Violence in Baghdad was modest on Tuesday, with several people wounded by mortar shells and gunshots. However, 25 bodies were found. In Ramadi, in Anbar Province, security forces found 17 bodies buried at a primary school.
More than 200,000 people have died in Darfur and 2.3 million have been uprooted from their homes, largely by repeated attacks from Arab militias supported and equipped by the Sudanese government.
If a band remakes the song after it has ended its contract, it can retain ownership of the new version and license it itself without having to share the rewards with the record label. Now two of the musicians behind the band Wang Chung have hatched a plan that might seem even more absurd than the lyric "everybody Wang Chung tonight." More than two decades after the song "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" became a smash hit, they are recording it again.
"We have intercepted weapons in Afghanistan headed for the Taliban that were made in Iran," General Pace told reporters.
A few more billion won’t draw that much attention from Congress or taxpayers.
"We heard the much-ballyhooed spring offensive that the insurgents were going to make, and if there is an offensive -- I am confident, I say and believe -- we were first out of the block. What we did in effect was launch a spoiling attack."
"In some ways, the drag from housing is still ahead of us."
"We believe that downtown L.A. is for real and not just a flash-in-the-pan trend."
It starts in a mysterious room where a shaman figure known as the Alchemist undresses blond female twins, removes their false fingernails and jewelry and shaves their heads.
"It’s funny, it’s silly, the ridiculousness of having asked so much of celebrity."
"Moral exhortation doesn’t change people’s behavior. Prices do."
... antimissile missiles that might not work, to guard against an Iranian threat that may not exist ...
... an astonishingly intimate record of China’s painful transition from state-run industry to a free market ... As factories close and workers lose not only their jobs but also their homes and social networks, the filmmakers patiently observe the end of an era and the fortitude of those left floundering in its wake.
"Head Case" reminds us that while celebrities whose fortunes have dwindled seem to have an endless capacity to make fun of themselves, their circumstances are still generally enviable, or at least a lot more enviable than those of a laid-off Citigroup worker.
What the network offers here instead of a documentary is little more than a handful of case studies in hate crimes and racism and a few "see, we’re all cool" profiles ...
... it is a fascinating study in rationalization ... Mr. Perle admits neither mistakes nor regrets. The war is not even his main concern. Instead, Mr. Perle, a leading neo-conservative, uses much of tonight’s segment of the weeklong PBS series "America at a Crossroads" to argue that the United States should foment regime change in Iran, regardless of what Iran and other nations think.
I have been taking lessons for the past couple of months because tennis is so Californian, because the world will soon be nothing but asphalt, and because I have not spent enough of my life using the hand-eye reflexes that are such a pleasure to use. In the next court is a young player, a girl who is perhaps 9 years old. What could I do at 9 as well as this girl hits a tennis ball? I could read, hours a day. I try to remember this when the world seems to be full of 9-year-olds mastering everything.
Are we so imprecise in our fifth year of this war that our government cannot distinguish between those who worked and ate alongside us and a member of Al Qaeda? After all this time, we see hearts and minds as bombs and guns. If we cannot recover such basic distinctions, then we have surely lost more than the war.
Mr. Sadr had his cabinet ministers resign in an attempt to bully the government into setting a timetable for the departure of American troops from Iraq. Mr. Maliki cannot just say no, because if Mr. Sadr’s party turns against him, he could lose his parliamentary majority. Nor can he just say yes because the physical survival of his administration probably still depends on those American troops. Meanwhile, Mr. Sadr has aligned himself with a highly popular cause that is likely to expand his following even further.
Project Panama is Yahoo’s attempt to make the ads placed alongside search results more likely to be clicked by users. At an investor conference this year, Mr. Semel said he was "all smiles" about Panama.
IBM’s big services business is under pressure from rivals, especially Indian outsourcing specialists, who contend that they will do to the technology services industry what the Japanese did in autos: compete first on price and later with superior quality and products.
Vonage, which a federal court found had infringed on three patents owned by Verizon Communications, said its legal woes could lead to bankruptcy, according to a regulatory filing.
"This will help debunk Abe’s position."
"It's about face time." But these meetings are also about whether you want to see someone again. "You’re thinking about building long-term relationships. It’s all about trust."
