About 15 percent of Iraqis have left their homes. Since the upsurge of violence following the bombing of a Shiite holy site in Samarra 14 months ago, the flight has been large and constant. It now reaches a rate of up to 50,000 people per month.
... withstanding the surge of Pentecostal Protestantism in Latin America ...
"The government is doing more slogans than action."
Afghan patience is wearing dangerously thin, officials warn.
"I had the support of the guys in the S&M and leather bars ..." he said. The objections came from other sectors of the gay population ... "It was like Sunnis and Shiites," he said.
"If your focus is on how faith-based organizations are getting earmarks, I’m your guy."
As for whether people will think he has a fetish, he said he can’t help that. "I just have no way of dealing with that," he said with a laugh. "People will think what they’re going to think. I understand that."
"This is the destiny of traitors," the gunmen yelled as they shot their victims.
"The number of threats is not decreasing. They are only transforming and changing the guise. As during the Third Reich era, these new threats show the same contempt for human life and claims to world exclusiveness and diktat."
The danger of not understanding the lessons of history is matched by the danger of using simplistic historical analogies.
"You’ve got these two basic liberal values on a kind of collision course."
"Let other federal agencies, as more than a dozen already do, cover the ‘bugs and bunnies.’ But let our spies be spies," Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, wrote Thursday in a Wall Street Journal op-ed article.
The idea that the soul must be cleansed through pain, prevalent in Tolstoy’s era, unsettles most of the class. They wonder whether such extremes of suffering are needed to shock a complacent character out of his narcissism. But I have seen this happen in the clinic, again and again.
Linnaeus shrewdly helped popularize his system by spicing up his lectures with asides about the flower as a bridal bed, where a member of one sex could often be found disporting with multiple members of the opposite sex.
Although the Habits of Mind can seem cultlike at times, its language has become a common bond between teachers and students, even creating its own shorthand.
"The anger is pushing me," he said. "The anger is just telling me that yes, this year I have to win."
And when he could talk again after a week of semiconsciousness, the chief topics of conversation were baseball and the New Jersey Devils hockey team.
"I don’t think it can afford another scandal," he said of baseball.
He may not be sending a new message so much as just putting it in a new wrapper whose colors -- red, white and blue -- mean something different depending on which side of the Atlantic you’re on.
A Mexican doctor surgically removed drug traffickers’ fingerprints, substituting skin from the soles of their feet, to help the traffickers avoid arrest.
And he warned opponents trying to capitalize on the situation: "Do not challenge us. We are not cowards like you, we have the power of the people."
The Murdochs are planning to move into a $44 million penthouse on Fifth Avenue next year. It is the most expensive apartment in New York and was once owned by Laurence Rockefeller; it is another prize that Mr. Murdoch has said he has long coveted.
He achieved limited institutional fame when he was named Microsoft’s Worldwide Software Architect of the Year in 2003. But the next year, when his stock options vested, he quit the company to start the Perfect Future.
Mr. Black has an entirely different tale to tell, in which he has done nothing wrong and is in fact the victim -- having his company and reputation stripped from him at the hands of corporate governance "terrorists."
I know Wal-Mart is not hip, slick and cool. It’s for people who have to live within a budget, not for people who see movies with subtitles ...
On Sunday, Iraqi gunmen drove into the Diyala capital of Baqouba, pulled two handcuffed men out of the trunk and shot them to death -- one in view of a bustling market and the other near a movie theater, police and witnesses said.
If there is a dollar crisis and oil goes to $150 a barrel, where does the S.& P. go? Where do all of our retirement plans go? Where do our 401(k)s go? I think this is worth considering.
City leaders say they hope that within a generation, the South Waterfront will become the city’s hippest neighborhood.
"It’s all about being on the water," he said.
I asked the leader to surrender his arms and he said, "Colonel, do you think it’s a good day to die?" Then his forces aimed their rifles at us. I told him every day is a good day to die -- if it is for the right reason.
"You can’t tell he is on any medication at all," Dr. Ostrum said.
In countries like Germany and France, private equity firms like Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Blackstone Group have been derided as locusts that strip companies of their assets. Those attitudes have begun to cross over into the United States as well.
"The four names -- that could be a way to make me stand out." But then he hesitated: "My name already sounds like a porn star."
I discovered this one night when I was searching for something I had written, and plugged my name into Google. (Let this be a cautionary tale for those who self-Google.) I was surprised when the first page of hits turned up fan clubs in my honor, a fully-functional MySpace page and a rather comprehensive Wikipedia entry. Oh, they shouldn’t have, I thought. Then I looked closer.
Not even in ancient Japan could you find such insincere bowing and scraping.
Films that appear to glamorize smoking will risk a more restrictive rating. "It all depends on how impactful the smoking is." ... "Rated PG-13 for pervasive smoking."
... a kind of Le Corbusien fantasy of skyscrapers, superhighways, sprawling shopping complexes and cities within cities, with little public transportation ...
"There is a recognition clearly that up in Diyala there has been an uptick in the violence," Caldwell said at a news conference in Baghdad.
"Every asset we have from national assets to tactical assets ... are being used ... to locate these three missing soldiers."
"Yes, it is a moral victory, but he's replaceable."
The river was chest-high at the time, and a number of women and children were swept away.
"You have a bag of capital -- that is the good will of the people -- and you want to spend that as slow as you could," said the American military official. "We are spending it at a fearsome rate."
In the words of one foreign official in Afghanistan, the Americans went after one guerrilla commander and created a hundred more.
