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...land forces in Iraq, said last week that Baghdad's breakdown was largely the result of an organized resistance engineered by Saddam loyalists. But other military officials say this is secondary to the main issue: restoring the minimum quality of life for ordinary Iraqis--a job, electricity, proper sewage, safe streets. An American intelligence official says he believes that the amount of politically inspired armed resistance is "remarkably...
...belief that "the proper response to bad journalism is to do good journalism," Raines assigned three editors and five reporters to re-report Blair's suspicious stories and comb through his computer files and expense accounts. The result was a 7,200-word story on last Sunday morning's front page that autopsied what it called a "low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper." According to the Times's investigation, Blair "fabricated comments. He concocted scenes. He stole material from other newspapers and wire services." He described the houses of grieving parents he never visited, the nightmares...
...cultural moment in which people gather to watch both Queer as Folk and the first-ever same-sex kiss on daytime television, visibility in and of itself need not be political at all. It therefore seems rather strange that the BGLTSA should appropriate a variety of political actions proper to—and effective in—very different historical circumstances. Kiss-ins, for example, were once a form of direct action that gave voice to a defiant and threatened sexuality—as in the infamous series of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) kiss...
...Right now, Israel is the effective security authority in most West Bank towns and cities, having reoccupied them in the hope of stopping a relentless wave of suicide bombings inside Israel-proper. The Palestinians say they can't reconstitute their shattered security services as long as Israeli maintains a stranglehold on their turf, and argue that an Israeli withdrawal is a prerequisite for a crackdown on terrorism. But Sharon is in no mood to accept half-measures, and insists that Israel will deal only with a Palestinian Authority willing to disarm the Palestinian organizations that carry out terror attacks - Hamas...
Yankee fans are subject to all manner of abuse in this town, simply by virtue of remaining true to our home team. The message of Usher’s article can only be that the proper response to such abuse is to abandon old loyalties, to alter our identities as Yankee fans, so that we may be rewarded by the “half smiles” and “nods” of Bostonians...