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...that day won't come until Mexico goes straight, cleans up its justice and banking systems. Some American borderlanders who cheer integration in public go off the record to talk about what's wrong, admit that they rarely visit the other side or whisper quietly that they haven't felt the same about the place since a friend had his car hijacked a few years ago and they never saw him again. You can sense the same mysterious half silence wherever you go; Mexicans call it Article No. 20, as in Which of the $20 is for me? Police...
...branded unpatriotic, even while our children were preparing to be deployed there? No! Sullivan still attempts to justify the war and mentions the dead and wounded Americans only in passing. Now that he has confessed, he should go to a VA hospital, apologize to the soldiers there and then visit families of those who died in the name of incompetence, narcissism and cultural ignorance. Paul I. Hettich Antioch, Illinois, U.S. I applaud Sullivan's confession of his regrets about the war. It takes a sound disposition to criticize long-standing personal beliefs, especially when denouncing issues that have been...
...member of the Adams House Senior Common Room, Solano has also organized about a dozen poetry readings each semester that are free for Adams residents. Poets such as Donald Hall, Franz Wright, Srikanth Reddy and Elizabeth Kirschner, are the most recent poets to visit the Plympton Street house.“She has basically brought poetry to Adams House and added immensely to our community by bringing poets here,” said Victoria R. Macy, the assistant to the Adams House masters.“She has been extremely generous to the house and given books to the library...
...visit of Condi Rice and Jack Straw to Baghdad may have sounded the death knell on the candidacy of Ibrahim Jaafari for a second term as prime minister. Rice made clear the U.S. disdain for a second Jaafari term, saying Iraq needed a leader who could build a national unity coalition, which the incumbent had failed to do. With the Kurds and Sunnis already committed to reject Jaafari's nomination, the Rice visit seemed to embolden even the prime minister's Shi'ite rivals: For the first time, the largest faction of Jaafari's Shi'ite alliance, the Supreme Council...
...pressure against Jaafari and his current chief political ally, firebrand cleric Moqtada al Sadr, could actually backfire and bolster their position with a wave of anti-U.S. sentiment. Nonetheless, internal pressures on Jaafari to withdraw are mounting. On the same day that Rice and Straw made their visit, a senior member of the Shi'ite alliance asked Jaafari to step down, making a schism likely within the national assembly's leading voting block. If a faction of the alliance (the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq) backs out of its agreement to vote for Jaafari...