OT: The Road to Riches
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> > There is no invisible hand
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,863426,00.html
> > Joseph Stiglitz: People don't behave rationally. So why do orthodox
> > economists still cling to their discredited rational expectations
> > theory?
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New Players on Global Warming
http://tinyurl.com/4guw
Given the Bush administration's inert approach to global warming, the
best hope for getting a start on the problem this year lies with the
Senate.
Not Going Green Is Called a Matter of Economics
http://tinyurl.com/4guy
By MICHAEL BRICK
The tools for constructing environmentally conscious, energy-efficient
office buildings have existed for decades, but such buildings are just
now drawing attention.
The Internet Nanosecond: Innovation faltered, and the Web became a
giant white elephant. (By Robert J. Samuelson)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57209-2003Jan14.html
Philanthropist Gives A.C.L.U. $8 Million
http://tinyurl.com/4gv0
By STEPHANIE STROM
The donation will support the A.C.L.U.'s efforts to fight
antiterrorism measures that it deems a violation of civil liberties.
maff
Western protectionism blamed for 'shameful' global poverty
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,877307,00.html
The west is accused of "unjustifiable and objectionable" protectionism
in its dealings with developing countries, in a report attacking the
"shameful" level of global poverty.
Does Class Count in Today's Land of Opportunity?
http://tinyurl.com/4lb1
By FELICIA R. LEE
As one of the most prosperous 20-year periods in American history
ends, the question of just how important class has become has gained a
new immediacy.
maff
Meme Watch: Bushies Get Cold Feet
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0301030659.192b299d%40posting.google.com
and thread
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Digital dilemmas
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1534303
Despite the dotcom boom and bust, the computer and telecoms revolution
has barely begun. Over the next few decades, the internet and related
technologies really will profoundly transform society.
maff
Connect, They Say, Only Connect
http://tinyurl.com/4vmu
By EMILY EAKIN
Many think the nascent academic science of network theory may hold the
key to everything from predicting fashion trends to preventing
terrorism.
The Era of the Medici, Merchants Who Longed to Be Monarchs
http://tinyurl.com/4vmy
By HOLLAND COTTER
"The Medici, Michelangelo and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence,"
at the Art Institute of Chicago, is a show packed like a bank vault
with precious objects.
Ashcroft Soaks Up a World of Complaints
http://tinyurl.com/4vmz
By ALAN COWELL
The Attorney General faced a barrage of questions as he tried to
explain to the world's rich the Bush administration's tactics in its
campaign against terror.
The cost of conflict
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,882012,00.html
10th fall as war fears grow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,881899,00.html
Geopolitical uncertainty causes
'Why Economies Grow': Rethinking the 1990's Boom
http://tinyurl.com/4vn8
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[...]
The political influence of diasporas
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1511765
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=diasporas&btnG=Search+News
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Corporate Leaders Say Recovery Requires Middle East Resolution
http://tinyurl.com/51d6
By MATT RICHTEL
Business leaders from took heart in the president's sober assessment
of financial times but said his speech lacked a silver bullet to spur
investment.
http://tinyurl.com/51dj
President Seeks Cuts in Taxes and Spending
http://tinyurl.com/51d8
By ROBIN TONER and ROBERT PEAR
The president said he would not burden future generations with budget
deficits, a lagging economy and a crisis in health care.
http://tinyurl.com/51dv
Loathing War's Horror, Yet Preparing for Attack
http://tinyurl.com/51db
By CHARLIE LeDUFF
When it comes to war, the veterans watching the State of the Union
address at an Arizona bar had a single opinion. War is no good.
http://tinyurl.com/51dx
http://tinyurl.com/51e0
Bush's Judicial Nominees Alarm Conservationists
http://ens-news.com/ens/jan2003/2003-01-28-10.asp
Environment News
WASHINGTON, DC, January 28, 2003 (ENS) - Several of the Bush
administration's nominees to the federal appellate court have records
that reflect controversial views of the federal government's authority
to enforce ...
http://tinyurl.com/51dd
GOP Courting Blacks for Hill Jobs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57083-2003Jan28.html
Washington Post
With almost two dozen résumés from black Republicans in hand, House
Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) said his party's members will focus
on hiring more minorities for their staffs.
http://tinyurl.com/51df
Opposition Democrats Not Convinced on Bush Iraq Stand
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=40026B34-3349-4233-BCF24CAA465A943F
Voice of America
Congressional Democrats opposed to using force to disarm Iraq say
President Bush's State of the Union address did not convince them that
Iraq poses an imminent threat.
http://tinyurl.com/51dg
Faith-based funding abuses the Constitution
http://www.freep.com/voices/editorials/efaith29_20030129.htm
Detroit Free Press
President George W. Bush used Tuesday's big speech to add to his push
for "faith-based initiatives" that comingle the missions of religion
and government, crossing a line that was carefully drawn by our
nation's founders.
http://tinyurl.com/51dh
Council aims left and gets it right
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/106284_robert29.shtml
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Those politically correct, left-leaning lemmings behind some of the
most goofy laws ever to ooze from a body politic.
http://tinyurl.com/51di
Treasury secretary nominee defends Bush tax plan at Senate hearing
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/5051450.htm
Kansas City Star
Senators turned a Tuesday confirmation hearing for Treasury secretary
nominee John Snow into a grilling about President Bush's $674 billion
tax cut plan.
http://tinyurl.com/51dl
Fed Expected to Keep Rates Low During Economic Soft Spot
http://www.quicken.com/investments/news_center/story/?story=NewsStory/dowJones/20030129/ON200301290144000349.var&column=P0DFP
Quicken
War worries, anxious consumers and a jittery job market are reasons
enough for the Federal Reserve to keep short-term interest rates at
decades-low levels in the months ahead, economists say.
http://tinyurl.com/51dp
Dow Jones up 99 points at close
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?artid=35833385
Economic Times
NEW YORK: US stocks rose on Tuesday on reassuring corporate outlooks
and better-than-expected consumer confidence data, but investors
stayed cautious ahead of President Bush's much-awaited State of the
Union address.
http://tinyurl.com/51ds
Europeans Warn of Terror Attacks in Event of War in Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/51e6
New York Times
PARIS, Jan. 29 European investigators have evidence that over the past
six months, Islamic militants have been recruiting hundreds of fellow
Muslims to carry out attacks in the event of a war against Iraq,
according to French and ...
http://tinyurl.com/51e7
maff
[...]
Come fry with me
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1559830
Experimental electromagnetic weaponry may soon see combat use
Jan 30th 2003
A new type of nuclear reactor
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1559861
A clever new design could lead to a kinder, gentler form of nuclear
power
Jan 30th 2003
Corruption
http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1560285
Jan 30th 2003
Transparency International
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/International_Organizations/Transparency_International/
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Transparency+International&btnG=Google+Search
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Transparency+International&sa=N&tab=wn
Who will build our biodefences?
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1560369
Pharmaceutical firms would like to create the drugs needed in the war
against terrorism. But governments have yet to make it worth their
while.
Working on the sceptics
Jan 29th 2003
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1559203
In his state-of-the-union address before Congress, George Bush sought
to convince Americans—and the rest of the world—that he can get a grip
on the faltering economy and that his hard line on Iraq is justified.
Did he succeed?
America's economy
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1559477
A marked slowdown
Jan 30th 2003
Business and the war
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1559501
The costs begin to mount
Jan 30th 2003
Health care in poor countries
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1559079
More drugs, please
Jan 29th 2003
Stockmarkets
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1561621
Shellshocked
Jan 30th 2003
The shape of war
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1560110
An American attack on Iraq would be a new kind of war, with new risks
and perils
Jan 30th 2003
The Powell doctrine
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1560222
Has America's secretary of state changed from dove to hawk?
Jan 30th 2003
Lula's message for two worlds
http://www.economist.com/world/la/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1560049
Can Brazil's president continue to appeal to Porto Alegre as well as
Davos?
Jan 30th 2003
maff
Enron Collapse
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=Business&cat=Enron
Halliburton
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=Business&cat=Halliburton
Harken Energy
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=Business&cat=Harken_Energy
Federal Reserve
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=Business&cat=Federal_Reserve
Stock Markets
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=Business&cat=Stock_Markets
U.S. Economy
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=Business&cat=US_Economy
Bush Administration
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Bush_Administration
maff
States' Budget Gaps Widen Nearly 50% in Two Months
http://tinyurl.com/5dee
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
Estimates of state budget deficits for the current fiscal year have
grown by nearly 50 percent in two months, creating the worst fiscal
outlook for states since World War II.
Stocks Retreat as Investors Await U.N. Speech by Powell
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/05/business/05STOX.html
Hydrogen Cars Remain Decades in the Future Under New Budget
http://tinyurl.com/5deh
By DANNY HAKIM
The Bush administration plan to spur development of hydrogen cars does
not envision mass production until 2020.
Smallpox Researchers Seek Help From Millions of Computer Users
http://tinyurl.com/5dej
By STEVE LOHR
A group of research universities and corporations are announcing a
networked computer project intended to accelerate the search for a
cure for smallpox.
Gypsies' Suit Against I.B.M. Is Given Green Light by Swiss Court
http://tinyurl.com/5dek
By PETER S. GREEN
A Swiss court has cleared the way for hearings in a $12 billion
lawsuit arguing that the computer giant helped the Nazis automate the
Holocaust.
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> > > > The Road to Riches
> > > > http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages?msg=90
> > >
> > > There is no invisible hand
> > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,863426,00.html
> > > Joseph Stiglitz: People don't behave rationally. So why do orthodox
> > > economists still cling to their discredited rational expectations
> > > theory?
> >
> > All Science Full Coverage
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Cyber city in Mauritius
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2710319.stm
Mauritius is building itself a cyber city to diversify its economy and
keep pace with technology.
Cambridge spies a tech revival
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2709101.stm
Psyching up the green consumer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2726847.stm
Psychologists are helping the United Nations to pioneer ways to
persuade us to adopt greener lifestyles.
Working out what genes do
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2723609.stm
Scientists launch a major international initiative to systematically
uncover the function of each of our genes.
Australian PM censured over Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2727551.stm
Australia's Senate passes an historic no-confidence motion against the
prime minister over his handling of the crisis in Iraq.
Meditation 'good for brain'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2725487.stm
Scientists say they have found evidence that meditation has a
biological effect on the brain and immune system.
Spy on China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2724333.stm
CIA launches Year of Goat recruitment drive
maff
U.S. Budget
http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=us&cat=u_s__budget
maff
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> and thread
God on Our Side?
http://slate.msn.com/default.aspx?id=2078011
What does Bush's religious talk mean?
maff
maff
The best thing since the bar-code
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1563928
Smart labels may be about to change the way that companies distribute
and sell almost everything they make.
maff
E-Commerce as a Way of Life
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/1583721
InternetNews.com
Internet usage as a part of people's everyday lives is increasingly
pervasive around the world, says a new study, and e-commerce is more
than ever a part of life online.
http://tinyurl.com/5vt6
US urged to merge Net, telephone numbers
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-984578.html
CNET News.com
The Department of Commerce on Thursday threw its weight behind an
emerging standard that could simplify personal communications by
providing a single point of contact for telephone and Internet
communications.
http://tinyurl.com/5vt7
Anti-Klan deacons' tale opens Whitaker's eyes
http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-ftr-forest15.html
Chicago Sun Times - 4 hours ago
He's an actor-writer-director-producer, but Forest Whitaker prefers
the simple title ''storyteller.'' Despite his knowledge of civil
rights history, the story told in ''Deacons for Defense" was a
surprise ...
http://tinyurl.com/5vte
Enron's `incestuous' deals allowed it to avoid taxes: report
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2003/02/15/194687
Taipei Times
Failed energy giant Enron avoided taxes by means of a series of
"incestuous" offshore deals with top Wall Street banks and law firms,
according to a congressional report released Thursday.
http://tinyurl.com/5vtj
Schroeder Calls for Peaceful Disarmament of Iraq
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=2234643
Reuters
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder insisted on Saturday that Iraq
could be disarmed without a war and that UN weapons inspectors should
be given all the time and support they need.
http://tinyurl.com/5vtp
US joins anti-war protests
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2764739.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5vtr
http://tinyurl.com/5vty
maff
World Economic Forum: Finland is leading IT country
http://www.helsinki-hs.net/news.asp?id=20030220IE2
Helsingin Sanomat
According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), Finland has surpassed the
United States and become the world's leading information technology
country. Singapore placed third and Sweden fourth in the comparison of
82 nations.
http://tinyurl.com/658u
maff
What Goes With the Flow
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2079057
Will foreigners stop investing in America?
When will we buy oil in euros?
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,900867,00.html
When it comes to the global oil trade, the dollar reigns supreme. But
it has a challenger, writes Faisal Islam.
In euroland, don't mention the war
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,900858,00.html
William Keegan, in my view: Perhaps the Prime Minister wishes the
pound to be replaced by the dollar.
maff
[...]
Corporations Who Support Bush
http://tinyurl.com/6f66
Bush Viewed Negatively Overseas
http://tinyurl.com/6f6e
and thread
What "New Europe"?
http://tinyurl.com/6f6g
and thread
maff
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
http://tinyurl.com/6hkt
Old Arab Friends Turn Away From U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2452-2003Feb25.html
Businessmen, intellectuals and liberal activists wooed by the United
States and persuaded by its principles are now among the most
vociferous critics of its world view.
--
"My country, right or wrong; to be defended when right and righted
when wrong."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good
is my religion." - Thomas Paine
maff
Chinese Exclusion (1898)
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/chinese_exclusion.html
Chung-kuo (Zhong-guo) & Mei-kuo (Mei-guo)
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages?msg=1048
Nisei
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages?msg=1082
Civil War marker sparks new conflict
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages?msg=1028
Imperial adventurers
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages?msg=819
The egalitarian instinct
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages?msg=988
Rhetoric of Freedom
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages?msg=391
Gunnar Myrdal
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages/?msg=884
Robert G. Ingersoll
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages/?msg=1046
Frederick Douglass
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages/?msg=1047
African Americans
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=African_Americans
Arab and Muslim Americans
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Arab_and_Muslim_Americans
Asian Americans
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Asian_Americans
Hate Crimes
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Hate_Crimes
Immigration
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Immigration
Latino and Hispanic Americans
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Latino_and_Hispanic_Americans
Native American News
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Native_American_News
Puerto Rico News
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Puerto_Rico
Racial Profiling
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Racial_Profiling
Civil Liberties
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Civil_Liberties
Human Rights
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=World&cat=Human_Rights
maff
Waiting for the barbarians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,564084,00.html
A once-great empire, Rome fell into catastrophic cultural and economic
decline. Morris Berman on chilling parallels with modern America
http://forums.about.com/atheistrefuge/messages?msg=1693
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages/?msg=726
Has the US lost its way?
http://tinyurl.com/6hyd
and thread
One more thought on the US as the Roman empire...
http://tinyurl.com/6hyf
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/5kbs
and thread
One more thought on the US as the Roman empire...
http://tinyurl.com/6hyr
and thread
Imperial adventurers
http://tinyurl.com/6hyt
and thread
Something Scalia said
http://tinyurl.com/6hz0
and thread
The Road to Riches
http://tinyurl.com/6hz6
and thread
Enemies of Science & Knowledge
http://tinyurl.com/5ddb
and thread
Universal Men and Women
http://tinyurl.com/6hzf
and thread
Islamic Scientists
http://tinyurl.com/6hyo
and thread
War on the third world
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages/?msg=897
George Monbiot
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
Paul Krugman Column
http://tinyurl.com/5nl0
and thread
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Back to Blix
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1622322
Mar 6th 2003
On Friday, Hans Blix will present his latest report on Iraq's efforts
to disarm. Its contents will help determine whether the bitterly
divided UN Security Council is heading for compromise or a showdown
After the war is over
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1621649
Iraq will need coaxing towards democracy. It will be a long haul
The coming dash for safety
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1620357
Mar 4th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
America says that war with Iraq could create up to 2m refugees. Where
will they go, and who will feed them?
Carefully does it
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1622401
Mar 6th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The European Central Bank has cut interest rates by a quarter of a
percentage point. Is this enough to help Europe's sluggish economies?
Nor any drop to drink
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1621254
Mar 5th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
A United Nations report says the world's fresh water is being used up
fast. But much can be done to ensure that nobody goes thirsty in
future
Now for the hard part
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1620391
Mar 4th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The Polish and Czech governments are in disarray, following domestic
political upsets. Their difficulties come at an unfortunate time, as
both countries prepare for accession to the European Union
Disrupting al-Qaeda
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1619608
Mar 5th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged chief executive of
the al-Qaeda terrorist network, has been hailed by President George
Bush as "fantastic". But will it seriously disrupt al-Qaeda's ability
to carry out attacks?
Heading in the wrong direction
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1622138
Mar 6th 2003
From The Economist print edition
The Bush administration is making a dangerous hash of its terrorism
laws
Letters
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1621669
On war with Iraq, Japan, Europe and America, Moldova, social capital,
management, accounting
Mar 6th 2003
Bush, the divider
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1622168
George Bush's policy has become one of divide and conquer. It is
working-for the moment
Mar 6th 2003
The balloon goes up
http://www.economist.com/world/la/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1622585
Mar 6th 2003 | BOGOTA, LA PAZ AND LIMA
From The Economist print edition
The "success" of Plan Colombia in cutting coca production has started
to undermine governments farther south
Mystery island
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1623170
Mar 6th 2003
From The Economist print edition
The news from missing Nauru is not good
A pivotal nation goes into a spin
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1622565
Mar 6th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Whatever path Turkey's government chooses, it is bound to face howls
of protest
Fading
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1622217
Mar 6th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Things look pretty bad in the newspaper business. They are worse than
that
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http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1622385
Mar 6th 2003
From The Economist print edition
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Turkey's Berlusconi?
http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1621762
The tale of Cem Uzan shows the value of doing your homework
Mar 6th 2003
The wilder shores of liberty
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1621699
Mar 6th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Is too much democracy bad for you?
Multinational corporations
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1606218
A look at globalisation, past and present
Feb 27th 2003
Killjoy woz here
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1621815
Mar 6th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Health nannying goes intercontinental
Clipping the enemy's wings
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1621799
Mar 6th 2003
From The Economist print edition
American military technology has moved on a lot since the Gulf war
Betting the house
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1622539
Mar 6th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Housing markets in several countries are looking decidedly bubbly
A convenient war, perhaps
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1622805
Mar 6th 2003 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
Oil majors are less keen on a war in Iraq than might be expected
Median age of the world's population
http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1622427
Mar 6th 2003
The world's 12 richest people
http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1622376
Mar 6th 2003
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[...]
China's factories enjoy rapid growth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2839209.stm
China has announced record growth in industrial production, up 17.5%
in January and February this year compared to the same two months of
2002.
Indian tech boom 'under threat'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2839047.stm
Rising wages and an appreciating currency could stem India's rise as a
global software power, a chief at tech giant Wipro has warned.
To Feed Hungry Africans, Firms Plant Seeds of Science
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7970-2003Mar10.html
NEW YORK -- Four of the world's largest agricultural companies have
agreed to share their technology free with African scientists in a
broad new attempt to increase food production on that continent, where
mass starvation is a recurring threat.
It Will Be a Smaller World After All
http://tinyurl.com/73ag
By BEN J. WATTENBERG
Remember the number 1.85. It is the lodestar of a new demography that
will lead us to a different world.
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Scrambling for a compromise
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1634304
Mar 13th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Diplomats are scrambling to find some sort of compromise over a
crucial second UN resolution on Iraq. But the divisions are so great
that the resolution could be abandoned
Reluctant vote-wielders
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1630141
Mar 13th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Given the trouble it might cause them, many of the UN Security
Council's non-permanent members wish they did not have to decide on a
war in Iraq
Emergency in the Balkans
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1631925
Mar 13th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Serbia is thrown into turmoil by the assassination of its prime
minister
Getting jumpy
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1628574
Mar 12th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
With war in Iraq looking increasingly likely, the dollar continues to
fall and oil prices rise. Market nerves will not be easily soothed
The just-in-case economy
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1631654
Mar 12th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The American government reckons a war with Iraq might cost at least
$60 billion. That could be dwarfed by the bill which manufacturers and
freight companies eventually have to pick up if a prolonged war
disrupts supply chains and blocks vital sea routes
Bringing tyrants to book
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1630100
Mar 11th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
America is not only at odds with Europe over Iraq—the newly launched
International Criminal Court is another bone of contention. The fight
over the scope of its jurisdiction has obscured its largely admirable
ambitions
Bearing down
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1632560
Mar 13th 2003
From The Economist print edition
The case for pre-emptive policy action
Letters
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1631001
On George Bush and the Middle East, Bolivia, India, Tyco, investment
banks, English
Mar 13th 2003
Lindbergh lives
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1632966
Mar 13th 2003 | RICHMOND, VIRGINIA AND WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
Whispers blaming the war on a Jewish cabal have got a little louder
The awkward couple
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1632848
Mar 13th 2003 | TORONTO
From The Economist print edition
There is no love lost between Jean Chrétien and George Bush. Their
countries' relations are more complicated
Expecting trouble?
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1633357
Mar 13th 2003
From The Economist print edition
There could be more fireworks to come from the obstinate North
Against America? Moi?
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1633583
Mar 13th 2003 | PARIS
From The Economist print edition
Not all President Jacques Chirac's friends share his confidence
Life after Tony
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1632780
Mar 13th 2003
From The Economist print edition
What would politics look like with Gordon Brown as prime minister?
Jihad in cyberspace
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1633553
Mar 13th 2003 | BEIRUT
From The Economist print edition
This time, Arabs are not the bad guys
Feeling America's fly-whisk
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1633612
Mar 13th 2003 | JOHANNESBURG, LAGOS AND NAIROBI
From The Economist print edition
How the march to war affects Africa
The unrepentant oilman
http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1632343
Mar 13th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Unlike many of his rivals, Exxon's Lee Raymond thinks oil is
unambiguously good
Robert King Merton, inventor of the focus group
http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1632004
His great achievement was to help to establish sociology as a major
scientific discipline
One and only
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1632177
Mar 13th 2003
From The Economist print edition
SINCE no subject today seems to be wanting for a cultural history, no
subject is unimaginable. Not even masturbation, even though it is as
close to a sexual taboo as you can get in the 21st century.
Pro bono publico
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1632073
Mar 13th 2003
From The Economist print edition
The evolution of punishment explained
Not out of the woods
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1632056
Mar 13th 2003 | IWOKRAMA, GUYANA
From The Economist print edition
Aid agencies are losing interest in sustainable forest management
Now for plan B
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1633500
Mar 13th 2003 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
The battle to fend off sensible accounting
The dangers of war
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1633052
Mar 13th 2003 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
The waiting has taken a toll on business activity. But is worse to
come?
Currencies against the dollar
http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1633006
Mar 13th 2003
Stockmarket turnover
http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1632712
Mar 13th 2003
Launching Telecoms II
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1620772
Mar 13th 2003
From The Economist print edition
New wireless technologies that render bandwidth irrelevant could
kick-start a revolution in communications bigger than the internet
Act your age, not your coalition size
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,913373,00.html
March 13: Simon Tisdall is getting very cross with the naughty boys at
the UN security council playgroup.
The populist in a bullet-proof minivan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,913395,00.html
March 13: Thailand's prime minister is sacrificing human rights to
fuel his power base, writes John Aglionby.
Red alert
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,913618,00.html
March 13: Italy hopes that its born-again Red Brigades can be
disbanded for good, writes Sophie Arie.
