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...perhaps all the head-scratching is unwarranted. Isn’t it possible that this entire episode at Yale was just a fluke? After all the public outcry, it’s unlikely anyone will pull off any more stunts. And there’s certainly the temptation to think of the alleged perpetrators as shadowy figures who have come and gone...
...just realized we’re all the same. we all make the same mistakes, have the same fears, cause identical pains for others that in turn strike us deeply from another direction. cyclical. memoryless. pull on this string, because you will never be caught with the short end.Says Liu, “I blog knowing there’s an audience, yet at the same time I only am truly compelled to write when I’m emotionally driven, thus drawing from material that’s intensely private. Therein lie the ambiguous poetics...
...first sign came on April 10, not yet 24 hours after the U.S. Marines helped pull down Saddam's statue in Firdos Square in Baghdad. At the Mosque of Ali in Najaf, a gang murdered Sheikh Abdul Majid al-Khoei, the son of the late Grand Ayatullah Abolkassem al-Khoei. The killing was an immense setback for the U.S., since al-Khoei was a moderate who had been courted to play a crucial role in encouraging Iraq's Shiites to cooperate with Washington's nation-building plans. The killers appeared to be supporters of Moktada al Sadr, the young, power...
...that has credibility and support from the people of Iraq, its neighbors and many of America’s allies. The U.N. is the best body to provide leadership and power for the fledgling new government in Iraq, and the U.S. is obliged to pull out as soon as the U.N. can get peacekeeping forces into place...
...just didn’t seem to pull it together like last week,” Milne said...