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...ability of U.S. troops to arrest and detain Iraqis and the applicability of Iraqi law on U.S. forces. At present U.S. forces are exempt from Iraqi law and have essentially unchecked powers to arrest and jail Iraqi citizens as part of military operations. Many Iraqis see revoking this as key to restoring a real sense of sovereignty to the country. But it's difficult to imagine U.S. policymakers agreeing to have their hands tied militarily in Iraq or allowing U.S. troops to risk possible trials in Iraqi courts...
...long-term storm forecast you can ask the Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science. Or you can ask someone like Bing, an elderly gentleman who used to cut lawns in my neck of Miami. Each year Bing would tell us what kind of hurricane season to expect. The key to his method was May: if it was a hot dry one, we'd better break out the window shutters; if it was cool and rainy, he'd tell us to relax. And he was usually right, especially in 2004 and 2005, when Florida got pummeled by enough hurricanes...
...many observers, the city of Abyei, on the fault-line between North and South Sudan, is the key to the country's future. On May 14, it exploded. What appeared to have been a small incident between rival militias on its outskirts quickly escalated into full-scale fighting, and there was little a small band of U.N. peacekeepers could do to contain...
Savannah's ability to balance imports and exports has been key to its rapid rise. Ship owners much prefer full vessels to empty ones. Savannah has been a raw-material exporter since the days of King Cotton, and its big challenge used to be finding enough imports to fill incoming ships. Port officials solved that by persuading the likes of Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Ikea to take advantage of ample vacant land near the port (something you don't find in New York or L.A.) to build distribution centers where they could unload merchandise from overseas and ship...
...even some of those who have endorsed Clinton - have acknowledged that Florida and Michigan should face some kind of penalty for breaking the rules. Few have bought Clinton's argument that the states have already suffered enough, or that the Democrats will have no chance to win the two key states in the fall if their entire delegations are not seated...