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'Chirac has the moral high ground'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,913869,00.html
Marc Roche: Tabloid politics: that's what comes to my mind when I hear
the extraordinary anti-French tirade that has come from the British
government in the past 24 hours.
Elation and fear in make-or-break UN crisis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,914009,00.html
Martin Woollacott: The diplomatic drama that threatens the global
organisation's future.
The UN has at last become the forum of global opinion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,913910,00.html
Martin Woollacott: The Iraq crisis has strengthened the organisation.
The quisling of Belgrade
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,913918,00.html
Neil Clark: The murdered Serbian prime minister was a reviled western
stooge whose economic reforms brought misery
'I feel despair'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,913792,00.html
Turkey's MPs surprised the world by voting 'no' to US troops being
based in the country. Now it seems their new prime minister will
overturn this - with the army's help. Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk
fears that once again his country will become a military dictatorship.
The joke's on Saddam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,913793,00.html
In northern Iraq, they're laughing at Saddam Hussein. Luke Harding
meets two comedians who have dared to cock a snook at the ruthless
dictator - and annoyed him so much that he ordered their assassination
Guns and roses
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,913795,00.html
The latest polls show women are far more anti-war than men. But that
hasn't always been the case, says Juliet Gardiner.
Law unto themselves
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
A large majority of international lawyers reject the government's
claim that UN resolution 1441 gives legal authority for an attack on
Iraq
Sound of silence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,913278,00.html
Why are so few US pop stars speaking out against the war? Alexis
Petridis on the death of a fine tradition.
Shares rally with second biggest rise
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,913933,00.html
The City yesterday shrugged off fears of war and a possible political
crisis to record its second biggest rally ever, a day after one of the
worst stock market routs in history.
Buyers pile in - but bet is rally won't last
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,913768,00.html
Share prices in London rebounded to the second biggest gain in the
City's history yesterday, as traders snapped up stocks discounted to
rock-bottom levels in the market's three-year slide.
Straw fury at French tactics
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,914028,00.html
Veto threat 'making war more likely'
Preparing for war on four fronts
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,914032,00.html
While some diplomats are still working to prevent conflict, the
countdown to invasion is almost complete
Paris: emollient words but no retreat on war
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,913963,00.html
France says it prefers UN route as criticism reaches new intensity
Ministers declare open season on French
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,913112,00.html
Cross-channel relations at new low while US turns on Russia
Cook ready to quit cabinet
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,914086,00.html
Commons leader may quit if Britain goes to war without the UN.
Cook grills PM on war but Short holds her peace
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,913872,00.html
Robin Cook, the leader of the Commons, yesterday gave colleagues the
impression that he is now the leading candidate to quit the cabinet if
Britain goes to war against Iraq without a new UN resolution.
'Blair is approaching his calvary'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,913979,00.html
The PM faces parliament as diplomatic prospects dwindle.
Bush extends time for UN vote
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,913935,00.html
The US said yesterday it was prepared to wait until next week for a UN
vote on a final ultimatum to Iraq, but might opt not to ask for a vote
at all, if a security council majority continues to elude Washington.
Turkish PM summons parliament as pressure grows to let US use bases
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,913890,00.html
Turkey's parliament has been summoned to an extraordinary weekend
session, raising American hopes that it will finally authorise US
troop deployments and speed the build up of a northern front against
Saddam Hussein.
Iraq hiding its tanks, claims deserter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,913867,00.html
A defector from Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard claimed
yesterday that the Iraqi army was confident it could withstand massive
bombing by America because it had hidden vast amounts of military
equipment in civilian areas.
Gang bosses elude hunt for killers of Serbian PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,913830,00.html
As the Serbian authorities were announcing yesterday that they had
rounded up some 200 people in connection with the assassination of the
prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, there was little sign of life at the
green-roofed mansion on Silerova Street.
Execution stayed in final 10 minutes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,913827,00.html
Delma Banks had already eaten his last meal, a cheeseburger, and was
about to be strapped down in preparation for his execution in
Huntsville, Texas, when his reprieve came through. Ten minutes before
he was due to be given a lethal injection, he was told that the
supreme court had granted a stay.
Pressure on Berlusconi over TV job
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,913970,00.html
Italy's state broadcaster, RAI, was plunged into a fresh crisis
yesterday when a former newspaper editor gave up the presidency after
five days because of pressure from members of the centre-right
coalition of the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.
China chooses champion of poor as new premier
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,913826,00.html
A new generation of Chinese leaders headed by the incoming premier,
Wen Jiabao, has been approved in Beijing, amid hopes that more efforts
will be made to tackle the gap between rich and poor and other urgent
social problems.
The prince, the people and the pig's tail
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,913831,00.html
The country is divided, the ruler is threatening to leave, and his
critics have been treated to mangled animal remains on their
doorsteps. Is there something rotten in the state of Liechtenstein?
Pro-lifers lose cloning battle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,913835,00.html
Five law lords rejected the final appeal yesterday by the Pro-Life
Alliance against the law that allows experiments with cloned human
embryos.
US preparing to launch war within a week
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=386920
The United States has sent a powerful signal that it will soon abandon
efforts to win a second UN resolution
Cook hints at resignation over conflict
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=386919
Tony Blair's problems over Iraq deepened yesterday when Robin Cook,
the Leader of the Commons, suggested he would resign from the Cabinet
if Britain went to war without a clear United Nations mandate.
Robert Fisk: The forgotten power of the General Assembly
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=386906
For 30 years, America's veto policy in the United Nations has been
central to its foreign policy. More than 70 times the United States
has shamelessly used its veto in the UN, most recently to crush a
Security Council resolution condemning the Israeli killing of the
British UN worker Iain Hook in Jenin last December.
This last chance for the United Nations to come together must not be
lost
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=386878
From London, Washington and even Paris we are finally seeing the first
halting intimations of flexibility that denote the last resort of
diplomacy. This shift in mood makes a welcome change from the
grandstanding and name-calling of the past week, and it is a necessary
prelude to any settlement. The pity is that it is not yet
irreversible. The task of our political leaders must be to make it so
with the minimum of delay.
The new asylum-seekers
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=386861
For centuries, the Irish have been leaving their homeland and coming
to England in search of a better life. But now this outward flow of
humanity has been reversed, as Brian Viner discovers among the fields,
and the streets, of Athenry
He has so few followers, yet Blair has never been a more believable
leader
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/deborah_orr/story.jsp?story=386879
His path, in his mind, is truly the path of righteousness. What a
paradox it will be if this is the path he gets lost on
George W. Queeg
http://tinyurl.com/7gfp
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Many people don't just question the competence of President Bush and
his inner circle; they believe that America's leadership has lost
touch with reality.
Torture, Beyond Saddam
http://tinyurl.com/7gft
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
The world has turned its back on the Kurds many times before, and
there are signs that we're planning to betray them again.
Serbia Loses More Than a Leader
http://tinyurl.com/7gfx
By LAURA SILBER
A regime, in particular one that has developed in isolation like Iraq,
Serbia and North Korea, does not die with one man.
A Tyrant 40 Years in the Making
http://tinyurl.com/7gg0
By ROGER MORRIS
If a new war in Iraq seems fraught with danger and uncertainty, just
wait for the peace.
Primary Mischief
http://tinyurl.com/7gg3
The latest party rules have state organizations elbowing one another
for the earliest positions on the election calendar.
Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
http://tinyurl.com/7gg4
Iran claims that it has no nuclear weapons ambitions but there are
good reasons to think otherwise.
Cracking Down on Rogue Employers
http://tinyurl.com/7gg6
The Bush administration's belated policy to enforce workplace safety
rules against flagrant violators falls short of what is truly needed.
Death and Other Vital Topics as Marines Prepare
http://tinyurl.com/7gg7
By MICHAEL WILSON
While the world awaits another U.N. deadline for Iraq to disarm, the
marines of Task Force Tarawa endure a grueling wait.
U.S. May Abandon U.N. Vote on Iraq, Powell Testifies
http://tinyurl.com/7gg9
By DAVID E. SANGER with WARREN HOGE
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's comment appeared to be evidence
that the White House may proceed to war without a second U.N.
resolution.
Internal Rift Dooms Arab League
http://tinyurl.com/7gga
By SUSAN SACHS
Arab efforts to press Saddam Hussein to disarm collapsed under the
weight of internal bickering and a brush-off from the Iraqi
government.
If War Hits, Kurds See Way to Grab Old Lands
http://tinyurl.com/7ggb
By DAVID ROHDE
War with Iraq could cause three decades of forced demographic change
to unravel quickly, according to Kurdish and Arab villagers.
Markets Rally as a U.N. Vote Is Delayed
http://tinyurl.com/7ggd
By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER
Investors, reacting to a possible delay in war, pushed the Nasdaq up
4.8 percent and the Dow and S.&P. 500 more than 3 percent.
China Works to Put Astronauts in Orbit
http://tinyurl.com/7ggj
By JOSEPH KAHN
China intends to challenge the U.S. in space, where it has faced
little competition since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
A Top Intelligence Post Goes to C.I.A. Officer in Spy Case
http://tinyurl.com/7ggr
By JAMES RISEN
The C.I.A. officer who led the team that caught the Soviet mole
Aldrich H. Ames is coming out of retirement to take charge of
intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security.
Security Chief Says Nation Must Expect Suicide Attacks
http://tinyurl.com/7ggw
By PHILIP SHENON
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge warned that suicide bombings
like those in Israel are inevitable in the United States.
Face From Past Tapped for U.S. Image Job
http://tinyurl.com/7ggy
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
The Bush administration has approached Margaret Tutwiler, a
sharp-tongued spokeswoman and strategist, to fill its top public
diplomacy position.
Intellectual Left's Doves Take on Role of Hawks
By KATE ZERNIKE
As the nation stands on the brink of war, some reluctant hawks, in
academia and elsewhere, are declining to march against war.
Intellectual Left's Doves Take on Role of Hawks
http://tinyurl.com/7gh5
By KATE ZERNIKE
As the nation stands on the brink of war, some reluctant hawks, in
academia and elsewhere, are declining to march against war.
A $70 Million Plan to Ease the Path to College
http://tinyurl.com/7gh9
By GREG WINTER
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation will spend $70 million over two
decades to put poor Kansas City area students through college.
Lopsided Vote in Senate to Ban Type of Abortion
http://tinyurl.com/7ghd
By CARL HULSE
Opponents of abortion won a major victory when senators voted to
outlaw a procedure that has been at the center of the abortion debate.
F.D.A. Requires Bar Codes on Drugs
http://tinyurl.com/7ghf
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Bar codes will soon be required on every medication given to patients
to make sure they get the correct dose of the right drug.
Reeve Smelling the Coffee Again, and More
http://tinyurl.com/7ghh
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The actor Christopher Reeve can breathe on his own for 15-minute
stretches after experimental surgery to implant electrodes that
stimulate the muscles in his diaphragm.
Leaping Past Triumphs and Debacles
http://tinyurl.com/7ghi
By JODI WILGOREN
Carol Moseley Braun, the first African-American woman elected to the
United States Senate, is now making a long-shot bid for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
Judicial Nominee Gets Second Chance
http://tinyurl.com/7ghl
By NEIL A. LEWIS
The Texas Supreme Court justice who was rejected by the Judiciary
Committee last year when it was controlled by Democrats got a rare
second chance on Thursday.
Both Sides Confident as Senate Nears Vote on Alaska Drilling
http://tinyurl.com/7ghm
By DAVID FIRESTONE
As the Senate neared a close vote on whether to allow oil drilling in
the Alaska wilderness, each side in the debate expressed confidence
that it would prevail.
House Acts to Limit Malpractice Awards
http://tinyurl.com/7ghn
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
The House voted 229 to 196 to set a $250,000 limit on jury awards for
pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases.
G.O.P. Senators Oppose Size of Bush Tax Cut
http://tinyurl.com/7gho
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
Two Republican senators said they would support no tax cut larger than
$350 billion, dealing a setback to President Bush's proposed cuts.
S.E.C. Chief Says Agency Fixes Will Take Time
http://tinyurl.com/7ghr
By STEPHEN LABATON
William H. Donaldson, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, said the agency's long-simmering problems would take time
to solve.
WorldCom to Write Down $79.8 Billion of Good Will
http://tinyurl.com/7ghu
By SIMON ROMERO
WorldCom said that it was writing down $79.8 billion of its good will
and other assets in a move acknowledging that many areas of its vast
telecommunications network are worthless.
At Play With DNA
http://tinyurl.com/7gi0
By SARAH BOXER
The 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix is now being
celebrated visually, with six different exhibitions in Manhattan.
Vaccines and Infant Death Are Not Linked, Study Says
http://tinyurl.com/7gi5
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Childhood vaccines do not cause sudden infant death syndrome, a study
has concluded.
From War, an Odd Bond
http://tinyurl.com/7gi9
By GLENN COLLINS
A museum exhibit on Vietnam brought together two ordinary people who
were powerfully affected by the war.
A Poet on Broadway, Speaking in Many Tongues
http://tinyurl.com/7gia
By LYNDA RICHARDSON
A Brooklyn poet, by way of Palestine, identifies strongly with
African-Americans and "outsider" literature.
The Subtle Culture of Vietnam
http://tinyurl.com/7gid
By HOLLAND COTTER
The exhibition is a lavishly illustrated anthropological field trip
through Vietnam, with glimpses of the Vietnam of yesterday and
tomorrow.
Political Plays, Alive and Fiery
http://tinyurl.com/7gie
By BRUCE WEBER
The theater of protest is suddenly alive and well, thanks to English
playwright David Edgar and his American counterparts.
On New Liberal Show, the Wit Can Wound
http://tinyurl.com/7gih
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
HBO's new comedy is a flagrantly liberal talk show that provides
like-minded viewers with instant gratification.
Sounds of Traditional China Amid a Multicultural Present
http://tinyurl.com/7gik
By ALLAN KOZINN
Tan Dun's new concerto for the Boston Symphony Orchestra is a journey
into Mr. Tan's cultural past, framed in terms of his multicultural
present.
Looking for Life Up North
http://tinyurl.com/7gin
By HOLLAND COTTER
The African-American story before World War II is more about movement
than it is about roots. For much of the early 20th century, waves of
black migrants traveled from a no-hope rural South to a some-hope
urban North. They weren't necessarily in the market for fortune and
fame. They wanted the basics: a job, a roof, three squares a day and a
humane way of life, what most people want.
Cactuses, Camellias, Even a Crab: Nature in Its Glory
http://tinyurl.com/7giq
By JOHN RUSSELL
The Morgan Library, which in May will close for two years while an
expansion designed by Renzo Piano is completed, is going out in style
with "Picturing Natural History." With 91 images of flora and fauna in
drawings, manuscripts and printed books, the exhibition moves from the
10th through the 19th centuries and around the globe.
'American Dream'; `The Lemma Leads'; Jean Prouvé
http://tinyurl.com/7gix
'American Dream'
Ronald Feldman
31 Mercer Street and 419 Broome Street, SoHo
Through April 5
Some years ago, at the height of the so-called culture wars, the art
critic Robert Hughes wrote a book called "Culture of Complaint," which
castigated a lot of people for petty griping and ingratitude. It's an
understandable perspective, but it doesn't take into account just how
creative and fun complaining can be. Witness "American Dream," an
exhibition of works in all media by more than 50 artists that fills
Ronald Feldman's regular Mercer Street space as well as two
temporarily occupied spacious floors at 419 Broome Street.
U.S.- Backed Resolution On Iraq Appears Doomed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23002-2003Mar13.html
Bush agrees to a request by Britain to extend negotiations through
Monday.
Senate Passes Abortion Bill
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22997-2003Mar13.html
Legislation bars doctors from "overt act" to kill a partially
delivered fetus.
Mass Evacuations Impractical
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23200-2003Mar13.html
Regional officials plan to build public confidence in emergency
instructions.
Hussein Controls Prime Time
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23137-2003Mar13.html
The cool, confident Iraqi president appears nightly in televised
meetings.
Anti-U.S. Sentiment Abates in South Korea
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22944-2003Mar13.html
Opposition to U.S. troops has quieted because of new threats from
North Korea and a suggestion from U.S. that its troops may be cut.
Watching Guantanamo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23249-2003Mar13.html
Page A26
ATHREE-JUDGE PANEL of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit held this week that no American court has jurisdiction over
the government's detention of non-Americans captured and held abroad
during a war. The court is right. But the story for detainees at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere can't end there. While they have
no viable legal claim, some may well have compelling moral claims on
American values. The Bush administration needs to develop a reasonable
process on the detainees' behalf and explain that process publicly.
Undocumented and on the Road
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23250-2003Mar13.html
Page A26
THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE once crossed over into many concerns: jobs,
schools, relations with Mexico. Now it has mostly been boiled down to
one: the war on terrorism, particularly now that the Immigration and
Naturalization Service has been folded into the Department of Homeland
Security. The narrowed focus tends to distort reality, as seen most
recently in local debates about driver's licenses for immigrants
illegally in the country.
Medicine for Medicare
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23255-2003Mar13.html
Page A26
DO NOT BE MISLED by the loud noises coming from congressional
Democrats and health care activists. The Medicare modernization plan
the president has finally presented to Congress, after much hemming
and hawing, is not radical. It does not force anyone to leave the
current system. It does not make anyone switch doctors. It adds $400
billion over the next 10 years to pay for extra drug benefits, a
number far higher than some have mentioned. Unlike leaked versions of
the administration's proposal, this one does not even provide full
details of what the reform would look like, instead leaving Congress
to fill in many of the blanks. As a result, it's difficult to say
whether the proposal would produce much change.
Meanwhile, Back in the Job Market
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23261-2003Mar13.html
By E. J. Dionne Jr., Page A27
Talking about the economy on the eve of war seems almost in bad
taste. In the face of a momentous decision, we are not supposed to be
preoccupied with jobs and incomes, profits and losses.
Before War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23263-2003Mar13.html
By Joseph S. Nye, Page A27
Iraq is the first test of the new Bush doctrine of preventive war.
Because it represents a dramatic departure in American history, it is
crucial that we set the right precedent.
In the Gulf, Quiet Anticipation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23262-2003Mar13.html
By David Ignatius, Page A27
KUWAIT CITY -- Ali Khalifa Sabah, this country's former minister of
oil and finance, arrives for a meeting Wednesday night in the midst of
a blinding sandstorm. "God must be Iraqi, or French," he jokes.
Can We Find the Weapons?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23227-2003Mar13.html
By Jonathan B. Tucker, Page A27
United Nations inspectors have yet to uncover the caches of anthrax
spores and VX nerve gas that the Bush administration claims Iraq still
possesses, but it is likely these weapons exist. Although an immediate
concern is the possible Iraqi use of chemical and biological agents in
response to a U.S.-led invasion, equally worrisome is the potential
spread of these weapons and the associated know-how to other rogue
states and terrorists during and after a war.
There Is a Third Way
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23271-2003Mar13.html
By Jim Wallis and John Bryson Chane, Page A27
It is the eleventh hour, and the world is poised on the edge of
war. Church leaders have warned of the unpredictable and potentially
disastrous consequences of war against Iraq -- massive civilian
casualties, a precedent for preemptive war, further destabilization of
the Middle East and the fueling of more terrorism.
The Only Hope for Global Order
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23275-2003Mar13.html
Page A26
In his March 2 op-ed column, H.D.S. Greenway commented on the
lessons that should be learned from Graham Greene's novel "The Quiet
American." True, even the most well-meaning idealism can lead to
tragic consequences. But the lesson Mr. Greenway seems to ignore is
that communism was European idealism turned tragic.
Democracy in the Classroom
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23273-2003Mar13.html
Page A26
The American Federation of Teachers agrees with Jonathan Zimmerman
["Neutrality in the Classroom," op-ed, March 3] that teachers should
not bring their political views into the classroom. But we cannot
agree with the notion that a teachers organization cannot or should
not take official stands on important issues of the day and
participate in them as citizens and as a group with a legitimate
interest in U.S. policy.
FBI Reaches Out to Md. Muslim Leaders
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23031-2003Mar13.html
FBI officials met with leaders of Maryland's Muslim community in
Frederick yesterday as part of a broader agency effort to combat
terrorism by accounting for and building relationships with mosques
and Islamic societies.
Saudi Man Held by INS Given House Arrest
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23116-2003Mar13.html
A federal magistrate has ordered the release of a Saudi student with
alleged links to groups that advocate terrorism against the United
States, placing him under house arrest until his April trial for visa
fraud.
Irish Leader Brings No Guarantee of Aid
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23120-2003Mar13.html
The prime minister of Ireland came calling at the White House Thursday
and brought President Bush a Waterford crystal bowl of shamrocks but
no guarantee to help disarm Iraq.
No Cataclysm Brought Down Maya
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23311-2003Mar13.html
Beginning in the 8th century and continuing for 150 years, the great
Mayan civilization of the Petén rain forest in present-day Guatemala
fell apart. Cities were abandoned, people fled and wars raged across
the encroaching wilderness.
6 'Undecideds' Face Tough Choice at U.N.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23119-2003Mar13.html
Asked last Tuesday whether his government's disagreement with the Bush
administration over imminent war in Iraq threatened the U.S.-Chilean
Trade Agreement now pending in Congress, Chilean President Ricardo
Lagos said the accord was "not a gift given by the United States to
Chile."
Chinese Newspaper Shut After Call for Reform
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23326-2003Mar13.html
BEIJING, March 13 -- The Chinese government today shut down a
newspaper that published an impassioned plea for political reform
along with a critique of past leaders by Mao Zedong's former
secretary, sources said.
U.S. Moves 1,000 Troops To Romania
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23315-2003Mar13.html
CONSTANTA, Romania, March 13 -- The United States has stationed about
1,000 troops at a Romanian air base on the Black Sea to act as an "air
bridge" for equipment and personnel going to the Persian Gulf, the
U.S. Air Force said today.
General: Military Can Handle War Delay
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23118-2003Mar13.html
A delay of a month or more in invading Iraq can be handled by the U.S.
military and would not increase U.S. casualties, the nation's number
two military officer said Thursday.
A Man on Hold
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23376-2003Mar13.html
Miguel Estrada is in limbo, that special netherworld that Washington
prepares for a growing number of bright, ambitious lawyers who,
through no fault of their own, win the mixed blessing of nomination to
the federal bench.
Lawsuit Threatened Over New Yorker Article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23380-2003Mar13.html
Seymour Hersh has a knack for arousing strong reactions in the people
he investigates. Richard Perle, his latest target, has gone nuclear in
recent days, likening the New Yorker reporter to a "terrorist."
Hidden Agenda?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19674-2003Mar13.html
The Jewish question is out of the closet.
