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...Sadr does have one potential trump card: his strident anti-Americanism has helped him broaden his support base, so that many Iraqi Sunnis regard him as the only Shi'ite leader they can trust. Sunni groups contributed men and material to support the Mahdi Army's uprisings against U.S. forces, and elements of the Mahdi Army fought alongside Sunni insurgents in the battle of Fallujah in fall 2004. "He is somebody who has fought against the occupying forces," says Abdul Salam al-Kubaisi, spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars, the leading Sunni clerical body. "All other Shi'ite leaders...
...says. “Harvard is not a not-for-profit institution.”A BITTER TASTE FROM THE PASTAllegations of improper profit-taking tainted Reeves’ first two terms. Political drama played out in 1994 when the Cambridge Chronicle accused Reeves of misusing a City credit card for personal expenses and the Massachusetts Department of Revenue investigated Reeves’ purportedly missing state income tax returns. The Federal Bureau of Investigation also questioned Reeves on why he had received extra salary payments of roughly $30,000 from the school committee over three years.Reeves denies any intentional wrongdoing...
...that's just an unfortunate price to pay for the added functionality of live view. Add that to a list of features - full manual control, ultrasonic dust protection, a 7.5-megapixel image sensor, access to all of Olympus' Zuiko Digital Specific lenses, and compatibility with high-capacity CompactFlash memory cards as well as the Olympus/Fujifilm proprietary xD card - and you can see why this camera has plenty to brag about...
...wild card in this latest flare-up is al-Sadr, who fought two insurrections with the Americans in 2004. He lost both military battles, but emerged each time politically stronger than before. The areas around Kut, Karbalah and Najaf to the south of Baghdad have seen hit-and-run attacks on American forces, the most recent on Monday resulting in the destruction of a Humvee and the death of an American soldier. Mahdi Army forces loyal to Sadr are widely blamed for these attacks...
...prizewinner, Gao Xingjian, lives in France?but Li's exile may prove short-lived. In 2004 Li applied for permanent residency in the U.S., but her first attempt was denied on the grounds that she had not sufficiently distinguished herself in her field of endeavor to earn a green card. (She still has a valid temporary visa.) Li is reapplying, but she knows the odds for a writer could be long. To earn residency, she explains, "You need to prove that you're extraordinary. But it's hard to prove that you're an extraordinary artist!" For Yiyun...