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...reality that will emerge as the dust settles at Najaf will strengthen the likelihood that - as Anthony Cordesman argues in a PDF download from the Center for Strategic and International Studies - in order to achieve at least a modicum of stability in Iraq, the U.S. and its local allies will be forced to accept a substantial political role for elements they'd once hoped to eliminate...
...THEY'RE OFF! The spectacle, the centaurs, the scandal! the summer games in athens kick off with a ceremony honoring ancient greece and a modern dust-up over doping...
...Laikipia district, about six hours north of Nairobi. Some 14,000 sheep and 1,000 cattle graze here on the open grasslands, tended by 200 ranch hands. Barely a mile from the feasting lions, herders are bringing cattle and sheep into their nighttime pens, raising clouds of red dust. The herders whistle at their dogs, which are on the alert for lions--and for leopards, which go to the nearby water hole at night to feed on antelope and gazelles. On the plains of Africa, predation is a prominent part of the daily rhythm of life...
...crucial challenges her administration faces if she is to keep her electoral-campaign promise to improve the lives of the nation's working poor?and to avoid a potentially disastrous economic crisis. The Philippine economy has long been one of Asia's worst performers, left in the dust while neighbors Thailand and Malaysia have raced ahead. Over the past five years, Philippine GDP growth averaged 3.9%, compared with 6.5% for other developing countries across the region. Chronically high unemployment (currently 13.7%) means about one out of every 10 of the country's 86 million people are compelled to seek work...
...dust has not yet settled in Najaf, and the offensive may be resumed at any moment. But the delicate balance between talking and fighting in Najaf suggests that the government who ordered the operation has yet to establish its political authority over its citizenry...