Social Security Loophole Debated: Congress at Odds Over How Texas
Teachers Get Benefits (Post, March 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22912-2003Mar13.html
U.S. Rejects Gulf Battlefield Cremations (Post, March 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23117-2003Mar13.html
FDA Approves First in Class of AIDS Drugs: 'Fusion Inhibitor' Will
Help People Whose Bodies Resist Current Medications (By David Brown,
Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23071-2003Mar13.html
Knock-Down, Drag-Out Urban Renewal: Philadelphia Program Targets
Blighted Areas (By Michael Powell, Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22998-2003Mar13.html
Senators Try to Curtail Size of Tax Cut (By Jonathan Weisman, Page
A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23279-2003Mar13.html
House Votes To Cap Damages For Medical Malpractice: In Suits, Punitive
Awards Could Not Exceed $250,000 (By Juliet Eilperin, Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22889-2003Mar13.html
Kerry Assails Bush Over States' Plight (By Dan Balz, Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23322-2003Mar13.html
Graham Backs Filibuster on Estrada (Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23074-2003Mar13.html
Ban's Target Is Defined by Foes, Not by Medical Books (By Rick Weiss,
Page A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22894-2003Mar13.html
Surprise to USDA: It Can Inspect Zoo: Legal Error, Not Immunity,
Prevented Sudden Checks of Facility for Decades (By James V. Grimaldi
and Karlyn Barker, Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23027-2003Mar13.html
It's Only Iraq and Role (By Al Kamen, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23307-2003Mar13.html
11 Palestinians Killed Over 24 Hours in W. Bank: Israeli Raid on Jenin
Follows Mistaken Killing of 2 Outpost Guards (AP, March 14, 2003; 4:41
AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23797-2003Mar14.html
Saudi Rulers Walk Political Tightrope: Support for U.S. Played Down at
Home (Post, March 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23050-2003Mar13.html
Pivotal Alliance Frayed Before Serb's Death: Former Paramilitary
Leader Sought in Assassination Had Become Suspicious of Prime Minister
(Post, March 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22854-2003Mar13.html
The Few, the Proud, the Green: Young Marines Learn on Job (Post, March
14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22154-2003Mar13.html
Carrier's 'Mag Rats' Scurry To Make Short-Order Bombs (Post, March 14,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22203-2003Mar13.html
Pressing the Kurds' Cause, if Not Their Dream (By Nora Boustany, Page
A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23300-2003Mar13.html
Israeli Military Mistakenly Kills Outpost Guards (By John Ward
Anderson, Page A18)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22736-2003Mar13.html
maff
Don't look back
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1632787
Mar 14th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The growing likelihood of war with Iraq has focused attention on the
costs of military intervention to America. War will inevitably be
expensive in cash terms. Does history suggest the global economic cost
could be even greater?
Balancing trick
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1606218
Feb 27th 2003
From The Economist print edition
AT THE start of "Empires of Profit", Daniel Litvin writes that he is
aware of no similar treatment of his topic. That is an unlikely claim
for a book about globalisation. How many books have been published on
this subject? Yet Mr Litvin's approach is indeed novel. He looks at
the difficulties thrown up by globalisation not just as they present
themselves today but as they have been experienced since the time of
the East India Company. He is concerned not with the costs and
benefits of economic integration but with the way political and
cultural dimensions of globalisation test the managers of
multinational companies. And he looks not at the history of any one
company but at a series of episodes, each involving a different entity
at a different time.
Want to be a world leader? Learn the vital five steps
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,914641,00.html
Jonathan Freedland: Blair, Bush and even Saddam are unwittingly giving
a masterclass in how to govern.
Farewell to the old world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,914636,00.html
Gwyn Prins: Iraq is the catalyst for the draining of power from the
UN, EU and Nato.
New Age message for Christians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,914681,00.html
Alex Wright: Why do Christians dismiss New Age practices and beliefs?
The sniper's tale
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,913235,00.html
Anthony Swofford was a US marine to the bone. But when he was sent to
fight in the 1991 Gulf war and saw the devastation he was part of,
doubts and despair set in. He tells how it felt to be a soldier on the
ground, under fire from the enemy, and, worse, from his own side.
Next stop: panic station
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,913230,00.html
Alexander Chancellor: If Saddam were capable of staging a terror
attack in London, he surely wouldn't have waited for us to invade
before making the necessary dispositions.
Nature's voyeurs
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,913633,00.html
Shallow wildlife documentaries and sentimental nature writing reflect
a growing malaise, writes Richard Mabey. Unless we radically transform
our attitude to other species, we face a dismal future
Superman in the mirror
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,913636,00.html
Geoff Dyer welcomes Curtis Cate's unusually accessible biography of
Friedrich Nietzsche
The gene genius
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,913641,00.html
50 years after the discovery of DNA, Brenda Maddox assesses the life
of James Watson
Saved by a lie
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,913638,00.html
Elena Lappin appreciates the feminist slant in Ruth Kluger's account
of survival at Auschwitz in Landscapes of Memory
Full Nelson
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,913637,00.html
Andrew Motion on the trials and triumphs of our first national hero in
biographies from Edgar Vincent and James P McGuane
Counsels against war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,914676,00.html
We must not let ourselves be deceived by Downing Street's false
argument that UN resolution 1441 justifies an Anglo-American attack on
Iraq without the need for a further resolution (War Analysis, March
14).
Our French connections
I understand that Jack Straw is a busy man, and unlikely to be able to
afford the time for mathematics.
Reaching for a road map
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,914673,00.html
Leader: Blair's efforts may be too little, too late.
The gall of France
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,914674,00.html
Leader: Point the finger of blame elsewhere.
City ends week on high note after a wild ride
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,914593,00.html
Shares post second day of gains despite warning that crude prices may
rise to $50 a barrel.
Yamani fears war could cut off Iraqi oil forever
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,914592,00.html
Oil prices could race to well over $50 per barrel and "ruin" the world
economy if Iraqi crude output is severely hit by a US military strike,
former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani said in London
yesterday.
Doubts grow over legality of war
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,914622,00.html
It has emerged that the British government's legal position may not be
watertight.
Search on to replace Short
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,914563,00.html
Ex-education secretary Morris 'not ready for return to frontline'.
US move on Middle East peace will aid cabinet unity,
says Brown
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,914543,00.html
Gordon Brown yesterday moved to reunite the cabinet behind Tony
Blair's Iraq campaign.
UK 'nervous of public opinion'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,914679,00.html
Britain's diplomatic efforts to win United Nations security council
support for its Iraq strategy lay in disarray yesterday.
Military say postwar peace may take a year
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,914514,00.html
The commander of UK forces in the Gulf said last night that it might
take up to a year to secure a peaceful Iraq under a new government.
Secret report throws doubt on democracy hopes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,914518,00.html
A secret report from the US state department pours cold water on the
"domino" theory of democratic change in the Arab world.
Bitter divisions within EU will be slow to heal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,914522,00.html
Fading hopes for a second UN resolution authorising war on Iraq spell
disaster for the European Union, already damaged by furious exchanges
between Britain and France, and a big setback to its hopes of playing
a coherent role on the world stage.
Schröder takes a right turn to revive economy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,914559,00.html
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder wrenched his government to the right
yesterday by unveiling of his long-awaited plan to revive the sluggish
Germany economy.
HQ of Serbia 'assassins' demolished
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,914566,00.html
Serbian anti-terrorist police began work yesterday demolishing the
headquarters of the underworld group accused of being behind
Wednesday's murder of the prime minister, Zoran Djindjic.
Bush to publish road map to peace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,914575,00.html
George Bush promised yesterday to release the long-awaited "road map"
for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, a decision seen as a
last-minute effort to help Tony Blair and mollify Arab opinion in the
build-up to a war on Iraq.
Last envoys ready to leave Iraqi capital
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,914516,00.html
Around half have departed already; for the rest it is a crucial matter
of timing
Tactical lessons that must be learnt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,914520,00.html
Military planners are studying ways of avoiding problems that arose in
the last Gulf war
Chirac spells it out: no ultimatum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,914521,00.html
Jacques Chirac yesterday removed any lingering doubts about France's
intentions on Iraq, confirming to Tony Blair in a brief phone call
that France was willing to seek a compromise on disarming Saddam
Hussein but would not accept any UN resolution that set an ultimatum.
No headline
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,914623,00.html
Romania plans graft crackdown
Peace protesters held on damage charges
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,914515,00.html
Peace protesters were yesterday remanded in custody after breaking
into an airbase in Gloucestershire and damaging support vehicles which
service B-52 bombers.
Hand signals
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,914621,00.html
Fingers point to sex appeal
Reining-in New York's parade
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,914228,00.html
March 14: Gay people are banned from marching with banners at the St
Patrick's Day Parade, writes David Teather.
Difficulties of long division
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,914242,00.html
March 14: A post-Saddam Iraq could rapidly slide into civil war,
writes Luke Harding.
Dark days for Europe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,914499,00.html
March 14: The Iraq crisis has set back efforts to build a common EU
foreign policy by years, writes Andrew Osborn.
A last push to avoid war
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=387241
As military preparations intensify, Blair and Bush head for a summit
in the Azores while a Mid-East peace 'road-map' is proposed
Robert Kagan: Paradox and power: the philosopher of a world in turmoil
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=387187
Come the hour, come the book. So wrote the former US ambassador to
London, Raymond Seitz, in a review of the slim volume that has become
the most talked-about thesis of the past year. For Of Paradise and
Power, by Robert Kagan, offers a prescient insight into why such a
chasm of mutual incomprehension has opened up between Europe and
America over the issue of war on Iraq.
They don't know what it is like to take a life, or to walk among the
dead
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/fergal_keane/story.jsp?story=387205
Most of these soldiers have not yet experienced the indescribable
sensation of realising another human being is trying to kill them
Does this crisis signal the death of diplomacy?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/mary_dejevsky/story.jsp?story=387186
Sir Jeremy Greenstock is everything a diplomat should be:
swashbuckling and discreet, sardonic and grave, everywhere and nowhere
as the situation demands. He is meticulous in his language,
mellifluous in his speech and never, ever, at a loss for words – the
right ones, of course. It has long seemed to me that Britain's foreign
relations and world harmony in general would be best served by cloning
him and stationing Sir Jeremys all over the world.
Faith & Reason: This is as far from a Holi war as it is possible to
imagine
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=387237
The Hindu tradition has some intriguing insights on the idea of a war
for peace ? and on issues of nationhood, power economics, ideology and
pride
Even Pakistan's liberals were provoked by Bush
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=386895
Kamran Shafi is truly cosmopolitan. A former army major, he has worked
as a businessman in Japan and as a diplomat in London, where he met -
and liked - Tony Blair.
Attorney General silent on whether war breaks law
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=387221
Only the sound of pins dropping can be heard in the busy offices of
the Government's most senior legal adviser. Such is the sensitivity
surrounding the Attorney General's advice on the legal case for and
against war with Iraq that all enquiries to his chambers are being met
with a diplomatic silence.
The Guns of Kabul
http://tinyurl.com/7iqx
By SAID TAYEB JAWAD
Afghanistan is at peace. And yet Kabul, once a vibrant and
sophisticated capital, is like an armed camp.
Get Out of the Way
http://tinyurl.com/7ir4
By THOMAS H. B. EWALD
"Human shields" say they are risking their lives to help the people of
Iraq - but their actions can accomplish only the opposite.
The Plague We Can't Escape
http://tinyurl.com/7ir5
By LARRY KRAMER
AIDS tells us about the worst of America and the world. It tells us
that people don't care about others.
Middle East Peacemaking
http://tinyurl.com/7ir9
It is hard not to be skeptical about the timing of President Bush's
statement on a long-delayed push toward Israeli-Palestinian peace.
The Education Sellout
http://tinyurl.com/7ira
President Bush's failure to finance the No Child Left Behind Act
properly has discouraged recession-strapped states from embracing it
fully.
Environmental Word Games
http://tinyurl.com/7irb
Whenever the Republicans find themselves in trouble on environmental
issues, the call goes out for Frank Luntz, a respected party
strategist.
Germans Revisit War's Agony, Ending a Taboo
http://tinyurl.com/7iri
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
A taboo, by which Germans have remained guiltily silent, about their
experience of the horrors of war, has been suddenly and rather
mysteriously broken.
Bush and Allies Will Meet to Seek Ways to Sway U.N.
http://tinyurl.com/7irn
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON with WARREN HOGE
The meeting seemed intended to show their willingness to explore all
alternatives before President Bush authorizes military action.
Day of Rest on What May Be Eve of War Finds Baghdad Eerily Calm
http://tinyurl.com/7irq
By JOHN F. BURNS
War anxieties rise and fall daily in Baghdad. But on one sunny
afternoon at the track, the mood was one of almost surreal calm.
New Premier Takes Office in Turkey as War Worries Loom
http://tinyurl.com/7irs
By FRANK BRUNI
Recep Tayyip Erdogan assumed the post of Turkey's prime minister and
assembled a new government against a backdrop of national anxiety over
a possible war in Iraq.
Divide Among Jews Leads to Silence on Iraq War
http://tinyurl.com/7irw
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Jewish organizations that have never hesitated to issue resolutions on
American foreign policy, especially toward the Middle East, have kept
mum on going to war with Iraq.
On Terror, Spying and Guns, Ashcroft Expands Reach
http://tinyurl.com/7iry
By ERIC LICHTBLAU with ADAM LIPTAK
Attorney General John Ashcroft, once seen as a peripheral player in
this administration, has become one of the most powerful attorney
generals ever.
Bush Promises to Adopt Plan for the Mideast
http://tinyurl.com/7is0
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
President Bush said the U.S. would soon publish the peace plan, known
as a road map, and then serve as an "active partner" in carrying it
out.
In Ceremony With No Surprises, China Formally Changes Leaders
http://tinyurl.com/7is1
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
China's legislature officially elected Hu Jintao as the new president
of China, replacing Jiang Zemin.
A Lifelong Obsession With Women, in Pictures
http://tinyurl.com/7is2
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Controversy has followed the career of Japan's most famous
photographer, primarily for rendering women, his one constant focus,
as objects.
Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles Exudes Power and Energy
http://tinyurl.com/7is4
By SAM DILLON
Consul General Martha I. Lara Alatorre, with a bulldog's persistence,
has become an influential advocate for millions of Mexican-born
workers in Los Angeles.
Bone Marrow Found to Have Cells to Repair the Pancreas
http://tinyurl.com/7is5
By NICHOLAS WADE
Researchers have discovered that bone marrow harbors cells that can
repair the pancreas and produce insulin.
Battle Over Judgeship Tests Congressman's Loyalties
http://tinyurl.com/7is6
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
A freshman Democratic representative, who happens to be Hispanic, is
labeled "anti-Hispanic" as he fights with his party to block Miguel
Estrada's federal appeals court nomination.
Lawmaker Under Fire Quits Leadership Post
http://tinyurl.com/7is9
By DAVID FIRESTONE
Representative James P. Moran, a Virginia Democrat under fire for
blaming Jews for the buildup toward war with Iraq, has stepped down
from a party leadership post.
Putting the Swiss System Back Together
http://tinyurl.com/7isb
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
For decades, the Swiss economy has thrived by catering to the demands
of the global elite. Now that pre-eminence is cracking.
U.S. Brands Abroad Are Feeling Global Tension
http://tinyurl.com/7isd
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
If the U.S. does invade Iraq, some of the first casualties may be the
cachet that American products have enjoyed around the world.
As Doubts Grow, So Does Speculation on Rate Cut
http://tinyurl.com/7isg
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
A drumbeat of bad news on the economy has increased speculation among
investors that the Fed may lower interest rates.
Uncertain Economy Hinders Highly Precise Supply System
http://tinyurl.com/7ish
By DANIEL ALTMAN
In an economy subdued by the threat of war, are just-in-time supply
chains becoming just too difficult?
Oil Prices Decline for a Second Day in Jittery Trading
http://tinyurl.com/7isk
By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER
Oil prices continued to fall on Friday, reflecting persistent concerns
about the effect of a possible war with Iraq.
Art That Transfigures Science
http://tinyurl.com/7isr
By ALAN LIGHTMAN
What exactly does science have to offer the arts? What are the
particular ways in which science provokes us, inspires us and examines
who we are?
At Conference Tournaments, the Colleges Major in Money
http://tinyurl.com/7isw
By WILLIAM C. RHODEN
The public has been treated to a slate of thrilling moments:
game-winning shots in the final seconds, overtimes, upsets. But when
do these athletes study?
At School Auctions, Prestige Is the Prize
http://tinyurl.com/7it0
By ALEX KUCZYNSKI
It's spring auction season at private schools from coast to coast.
More than a fund-raising tool, the school auction is a social
occasion.
In a Slow Time, Some Builders Try School Projects
http://tinyurl.com/7it1
By ANTOINETTE MARTIN
With New Jersey's commercial real estate market remaining weak, many
firms are particularly eager to begin designing and building schools.
If the U.N. Were Being Created Today . . .
http://tinyurl.com/7it3
Arts & Ideas asked scholars and diplomats: if the United Nations were
being created today, what would you want done differently?
A Stormy Family on a Sandy Planet
http://tinyurl.com/7it4
By RON WERTHEIMER
The Sci Fi Channel's hallucinatory mini-series, based on Frank
Herbert's "Dune" saga, unfolds more as a pageant than as a coherent
narrative.
A Film Festival as Eclectic as Its Home
http://tinyurl.com/7it5
By ELVIS MITCHELL
A sense of eclectic discovery powers the 10th edition of the film
festival component of the annual South by Southwest Conference.
A Very Early Sultan of Swat
http://tinyurl.com/7it7
By BRUCE WEBER
No disrespect meant to Abner Doubleday or anybody else who might claim
responsibility for inventing baseball, but the Egyptians had them beat
by three millennia or so.
B-1 Bombers Strike Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27326-2003Mar14.html
Two Air Force B-1 bombers struck military sites in the western Iraqi
desert Friday, the first time in more than four years that a heavy
bomber has been used in the region.
Protest Plans Escalate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27262-2003Mar14.html
If the U.S. launches a unilateral attack against Iraq, thousands of
Americans plan to commit acts of "direct action" in what could be the
largest display of civil disobedience in since the civil rights era.
Summit Set on 'Options'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27666-2003Mar14.html
Bush and allies arranged a summit to discuss the failure to achieve
U.N. approval of a resolution authorizing war and to set a course
toward imminent military action.
U.S. Takes New Steps in Mideast
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27585-2003Mar14.html
President Bush yielded to pressure from key foreign allies and
declared he would take new steps to settle the Israeli-Palestinian
crisis.
This Year In Karbala
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27901-2003Mar14.html
For the past 10 days in Kuwait City, the Shiites, as they do at the
start of every Muslim new year, have conducted mourning and
self-mortification rituals to honor Imam Hussein, a grandson of the
Prophet Mohammed.
On the Brink of Blame
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24587-2003Mar14.html
Is the finger-pointing about to begin?
'Iraqi Interim Authority' Under Draft
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27288-2003Mar14.html
Senior White House officials have begun to outline plans for a postwar
Iraq, describing a vaguely defined "Iraqi Interim Authority" that
would gradually take over responsibility for some government functions
from the U.S. military.
Bush May Use Trade Pacts for Iraq Leverage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27523-2003Mar14.html
Evidence is mounting that the administration is prepared to use
economic pressure to secure cooperation from foreign countries.
Mexico Seizes Reputed Drug Lord
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27334-2003Mar14.html
MEXICO CITY, March 14 -- Mexican soldiers today arrested reputed drug
lord Osiel Cardenas Guillen after a shoot-out in the border city of
Matamoros. U.S. and Mexican officials said it was the most significant
drug bust since last year's arrest of alleged kingpin Benjamin
Arellano Felix.
Government Projects Put China to Work and in Debt
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27349-2003Mar14.html
Some 27 million have lost jobs in recent years as unprofitable state
businesses have shut down. Farm incomes are dropping, prompting
peasants to move to cities in search of work.
United in Marriage and Mission
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27893-2003Mar14.html
As a 23-year-old Marine in 1971, Stuart Willcuts served on a
reconnaissance team in central Vietnam, telling assault troops where
to find Viet Cong soldiers. His tour ended on Thanksgiving Day when a
mortar round obliterated his kneecap.
China's New Leaders Try to Change Tack
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27332-2003Mar14.html
China's new president and premier have moved subtly to distinguish
themselves from Jiang and signaled a significant change in tack for
the nation's government.
Serbia Razes Center Linked to Assassins
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27333-2003Mar14.html
BELGRADE, March 14 -- The Serbian government today sent bulldozers and
police armed with Kalashnikov rifles to demolish a four-story shopping
complex belonging to one of the alleged assassins of Prime Minister
Zoran Djindjic.
States to Cut School Funding
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27519-2003Mar14.html
Deficits spur cuts; officials predict toll on student performance.
Iraq's Rising Forces of Faith
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27407-2003Mar14.html
As secular identity gives way to Islam, tolerance in question.
Jewish Organizations Worried About Backlash for Iraq War: Groups Are
Outraged Over Allegations of Warmongering (Post, March 15, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27256-2003Mar14.html
20 Air Force Cadets Punished For Sex Offenses Since 1990 (Post, March
15, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27358-2003Mar14.html
U.S. Files Terror Briefs in Secrecy: 4th Circuit to Rule In Moussaoui
Case (Post, March 15, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27772-2003Mar14.html
Student Charged With Hacking at U-Texas: Social Security Numbers
Stolen (By Karin Brulliard, Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27370-2003Mar14.html
Life Expectancy in U.S. Reaches a Record High (By Rob Stein, Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27239-2003Mar14.html
Bush's Political Future Hinges on Quick War (By Dana Milbank, Page
A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27903-2003Mar14.html
In This Woman's Army, Combat Now Part of the Duty (Post, March 15,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27576-2003Mar14.html
Navy Women Finding Ways to Adapt to a Man's World (Post, March 15,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27504-2003Mar14.html
U.S. Giving Up On Turks and Rerouting Ships (Post, March 15, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27498-2003Mar14.html
Kurd Underground Prepares to Fight: Uprising Would Ignore U.S. Appeals
(Post, March 15, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27408-2003Mar14.html
Across Europe, Millions Protest A War in Iraq (Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28424-2003Mar15.html
Israeli Soldiers Kill 10 in Battle In West Bank (By John Ward
Anderson, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27409-2003Mar14.html
Air Force Mess
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27824-2003Mar14.html
Spinach Now or Later
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27825-2003Mar14.html
Uncomfortable Silence (By Colbert I. King)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27722-2003Mar14.html
A Russian Resolve for Peace and Partnership (By Igor Ivanov)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27713-2003Mar14.html
A War That Should End (By Ellen Goodman)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27720-2003Mar14.html
Free for All
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27769-2003Mar14.html
Jim Moran's Worldview
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27767-2003Mar14.html
Seizing the Enemy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27766-2003Mar14.html
Let the Campaign Begin Here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27768-2003Mar14.html
Liberté, Égalité . . . Stupidité
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28699-2003Mar15.html
A Different War at Home
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27828-2003Mar14.html
We Don't Even Agree On What's Newsworthy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27787-2003Mar14.html
By David Greenberg, Page B01
A rift now separates the United States and the world -- not just a
diplomatic gap, but a perception gap. One sign of the sundering is the
discrepancy in how journalists here and abroad have treated some
recent stories. Repeatedly, unflattering aspects of America's foreign
policy have gotten big play overseas while receiving fleeting comment
or shrugs at home.
Bush Wanted His Doctrine And the Allies, Too
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27756-2003Mar14.html
By James Mann, Page B01
We are witnessing a major intellectual failure by the Bush
administration.
Can Justice Be Done in Tulsa?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27789-2003Mar14.html
By James S. Hirsch, Page B02
George Monroe was 5 years old when the white hoodlums barged
through his front door, walked to the curtains in the living room and
struck a match. The youngster was hiding beneath a bed with his mother
and three siblings, and one of the arsonists stepped on the boy's
hand. George's sister pressed her hand against his face to stifle his
scream. After the intruders fled, George raced outside and saw that
his entire street, in the black section of Tulsa, was ablaze.
Bewildered, he turned to his sister and asked, "Is the world on fire?"
