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...were former Sunni insurgents who had just switched sides - part of a revolt against al-Qaeda that has been gathering force all spring. "This is cause for optimism," Petraeus told me as he watched the recruits being fingerprinted and getting retinal scans for their ID cards. "This is the wave of the future. You've got to work from the bottom up, get the local forces involved." The biometric scans were a major technological advance. The Iraqi police had a reputation for corruption and secret allegiance to the militias, but the allegiances of these men were not going...
Mexico's drug war had produced relentless bad news for years - until this week. The headlines south of the border have been awash in a ghastly wave of bloodshed - mass executions, videotaped beheadings, rocket-grenade assaults on police stations and newspaper offices - that has all but spun out of the government's control and saddled Mexico with one of the hemisphere's worst crises of civil violence. There have been 1,300 drug-related murders recorded in Mexico already this year, compared to some 2,000 for all of last year. And so, there was cautious optimism over reports that...
...this new wave of mobile start-ups is finding ways to release consumers from the carriers' grip--by using the Web to get around carrier control and by training users to switch carriers for better add-ons. Other new services, though, still rely on the carriers because they are installed on phones or piggyback on the carriers' networks...
...decisive victory in second round legislative polling but fell significantly short of the "tsunami" that had been expected to lift President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) a to a record majority in parliament. The Socialist Party (PS) blunted Sarkozy's expected tidal wave victory with a better than expected showing. Still, with conservatives dominating the presidency, legislature and government - and given Sarkozy's promise to swiftly push through sweeping reform - there's little doubt French society will soon will be prodded to a depth and degree of change it's never seen before. The question...
...wall texts - most in French, some in English - videos and paintings, Calle subjects the e-mail to a tidal wave of abuse and cunning deconstruction. She recruits 107 women, including a few celebrated ones like Jeanne Moreau, Laurie Anderson and Miranda Richardson, to read the letter, act it out, set it to music or coolly dissect it. Many of them turn up on a video wall on which they perform and deform the text more than 30 ways, including as a Bunraku puppet show, an aria, a rap song and a clown routine. On another screen a white cockatoo grabs...