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A River Runs Through It

Israeli bombing has knocked out irrigation canals supplying Litani River water to more than 10,000 acres of farmland and 23 villages in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley … The damaged or broken facilities...

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Back Once Again, the Renegade Sadr

More people in Baghdad are being killed by Shiite death squads than by al-Qaeda and Sunni insurgents … “The conflict here is transitioning from an insurgency against us to a struggle for a division...

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Post-Colonial Partition Playbook

Leaders of Iraq’s powerful Shiite Muslim political bloc have begun aggressively promoting a radical plan to partition the country as a way of separating the warring sects. Some Iraqis are even talking about dividing...

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Diplomatic Impotence

Since U.S. forces captured Baghdad without a serious fight in spring 2003, fear of America’s military might has melted away as its soldiers and Marines have been unable to control the insurgency or stem...

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We Are All Hizbollahi Now

A female neighbour who had supported the rival Shia Amal movement until her house was destroyed by the Israelis [said] ‘We are all Hizbollahi now’,” And I recall that less than three years ago,...

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Quornapolooza

On top of an estimated three million vegetarians, Quorn has a growing number of calorie-counting devotees … the proportion of households regularly buying Quorn had risen to 19.3 per cent from 17.7 per cent...

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Apple Quicktime: Spyware

I just tried to watch a trailer on Apple’s web site and, after I clicked “Play”, SpyBot Registry Guard told me that Quicktime was trying to insert itself into my Windows startup items as...

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Night and Day

The [Afghan] cabinet … approved reviving the Department for the Promotion of Virtue and the Discouragement of Vice, a body that Afghan governments have maintained through much of the country’s history. It became notoriously...

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The Talented Mr Wright

Joe Francis, the founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” empire, is humiliating me. He has my face pressed against the hood of a car, my arms twisted hard behind my back. He’s pushing himself...