I'm a Doctor, Not an Adversarial Unit of the Health Care Industry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27788-2003Mar14.html
By Devra Marcus, Page B02
Doctors on strike, raising banners at rallies, canceling
appointments with patients to meet with politicians? Physicians in at
least five states were so desperate about rising malpractice insurance
rates and, in some cases, their inability to buy insurance at any
price that they did just that in January and February. President Bush
has taken their part, telling the American Medical Association
recently that "if lawsuits are running up the cost of medicine [and]
driving docs out of business, we've got to do something." But even if
his bill to impose a cap on malpractice jury awards gets through the
Senate -- the House approved it Thursday -- it will fall far short of
fixing what really ails the medical profession.
That's Why They Call It War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27790-2003Mar14.html
By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, Page B04
Barring a diplomatic miracle, a U.S.-led coalition will soon
commence military operations against Saddam Hussein. The swift
collapse of his regime is essential, both to minimize the war's human
and material costs, and to ease Iraq's economic and political
reconstruction. To achieve this, the coalition must strike with
massive force -- a strategy consistent with the American approach to
armed conflict and the traditional laws of war.
The Discrimination 'Link'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27793-2003Mar14.html
Page B05
Hispanics and older people face discrimination, but blacks and
women do not -- or at least they don't on one popular television game
show, according to a University of Chicago economist who analyzed
which contestants were voted off the "The Weakest Link" as a way of
testing competing theories about why we discriminate.
Bullets My Friend Expected
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27792-2003Mar14.html
By Dusan Velickovic, Page B05
BELGRADE
The Godfather, Slobodan Milosevic, is in The Hague. His cell is small
and his activities are very limited. Nevertheless, the job has been
done: Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is dead. Zoran, my friend,
one of the most brilliant men I have ever known and a symbol of the...
Connecting the Blips
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27837-2003Mar14.html
By Michael Getler, Page B06
Last Sunday, the Outlook section published the letter of
resignation written on Feb. 27 by career diplomat John Brady Kiesling,
the political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Athens, to Secretary of
State Colin L. Powell. Kiesling resigned because, he said, he no
longer believed "that by upholding the policies of my president I was
also upholding the interests of the American people and the world."
Health Care Hopes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27802-2003Mar14.html
By David S. Broder, Page B07
What are the chances of any significant health care legislation
making it through Congress and becoming law with President Bush's
signature?
No Liberal Exchange Policy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27807-2003Mar14.html
By George F. Will, Page B07
BORREGO SPRINGS, Calif. -- From here in the southern desert to the
Oregon border, California is feeling faint tremors of a possible
political earthquake. A state tradition from the early 20th century,
plebiscitary democracy, is being fueled by the synergism of two late
20th-century developments, talk radio and the Internet. The result may
be the recall of Gov. Gray Davis, who last November won reelection
with just 47 percent of the vote.
Idealism in The Days After
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27805-2003Mar14.html
By Jim Hoagland, Page B07
In its closing rush of war preparations, the Bush administration
has finally begun to grapple with the political context of its
expected military victory in Iraq. This is the final moment to think
big, think fast and think through the dangers of answered prayers that
Iraq will soon present.
Blossoms and Bombs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27806-2003Mar14.html
By Mary McGrory, Page B07
The hounds of spring are on winter's traces and so, of course, are
the dogs of war. Who will win the race?
Mr. Bush's One-Two Punch at Families
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27835-2003Mar14.html
Page B06
Steven Pearlstein's March 12 Business column, "The Truth: Tax Cuts
and Deficits Don't Mix," did not discuss the fact that President
Bush's tax cuts, coupled with his plan for war, are hurting the
economy.
Inconvenient Democracy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27833-2003Mar14.html
Page B06
Jackson Diehl's March 10 op-ed column, "The Lesson of Turkey,"
lamented the lack of support by five countries for President Bush's
U.N. resolution on Iraq. It gave an assortment of explanations for
this situation, including floods, impatience, insufficient bribes for
Chile and Mexico, and "first-round protest votes by alienated
Frenchmen." What it didn't mention is that the people of these five
countries overwhelmingly oppose a war. The omission of this
fundamental democratic factor is ironic, considering that one of the
hawks' justifications for war is to bring democracy to the Middle
East.
Ailing Public Health
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27836-2003Mar14.html
Page B06
The March 5 editorial "Paying for Preparedness" left out the public
health aspect of homeland security. In the case of a terrorist attack,
a chemical accident or an infectious disease outbreak, state and local
health departments, doctors, nurses and other health care providers
would join police and firefighters as "first responders."
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The Man Who Would Be President
http://tinyurl.com/7kdg
By THOMAS POWERS
After occupation, President Bush will have virtually unlimited power
over Iraq, far greater power, for example, than Queen Victoria's over
India in the 19th century.
How to Win Friends and Influence Small Countries
http://tinyurl.com/7kdj
By TOM ZELLER
A diplomatic opera of odd courtships, arm-twisting, compromises and
back-room deal-making has thrust a few of the world's bit players into
starring roles.
The 15 Women Awaiting Justice in Kabul Prison
http://tinyurl.com/7kdl
By AMY WALDMAN
There are 15 women in Kabul's jail for violating Islamic and Afghan
law. Most are imprisoned for marrying a second time.
It's the Economy, Stupid. It's the War, Stupid.
http://tinyurl.com/7kdm
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
The near certainty of war with Iraq has exposed the economy's
vulnerabilities, from its dependence on cheap oil to the impact fear
can have on global flows of money and information.
Did Serbia's Leader Do the West's Bidding Too Well?
http://tinyurl.com/7kdo
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Many Serbs say the West squeezed Zoran Djindjic to death in a
too-tight embrace of specific demands for reform and extradition of
war criminals.
You Think DNA Evidence Is Foolproof? Try Again
http://tinyurl.com/7kdq
By ADAM LIPTAK
The problem with DNA testing is not that it offers falsely positive
results. The problem is the human factor.
Reality TV Goes to War: A Different Kind of Fear Factor
http://tinyurl.com/7kds
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
If Saddam Hussein actually bows to a British proposal to appear on TV
and admit he has weapons of mass destruction, his would be the first
televised surrender in history.
U.S. Plan Sees G.I.'s Invading Iraq as More Arrive
http://tinyurl.com/7kdu
By MICHAEL R. GORDON with ERIC SCHMITT
Assuming that no peaceful resolution is found, the plan gives U.S.-led
forces the option of starting at any time.
U.S. Names Iraqis Who Would Face War Crimes Trial
http://tinyurl.com/7jm4
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
The list was released for the first time in an effort to push Iraqi
leaders to leave the country as a way to avert war.
Iraqis Join a Rally to Show That War Will Be Resisted
http://tinyurl.com/7kdy
By JOHN F. BURNS
Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad and other cities on
Saturday in a tightly marshaled show of defiance for the United
States.
Arab Nations Brace for an Upheaval From a War in Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/7ke1
By SUSAN SACHS
With varying degrees of fear and resignation, Arabs and their leaders
are waiting for the earthquake that they believe a war on Iraq will
create in their region.
Demonstrations in Spain and Around the World Against an Iraq War
http://tinyurl.com/7ke6
By EMMA DALY
Angered at their government's unwavering support for U.S. policy on
Iraq, Spaniards took to the streets on Saturday, one of hundreds of
antiwar demonstrations around the world.
Brothers Catch Up on Carrier in War's Shadow
http://tinyurl.com/7keb
By LYNETTE CLEMETSON
For the Dooris brothers, who had not seen each other in four years,
being aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln has offered an unusual
opportunity to catch up.
Tens of Thousands March Against Iraq War
http://tinyurl.com/7ked
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
In what many saw as a last chance to head off military action in Iraq,
tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in several antiwar protests
around the country.
Anger on Iraq Seen as New Qaeda Recruiting Tool
http://tinyurl.com/7kef
By DON VAN NATTA Jr. and DESMOND BUTLER
On three continents, Al Qaeda and other groups are said to be tapping
into rising anger about the U.S. campaign for war in Iraq.
F.B.I. Joins Investigation of Bombing at Philippine Airport
http://tinyurl.com/7keg
F.B.I. agents have arrived in a southern Philippine city to help
investigate the bombing at its international airport on March 4, which
killed 21 people.
Hundreds of Thousands Mourn Assassinated Serbian Leader
http://tinyurl.com/7keh
By DANIEL SIMPSON
The funeral on Saturday was unlike any since that of Marshal Tito, the
founder of Communist Yugoslavia, in 1980.
Brazil's Military, Less Than It Was, Is Asked to Do More
http://tinyurl.com/7kei
By LARRY ROHTER
The armed forces have a new mission of building roads, feeding the
poor and training athletes.
50,000 Closer Looks at Arabs
http://tinyurl.com/7kek
By ADAM SHATZ
A photography archive in Beirut holds often startling images of a
century of everyday Arab life.
Utah Girl's Ordeal Poses a Puzzle Strange and Biblical
http://tinyurl.com/7ken
By DEAN E. MURPHY
The Smart family is beginning to piece together the mystery behind
Elizabeth's kidnapping, a curious tale with religious undertones.
Condemned Killer Exposed to Nerve Gas Seeks Mercy
http://tinyurl.com/7keq
By ADAM LIPTAK
His lawyer is asking the president for clemency, saying his client was
exposed to chemicals in the Persian Gulf War that unbalanced his mind.
Broad Movement Is Backing Embryo Stem Cell Research
http://tinyurl.com/7ker
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
State capitols, universities, foundations, hospitals and companies are
trying to get around a presidential order that sharply limits federal
money for stem cell research.
Tens of Thousands March Against Iraq War
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
In what many saw as a last chance to head off military action in Iraq,
tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in several antiwar protests
around the country.
Two on Amnesty Board Resign Over Reversal on Attack Claim
http://tinyurl.com/7kew
By DAVID GONZALEZ
The board members resigned to protest what they said was pressure to
accept unproved allegations that a researcher was the target of
Guatemalan death squads.
Bush Pushes Plan to Curb Medicare Appeals
http://tinyurl.com/7key
By ROBERT PEAR
The changes would make it more difficult for beneficiaries to appeal
the denial of benefits like home health care.
Labor Leader Backs Away From Bush
http://tinyurl.com/7kez
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Eager for some union support, President Bush has worked unusually hard
to court James P. Hoffa, the Teamsters' president, but has not won him
over.
Iraq Links Germs for Weapons to U.S. and France
http://tinyurl.com/7kf2
By PHILIP SHENON
Iraq has identified a Virginia-based biological supply house and a
French scientific institute as the sources of all the foreign germ
samples for its biological weapons.
Grading Bush on Prosperity and Pain
http://tinyurl.com/7kf4
By DANIEL ALTMAN
Is the troubled economy President Bush's fault? Yes and no, economists
say.
The Senate Acts on Abortion
http://tinyurl.com/7kf5
By ROBIN TONER
In a big victory for the anti-abortion movement, a ban on so-called
partial birth abortion passed the Senate this week by a lopsided vote
of 64 to 33.
Mashing Our Monster
http://tinyurl.com/7kfa
By MAUREEN DOWD
The Bush hawks never intended to give peace a chance. They intended to
give pre-emption a chance.
Repairing the World
http://tinyurl.com/7kfo
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
I wish President Bush would turn over leadership on the whole Iraq
crisis to Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has an international vision
that Mr. Bush sorely needs.
Bush's War, Blair's Gamble
http://tinyurl.com/7kfq
By BORIS JOHNSON
Prime Minister Tony Blair will lose support and cabinet ministers, but
he will not lose office, and I doubt very much that he will lose the
war.
How Tax Cuts Trickle Down
http://tinyurl.com/7kft
The Republican leaders of Congress have unveiled proposals for
slashing the most basic government programs for years to come.
The Summit of Isolation
http://tinyurl.com/7kfv
President Bush was dealt a bad hand, but his administration's erratic
and often inept diplomacy has made matters immeasurably worse.
Coming to Grips With the Unthinkable in Tulsa
http://tinyurl.com/7kg6
By BRENT STAPLES
Tulsa and Oklahoma have failed to accept responsibility for one of the
most blood-curdling events in American history.
With Property Taxes, the Bill Isn't Always Certain
http://tinyurl.com/7kg9
By ALINA TUGEND
While you can't change property tax rates, you may be able to lower
your taxes by contesting your house assessment value
From WorldCom, an Amazing View of a Bloated Industry
http://tinyurl.com/7kga
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
We now know in quantifiable, stupefying terms, just how much WorldCom
overpaid for the telecommunications network it built.
Opportunities for the Steely of Heart
http://tinyurl.com/7kgc
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Small investors interested in stepping into venture capital funds can
travel a roundabout route to do so.
For Far Smaller Fuel Cells, a Far Shorter Wait
http://tinyurl.com/7kge
By BARNABY J. FEDER
Fuel cell technology may power electronic devices like laptop
computers, video cameras and cellphones by the end of this decade.
Whistles Don't Have Instructions
http://tinyurl.com/7kgg
By JEFFREY L. SEGLIN
Employees everywhere are worrying about their own exposure to wayward
behavior - and what happens if they don't report it.
You Can Beat the Market? A Study Says 1 in 5 Can
http://tinyurl.com/7kgi
By MARK HULBERT
A new study has found that as many as 20 percent of investors may be
able to regularly pick stocks that beat the market.
Dot-Com Saviors, Tilting at the World's Ills
http://tinyurl.com/7kgl
By KATIE HAFNER
In increasing numbers, high-tech entrepreneurs who grew wealthy during
the dot-com boom of the late 1990's are working for the global good.
Rare Health Alert Is Issued for Mystery Illness
http://tinyurl.com/7kgo
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN and KEITH BRADSHER
The W.H.O. alert declared a mysterious respiratory illness "a
worldwide health threat" and urged all countries to help control it.
For Patients, Unpleasant Surprises in Arbitration
http://tinyurl.com/7kgq
By MICHELLE ANDREWS
More and more health care providers are pushing patients to sign away
their right to sue.
New York City Is Planning Expanded Security in Event of War
http://tinyurl.com/7kgs
By JAMES BARRON and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Police officials will expand street patrols and ask the Defense
Department to fly combat aircraft over the city, if the United States
goes to war with Iraq.
Let 100 Lots Sell: The Age of Mao Goes on the Block
http://tinyurl.com/7kgv
By RITA REIF
KINGSTON, N.Y.
On a trip to Hong Kong in 1996, the New York rare book dealer Justin
G. Schiller bought a blanket-size wool banner depicting Mao Zedong.
"It was very much like Andy Warhol's vivid image, but done in black
and white," he recalled. He had long admired Warhol's Mao paintings
but now realized that other images of Mao were also compelling.
For a Supreme Court Graybeard, States' Rights Can Do No Wrong
http://tinyurl.com/7kh5
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's decision this month upholding
California's "three strikes" law represented the latest battle in a
war that has occupied the court for more than 20 years, since long
before California adopted its tough approach to persistent offenders
and imposed a 25-year minimum sentence on a man who stole three golf
clubs.
To Quit, to Stay, or to Toss a Wrench?
http://tinyurl.com/7kh9
By TODD S. PURDUM
WASHINGTON
SIR THOMAS MORE did it. So did William Jennings Bryan and Cyrus R.
Vance. Some people thought Robert S. McNamara should have. Others, in
their dreams, hope Colin L. Powell might yet.
America's Long Middle Eastern Romance
http://tinyurl.com/7khc
By MICHAEL B. OREN
JERUSALEM - Muslim militants, evoking a jihadist pretext and backed by
rogue states, are attacking vital Western interests. The president of
the United States fails to convince Europe to join a coalition to
confront the aggressors.
Congress's War on France Is Just Starting
http://tinyurl.com/7khf
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
WASHINGTON - French fries and toast are not the only casualties of the
escalating war of words between France and the United States. Add
French wine, the French flag, French vanilla yogurt, French dressing,
French air shows and, now, American soldiers' remains buried in
France.
U.S. Still Lacks Specifics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30601-2003Mar15.html
U.S. intelligence agencies have been unable to give Congress or the
Pentagon specific information about the quantities of banned weapons
in Iraq or where they are hidden, say administration officials and
members of Congress.
Primed to Fall
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30817-2003Mar15.html
The U.S. is within reach of dismantling the leadership of the al Qaeda
terrorist network responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and
the Pentagon, White House officials and intelligence experts said.
Awesome Mission, Risks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30774-2003Mar15.html
With a force only one-third the size of the one that liberated Kuwait
12 years ago, U.S. commanders poised to attack Iraq have been given
the far more ambitious mission of marching to Baghdad, overthrowing
Saddam Hussein and preventing a country the size of California from
disintegrating into chaos.
Iraq Seeks Meeting With U.N. Chief Inspectors
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30848-2003Mar15.html
Iraq invited the weapons inspectors to discuss outstanding disarmament
issues in an apparent last-ditch bid to forestall a U.S.-led invasion.
In Shanghai, Old Ways Prove Barrier to Reform
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30847-2003Mar15.html
The condom trade in the city has been used as a way for government
officials to garner personal profits.
At Home, A 2-Front War on Terrorism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31253-2003Mar15.html
At 200 feet, the U.S. Park Police helicopter skims over the Tidal
Basin, low enough to study the tourists standing on the steps of the
Jefferson Memorial and the vehicles on nearby streets. When the crew
members look down nowadays, they view the nation's most cherished
monuments in a disturbing light -- as possible terrorist targets.
U.S. Missteps Led to Failed Diplomacy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30858-2003Mar15.html
Six months after President Bush first appeared before the United
Nations and urged a confrontation with Iraq, the United States appears
to have lost diplomatic ground, not gained it, leaving it in a
precarious international position as it prepares to launch a war.
Life Expectancy in U.S. Reaches a Record High
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27239-2003Mar14.html
Although the nation's life expectancy reached an all-time high in
2001, the Sept. 11 attacks caused a sharp rise in the homicide rate,
countering a decade-long trend, federal officials reported Friday.
Flu-Like Illness That Kills Spurs Global Alert
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30775-2003Mar15.html
The World Health Organization warned that a mysterious, sometimes
fatal pneumonia-like illness posed a worldwide threat after spreading
from Asia to Europe and North America.
U.S. Seeks Joint Action With Pakistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30844-2003Mar15.html
The military operations against guerrillas on both sides of the
Afghan-Pakistani border would prevent al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives
from finding safe haven on either side.
Thousands Pay Respects To Serbia's Slain Leader
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30846-2003Mar15.html
Several hundred thousand Serbs and dignitaries representing more than
40 countries turned out for the funeral of Prime Minister Zoran
Djindjic.
U.S. Risks Isolation, Breakdown of Old Alliances in Case of War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30564-2003Mar15.html
Whatever its outcome, a preemptive war against Iraq launched without
sanction from the United Nations will transform the world and the
United States' place in it.
Party Seeks to Close Fault Line Over Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31243-2003Mar15.html
Iraq has put many of the Democratic party's leading presidential
candidates, who voted to give President Bush authority to go to war,
at odds with liberal activists who staunchly oppose the president's
policy.
A Military in Waiting Practices, Improvises, Stocks Up
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30849-2003Mar15.html
CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait, March 15 -- At Camp New Jersey, the
headquarters and 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division are
squatters in a vast tent city, waiting for the war that many expect to
come this week.
Damage Control
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31110-2003Mar15.html
Answers About Torture
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31111-2003Mar15.html
When War Is the Best Medicine (By Bill Frist)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27804-2003Mar14.html
Bush Bets Future on Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30869-2003Mar15.html
Analysis: Experts call this a threshold moment for the U.S. and the
world.
Marchers Keep Up Pressure
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30902-2003Mar15.html
U.S. setbacks in winning U.N. support create up-tempo spirit for
antiwar protesters.
Stability of Regional Politics Is At Stake in Bid to Topple Hussein
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30756-2003Mar15.html
The shock of a U.S.-led war to topple the regime of Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein would reverberate in the Middle East for years, if not
decades.
Striking Iraq Could Fuel Further Attacks on U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30757-2003Mar15.html
The way President Bush and his advisers portray it, a war against Iraq
is integral to the global war against terrorism. The president argues
that the real risk to American security would be to leave President
Saddam Hussein in power, his missiles and weapons of mass destruction
at the ready.
Economic Costs Could Weaken Bush Politically
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30758-2003Mar15.html
The crisis in Iraq has become a sharply personal test for President
Bush, placing public trust in his judgment -- perhaps a president's
most important asset -- at the heart of the issue.
Bush In Final Push for Support
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30322-2003Mar15.html
President Bush turned his attention yesterday to assembling a
coalition for war against Iraq as he prepared to fly to a Portuguese
air base in the eastern Atlantic for a summit with the prime ministers
of Britain and Spain.
Creating a Comfort Zone
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30693-2003Mar15.html
There's something in the air -- the faint and persistent buzz of
hazard. Some people are plainly scared. They've been told so often
"it's not if but when" that images of terrorist attack pass through
their minds every day. Some people seem untouched. They face the
periodic and inscrutable announcements of threat with a mix of
fatalism and defiance. But nobody doubts that they're living in a
changed world.
Here and Abroad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31206-2003Mar15.html
LOS ANGELES, March 15 -- Driving rain did not drown out the cries of
thousands of antiwar protesters today as they sloshed through
puddle-filled downtown streets, beating on empty plastic containers,
shaking tambourines and playing bagpipes as they voiced their
opposition to a war in Iraq along with hundreds of thousands of others
worldwide.
Bases Guarding Against Attacks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30845-2003Mar15.html
CAMP COMMANDO, Kuwait, March 15 -- A half-dozen Arab and South Asian
garbagemen make their way past rows of tents and portable toilets in
the early morning hours, picking up paper debris scattered across the
sand. Shadowing them as they fill their plastic bags is a pickup truck
with two heavily armed Marines watching their every move.
Napa Vintners Reap Green Grapes of Wrath
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30302-2003Mar15.html
During the go-go years, was this not an American idyll, where newly
minted dot-com gazillionaires could buy their piece of paradise in the
hills of Napa Valley, oh, say, for $100,000 an acre, plant fields of
cabernet and sell those inky dark cult wines from their vanity
vineyards for $100 a bottle?
Defining a Pledge In Their Own Terms
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31245-2003Mar15.html
Nobody talks much about term limits anymore.
Federal Aid Helps States Fund Election Reform
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30563-2003Mar15.html
Congress's decision to appropriate $1.5 billion this year for election
reform is providing crucial aid to states struggling to meet new
federal voting standards in lean fiscal times, officials in several
states say.
Health Insurance Back as Key Issue
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30115-2003Mar15.html
Campaign by Unlikely Allies for Universal Coverage Reflects Big Shift
in Public Opinion
All Taped Up and Nowhere to Go
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30511-2003Mar15.html
The mental part is the hardest. Once you've bought your duct tape,
your plastic sheeting, your gas mask, your Cipro, your dried beans and
Velveeta and little cans of Vienna sausages, your batteries, your
caving headlamp, your night-vision goggles, your inflatable raft for
escaping down the Potomac, your spear gun, your crossbow, your chain
mail, your jousting lance, your stallion, some nice boots and a cape
and one of those helmets with the plumage -- once you've prepared, in
other words, for any eventuality -- how do you then go on with your
normal life?
Predictions Aside, No One Is Sure Where Terrorists Will Strike
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30549-2003Mar15.html
First, some calculations, courtesy of Risk Management Solutions, a
consulting firm that advises insurance companies on catastrophic
risks:
Sierra Leone Rebel Faces War Crimes Court
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31200-2003Mar15.html
BONTHE, Sierra Leone, March 15 -- His head slumped on his chest, right
leg shaking constantly and gray hair twisted into dreadlocks, rebel
leader Foday Sankoh was wheeled before a war crimes court today.
