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...Baghdad, a capital desperately seeking a sense of normalcy in the midst of a long and brutal insurgent war, it?s taken close to 40,000 American soldiers and Iraqi security forces to keep al-Qaeda's suicide bombers at bay. For the past five days the Baghdad garrison, reinforced with the added muscle of eight battalions pulled in from across the country, plus one more flown up from a forward force base in Kuwait, had patrolled a city free of car bombs or men with explosives strapped to their chests. But on Thursday, the carnage returned, when three bombers...
...Brainard said the motivation for the increase was simple. “People were not taking one-cent-a minute seriously,” she said. “This was just a gentle way of trying to get students to return their books.” Erik P. Garrison ’06, a student employee at Lamont, was able to keep things in perspective. “Of course they don’t want to pay it, but they’re using the library,” he said. “That?...
...between the Sinhalese-dominated government to the south and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.) based in the north and east, Mullaitivu wound up on the front line. The village fell first to the Sri Lankan army. Then in 1996 the Tigers took it back, wiping out a garrison of 1,200 government troops and losing 800 of their own in a single day. After the two sides stopped fighting, Mullaitivu enjoyed three years of peace. Then came the tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004, which killed 3,323 people in the village...
...convinced that Mosul can be a showcase for the "clear-hold-build" strategy that she described to Congress last month. The idea is to drive insurgents out of designated areas and garrison troops there to allow new structures of government to take hold and deliver substantial reconstruction investment, in the hope that this would generate self-sustaining political and economic development that would eventually allow U.S. forces to leave...
...finalists will gather in New York, November 15 and 16 for a book signing and a public reading of their work at The New School before the awards ceremony, according to the foundation’s website. Damrosch says he is looking forward to humorist and radio personality Garrison Keillor hosting the black-tie awards dinner at the Marriot Marquis in Times Square. “This will be gathering of some of America’s best writers,” says Damrosch, “and I think it’s great that we get to share...