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...kind of rallying point they had had when they hunkered down in the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf. Although fighting continued throughout the afternoon and sporadically into Friday night, the enemy simply seemed to evaporate afterward. "By about [2:00 p.m.] they realized what they were up against and withdrew," says Captain Jim Pangelinan, who led his Alpha Company of the 1/14 into the western edge of the city. Withdrawing, however, can be the most confounding thing the insurgents...
...Wood, a Brussels-based lawyer for Howrey Simon Arnold & White, "but it was a lame performance. She has to pick up a gear or two." - By Peter Gumbel In Need Of A Remedy Shares in Merck plunged almost 27% in a day's trading after the U.S. pharma firm withdrew its Vioxx arthritis drug due to fears that it put users at greater risk of a heart attack or stroke. The painkiller generated $2.5 billion in global sales...
Mushrush, who directs the University’s South Shore Psychiatry Residency Training Program at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Brockton, is targeted in another pending discrimination suit alleging that she withdrew an offer of admission to an applicant after learning the applicant was pregnant...
...rose to prominence as a member of Indonesia's ?lite parachute battalion during the 1962 invasion of then Dutch-controlled West Papua. The attack on East Timor and subsequent occupation sparked a guerrilla war and led to the deaths of some 200,000 East Timorese over two decades. Jakarta withdrew its forces after a U.N. supervised referendum in 1999 in which the onetime Portuguese colony voted overwhelmingly for independence...
...unleashing never happened. Instead, U.S. forces began an assault and then withdrew. A senior White House official explained the reversal a week later. "We've demonstrated that we can be tough, but we need to show that we can be smart," he said. "I know that makes people anxious who want to turn Fallujah into a parking lot, but you can win the battle and lose the war." Hawkish critics immediately called the new softening a retreat. But it was only one of many examples of shifting tactics. Bush won't change his mind when the French want to avoid...