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...with the fallout of 2003," says Guy Siri, a humanitarian coordinator with the U.N.'s mission in Iraq, referring to the bombing of the U.N. headquarters that claimed 22 lives, including the U.N. Secretary General's special representative to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. The following month, the U.N. withdrew from Iraq, returning only in August of 2004 in very small numbers...
...British fleet set sail, Thatcher regained some of her customary fire. Her basic position was that Britain would not negotiate until the Argentines withdrew. "We have to recover those islands," she declared in a television interview. Evoking Queen Victoria's words from the "black week" of December 1899, when attacking British forces were being repulsed in the Boer War, she declaimed: "Failure? The possibilities do not exist. I'm not talking about failure. I am talking about supreme confidence in the British fleet, superlative troops, excellent equipment. We must use all our professionalism, our flair, every single bit of native...
...home, but it’s something that a lot of people go through. I can’t tell you why it was, but I knew that I wanted to come home.”Something wasn’t right. Markley first left the basketball team, then withdrew from Princeton altogether. She then spent a long year off—away from the gym and the classroom—thinking about the role that basketball played in her life. Markley’s sudden doubts about her commitment to basketball came as a surprise to her and those...
...years after Ramos-Horta shared the Nobel Peace Prize with East Timorese Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor finally won full independence from Indonesia, ending a traumatic occupation during which up to 200,000 East Timorese are believed to have perished. (Hundreds more died as Indonesian troops withdrew...
Satterfield said Sadr's political influence has waned since November 2006, when the cleric "made a political gamble and lost." That was when Sadr withdrew his party's ministers from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's cabinet after Maliki refused to set a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal. When the government did not collapse, Satterfield argued, the limits of al-Sadr's political power were exposed. That's when Maliki no longer felt the need to protect his biggest constituent in Parliament and gave U.S. forces the green light to enter Sadr City, the cleric's popular stronghold in north...