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...showdown with the Americans bringing an end to a stalemate that had improbably become a national crisis (even if it was largely of his own making), Sadr could conceivably even expand his following. To achieve that he'll have to be able to demonstrate whatever deal was struck to pull his own men out of the holy sites also resulted in a withdrawal of U.S. forces...
...Similar despair is felt by Angelo de la Cruz, the 46-year-old truck driver and father of eight who became famous last month for being kidnapped in Iraq. De la Cruz, who was released after Arroyo agreed to pull the country's 51 troops out of Iraq, risked his neck driving oil tankers in battle-scarred cities like Fallujah for $8 a day because he could find no equally lucrative work in the Philippines. "I knew Iraq was dangerous," he says, "but I had no choice." Back home in his ramshackle village of Buena Vista, his high profile hasn...
...vulnerabilities to a terrorist attack of several of them and communications among some of the most wanted terrorists in the world. In their volume and specificity, the discs amounted to what a senior U.S. intelligence official calls an unprecedented "treasure trove" of information about al-Qaeda's determination to pull off more catastrophic acts on U.S. soil. The catalog of targets found on the discs is part of what led to a heightened security alert last week at financial institutions in New York City and Washington and induced the latest episode of anxiety among residents of those cities--fear that...
There is speculation, which WADA won't deny, that the organization will pull the same trick in Athens with a test for synthetic human growth hormone (HGH), which stimulates muscle and bone growth. It's popular among competitors because unlike easily detected steroids, excess HGH levels are difficult to distinguish from normally circulating levels. And WADA is also reserving the right to nab dopers after the fact--the I.O.C. will keep the samples from Athens and subject them to detection methods WADA may deploy over the next few months...
...mother and stepfather were in vaudeville, and because I was raised in that environment, I knew you didn't complain. You didn't pull rank, and you didn't have tantrums because it didn't get you anywhere. I knew it was a sink-or-swim situation...