From Israel, Lessons In Civil Defense
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23231-2003Mar13.html
JERUSALEM -- Having already experienced an Iraqi missile attack during
the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Israeli government says it is now much
better organized for civil defense than it was 12 years ago.
War against Iraq: The Final Charade
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=387609
Despite the build-up of hopes surrounding today's "peace summit" in
the Azores, Tony Blair is expected to admit to George Bush that the
hunt for a "UN route" to war has failed
The state we're in
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/steve_richards/story.jsp?story=387445
By Steve Richards
16 March 2003
How has Tony Blair got himself into such an unlikely political
nightmare? In the first term he declared soothingly that "the entire
country is my core constituency". Now he faces Cabinet resignations,
backbench revolts on an historic scale and civil unrest. On the
international front, he once proclaimed that his "historic objective
is to end Britain's ambiguous relationship with Europe". Now he is
firmly on one side of a divided Europe, leading the taunts against the
other side, cheered on by the Eurosceptic newspapers. More
specifically, this seemingly cautious leader is preparing to go to war
on a timetable largely determined by the US, having thrown the UN into
frenzied disarray.
200,000 protesters converge on White House
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=387598
Anti-war demonstrations in America were echoed around the world
Corporate angels need to spread their wings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,914727,00.html
Edmond Warner: Everything, it seems, is thought to be measurable these
days. Even goodness. And with measurability comes judgment. And if
judgment is called for, then advisers will be queuing up to offer it.
This week's publication of the UK's first corporate responsibility
index, by appealing to the financial markets' penchant for hard data,
might just change the way that they work.
maff
Actor, rock star, PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,915529,00.html
Madeleine Bunting: Since he was a schoolboy, Tony Blair has been
desperate for attention. Well, he certainly has it now.
It's his mess, so let him clear it up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,915530,00.html
Peter Preston: A change of leader would not ease the central dilemma
now facing us.
Sorry, Mr Blair, but 1441 does not authorise force
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,915534,00.html
Keir Starmer: The attorney general has a tricky task in defending the
legal basis for war.
Polishing your halo is pointless
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,915532,00.html
Roy Hattersley: An attack on Iraq is indefensible. But so is Clare
Short's behaviour.
From bombs to beggar-my-neighbour
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,915754,00.html
Larry Elliott: As the world's financial markets showed with startling
clarity last week, the long term has ceased to exist.
Inside Europe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,915531,00.html
Ian Black: It is a truth not widely acknowledged, though gloomy
francophones know it well, that Brussels speaks with an English accent
these days.
The daily war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,915533,00.html
Naomi Klein: In Argentina, more than half of the people are living in
poverty - and they are now starting to fight back.
Age cannot wither them
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,915528,00.html
Emma Brockes: As people live longer, our attitudes towards the elderly
have to change.
The black woman - with white parents
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,915475,00.html
Sandra Laing was born black, but to white parents. It would have been
strange anywhere - but in apartheid South Africa it was disastrous.
Rory Carroll reports from Johannesburg.
'I'm a bit of a geek'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,915477,00.html
Nitin Sawhney is into Hindu philosophy and physics, and he makes some
of the most innovative music around. He's also worked with Paul
McCartney and Sting - but he doesn't like to talk about that.
Life under Pax Americana
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,915520,00.html
Correlli Barnett (Letters, March 15) is still living in the age of the
great powers when "international law" meant something, even if it
periodically collapsed in great wars.
Statesmen in the house
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,915518,00.html
Changing their story day by day; peddling lies and deceptions;
wrigging to find new arguments for old immoralities; flouting the
UN...
GM facts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,915516,00.html
Not only is there no intention to authorise commercial growing of GM
crops before the debate on GM issues is under way, but the UK has no
powers to do so (GM licensing gets go-ahead, March 11).
Blair's moment of truth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,915523,00.html
A nightmare comes true in the Azores.
Avoiding water wars
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,915525,00.html
The rich world's pledge still not delivered.
Activists tapping into water row
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,915445,00.html
A fierce debate is expected among the 5,000 participants at the third
World Water Forum, taking place in Kyoto, Japan this week, over how
best to provide water and sanitation for the world's poor.
Iraq: the final 24 hours
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,915736,00.html
· Azores summit sets deadline for diplomacy
· Leaders signal that war could start immediately
· Grim-faced Blair faces revolt and resignations
Britons advised to leave Kuwait
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,915782,00.html
The Foreign Office today advised all Britons in Kuwait except
diplomatic staff to the leave the country as soon as possible.
Attorney backs war
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,915663,00.html
Downing Street will today take the unprecedented step of publishing
legal advice from the attorney general, who has given the green light
to military action.
Rebels claim 160 MPs will defy party
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,915692,00.html
Labour rebels claimed yesterday that up to 160 backbenchers will vote
against Tony Blair if Britain launches an attack without a fresh UN
security council resolution.
Wake-up call to UN as deadline approaches
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,915737,00.html
US and Europe face biggest rift for centuries
Blair: we have reached the time for a decision
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,915680,00.html
An edited transcript of Tony Blair's statement
Hain spells out price of support
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,915733,00.html
Cabinet hawk demands radical reshaping of New Labour after war.
Cabinet hawk preparing to reshape party from within
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,915671,00.html
Jackie Ashley meets Peter Hain, the Welsh secretary and 'socialist
minister'
Crew member of Iraqi dhow shot dead as Kuwaitis enforce blockade
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915750,00.html
A Kuwaiti gunboat opened fire on an Iraqi dhow killing a member of its
crew on Saturday night, as tensions grew between coalition and Iraqi
forces operating in the waters of the northern Gulf.
Kurds flee as secret police step up arrests
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915642,00.html
It was the knock on the door at 5am that convinced Ali Bresmani it was
time to leave. Five Iraqi security officers armed with Kalashnikovs
burst into his flat.
Saddam keeps defence in the family as country moves to war footing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915649,00.html
Iraq moved on to a war footing yesterday, signalling that Saddam
Hussein believes there is now little or no chance of staving off a
US-led invasion.
Israeli army bulldozer crushes US peace protester in Gaza Strip
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915711,00.html
Peace campaigner killed as Israeli army destroys homes in Palestinian
refugee camp.
No independent Palestine, Sharon insists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915553,00.html
Bush says road map to peace will not be redrafted but Israel's defiant
PM demands concessions.
Reformer succeeds murdered Serbian PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915549,00.html
Serbia moved swiftly yesterday to fill the political vacuum left by
the assassination of the prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, as his party
nominated the former interior minister, Zoran Zivkovic, to replace
him.
Taco's tomato pickers on slave wages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915546,00.html
The American fast food giant Taco Bell has been buying tomatoes
produced by slave and sweatshop labour, according to a group of
Florida tomato pickers who held a 10-day hunger strike outside the
company's headquarters.
Bush: a moment of truth for the world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915645,00.html
An edited transcript of George Bush's statement
Powell will take the rap for failed diplomacy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915646,00.html
Recrimination at the failure of US diplomacy has begun in Washington,
one source close to the administration admitting yesterday: "This has
been the worst American diplomatic debacle of our lifetime."
Threats fly after Ankara's flight ban
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915643,00.html
Keep out of Kurdish areas, US warns
Mortal fear rules Saddam's inner circle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915641,00.html
Years of terror mean president has nowhere to turn for advice
Central African Republic under rebel president
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915554,00.html
Rebels seized the capital of the Central African Republic at the
weekend in a lightning attack which forced the government to flee to
neighbouring Cameroon, further destabilising the already volatile
region.
Spanish fury at 'slur' on the Conquistadores
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915548,00.html
Historian claims ancient civilisations were destroyed by ruthless
entrepreneurs
European prince wins new powers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,915545,00.html
One of Europe's most bizarre and bitter electoral campaigns ended in
victory yesterday for Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein, after his
subjects bowed to his will and voted to grant him sweeping powers over
the tiny alpine kingdom.
Preparing for battle: wisecracks, war films and thoughts of loved ones
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,915708,00.html
He has dug a small hole in the desert floor and now Captain Reg Carney
is taking his letters, ripping them into pieces one by one and setting
them alight. His face is one of still reflection: it is an emotional
experience and one which thousands of members of the British military
in northern Kuwait will go through in the coming days.
Farmers 'still exploited by big retailers'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,915593,00.html
Survey finds supermarkets' code of practice lacks teeth
They've lost the battle, will they support the war?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,915402,00.html
As a war with Iraq looms and the jingoistic calls to "Back our Boys"
mount, the papers that are against conflict are facing a big problem -
How will they cover it, asks Roy Greenslade.
When two scribes go to war
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,915405,00.html
Their papers are both Thatcherite, anti-euro and anti-Blair. That's
why Charles Moore and Paul Dacre find themselves in a bitter battle,
says Roy Greenslade.
War against Iraq: A watershed for the world
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=387898
George Bush and Tony Blair have given the United Nations until this
evening to reach consensus for military action on Iraq
The danger of fighting an unpopular war
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/andreas_whittam_smith/story.jsp?story=387833
Without wholehearted public assent, it is hard for soldiers to summon
up their last reserves of daring
Britain must now begin planning its foreign policy for the post-war
world
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/bruce_anderson/story.jsp?story=387832
When Harold Macmillan talked of us playing Greeks to the Americans'
Romans, he was merely predicting our destiny for the 21st century
Today is the day when everyone must show their cards at the UN
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=387838
17 March 2003
For all the warmongering predictions, the emergency US-British-Spanish
summit held in the Azores yesterday provided a necessary opportunity
to cool rapidly overheating hearts and heads.
Iraq crisis
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=387827
Scientists develop 'brain chip'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2843099.stm
Patients with brain damage could be helped
A "brain chip" could be used to replace the "memory centre" in
patients affected by strokes, epilepsy or Alzheimer's disease, it has
been claimed.
Go Digital: Your digital world
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/1478157.stm
Welcome to Go Digital, the weekly BBC World Service programme that
looks at how technology is changing our lives.
The turning tide of Africa's brain drain
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2844277.stm
"To this day we continue to lose the best among ourselves because the
lights in the developed world shine brighter," Nelson Mandela said
recently.
Bollywood enters digital age
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2841231.stm
India's film theatres are embracing new technology, with new digital
projectors being installed and movies converted into a digital format.
Markets fall as war fears mount
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2855315.stm
Stock markets in Europe fall heavily on Monday as traders prepare for
a chaotic week of trading.
War talk and lay-offs deepen US gloom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2851333.stm
US consumers are sinking further into gloom as a looming conflict in
Iraq, and increasing job lay-offs, knock sentiment and restrain
industrial output.
Deep Christian faith
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/2850485.stm
America, land of miracles and a born-again president
Analysis: Africa's Iraq swing votes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2835913.stm
Angola, Cameroon and Guinea are not used to being assiduously courted
by the world's major powers.
Malaysia: Caught in the middle
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2829733.stm
Malaysia lies at the heart of South-east Asia, the region described by
the United States as the second front in its so-called war on terror.
Turkey delays US troop decision
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2850109.stm
New Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled out any
immediate vote in parliament on the proposed deployment of American
troops in the country.
France's diplomatic gamble
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/2854091.stm
At a weekend summit with his British and Spanish allies on the
Atlantic Ocean islands of the Azores, President George W Bush said the
world faced a "moment of truth" on Iraq, and many observers believe
that war will begin soon.
US aid boost for Pakistan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2852157.stm
The US has waived its last remaining sanctions against Pakistan, a key
ally in its declared war on terror.
Agenda
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/agenda.shtml
The question of how to disarm Iraq has provoked some of the United
Nations most divisive debates. A UN veteran discusses the implications
for the future of this organisation.
Analysis
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/analysis.shtml
Michael Gallagher examines what has changed Tony Blair's once cautious
approach as British Prime Minister, and why he is now prepared to
stand up against public opinion.
The Giving Game
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/ess_peo.shtml
Tim Whewell reports on the growth of non-governmental organisations
both at a national and international level.
Globalisation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/globalisation/
In depth reports explore the phenomenon
Webs We Weave
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/websweweave/
Global collaboration on a water themed Internet play
Israel's Secret Weapon
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/correspondent/2837671.stm
Olenka Frenkiel reveals the story of Mordechai Vanunu and how he
remains in jail for exposing Israel's secret nuclear bomb factory.
Resolved for war?
http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/03/week_2/16_legal.html
Channel 4 News understands that British forces have still to sign off
on the 'rules of engagement' as arguments over the legality of war
continue.
16-Mar-2003
Mark Easton
Getting On With It
http://tinyurl.com/7m78
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
The way for President Bush to answer the advocates of inaction is to
help Iraqis create a dictator-free confederation.
With Ears and Eyes Closed
http://tinyurl.com/7m79
By BOB HERBERT
The president's mind was made up long ago. Mr. Bush will have his war.
Red, White and Green
http://tinyurl.com/7m7c
By ROY FOSTER
At a time when identity politics have replaced ideology, St. Patrick's
Day affirms the warm kitchen comforts of ethnicity.
President Bush Prepares for War
http://tinyurl.com/7m7g
Mr. Bush said he would spend Monday pursuing one last opportunity for
diplomacy. He should be held to his word.
Humanity's Slowing Growth
http://tinyurl.com/7m7m
Population growth rates are plummeting - for good and tragic reasons.
The implications are profound.
Leaders Declare That Diplomatic Effort at U.N. Ends on Monday
http://tinyurl.com/7m7s
By DAVID E. SANGER and WARREN HOGE
The U.S., Britain and Spain made it clear that they were ready to
depose Saddam Hussein, with or without U.N. endorsement.
A Long, Winding Road to a Diplomatic Dead End
http://tinyurl.com/7m7w
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
A train of miscalculations and misunderstandings over Iraq has set
back American diplomacy and world standing.
Iraq's Air Defense Is Concentrated Around Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/7m7y
By MICHAEL R. GORDON with JOHN F. BURNS
Saddam Hussein has created a "hornet's nest" around Baghdad and
entrusted Iraq's defense to his relatives and deputies.
Arab League Leader Calls for Peace, but No One Listens
http://tinyurl.com/7m81
By SUSAN SACHS
Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the 22-nation Arab League, has
been working the phones to try to stop the U.S. from going to war
against Iraq.
Vigils Are Held Around the World to Oppose Military Action
http://tinyurl.com/7m87
By THOMAS J. LUECK
Thousands of candlelight vigils, held Sunday night in subdued and
widespread protests against military action against Iraq, were
organized largely over the Internet.
Realizing Dreams of Flight, Inspired by Historic Crew
http://tinyurl.com/7m8a
By LYNETTE CLEMETSON
Lt. Dewaine Barnes, who became a pilot after learning about the
Tuskegee Airmen, is aiming to lead a team in combat in Iraq.
Trial Set to Begin for Four Men Accused of Being in Terror Cell
http://tinyurl.com/7m8c
By DANNY HAKIM
The government will try to convince a jury that four Arab men were
operating what it has called a "sleeper operational combat cell" from
Chicago and Detroit.
In Syracuse, a Diverse Group of Women Are Working to Change the World
http://tinyurl.com/7m8f
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Women Transcending Boundaries is a group that was formed after the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to promote friendships between Muslim and
non-Muslim women.
A Province Is Dying of Thirst, and Cries Robbery
http://tinyurl.com/7m8i
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Millions of people in southeastern Pakistan are seething with anger
and despair over what they charge is "water robbery" by a more
powerful province.
Israeli Army Bulldozer Kills American in Gaza
http://tinyurl.com/7m8l
By GREG MYRE
An American college student in Gaza was killed on Sunday while trying
to block troops from demolishing a Palestinian home.
China Provides Information on Deadly Health Threat
http://tinyurl.com/7m8p
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Chinese health officials gave sketchy details about a mysterious
respiratory ailment that they say has tapered off in recent weeks.
A New Texas Tourism Lure: George Bush Slept Here
http://tinyurl.com/7m8w
By PETER T. KILBORN
The world has little noted President Bush's childhood homes in West
Texas: in Odessa, a historically blue-collar city; and in Midland, its
richer rival.
As World Waits, Quiet on the West Wing Front
http://tinyurl.com/7m90
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
President Bush jetted across the Atlantic and back for an emergency
summit Sunday, but otherwise his household has settled into an eerie
calm.
The Duct Tape Jokes Are Persistent; So Is Ridge
http://tinyurl.com/7m9c
By JOHN TIERNEY
Many cabinet members serve entire terms without becoming household
names, but Tom Ridge has become a one-man economic stimulus package
for the comedy industry.
As Abortion Battle Escalates, Both Sides Look to the Supreme Court
http://tinyurl.com/7m9f
By ROBIN TONER
The wrenching debate in the Senate last week was about more than
partial-birth abortion. There was a clear recognition that this was
the beginning of a broader struggle.
A Decision Made, and Its Consequences
http://tinyurl.com/7m9i
By DAVID E. SANGER
President Bush presented a stark choice on Sunday to the deeply
divided world body: Join a preventive war, or stand aside.
U.S. Unilateralism Worries Trade Officials
http://tinyurl.com/7m9k
By ELIZABETH BECKER
Top officials at the World Trade Organization say they are worried
that the Bush administration's go-it-alone policy is threatening
international trade.
At Telecom Research Firm, the Forecast Is Never Sunny
http://tinyurl.com/7m9n
By SIMON ROMERO
Probe Research issued its latest dose of hopelessness about the
telecommunications industry in a new report titled "Debt, Demographics
and Telecom."
Political Targets With Moving Parts
http://tinyurl.com/7m9q
By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL
Some cartoonists have taken the high-tech route to wage battle by
creating animated political cartoons for the Web.
Consumers Downloading Coupons
http://tinyurl.com/7m9t
By BOB TEDESCHI
More consumers are using online coupons as companies begin to offer
them for a wider array of products.
Patent Donations Are Criticized
http://tinyurl.com/7m9v
By TERESA RIORDAN
Gregory Aharonian is intent on exposing what he says may turn out to
be the next big tax accounting scandal: patent donations.
Technology Executives Assemble on a Muted Note
http://tinyurl.com/7m9x
By JAMES CONNELL
There is a long way to climb back from the peak of the bubble years,
executives gathered at the CeBIT technology convention in Germany
pointed out.
Lawmakers Agree on AIDS Bill Details
http://tinyurl.com/7ma0
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Lawmakers in the House say they will introduce legislation on Monday
that would far exceed the president's spending request for a global
fund to fight AIDS.
Girls' Schools Teach Dollars and Cents
http://tinyurl.com/7ma8
By JANE GROSS
A growing number of all-girls schools nationwide have declared
financial literacy an educational priority.
Via Ireland, a Chapter in the Story of Black America
http://tinyurl.com/7mac
By S. LEE JAMISON
So many African-Americans have Irish-sounding last names that you
would think that the long story of blacks and Irish coming together
would be well documented.
War Witnesses at an Intimate Level
http://tinyurl.com/7mag
By DINITIA SMITH
Two new memoirs of the Persian Gulf war provide nihilistic visions of
war, profanity and allusions to pop culture.
A Woman Named Hester, Wearing a Familiar Letter
http://tinyurl.com/7mak
By BEN BRANTLEY
This adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" offers
further testimony to the intellectual suppleness of Suzan-Lori Parks.
Bush: Exile or War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35410-2003Mar16.html
The Bush administration presented the world with a nonnegotiable
demand yesterday regarding Iraqi President Saddam Hussein: It is time
for him to go.
FBI Has War Plans To Mobilize Agents
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35147-2003Mar16.html
If U.S. forces invade Iraq, the FBI has plans to mobilize as many as
5,000 agents to guard against terrorist attacks, monitor or arrest
suspected militants and interview thousands of Iraqis living in the
U.S.
Bush, Allies Give Diplomacy 24 Hours
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32413-2003Mar16.html
The three leaders appeared to be merely going through the motions of
diplomacy in an effort to place the blame on the U.N. if the council
fails to authorize the use of force.
Marine Predicted War 'Just a Few Days Away'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34992-2003Mar16.html
The top U.S. commander also suggested that it would begin with a few
day bombing campaign before land forces are sent in.
Final Days
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35542-2003Mar16.html
Page A18
PRESIDENT BUSH and his Azores allies yesterday gave the United
Nations one day to agree to decisive action on Iraq. In the event that
there is no such decision today, Mr. Bush will probably announce a
second deadline, this time addressed to Saddam Hussein. If neither
ultimatum proves effective, which seems likely, tens of thousands of
American military personnel will be ordered on a mission to disarm
Iraq and remove its dictator by force. In our view, military action
has been made necessary by Saddam Hussein's repeated defiance of U.N.
disarmament orders; we believe Mr. Bush is right to go forward despite
opposition from France and other nations. Mr. Bush spoke angrily about
France's threats of vetoes in the Security Council, but he and Prime
Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Jose Maria Aznar of Spain also
committed themselves to preserving the transatlantic alliance and the
United Nations, which Mr. Bush stressed would have a role in the
postwar reconstruction of Iraq. "I understand the wars of the 21st
century are going to require incredible international cooperation,"
Mr. Bush said. If the Security Council fails to act, he said, "all of
us need to step back and try to figure out how to make the U.N. work
better."
No Particular Concern
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35566-2003Mar16.html
Page A18
THE LAW IS CLEAR: The president "shall designate each country" that
"has engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of
religious freedom" as "a country of particular concern for religious
freedom." By any reasonable standard, Saudi Arabia should have pride
of place among the government's designees. The discussion of religious
freedom in that country in the State Department's human rights report,
after all, begins by stating that "freedom of religion does not
exist." Yet, somehow, when the State Department this month issued its
list of "countries of particular concern" -- a list that included
China, Iran, Iraq, Burma, North Korea and Sudan -- the kingdom was
left off, as it had been in previous years.
Ignoring The Unthinkable
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35567-2003Mar16.html
By Fred Hiatt, Page A19
If a terrorist were to detonate a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb in Grand
Central Station, about half a million people would die immediately --
roughly equivalent to the population of Washington, D.C. Much of
Manhattan would be destroyed, and depending on the prevailing winds
the rest of the island might have to be evacuated. Hundreds of
thousands more would die of burns and exposure to radiation. The
direct economic effects would surpass $1 trillion, or one-tenth of the
nation's annual economic output. Indirect effects -- if, say, the
terrorists threatened to destroy another city -- would be much higher.
Romania's Example
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35568-2003Mar16.html
By Ion Iliescu, Page A19
In December 1989, Bucharest was a depressing place. Darkness
reigned over Romania. The people suffered from lack of food, heat and
electricity due to a rationing policy imposed by the totalitarian
regime of Nicolae Ceausescu in order to finance foreign debt and his
megalomaniacal construction projects. Free media were silenced. There
was no freedom, only fear, along with repression, international
isolation and a pervasive cult of personality.
A War Founded on Faulty Logic
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31069-2003Mar15.html
Page A18
Richard Cohen ["When Peace Is No Better Than War," op-ed, March 11]
asked where the peace marchers were when Saddam Hussein was using
poison gas against the Kurds, implying the false principle that the
burden on every protester is to protest against every conceivable
injustice in the world or protest against nothing.
Military Sacrifice All Around
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31071-2003Mar15.html
Page A18
Kristen Collat [letters, March 10] is right about active-duty
soldiers often having to live on the low salaries that reservists face
temporarily, and I don't want to get into a comparison of who has it
worse -- active-duty military or reservists. But as the wife of a
now-deployed reservist, I would like to point out that I live hours
away from any military base and my husband's armory. Therefore, I do
not enjoy the benefit of shopping at the reduced-price commissary and
the PX.
