause chaos here," claimed a worker from the local Shiite mosque, Abdul Mehdi, "to take our minds off the political situation." They are, he said, "very clever...
...course, Pappin’s argument is little more than an attempt to deflect blame from his own views. Are we seriously to believe that Pappin was pretty neutral about this whole homosexual vs. heterosexual thing until he took a few Moral Reasoning classes or sat through a few lectures in an introductory class to philosophy? It would take a lot to convince me that his words are anything but long-held personal views cushioned with what he has picked up from Harvard...