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...effective in part because she didn't pretend otherwise. The photos said lovefest - his tie matched her suit and his arm was around her like Donnie and Marie - but her words subtly signaled that she was entering the tent of a once (and possibly future) rival solely to concentrate fire outward. She reminded a crowd long on anti-war voters that only three times in her 40 years of political life has a Democrat won a presidential election. "We cannot let this moment slip away," she said emphatically...
...survive a disaster" was wrong about fire-drill requirements in New York City [June 9]. The idea that the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) opposes such drills is also false. REBNY has consistently supported mandatory, semiannual fire drills as well as evacuation drills. Owing to the danger involved in traveling down many flights of stairs and after learning of two resulting heart attacks, the industry, working with the fire department, agreed that drills shouldn't require walking all the way to the street. Instead, they would require building occupants to travel down three or four flights...
...efforts in Iraq as the war enters its sixth summer. While the GAO doesn't contradict a Pentagon report that indicates violence in Iraq has dropped significantly, it claims the improvement is based on a rickety foundation provided by the now slowing U.S. troop surge, a creaky cease-fire with Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and a U.S.-led effort to recruit former insurgents for policing--not on any sustained reforms needed for lasting peace. The GAO says that only 10% of Iraqi army battalions have reached operational readiness, a claim the Pentagon calls "misleading." The Pentagon also criticizes...
...current lull in violence, the GAO contends, is like a stool that rests on three legs: the U.S. troop surge, a creaky cease-fire declared by Shi'ite militias loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr and a U.S.-led effort to hire former insurgents to guard their neighborhoods - hardly a platform for sustainable political and social reform. Indeed, the GAO accuses the Pentagon of cherry-picking the information from Iraq that substantiates the claim of progress and ignoring more unpalatable indicators...
...ability of Hamas to enforce the compliance of the other militias will probably determine the duration of the truce. Says Ruth Lahava, the resident of a kibbutz in the Negev regularly peppered by rockets, "I'm in favor of the cease-fire, but I'm afraid that the others apart from Hamas will start shooting again, and Hamas will say: 'It's not us,' and then Israel will respond. That's the way it's been for the last 15 years...