Hope for Venezuelan Democracy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31068-2003Mar15.html
Page A18
The March 1 editorial "Meddle With Mr. Chavez" stated that
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has no interest in adhering to the
constitutionally mandated referendum set for August.
Borne in Effigy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35656-2003Mar16.html
Starting with the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization
in Seattle, huge puppets - and large effigies and masks - have become
part of the essential vernacular of protest.
A Usually Windy U.N., Calm Before the Storm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35655-2003Mar16.html
With the Azores summiteers announcing a final chance to reach
agreement, the United Nations might still prove pivotal.
On the Road And On Camera With Tom Friedman
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35654-2003Mar16.html
Traveling with a camera crew, Thomas Friedman says, is harder than it
looks.
Baghdad Girds for Battle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35355-2003Mar16.html
Defensive preparations are stepped up as more elite troops are
deployed across the city.
Former Somali General Told to Leave U.S.: Diplomats Protest Possible
Deporting Of American Ally (Post, March 17, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35146-2003Mar16.html
Abortion Doctor's Killer Waives Jury Trial (Post, March 17, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35144-2003Mar16.html
With Leaflets and Broadcasts, U.S. Aims to Sway Iraqi Minds (Post,
March 17, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35145-2003Mar16.html
Raining leaflets down across southern Iraq, the U.S. military speaks
to Iraqi soldiers and "the people of Iraq" in a strong, imperative
voice, urging them to stay at home with their families and abandon the
tyrannical regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Congress Questions Cost of War-Related Aid: Some Lawmakers Skeptical
of 'Emergency' Requests for Assistance to Cooperating Nations (By Dan
Morgan, Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35325-2003Mar16.html
Pols Take Hats Off to Kerry For Coming to Boston Roast: Jokes Rib
Senator's Jewish Ancestry (By Pamela Ferdinand, Page A05)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35132-2003Mar16.html
An Economic Tug of War (By Mike Allen, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35139-2003Mar16.html
With the likelihood of war dominating public attention, Democrats are
laying plans to keep reminding voters about the shaky economy and, in
particular, the sharp increase in unemployment since President Bush
took office.
New Demands Spur Focus on Ancient Crab (By Louis Jacobson, Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35529-2003Mar16.html
Horseshoe crabs have been around for more than 200 million years --
they predate flying insects, dinosaurs and humans -- but scientists
know little about them. That is changing, now that the species is
playing critical roles in assuring biomedical safety and in a major
environmental dispute.
2nd Suspect Arrested in Probe of Muslim Group (Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35528-2003Mar16.html
SPOKANE, Wash. -- A second man with ties to the University of Idaho
has been arrested in a widening investigation of a suspected
terrorist-related group in the Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman, Wash.,
area, an FBI source has confirmed.
Democratic Leaders Agree on Israel Aid, but Split on Praise for Bush
(By Dan Morgan, Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35331-2003Mar16.html
When Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) recently drafted a
letter urging President Bush to approve a new aid package for Israel,
the paragraph at the top praising the president's "vision" of a
democratic Iraq didn't bother one prominent Democrat.
Political Plums Begin to Ripen at Homeland Agency: First 'Schedule C'
Jobs Listed (By Christopher Lee, Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35327-2003Mar16.html
Above the Fry (By Al Kamen, Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35148-2003Mar16.html
Chirac Says Give Iraq A Deadline of 30 Days
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35401-2003Mar16.html
French President Jacques Chirac said that he remains opposed to a
U.S.-led war in Iraq, but offered a new proposal of a 30-day deadline
for Iraqi disarmament.
American Is Killed By Israeli Bulldozer: Student Was Protesting
Demolitions (Post, March 17, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35126-2003Mar16.html
Outbreak Originated in China: Illness Peaked a Month Ago, Agency Told;
Official Media Silent (Post, March 17, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35460-2003Mar16.html
Blair Braces for War's Political Cost: Failure of Diplomacy Could
Weaken Prime Minister, at Least Temporarily (Post, March 17, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35379-2003Mar16.html
U.S. Troops Working With Kurdish Fighters: Groups May Help Special
Forces Plan Airstrikes for Advance Into Northern Iraq (Post, March 17,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35295-2003Mar16.html
Patience Wears Thin During a Long Wait (Post, March 17, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35293-2003Mar16.html
Using Down Time To Learn the Culture (Post, March 17, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35294-2003Mar16.html
Statement of the Azores Summit (Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35125-2003Mar16.html
You Want Falafel With That?: After a Massive Buildup, McDonald's
McArabia Sandwich Lands in Kuwait (By Richard Leiby, Page C01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35653-2003Mar16.html
Berlusconi
http://tinyurl.com/7m6w
Tony Blair
http://tinyurl.com/7m69
War crimes
http://tinyurl.com/7mbz
maff
Left behind to starve
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,916234,00.html
George Monbiot: A humanitarian disaster is engulfing Africa as cash is
poured into war and its aftermath
Helpless, heedless... and a hope of being right
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,916544,00.html
Martin Woollacott: The president's sombre speech, not without
eloquence, will now alert many to the risks being faced.
The greatest threat is from the momentum of events
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,916317,00.html
Martin Kettle: Blair's pragmatic paradox has finally been broken by
America's war.
Trust Tony's judgment
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,916233,00.html
Bill Clinton: If a majority of the security council had adopted the
Blair approach, Saddam would have had no room for evasion and might
have disarmed without bloodshed.
Why I had to leave the cabinet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,916318,00.html
Robin Cook: This will be a war without support at home or agreement
abroad.
Whose interests at heart?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,916235,00.html
Sami Ramadani: The invasion and occupation of Iraq cannot give my
people their freedom. That's why MPs should vote against war.
You oughta be in politics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,916316,00.html
Zoe Williams: Perhaps we should be looking among the A-list actors at
the upcoming Oscars for our future leaders.
Rachel's war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,916246,00.html
This weekend 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was
crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli
army destroying homes in the Gaza Strip. In a remarkable series of
emails to her family, she explained why she was risking her life.
The man who could be king
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,916248,00.html
He should have been crowned King of Jordan but his brother had a
deathbed change of heart. Now Prince Hassan says he would happily
mediate between Saddam Hussein and the world. Michael Freedland
visited him at home.
We're not all peaceniks - but you wouldn't know it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,916207,00.html
David Aaronovitch: Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs should forget
axiomatic wisdom this week, and think like Iraqis.
Our nightmare begins...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,916290,00.html
Peter Hain, Welsh secretary and government enforcer, promises that if
we support the government's wish to go to war without a resolution,
then we can expect a "greater emphasis on the redistribution of
wealth" at home (Hain spells out price of backing Blair, March 17).
What we can do next
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,916297,00.html
In the absence of a "none of the above" box on the ballot, I shall be
spoiling my paper in the forthcoming local elections with the words
"stop the war".
Mourning Djindjic - and hoping for a better future
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,916291,00.html
Neil Clark (The quisling of Belgrade, March 14) warms to murderous
tyrants, whatever their crimes, just so long as they hold that
essential qualification, the enmity of the US.
Seeds of doubt over GM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,916293,00.html
Margaret Beckett (Letters, March 17) misunderstands both the issues at
stake and the European process for licensing the marketing of GM
crops.
Losing Robin Cook
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,916294,00.html
Can Clare Short be far behind?
A higher calling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,916295,00.html
Give a big boost to the minimum wage.
Home-grown reform
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,916296,00.html
Protect private cannabis cultivators.
Minimum wage rises to £4.50 as sop to party
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,916350,00.html
Tony Blair will announce tomorrow that the minimum wage for Britain's
low-paid workers is to rise to £4.50 an hour.
Gamble on short, sharp war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,916348,00.html
End of uncertainty buoys markets, but sterling fails to share in
dollar's recovery.
EU fears conflict will bring on recession
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,916347,00.html
War in Iraq could push the continent's already enfeebled economy over
the edge and into full-blown recession, the European commission warned
yesterday.
Cook quits over Iraq policy
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,916498,00.html
Commons ovation for Robin Cook as he quits cabinet and rounds on Blair
and United States.
Why I had to leave the cabinet
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/comment/0,9236,916360,00.html
This will be a war without support at home or agreement abroad
Support for attack jumps
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/polls/story/0,11030,916494,00.html
Public opinion has shifted dramatically towards military action
against Iraq, with the anti-war lead in the Guardian/ICM opinion poll
narrowing from 23 to only six points in the past month.
Amnesty plea to protect civilians
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,916436,00.html
Military action against Iraq should be taken only within the strict
guidelines of international law, the UK director of Amnesty
International will say today.
Instant protests threatened when attacks start
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,916478,00.html
Britain will be be brought to a temporary standstill by waves of
protests, rallies, sit-ins, strikes, occupations, civil disobedience
and people taking personal direct action within hours of the first
bombers heading for Iraq, claim peace campaigners.
Speech bemoans Britain's isolation
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,916517,00.html
Robin Cook last night received a standing ovation from MPs across the
House of Commons after he delivered a blistering attack on a military
assault against Iraq.
Tony Blair's response to Cook
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,916149,00.html
Thank you for your letter confirming your wish to resign from the
cabinet. You were good enough to tell me some days ago that you would
resign in the event of our failure to secure a new UNSCR [United
Nations security council resolution] that authorised military action.
Despite his talents, he floundered, then failed but finally went with
dignity
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,916488,00.html
Resignation marks beginning of end for Cook's tour de force
Straw denies UN deal was needed
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,916503,00.html
Jack Straw last night blamed France for creating paralysis in security
council negotiations and making it impossible to secure consensus on a
second UN resolution.
Trickily timed reshuffle puts two in the frame
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,916453,00.html
Tony Blair will today be forced to carry out a cabinet reshuffle in
trying circumstances after Robin Cook resigned on the eve of war.
Short plans to stay in cabinet after spectacular u-turn
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,916444,00.html
Clare Short, the international development secretary, appeared certain
to stay in government last night.
PM's wife recruited to bolster waverers
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,916461,00.html
Tony Blair ordered his cabinet heavyweights to fan out across
Westminster yesterday to intensify pressure on Labour MPs to support
the government over Iraq.
Attorney general rules that attack is lawful
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,916430,00.html
Existing security council resolutions justify use of force without new
vote, says Lord Goldsmith.
Making the case
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,916420,00.html
Opinions show a clear divide
The £1m a year lawyer with views that are not for sale
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,916410,00.html
Peter Goldsmith, attorney general since 2001, was one of a small
number of top commercial QCs earning £1m a year or more when Tony
Blair appointed him a peer.
Blair has no mandate to go to war
http://politicstalk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.4a90c5da
Live Iraq debate
http://politicstalk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.4a90e797/0
Join Observer political editor Kamal Ahmed online tomorrow at 4pm to
debate the Iraq crisis.
Roman Hallyday
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,915913,00.html
March 17: The only story competing with Iraq for news space in France
has crooner Johnny Hallyday denying accusations of sexual assault,
writes Jon Henley.
Ocker under strine
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,915949,00.html
March 17: Strewth! Australians fear the death of Emma Chisit and other
linguistic treasures at the vowels of America, writes David Fickling.
'We blame Saddam for everything'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,915832,00.html
March 17: Fifteen years after Iraq attacked Halabja, Luke Harding
finds its inhabitants desperate for the removal of Saddam Hussein.
Concessions of a dangerous mind
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,916093,00.html
March 17: US backing for the Middle East peace plan isn't worth the
paper its written on, says Brian Whitaker.
Taking diplomacy to the wire
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,916134,00.html
March 17: Transcripts of telegrams from Spain's UN ambassador offer an
insight into what happened at the UN, writes Giles Tremlett.
Bush gives Saddam and his sons 48 hours to leave Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916550,00.html
President George Bush last night gave Saddam Hussein and his sons 48
hours to give up power and go into exile or face invasion by more than
a quarter of a million US and British troops massed on Iraq's borders.
Failure to win votes spelled end for resolution
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916464,00.html
UN Secretary general questions legality as US blames France.
Moscow and Paris condemn use of force
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916464,00.html
France rejects blame as Putin warns of gravest consequences.
Sun sets on Kuwaiti border peace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916457,00.html
At about 3pm yesterday a small group of Kuwaiti soldiers stood on the
rampart of a high sand wall, gazing at Iraq. Next to them engineers
had cut a neat hole in the wall, easily big enough to drive two tanks
through abreast.
Ragtag army or expert street fighters? Which enemy will Britain and US
face?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916404,00.html
US Major General Thomas Rhame is not impressed by Saddam's
much-vaunted elite troops, the Republican Guard. "They are simply
terrible," he said. "They did not perform worth a crap."
UN alarm at Iran's nuclear programme
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916192,00.html
The UN's nuclear watchdog demanded greater access to Iran's nuclear
programme yesterday, amid growing anxiety in the west that Tehran is
much closer to building a nuclear bomb than previously feared.
Israeli wall to encircle Palestine
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916196,00.html
Sharon accused of turning territories into huge prison.
Mugabe's youth militias 'raping women held captive in camps '
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916191,00.html
Victims across Zimbabwe accuse ruling party of sex crime and torture
by Zanu-PF.
Turkey to reconsider US troop ban
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916533,00.html
Northern frontier for war on Iraq may be opened for Americans
A photograph, a kiss and a bitter end to UN hopes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916456,00.html
The sun was sinking low in the afternoon sky when the two weapons
inspectors emerged to pose for photographs in front of the limp blue
United Nations flag, taking their personal record of the day when
diplomacy failed and gave way to war.
Military's spin corps promises honesty over civilian deaths
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916458,00.html
When the war in Iraq begins, the US and British governments hope to
win over sceptical western audiences from a pulpit, in a large
briefing hall, at a military camp in the desert of Qatar.
Air war could decimate major buildings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916413,00.html
One in 10 major buildings in Iraq could be destroyed by US and British
warplanes when the air campaign begins, British military officials
said yesterday.
Bigger, better bangs: new weapons on trial
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916403,00.html
With war seemingly inevitable, weapon designers will be looking
forward to another opportunity for field-testing new products. The US
air force has just demonstrated its 10 ton guided bomb for the first
time at a range in Florida. The massive ordnance air blast munition is
known by its faintly biblical acronym of Moab. The hype declares it to
be the world's largest non-nuclear explosive device: it packs a punch
well above the renowned daisycutter BLU-52 used in the hunt for
al-Qaida in the caves of Tora Bora. Moab may not be ready for action,
but it is obviously being trialled as part of the psychological
warfare against Iraq.
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916405,00.html
Current preferred euphemism for dropping bombs. When aircraft drop
leaflets on Iraq asking the military to surrender and radio stations
broadcast anti-Saddam rhetoric, the generals describe it as soft
targeting. When fighter jets and cruise missiles destroy targets on
the ground, the military calls it "kinetic targeting".
US firms get $1.5bn deal to rebuild Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916387,00.html
The United States plans to transform the infrastructure of Iraq within
a year of a war ending, but has sidelined aid agencies by allocating
almost all the funds available to private American firms.
Basque party banned
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916194,00.html
Spain's supreme court judges voted unanimously yesterday to ban the
Basque separatist party Batasuna under the terms of a recent law that
aims to prevent parties from colluding with political violence.
French state oil bosses in dock for sleaze worth millions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916195,00.html
Allegations of state-sponsored sleaze returned to a French courtroom
yesterday as 37 people were accused of siphoning off £120m from the
accounts of the former state-owned oil giant Elf Aquitaine.
Oil drilling in wildlife park gets nearer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916193,00.html
With public attention diverted by Iraq, George Bush is poised to push
one of his most cherished and controversial measures past strong
opposition on Capitol Hill and into law.
Bush issues war ultimatum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,916540,00.html
The US president, George Bush, this morning gave Saddam Hussein and
his sons 48 hours to leave Iraq or face a US invasion.
British troops given higher profile
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,916407,00.html
Campaign to begin with huge air strikes though major UK role will be
in ground invasion.
Eyes and ears of the desert army prepare to go behind enemy lines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,916408,00.html
Hi-tech equipment and stealth key to success
Storage of army secrets to be privatised
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,916373,00.html
The government is to hand over the storage of top secret military
records - including those of Sir Winston Churchill and Lord
Mountbatten - from Whitehall to Rupert Murdoch's TNT Group as part of
a new privatisation deal to release valuable land for the expansion of
Heathrow airport.
If you aren't born lucky, no amount of rabbits' feet will make a jot
of difference
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,916205,00.html
Thanks, perhaps, to falling stock markets and turmoil in the Middle
East, Britons have become even more superstitious than usual,
according to a report published today.
Into Africa
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,915851,00.html
Through the darkest days of apartheid, Canon John Collins secretly
funnelled money to its victims. Actor Antony Sher meets his fellow
South Africans who are now benefiting from the legacy of this
formidable man
Bush gives Saddam 48 hours until war
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=388281
George Bush handed Saddam Hussein a final stark choice last night
between leaving the country within 48 hours and facing military
conflict
Cook resigns in protest
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=388258
The Commons Leader quit the Cabinet yesterday and urged MPs to oppose
the war in today's vote
UN inspectors leave Baghdad; Britons urged to quit Bahrain, Jordan
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=388283
UN weapons inspectors pulled out of Iraq today, as Foreign Office
warns Britons to leave Bahrain and Baghdad
In vain, I looked for signs of the storm to come. Baghdad is a city
sleepwalking to war
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=388279
For Baghdad, it is night number 1,001, the very last few hours of
fantasy. As UN inspectors prepared to leave the city in the early
hours of this morning, Saddam Hussein has appointed his own son,
Qusay, to lead the defence of the city of the Caliphs against the
American invasion. Yet at the Armed Forces club yesterday, I found the
defenders playing football. Iraqi television prepares Baghdad people
for the bombardment to come with music from the Hollywood film,
Gladiator. But the Iraqis went on with their work of disarming the
soon-to-be invaded nation, observing the destruction of two more
Al-Samoud missiles.
France will be a loser in the second Gulf War
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/john_lichfield/story.jsp?story=388236
President Chirac would prefer to have avoided being thrust into such
an heroically exposed position
The night before the battle
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/story.jsp?story=388192
War is upon us. But we have been here before - as described by these
diarists, who recorded their feelings, hopes and fears on the eve of
conflict
Shares surge as Bush goes to war
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=388232
18 March 2003
Market turmoil: Prolonged conflict with Iraq could plunge eurozone
into recession, warns Commission
Iraq Crisis
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=388221
A divided world stands on the brink of a war that could have been
avoided
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=388238
The failure of diplomacy to avert war is a tragedy, and the blame is
widely shared. And, while Mr Blair's stature as a statesman has grown,
key elements of his foreign policy are in shreds
Mr Cook has resigned - but it is Mr Blair who is out of step with
public opinion
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/donald_macintyre/story.jsp?story=388235
Majority opinion in the country is unrepresented - not by the many MPs
who would like to vote no - but by the party leaderships
The Sketch: A moving farewell to make Mr Blair wince
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/simon_carr/story.jsp?story=388259
Robin Cook left his office and got into his ministerial car to head in
for the afternoon cabinet meeting; when the car arrived in Downing
Street, it was empty. Do they have those special cars now, for this
sort of thing? Saddam probably has.
Things to Come
http://tinyurl.com/7op5
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Victory in Iraq won't end the world's distrust of the United States,
because the Bush administration has made it clear that it doesn't play
by the rules.
Cassandra Speaks
http://tinyurl.com/7oqs
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
On the eve of a new war, the remarkably preserved citadel at Troy is
an intriguing spot to seek lessons from history.
Iraq
http://www.daypop.com/search?q=Iraq&search=Search&t=a
Good Reasons for Going Around the U.N.
http://tinyurl.com/7or0
By ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER
By giving up on the Security Council, the Bush administration has
started on a course that could be called "illegal but legitimate."
Rallying Around the Rapist
http://tinyurl.com/7or1
By DEBRA DICKERSON
After being raped by a fellow member of the Air Force, the author
faced a second nightmare: the military blamed her.
War in the Ruins of Diplomacy
http://tinyurl.com/7or4
This war crowns a period of terrible diplomatic failure, Washington's
worst in at least a generation.
On the Trail of a Mystery Illness
http://tinyurl.com/7or5
The mystery disease that has sickened hundreds of people in Asia
demands continued surveillance and prompt isolation of those infected.
The Big Melt
http://tinyurl.com/7or7
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
At our place, we had more than a hundred inches of snow this winter.
It's not enough that it should melt. It should suffer as it melts.
As Diplomatic Effort Ends, President Vows to Act
http://tinyurl.com/7orc
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
The president said the Iraqi leader and his two sons must leave the
country and warned diplomats, aid workers and journalists in Iraq to
get out of harm's way immediately.
Bush's Doctrine for War
http://tinyurl.com/7orf
By DAVID E. SANGER
In an age of unseen enemies, the president said, waiting for America's
foes to attack "is suicide."
In Iraqi Capital, People Prepare for the Conflict
http://tinyurl.com/7orj
By JOHN F. BURNS
The people of Baghdad hastened to prepare for war, taping windows,
shuttering shops and hauling away everything of value they could load
into cars.
Mixed Reaction to Speech
http://tinyurl.com/7orv
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER with JACQUES STEINBERG
If there is any sense of relief in the nation on the eve of a
potential war, it is mixed with little of the cockiness that many
recall during the Desert Storm prelude.
Allies Hope to Move Quickly to Seize City in Iraq's South
http://tinyurl.com/7orx
By PATRICK E. TYLER
One of the first major objectives in the war against Iraq will be to
seize Basra and secure its port facilities.
An Antiwar Resolution Jolts a Rural Township
http://tinyurl.com/7orz
By LESLIE EATON
When a three-member board passed an antiwar resolution in a
Pennsylvania town, many people there considered it a joke until Swiss
television showed up.
Terror Alert Level Raised
http://tinyurl.com/7os1
By PHILIP SHENON with JODI WILGOREN
The Bush administration called on the nation's governors to deploy
National Guard troops or state police to protect public sites that
could be the target of terrorist attacks.
Thousands of Kurds Flee Front-Line Cities
http://tinyurl.com/7os3
By C. J. CHIVERS with DAVID ROHDE
Kurdish civilians sought what they hoped would be safety in villages
out of range of Iraqi artillery.
Palestinian Politicians Snub Arafat in Heated Debate
http://tinyurl.com/7os6
By JAMES BENNET
The Palestinian parliament collided with Yasir Arafat over a measure
that would have limited the authority of a new prime minister.
U.S. Seeks $289 Billion in Cigarette Makers' Profits
http://tinyurl.com/7os9
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
The Justice Department is demanding that cigarette makers forfeit $289
billion in profits derived from a half-century of fraudulent and
dangerous marketing.
Texas Cases Challenged Over Officer's Testimony
http://tinyurl.com/7osb
By ADAM LIPTAK
Tulia, Tex., will reacquaint itself with Thomas Coleman, whose
testimony supported a drug sweep in which more than a tenth of Tulia's
black population was arrested.
States Pan for Gold by Luring the Gray
http://tinyurl.com/7ose
By TERESA BURNEY
The swelling ranks of mobile baby boomers about to hit retirement age
will likely increase the numbers of retirees who decide to move.
Flourishing Between Philadelphia and Newark
http://tinyurl.com/7osf
By PATRICIA R. OLSEN
The 2001 movie "A Beautiful Mind," filmed on the Princeton campus, may
be great publicity, but the area does not need promoting.
Another White House Monday, Except for End
http://tinyurl.com/7osm
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
In the end, President Bush's final day of diplomacy was over almost as
soon as it began, and White House aides said that his speech would not
be his last on Iraq.
As a War Grows More Certain, Thoughts Turn to Daily Life
http://tinyurl.com/7osp
By JOHN TIERNEY
While opponents of a war took to the streets around the world, much of
official Washington concentrated less on morality than on logistics.
Soft Words That Convey a Hard Line
http://tinyurl.com/7osr
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
The tone of President Bush's final warning to Saddam Hussein was less
hard-nosed sheriff than Mr. Rogers gently urging a child to put down
the loaded pistol.
Both Parties Close Ranks Behind the President
http://tinyurl.com/7oss
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Republicans gave unconditional support to President Bush's ultimatum
to President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, while Democrats said that they
would mute their criticism.
Saudis Stock Oil Reserve to Make Up for Iraq Loss
http://tinyurl.com/7ojp
By NEELA BANERJEE
Saudi Arabia has a reserve of nearly 50 million barrels of oil that it
can use to compensate for disruptions of Iraqi oil.
Microsoft to Focus Effort on Corporate Data Centers
http://tinyurl.com/7osz
By STEVE LOHR
Microsoft plans to announce its data-center management strategy as
part of its bid to accelerate into the lucrative market for corporate
computing.
'Lost City' Yielding Its Secrets
http://tinyurl.com/7ot3
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Working with new evidence, archaeologists have revised their thinking
about the significance of Machu Picchu, the most famous "lost city" of
the Incas.
This Tiny Bird Knows an Impostor When It Hatches
http://tinyurl.com/7otb
By CAROL KAESUK YOON
For millenniums, bird species around the world have been put upon by
cuckoos, duped into tending the eggs these sly birds slip into their
nests.
To Test Evolution, Press the 'Undo' Button
http://tinyurl.com/7otc
By CAROL KAESUK YOON
Scientists working with yeast have in effect reversed the process of
evolution in the laboratory.
In Click Languages, an Echo of the Tongues of the Ancients
http://tinyurl.com/7otf
By NICHOLAS WADE
A new genetic study underlines the extreme antiquity of a special
group of languages that may be part of the ancestral human mother
tongue.
Scientists Explore the Molding of Children's Morals
http://tinyurl.com/7oti
By SUSAN GILBERT
Over the last few years, schools in 48 states have introduced
character education programs in the hope of bolstering students'
morals.
Best Way to Fight Colon Cancer: Take the Test
http://tinyurl.com/7otm
By JANE E. BRODY
Colorectal cancer approaches being 100 percent curable, even
preventable, if everyone at risk would take advantage of
well-established tests.
Aging: Closing In on Root of Alzheimer's
http://tinyurl.com/7otq
By JOHN O'NEIL
Studies have indicated that over-the-counter drugs like ibuprofen led
to a lowered risk of Alzheimer's. Now a new report suggests why.
'Oldest Old' Still Show Alertness
http://tinyurl.com/7ott
By MARY DUENWALD
Of all the infirmities people dread in old age, dementia may be the
scariest. But in a recent study, half of the nonagenarians were
perfectly alert.
In New Outbreak, Eerie Reminders of Other Epidemics
http://tinyurl.com/7otu
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D.
The W.H.O. has declared a mysterious respiratory illness "a worldwide
health threat," but little is known about the ailment.
Studying a Disease in Life as Well as in the Abstract
http://tinyurl.com/7otx
By HUBERT B. HERRING
The author of "Moonrise: A Family's Journey Through Muscular
Dystrophy" hopes that the book will raise awareness.
For Immigrants, Mixed View of War
http://tinyurl.com/7ou0
By JOSEPH BERGER
In polyglot New York City, immigrants view the impending war with Iraq
through a kind of split lens.
Thwarting the Nazi Doom Machine
http://tinyurl.com/7ou5
By WALTER LAQUEUR
Martin Gilbert's book tirelessly documents the efforts of brave
individuals to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Bush Gives Hussein 48 Hours to Leave Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41838-2003Mar17.html
President Bush Monday night vowed to attack Iraq with the full force
of the U.S. military if Saddam Hussein and his sons do not flee within
48 hours.
Terror Alert Status Raised to Orange
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41737-2003Mar17.html
The U.S. raised the terrorist threat alert level to orange or "high
risk" immediately after President Bush finished his address on the
prospects of war in Iraq.
Deals Could Keep Foes in Barracks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42566-2003Mar17.html
The U.S. military is trying to negotiate "capitulation agreements"
with Iraqi commanders under which enemy troops would turn over their
weapons and return to their barracks rather than be taken as prisoners
of war.
Legality Of War Is A Matter Of Debate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43211-2003Mar18.html
Many Scholars Doubt Assertion by Bush
Study: Anthrax Response Plans Inadequate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42379-2003Mar17.html
A little more than two pounds of anthrax spores spilled into the air
over a city the size of New York could kill more than 120,000 people
unless officials respond much more aggressively than they currently
plan to.
Bush Clings To Dubious Allegations About Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42517-2003Mar17.html
As the Bush administration prepares to attack Iraq this week, it is
doing so on the basis of a number of allegations against Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein that have been challenged -- and in some
cases disproved -- by the United Nations, European governments and
even U.S. intelligence reports.
Confidence Leaves Streets of Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40589-2003Mar17.html
After months of displaying calm even as legions of U.S. troops
assembled within striking distance of Iraq, Baghdad residents showed
signs of panic at the prospect of an imminent U.S. invasion and the
lawlessness that it may spark.
France Denounces U.S. and Its Allies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41355-2003Mar17.html
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin denounced the U.S.,
Britain and Spain today for planning to wage war against Iraq, saying
such a conflict risked "serious consequences" for the world.
Russia's Putin Calls Iraq War A 'Mistake'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41423-2003Mar17.html
President Vladimir Putin today called for a peaceful resolution to the
Iraqi crisis and said a U.S. military attack would have the "gravest
consequences."
Canada's Leader Rejects Sending Troops to War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43008-2003Mar17.html
TORONTO, March 17 -- Canada will not join a U.S.-led war on Iraq
without a new resolution by the U.N. Security Council, Prime Minister
Jean Chretien told the House of Commons today.
Suspect in Honduras Slaying Arrested in Fairfax
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42466-2003Mar17.html
The 1997 abduction and murder of aspiring businessman Ricardo Maduro
Jr. in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula seemed to symbolize the
country's growing crime problem. It happened despite the arrival of
200 extra police officers in the city two days earlier, and it led
Maduro's father, prominent banker Ricardo Maduro, to run for president
of Honduras in 2001. He won on an anti-crime platform.
Bush Abandons Bid to Win U.N. Backing for War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43034-2003Mar17.html
The Bush administration yesterday abandoned its effort to win United
Nations backing for a war against Iraq in the face of widespread
international rejection of both its rationale and tactics, bringing
nearly six months of intense diplomacy to an abrupt end and setting
the stage for a U.S. invasion to remove Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein.
China Hopes Conflict Can Still Be Avoided
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42960-2003Mar17.html
BEIJING, March 17 -- A new foreign minister took office today in
China, saying his country still hoped that war would not erupt between
the United States and Iraq.
Pact Raises Hopes in Cambodia for Khmer Rouge Trials
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42877-2003Mar17.html
JAKARTA, Indonesia, March 17 -- Cambodian and U.N. negotiators reached
tentative agreement today to create a tribunal to try former Khmer
Rouge leaders for genocide, raising hopes for justice among Cambodians
a quarter-century after the communist movement killed an estimated 1.7
million people.
Yankees Come Here, The French Are So Passe
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43041-2003Mar17.html
ABIDJAN
There's no moaning here about President Bush's plans to go to war in
Iraq.
At War's Doorstep, a Hard-Charging Commander Awaits His Hour
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42560-2003Mar17.html
CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait, March 17 -- Eagle Six is on the prowl at the
Kuwait City docks, slapping backs and urging greater speed in
unloading equipment for his unit, the 101st Airborne Division. "Okay.
Hooah. Air assault," says Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus, whose radio
call sign reflects his command of the Screaming Eagles. "Hooah. Air
assault. Keep working this thing."
President Bush's Return to 'Fear Factor'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42694-2003Mar17.html
In a gesture that is bound to be likened to something out of an old
movie western, President Bush, in effect, gave Saddam Hussein and his
sons two days to get out of town.
'Human Shields,' Armed With Prayers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42649-2003Mar17.html
About 100 Americans still remain inside Iraq. Some are trying to
leave, but others are staying even though U.S. military leaders have
said that it will be difficult to protect them.
Turning Point to War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42557-2003Mar17.html
As U.N. weapons inspectors and international officials fled Baghdad,
news organizations scrambled to not only cover the evacuation but also
direct some of their own out of harm's way.
'A Question of Will'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42991-2003Mar17.html
Page A28
PRESIDENT BUSH last night set the United States on course for its
most ambitious military campaign since the Vietnam War, one that
should eliminate Saddam Hussein's illegal arsenal of weapons and
replace his brutal regime with a representative government. Mr. Bush
gave the Iraqi dictator and his sons 48 hours to leave the country. If
they do not, he said, he will "apply the full force and might of our
military." Mr. Bush warned Americans that the war might prompt
terrorist attacks, either by Saddam Hussein or others; but he said
that threat only underscores why action is necessary. Much of his
televised speech was addressed to Iraqis: He warned Iraqi officers and
soldiers not to commit war crimes or resist U.S. forces. To Iraqi
citizens, he promised: "The tyrant will soon be gone. The day of your
liberation is near."
Wrong Environment
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42988-2003Mar17.html
Page A28
THE ENVIRONMENT and national defense are getting badly confused
with each other in a couple of pieces of legislation now before
Congress. One is the Defense Department's "Readiness and Range
Preservation Initiative," which is being considered by the House and
Senate committees that deal with the armed forces. The other is a
proposal to begin drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, now
before the House and Senate budget committees. Congress has done those
on both sides of the issues a disservice by debating these bills in
the wrong place at the wrong time. Both are environmental provisions
and should be handled by committees concerned with the environment.
Neither is directly related to the national security concerns of this
week, although Congress has chosen to treat them in a way and at a
time that make it seem as if they are.
Facing the Costly Reality
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42838-2003Mar17.html
By E. J. Dionne Jr., Page A29
Let's assume that President Bush is right to take us to war against
Iraq.
Step by Step to War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42836-2003Mar17.html
By David S. Broder, Page A29
It has been a long road to this moment of decision on Iraq, but the
inevitability of the destination has been clear. When historians have
access to the memos and the diaries of the Bush administration's
insiders, it's likely they will find that President Bush set his
sights on removing Saddam Hussein from power soon after the 9/11
terrorist attacks -- if not before.
We Still Need Allies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42837-2003Mar17.html
By Richard Cohen, Page A29
Only in one sense is the war with Iraq not in doubt. The United
States and Britain will prevail and Saddam Hussein will fall. What is
considerably more in doubt is whether the Atlantic alliance,
especially America's relationship with France, will survive the war.
It is for that reason that I take it upon myself to issue a demarche
to France: Butt out.
Pearl Harbor 2003?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42821-2003Mar17.html
By Frederick W. Kagan, Page A29
While the United States prepares for war across the Atlantic, a
dangerous, hostile regime across the Pacific is sending nearly daily
signals that it finds America's policies unacceptable and may well be
willing to use force to change them. With most of America's attention
and effort focused to the east, a window of opportunity is created in
East Asia, where our forces are clearly not adequate to deal with the
emerging threat.
A New Iraq, a New Arab World
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42851-2003Mar17.html
By David Ignatius, Page A29
KUWAIT CITY -- As U.S.-led troops prepare to push north toward
Baghdad, people around the world are probably asking the same basic
question: What is the justification for America's war against Iraq?
Diplomatic Dissent
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42995-2003Mar17.html
Page A28
John Brady Kiesling is my hero ["The Diplomat's Goodbye," Outlook,
March 9]. He captured eloquently all that is wrong with the Bush
administration's Iraq policy.
Three-Peace Band
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42992-2003Mar17.html
Page A28
Thank you for the March 9 Metro story on the "Code Pink" women's
protest and arrests in front of the White House. One correction,
however:
Show Some Respect For Old Glory
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42997-2003Mar17.html
Page A28
I was horrified by the March 9 front-page photo of two of our
military personnel writing on the American flag as they flew to
Kuwait. This action must have been sanctioned by someone, because the
flag was covered with other written messages.
Time to Send In the Offense
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42993-2003Mar17.html
Page A28
Gary Hart's March 9 op-ed article, "A Detour From the War on
Terrorism," flunked the test of history. A measured, defensive
response to terrorism was the halfhearted policy of the Clinton
administration. It failed. Trying to intercept every terrorist who
journeys to America is like defending against a grenade launcher by
handing out catcher's mitts.
President Stays Confident
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42660-2003Mar17.html
On the eve of conflict with a world divided and the future of the U.N.
in question, Bush is direct and assertive
U.N. Inspectors Depart Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43412-2003Mar18.html
Weapons experts end their 4-month hunt for weapons of mass
destruction.
Firms Brace for Volatility
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42443-2003Mar17.html
NYSE and Nasdaq say measures are in place to prevent breakdowns.
President Bush's Speech
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/zforum/03/sp_iraq_kaiser031703.htm
President Bush spoke to the American people Monday night about
military action in Iraq. The White House said that all diplomatic
efforts had been exhausted and failed. War against Saddam Hussein
appears imminent.
Bush's 'Reluctant Warrior' Concedes Diplomacy's Over (Post, March 18,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42559-2003Mar17.html
Federal Agencies Prepare for War: Employees Get Supplies and Training
in Readiness for Possible Terror Strikes (Post, March 18, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42380-2003Mar17.html
Case Against Hormones Grows: Women in Study Saw Few Benefits From
Therapy (By Rob Stein, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42669-2003Mar17.html
Peter Gotti, Six Others Found Guilty In Mob Trial (By Christine
Haughney, Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42982-2003Mar17.html
The Symbolic Summit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38071-2003Mar17.html
It was puzzling, at first, that Dick Cheney would be chatting up Tim
Russert and Bob Schieffer hours before whatever he said would be
overshadowed by his boss's summit in the Azores.
Medicare Finances Slip, Report Says: Forecast of Depletion Moved Up 4
Years (By Amy Goldstein, Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42373-2003Mar17.html
Doctor's Killer Called Terrorist, Saint: Motives Debated In Slaying of
Abortion Provider (By Michael Powell, Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43037-2003Mar17.html
Fundraising's New Rule: Find a Friend: Campaign Finance Law Shifts
Focus to Networking in Search of Upper-Income Donors (By Juliet
Eilperin, Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42374-2003Mar17.html
Kerry to Offer Security Proposals: Democratic Hopeful, Criticizing
Bush's Response, Has $50 Billion Plan (By Dan Balz, Page A05)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42375-2003Mar17.html
Suit Begins Against Iran in Marine Barracks Bombing (By Neely Tucker,
Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42990-2003Mar17.html
President Bush's Address (Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42675-2003Mar17.html
Democrats Still Divided Over Iraq War: Most Are Expected To Support
President Once Conflict Starts (By Jim VandeHei, Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43039-2003Mar17.html
Fourth Man Arrested in Probe of Idaho Group (By Susan Schmidt, Page
A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42987-2003Mar17.html
More Possible Cases of Respiratory Illness Investigated (By Rob Stein,
Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42904-2003Mar17.html
Report Generates Negative Energy (By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane,
Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42399-2003Mar17.html
Above the Fry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35148-2003Mar16.html
Monday, March 17, 2003; Page A17
We had fervently hoped to remain above the truly absurd French bashing
going on of late. Surely the Loop would not descend to such a level,
talking about Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast and Freedom Kissing and
the like.
It's Only Iraq and Role
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23307-2003Mar13.html
Friday, March 14, 2003; Page A25
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, or maybe at least my acquaintance?
Baghdad Ready to Take Up Arms
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42567-2003Mar17.html
Demand for Weapons High as Threat of Invasion, Chaos Rises
World Leaders React to U.S. Ultimatum (washingtonpost.com, March 18,
2003; 2:00 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43219-2003Mar18.html
In Qatar, a Carnival, Pavarotti and Golf Ease War Jitters: Neighbor of
Iraq Is Unfazed by Tension (Post, March 18, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42925-2003Mar17.html
Briton Quits Cabinet in Protest: Labor's Parliamentary Leader Splits
With Blair Over War Policy (Post, March 18, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42635-2003Mar17.html
If Marine 'Doc' Must Pick Up a Gun, It Will Be a Sniper Rifle (By
Doing Double Duty, Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42636-2003Mar17.html
Turkey Says It May Alter Decision on Use of Bases: Move Could Come Too
Late for U.S. (By Philip P. Pan and Vernon Loeb, Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43028-2003Mar17.html
Pushed by Fear of Looming War, Iraqi Kurds Take Flight to North: Many
Seek Haven From Hussein's Army in Independent Area (By Karl Vick and
Daniel Williams, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42967-2003Mar17.html
Bin Laden Reportedly Spent Time in Brazil in '95 (Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43010-2003Mar17.html
Gun Battles in the Gaza Strip Kill 10 Palestinians: Three Youths Slain
as Israeli Troops Meet Stiff Resistance; Arafat Blocked on Prime
Minister Move (By John Ward Anderson and Molly Moore, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42878-2003Mar17.html
Fascists/ Fundamentalists/ Imperialists vs. The World
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The Man Who Would Be President
and thread
Meme Watch: Bushies Get Cold Feet
http://tinyurl.com/5h9f
and thread
Mideast Lessons
http://tinyurl.com/7oli
and thread
Antiwar Protests Go Online
http://tinyurl.com/7bdr
and thread
U.S., Allies Could be Prosecuted for Iraq War - Experts
http://tinyurl.com/5fcu
and thread
U.S. Wants Iraq Oil Revenue Shifted
http://tinyurl.com/7ols
and thread
Iraq first, Iran and China next
http://tinyurl.com/7olt
and thread
The First Holy War
http://tinyurl.com/7bdx
and thread
Americans' Support for War Tempered by Doubts
http://tinyurl.com/7om1
and thread
How Conservatives Pigeonholed Those Poor Liberals
http://tinyurl.com/7om5
and thread
Bush and God
http://tinyurl.com/7om8
and thread
Corporations Who Support Bush
http://tinyurl.com/7bdv
and thread
More fascism from the Dumbya regime
http://tinyurl.com/7om9
and thread
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/6031
and thread
China: Partner, Rival or Both?
http://tinyurl.com/7omb
--
"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and
unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate its end.
It has but one thing certain and that is to increase taxes." - Thomas
Paine
maff
Dilemmas of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,916976,00.html
Jonathan Freedland: It is entirely consistent to be against this
invasion - yet hope for a speedy victory in the interests of the
Iraqis.
How this war could end up being Blair's LBJ moment
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,917037,00.html
Polly Toynbee: The real conflict is over who runs the world - and on
what authority.
Bring our boys home
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,916977,00.html
Paul Foot: Charles Kennedy has said he will be 100% against war -
until it starts. This political doublethink seems to have struck down
all sorts of people in high places.
Iraq, the 51st state
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,917035,00.html
Matthew Engel: Here is a brief reprise of some of the changes the
Iraqi people can expect if the US decides to give Iraq a facsimile of
its own highly regarded system.
This is a road map to nowhere
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,917036,00.html
Ahmad Samih Khalidi: The Palestinians need an end to occupation, not
bogus statehood.
Waiting for the storm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,917000,00.html
What is the reality of the coming war for the ordinary people caught
in its path? From a British squaddie in the deserts of northern Kuwait
to a lawyer in Baghdad, from an oil broker in London to a nurse in
Jerusalem, we asked 24 people in seven countries how they spent the
past 24 hours.
Part II: Waiting for the storm
'The final countdown has started. After two weeks of sunshine it's
raining now, as if the sky is crying on us'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,917001,00.html
Extracts from emails to an Iraqi living in London from family members
inside Iraq. Names have been changed.
I told you so
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,917004,00.html
Rod Liddle: Unless you are an unconditional pacifist - which Clare
certainly isn't - there are surely no moral absolutes in this horrible
debate.
Dung ho!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
Thousands die daily from poor sanitation. Sort out waste disposal, and
you not only improve health, but create a source of renewable energy
Who supports the war?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,916963,00.html
The results of your poll which show a fall to 44 per cent in public
opposition to military action to remove Saddam Hussein are interesting
(Support for attack jumps but opposition still in the majority, March
18).
Clare given short shrift
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,916962,00.html
At the time of the first Gulf war, Labour party policy was to support
military action only after approval by and under the auspices of the
UN.
Questions over Clinton's judgment
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,916960,00.html
For a man who was once the leader of the most powerful nation on
earth, Bill Clinton displays an enormous level of naivety if he
believes the war on Iraq is a war of disarmament (Trust Tony's
judgment, March 18).
Backing Bush, Blair and a free Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,916959,00.html
I have been reading the Guardian for 40 years. I will not be
cancelling my subscription.
Some cheesy suggestions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,916961,00.html
The large number of anti-war campaigns taking advertisements in the
Guardian at the moment would suggest that there is a great deal of
support for that view among the readership.
Iraq's ultimate option
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,916966,00.html
Surrender to the United Nations.
History's verdict
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,916967,00.html
MPs lose on the war but win a battle.
Hopes of victory force oil down
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,916950,00.html
The price of oil dropped by almost two dollars a barrel yesterday -
its biggest fall in 16 months - as the markets anticipated that a
quick victory against Saddam would flood the markets with Iraqi crude.
Blair calls for team of 'tough wise men' to help growth in Europe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,916952,00.html
Tony Blair will seek to shrug aside one of the deepest rifts in the
European Union's history with a call later this week for the creation
of a new group of independent economic trouble-shooters dedicated to
find ing ways of speeding up growth in each EU country.
Blair battles past record rebellion
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,917298,00.html
139 Labour MPs in record revolt - but government still wins mandate
for war.
Against the war
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,903836,00.html
MPs who backed an amendment arguing that the case for war is 'as yet
unproven'
Full text: Tony Blair's speech
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,916790,00.html
This is the text of prime minister Tony Blair's speech opening today's
debate on the Iraq crisis in the house of Commons, as released by 10
Downing Street.
Home Office minister leads handful of government resignations
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,917156,00.html
John Denham, the Home Office minister, last night headed a
surprisingly small number of resignations from the government
Short: Quitting would be cowardly
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,917127,00.html
Clare Short's u-turn greeted with relief as government prepare for
rebellion.
Wrong war, wrong time, wrong enemy, warns rebel
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commons/story/0,9061,917140,00.html
Duncan Smith and Kennedy clash after Tory leader backs Blair and
questions Lib Dem reservations.
A day for whips, knives and arm-twisting
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commons/story/0,9061,917133,00.html
MPs jockey for position in run-up to crucial vote
'Our prime minister has been ill served by the US'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commons/story/0,9061,917152,00.html
Britain and the US would create a dangerous precedent which would
place the stability of the world at risk by launching a pre-emptive
attack against Iraq, the former Home Office minister, John Denham,
warned.
'The US takes on responsibilities others shirk'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commons/story/0,9061,917115,00.html
William Hague prompted laughter on all sides of the house when he
mocked Charles Kennedy and Clare Short for inconsistent behaviour over
Iraq.
Peers fear humanitarian and terror crisis
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,917159,00.html
Peers warned last night of a humanitarian crisis and the possibility
of political instability across the Middle East in the wake of a
second Gulf war.
Cherie Blair ends taboo by canvassing MPs
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/cherie/story/0,12713,917144,00.html
Cherie Blair's phone calls to select friends in the parliamentary
Labour party attempting to persuade them to back the government
illustrate the new role she has carved out for herself as the prime
ministerial spouse.
Single-minded approach
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,916747,00.html
March 18: Talks to end the division of Cyprus may have foundered, but
its people have not given up hope, says Helena Smith.
Just what the doctor ordered
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,916886,00.html
March 18: John Gittings sees new Chinese premier Wen Jiabao make a
favourable impression at the National People's Congress.
Suddenly, the war is very real
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917220,00.html
Reality finally came to Baghdad yesterday. Overnight, sandbags
sprouted on football fields and roundabouts. In the evening the
authorities rustled up yet another peace demonstration.
US moves on to high terror alert
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917230,00.html
Resident Iraqis could face FBI interviews.
Arafat forced to give up most powers to new PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917121,00.html
PLO leader takes back seat. Now pressure is on Bush to release 'road
map' that will lead to Palestinian statehood.
Irrational, illogical, unpredictable - 24 years on, the world awaits
Saddam's next move
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917103,00.html
State of mind: 'He thinks the US will bomb - then leave him in place'
German court rejects attempt to ban neo-Nazi party
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917120,00.html
The German government's efforts to curb the neo-Nazi right were thrown
into disarray yesterday when the country's top court blocked its key
initiative - an attempt to ban the skinhead-dominated National
Democratic party.
EU poised to take over peace role in Macedonia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917118,00.html
The European Union put aside its bitter differences over Iraq
yesterday to approve arrangements for its maiden military mission -
keeping the peace in Macedonia.
Activist's memorial service disrupted
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917119,00.html
Israeli forces fired teargas and stun grenades yesterday in an attempt
to break up a memorial service for Rachel Corrie, the American peace
activist killed by an army bulldozer in Gaza on Sunday.
Chirac and Schröder lay into US threat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917229,00.html
Critics renew their attacks and warnings
Europe poll sees US falling from favour
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917232,00.html
America's image, even within countries it counts as allies in the war
against Iraq, has plunged in the past six months, according to an
opinion poll yesterday.
US claims 45 nations in 'coalition of willing'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917101,00.html
The impression is that the US and Britain are going it alone against
Iraq, helped only by a small contingent of Australians, a far cry from
the wide-ranging coalition organised by George Bush's father for
Desert Storm 12 years ago.
Hazardous tactics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917106,00.html
Military experts believe the war could be over quickly, with
demoralised Iraqi forces putting up little resistance. But many other
hazards could impede an invasion:
Saddam's track record raises fears of chemical or biological attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917050,00.html
Experts divided on Iraq's ability to use nerve agents
At the heart of the military machine
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917051,00.html
British and US headquarters reflect different approaches to conflict
At a glance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917094,00.html
US microwave bomb to make debut in most hi-tech battlefield campaign
ever
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917077,00.html
Claims that smart device wipes out circuitry of tanks and missile
systems without harming troops
Western deaths spark Middle East terror alert
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917091,00.html
Saudis suggest link to al-Qaida after arms find
Kurds flee to the mountains
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917092,00.html
When President Bush delivered his final ultimatum to Saddam Hussein
early yesterday, he could have not envisaged the effect it would have
on Omar Ali Sharif or his large family.
On the game: Italians mimic Monopoly to ensure sex slaves receive a
chance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917123,00.html
Italians will soon be able to play at being prostitutes in a
Monopoly-style board game in which players must dodge police raids,
turf wars and serial killers to earn a living.
Serbian parliament elects Djindjic ally
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917124,00.html
Serbia's parliament yesterday elected Zoran Djindjic's close associate
to succeed him as prime minister, while more than 750 people were
arrested in the hunt for the reformist leader's assassins.
Opposition strike halts Zimbabwe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917128,00.html
Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change yesterday led a national
strike that closed nearly all factories, shops and banks, and is
expected to continue today.
Rebels kill Filipino bus passengers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917130,00.html
Eighteen deaths were reported yesterday in clashes between troops and
separatists on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.
Japanese agreed net suicide pact
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917237,00.html
A wave of suicide pacts made between strangers over the internet is
hitting Japan.
Killer holds Russian town in fear
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917243,00.html
A deranged serial killer is thought to be responsible for the murder
of 15 women in Samara, a town in southern Russia, since January.
Reporter gets mafia warning
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917249,00.html
A man has been charged with threatening a woman reporter working on a
story of an alleged mafia link to the actor Steven Seagal, by leaving
a dead fish with a rose in its mouth and a one word note, "Stop", in
her car in Los Angeles last summer.
Shell base set on fire in Nigeria
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917255,00.html
Members of one tribe in Nigeria killed seven members of another and
burned down a RoyalDutch/Shell base, it was reported yesterday. The
base had been evacuated but Shell sent helicopters to pull its other
employees out of the oil-rich Niger delta.
BA suspends flights to Israel and Kuwait
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,917104,00.html
British Airways is to suspend all its flights to Israel and Kuwait
because of fears for the safety of its staff.
All dried up
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,7843,916631,00.html
Rebels fail to halt march to war
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=388517
The House of Commons approved war in Iraq last night despite a revolt
by 139 Labour MPs
The nightmare world of a paranoid president
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/mary_dejevsky/story.jsp?story=388526
George Bush's speech to the American people on Monday provided an
alarming insight into his global vision
Don't be fooled: the outlook remains gloomy
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/hamish_mcrae/story.jsp?story=388523
The worrying aspects of the world economy will continue to depress
markets once the shooting is over
Chirac says Allies acting above 'rule of law' by using force
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=388575
19 March 2003
Jacques Chirac seized the role of leader of the world peace movement
yesterday, making a stinging attack on America and Britain for taking
an "unjustified", and implicitly illegal, decision to invade Iraq.
Bugs discovered at EU headquarters
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=388666
19 March 2003
Electronic bugging devises have been discovered in offices used by the
French and German delegations at a European Union headquarters
building where an EU summit will open on Thursday, EU officials said.
Thirty nations join coalition, but few will send troops
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=388569
19 March 2003
The "coalition of the willing" for war on Iraq took shape yesterday as
one key member, Turkey, prepared to vote to allow 62,000 US troops to
use the country to launch an invasion.
Public support for US at rock bottom even among 'friends'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=388566
19 March 2003
Public support for America among its allies has plummeted in the past
six months, a new poll reveals.
US to round up all Muslim and Arab asylum-seekers
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=388562
19 March 2003
The United States has ordered the detention of all political
asylum-seekers from a long list of Arab and Muslim countries,
infuriating immigrant advocates who say it violates international
human rights law.
Saddam: 'Wives and mothers of America will weep blood'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=388564
19 March 2003
Appearing on television in military uniform for the first time since
the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam Hussein yesterday defied the American
ultimatum to leave Iraq with his sons and vowed to fight off invaders.
D-Day
http://tinyurl.com/7rdq
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The Bush team needs an "attitude lobotomy" - it needs to get off its
high horse and start engaging people on the World Street.
The Perpendicular Pronoun
http://tinyurl.com/7rds
By MAUREEN DOWD
Even though he came to politics with a sparse résumé, compared with
his dad's, the cocky W. was always more comfortable with the "big I".
It Used to Be Just the Soldiers Who Died
http://tinyurl.com/7rdu
By GARDNER BOTSFORD
Over the years, the material devastation wrought by bombers has been
stupendous, and the civilian death toll beyond calculation.
An Island of Peace?
http://tinyurl.com/7rdz
By RADHIKA COOMARASWAMY
Sri Lanka, wearied by a military stalemate after 18 years of war, is
walking slowly, haltingly and surprisingly toward peace.
Delusions of Feeling Better
http://tinyurl.com/7rk0
Bit by bit the evidence is accumulating that most women are foolish if
they keep taking hormone pills for years at a time.
Operation Atlas, Shrugged Off
http://tinyurl.com/7rk2
Washington needs to give cities such as New York, which are high on
the list of targets for attack, more support with the costs of
defense.
Justice Served in Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/7rk3
After 14 months of imprisonment, Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Egypt's most
prominent democracy and human rights advocate, has been given his
freedom.
Asylum for Abused Women
http://tinyurl.com/7rk8
The current rules offering the possibility of asylum to women who
cannot find safety at home are both tough and humane.
As Baghdad Empties, Hussein Is Defiant
http://tinyurl.com/7rke
By JOHN F. BURNS
Among many Iraqis, the mood seems to be that war, if it is inevitable,
might as well come soon so the country can move forward.
U.S. Calls Decision by Hussein His 'Final Mistake'
http://tinyurl.com/7rkl
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
The White House said that Saddam Hussein made his "final mistake" when
he rejected an ultimatum ordering him to leave Iraq or face war.
Soldiers and Equipment Head for Iraq Border in Vast Formation
http://tinyurl.com/7rku
By PATRICK E. TYLER
The U.S. and Britain made final preparations to wage a war aimed at
toppling Saddam Hussein's government in Baghdad.
As Baghdad Empties, Hussein Is Defiant
By JOHN F. BURNS
Saddam Hussein rebuffed President Bush's ultimatum and warned the
"American, English and Zionist invading aggressors" that they faced
defeat.
Rumsfeld Seeks Consensus Through Jousting
http://tinyurl.com/7rl3
By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT
Decisions reached by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld after months
of fierce debate with his defense colleagues will soon be tested on
the battlefields of Iraq.
Higher Alert and Tighter Budgets
http://tinyurl.com/7rl4
By JODI WILGOREN
As the nation returned to a high level of alert, state, local and
federal officials increased security at sensitive sites, but many
states did not activate the National Guard.
U.S. Plans to Help Young Victims of Terrorism Are Criticized
http://tinyurl.com/7rlc
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Terrorism experts and health providers say the emergency system is ill
prepared to rescue the softest targets of all - children.
Farmer Protest Shuts Offices and Stokes Capital Jitters
http://tinyurl.com/7rlj
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
A disgruntled tobacco farmer who claimed to have explosives kept
scores of police at bay for a second day from his tractor in a pond on
the Mall.
With Tighter Security, New Yorkers Tense Up for Life in Wartime
http://tinyurl.com/7rlm
By JAMES BARRON
Wearily if not warily, New Yorkers began confronting the additional
uncertainties that accompany the end of the long buildup to war.
Administration's New Asylum Policy Comes Under Fire
http://tinyurl.com/7rls
By PHILIP SHENON
The decision to begin detaining asylum seekers from Iraq and 33 other
countries where Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups have operated met
with harsh criticism.
With Little Loans, Mexican Women Overcome
http://tinyurl.com/7rlv
By TIM WEINER
In Mexico, small business loans to women, known as microcredit or
microfinance, represent a chance for the poor to acquire a little bit
of wealth.
U.S. Mobile Labs Are Poised to Hunt Iraqi Arms
http://tinyurl.com/7rm1
By JUDITH MILLER
The plan is to rapidly find, secure and ultimately destroy the caches
of chemical, biological and other unconventional weapons.
Failing to Dilute Premier Post, Arafat Accepts Its Creation
http://tinyurl.com/7rma
By JAMES BENNET
The Palestinian leader, accusing party members of betraying him,
signed legislation to create a post of prime minister.
A Sequel, Not a Rerun
http://tinyurl.com/7rn2
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
There are more differences than similarities between the upcoming
conflict and the Persian Gulf war.
Antiwar Movement Divided by Thoughts on Civil Disobedience
http://tinyurl.com/7rnc
By KATE ZERNIKE
The antiwar movement is splintered over how to respond to a conflict
in Iraq: While some argue for acts of civil disobedience, others fear
alienating the public.
Libertarians Join Liberals in Challenging Sodomy Law
http://tinyurl.com/7rne
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
The Supreme Court will take up a challenge to the Texas "homosexual
conduct" law that has galvanized libertarians as well as advocates of
gay rights.
A Pervasive Dismay on a Bush School Law
http://tinyurl.com/7rnr
By MICHAEL WINERIP
How do you defend a law that is likely to result in 85 percent of
public schools in America being labeled failing - based on a single
test score?
Sibling Cities Issue a Plea for Decency Toward Frites
http://tinyurl.com/7rnx
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
The city of Aix-en-Provence, France, has joined forces with its sister
city, Coral Gables, Fla., to sign a solemn "proclamation" of
solidarity.
Divided Democrats Concerned About 2004
http://tinyurl.com/7ro0
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Public perceptions of the Democratic Party's antiwar wing may affect
the Democrats' chances in next year's presidential elections.
Republicans Say They'll Push for Tax Cuts Regardless of War
http://tinyurl.com/7ro4
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
Republican Congressional leaders said that they were determined to
approve deep tax cuts regardless of the cost of a war against Iraq and
its aftermath.
Gasoline Prices, Near Record Highs, Don't Reduce Demand
http://tinyurl.com/7roj
By NEELA BANERJEE
Analysts predict that even if crude oil prices drop soon, gasoline
prices will stay high, likely averaging $1.76 a gallon in April.
Airlines Announce Cutbacks as They Prepare for War
http://tinyurl.com/7ron
By MICHELINE MAYNARD and EDWARD WONG
Airlines scrambled to prepare for a war with Iraq by suspending
flights and warning employees to expect emergency wage cuts.
Fed Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged
http://tinyurl.com/7rou
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
The Federal Reserve said that uncertainties surrounding a war in Iraq
made it too difficult to assess the risks of a new economic slump.
Researchers Find Clues That a Virus Is Causing the Mysterious Illness,
but Seek Proof
http://tinyurl.com/7rp0
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN and MARK LANDLER
The World Health Organization cautioned that much more work needs to
be done to be sure that a virus is the cause of the outbreak.
Panel Says Health Cutbacks Fall Hardest on Minorities
http://tinyurl.com/7rp5
By NICHOLE M. CHRISTIAN
New York City Council members said budget cuts proposed by the health
commissioner disproportionately hurt minority groups that have high
rates of H.I.V. infection and other problems.
Tax-Cut Plan May Endanger New Housing
http://tinyurl.com/7rpd
By DAVID W. CHEN
City officials fear that the president's tax-cut plan could eliminate
the incentive for corporations to get tax credits by investing in
housing for the poor.
Suddenly, a Seller's Market for Arabic Studies
http://tinyurl.com/7rpl
By SAM DILLON
Arabic-speaking educators and Islamic organizations are being deluged
with requests for information and instruction from the public.
U.S. Names 30 Nations Supporting War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49565-2003Mar18.html
The countdown to war with Iraq intensified Tuesday, as the U.S. issued
a list of 30 countries that have publicly supported disarming the
Iraqi government and warned that Saddam Hussein had made a "final
mistake" by failing to surrender.
Security Tightens Across Nation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49400-2003Mar18.html
Security was tightened across the nation Tuesday as authorities towed
vehicles parked in front of churches and synagogues, probation
officers were assigned to guard nuclear plants, and scuba divers
inspected the hulls of ships.
Bush Message Machine Is Ready
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49399-2003Mar18.html
When troops move into Iraq, the Bush administration's message machine,
staffed with political campaign experts and honed on the
communications lessons of Afghanistan, will be equally ready to roll.
Tests Suggest Virus Link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49172-2003Mar18.html
Testing samples from victims found signs of a microbe known as a
paramyxovirus, a family of viruses that can cause a spectrum of
diseases in animals and humans.
A Scarred City Waits for Another Attack
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49516-2003Mar18.html
Baghdad, damaged by the 1991 Persian Gulf War and traumatized by 30
years of Baath Party rule, has become seized by dread as a U.S. attack
deadline ticks away.
Commanders Brace Their Troops for Attack
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49476-2003Mar18.html
Commanders of the 3rd Infantry Division stood before their troops in
the Kuwaiti desert Tuesday and imparted final words before sending
them to lead an anticipated U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Karzai's Taxing Problem
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49091-2003Mar18.html
To some, the reconstruction of Herat shows Afghanistan's comeback from
warfare and chaos. But to others, including many in the central
government, it shows how regional warlords are calling the shots
outside Kabul.
Pakistanis Find Cool Reception in Canada
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49923-2003Mar18.html
TORONTO -- Two years of working a minimum-wage job in Brooklyn,
sharing a one-bedroom apartment, carrying an expired visa and an order
from the U.S. government to register, be fingerprinted and
photographed has brought Waseem Ahmed to this place: a cold street in
Toronto's Little India neighborhood.
Yemeni Man Kills Three Oil Workers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49817-2003Mar18.html
SANAA, Yemen, March 18 -- A Yemeni gunman fatally shot three oil
workers in Yemen today, including an American, and wounded a fourth
before killing himself, according to oil company officials and a U.S.
diplomat.
War Will Be Mostly An American Effort
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49401-2003Mar18.html
The "coalition of the willing" arrayed against Iraq may bolster the
U.S. war effort diplomatically, but defense officials said Tuesday
that the impending war is still largely an American affair.
Opponents of War Decry U.S. Stance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49138-2003Mar18.html
French President Jacques Chirac accused the United States of "favoring
force over law," and many other nations joined him in opposing the
American-led push for war in Iraq.
Losing a Friend, Maintaining a Mission
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49864-2003Mar18.html
I van Vujacic , Serbia's recently arrived ambassador to Washington,
will always remember the phone call from Belgrade last week, just as
Americans remember the first shocking news of the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy.
Ending Inspections 'Not Reasonable,' Blix Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49075-2003Mar18.html
Hans Blix said Tuesday that it "was not reasonable" for the United
States to end U.N. inspections in Iraq at a time when the regime was
providing more cooperation than it has in more than a decade.
Airlines Cut Schedules Of Overseas Flights
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49886-2003Mar18.html
Several major international airlines began cutting back flight
schedules yesterday in anticipation of a war in Iraq while other
carriers said they were prepared to put contingency plans into action
as soon as hostilities begin.
Waging Peace
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50011-2003Mar18.html
This is the first wartime presidential campaign since Vietnam. And as
long as Iraq looms, Howard Dean has a sheen in New Hampshire.
Trapped by the Past?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50013-2003Mar18.html
Funny how it goes: Gary Hart, the onetime Mr. Monkey Business, is now
addressing the gravest issues in America before rapt audiences.
Sheltering in Place
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49201-2003Mar18.html
About 500 French citizens are toughing it out in Iraq. As of Tuesday
night, their embassy's warning level remained at Level 2: Families are
"welcome to leave," as a spokesman put it.
Touched by Terror
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50010-2003Mar18.html
A group called September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows was
founded after the attacks by victims' relatives. They have gone to
Afghanistan and Iraq to meet families in once and future ground zeros
In the Line of Fire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52018-2003Mar19.html
We were listening to NBC's Chip Reid from Kuwait yesterday, telling
Don Imus how he'll have to wear his chemical suit 24 hours a day, and
don his gas mask whenever there's a distant explosion.
'03 War Too Soon for Bush?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45132-2003Mar18.html
Not a single bullet has been fired, but already the punditocracy is
buzzing about how the coming war will affect President Bush's
reelection chances.
Fantasy Budget
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49835-2003Mar18.html
Page A30
FOLLOWING A SURREAL timetable, the Senate and House are apt this
week to approve budget resolutions that would lock in huge tax cuts
without setting aside a penny for war in Iraq. Then the administration
would unveil a "supplemental" spending request -- and demand that a
check be cut immediately.
Stalled on Soft Money
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49829-2003Mar18.html
Page A30
WHEN CONGRESS passed the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, it
instructed the courts to "expedite" constitutional challenges "to the
greatest possible extent." The need for quick action is simple: If the
Supreme Court waits until next term to decide the case, rules for
raising and spending money will remain in doubt well into the 2004
presidential election cycle. The three-judge court now hearing the
case seemed to understand this. During oral arguments on Dec. 4, Judge
Karen LeCraft Henderson asked both parties when the judges would need
to act for the Supreme Court to consider the matter this term. Counsel
for both sides agreed that it would be "very helpful" if the court
could rule by early February. But the court has yet to rule. Yes, the
case is complex. But the judges need to rule so that the real action
-- Supreme Court consideration -- can begin.
Warriors at Work
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49824-2003Mar18.html
By Michael Kelly, Page A31
MAIN HEADQUARTERS, 3rd INFANTRY DIVISION, Kuwait -- When President
Bush began the blunt, brief speech that set the last clock running for
war against Saddam Hussein, at 4 a.m. Kuwait time, a couple dozen
officers and soldiers gathered around a television in the corner of a
big double tent in the middle of 20,000 troops spread across 10 square
miles of sand here. When Bush finished, there was no cheering, and
everyone quietly turned and went back to work.
The Victory In Kosovo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49833-2003Mar18.html
By Bajram Rexhepi, Page A31
There are moments in history when the world is confronted with an
age-old question: Do you stand united in the face of evil, or do you
close your eyes and hope for the best?
Blair in Agony
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49823-2003Mar18.html
By Anne Applebaum, Page A31
He has dark circles beneath his eyes, and his cheeks are hollow and
gray. Last week he appeared on television to defend his policy on Iraq
-- sweating, looking as if he'd rather be anywhere else. Yesterday he
appeared before the House of Commons on the same mission, looking grim
and determined but hardly cheerful. His aides say he has had a "fluey
cold." In fact, Tony Blair is suffering from something far worse: a
sudden and overpowering sense of internal contradiction.
The Lesson Of Rwanda
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49834-2003Mar18.html
By Richard Sezibera, Page A31
In 1994 genocide occurred in Rwanda. Within the space of 100 days,
1 million people perished. At the time, the United Nations had a
sizable presence in the country, but it did not stop the genocide. The
world still debates whether the international community could have
stopped the horror. It is a debate Rwandans do not understand and
cannot relate to.
Economic Darwinism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49825-2003Mar18.html
By Robert J. Samuelson, Page A31
"Importantly, the favorable underlying trends in productivity have
continued . . . [providing] support of household incomes."
Addressing the Naysayers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49827-2003Mar18.html
By George F. Will, Page A31
The president demonstrated Monday night that he understands a
tested political axiom: If you do not like the news, make some of your
own.
Scenes From Camp Limbo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49837-2003Mar18.html
Page A30
I agree that a mechanism must be established to distinguish those
detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were engaged in hostile
activities against the United States from those who were not,
especially when administration officials have acknowledged privately
that at least a third of the prisoners are being held there by mistake
[editorial, March 14].
California Dreamin'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49830-2003Mar18.html
Page A30
George F. Will's March 16 op-ed column about California and the
GOP's chances of unseating Gov. Gray Davis and Sen. Barbara Boxer was
a fantasy. During the last election, the GOP lost every statewide
race.
Leading the Nation to War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49832-2003Mar18.html
Page A30
President Bush called upon the United Nations to show some backbone
in the Iraqi situation [front page, March 18]. What he fails to
recognize is that it has shown backbone -- by standing up to the
United States.
Tension Rises as Hussein Prepares to Face a War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49230-2003Mar18.html
Confident of victory, the Iraqi leader mocks Bush's ultimatum to
leave.
Polls Show Split in Attitude
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52020-2003Mar19.html
Most Europeans oppose war while 71 percent of Americans support it.
Couple Charged in Abduction of Teen: Kidnapping, Sexual Assault
Alleged (Post, March 19, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49260-2003Mar18.html
Religious Notes on Candy Fine at School, Judge Says (Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49876-2003Mar18.html
Antiabortionist Guilty of Killing Doctor: Convicted by Judge, Kopp
Faces 25 Years to Life in Shooting of Gynecologist (By Michael Powell,
Page A08)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49171-2003Mar18.html
71% of Americans Support War, Poll Shows: But Overseas, Attitudes
About Invading Iraq Continue to Be Overwhelmingly Negative (By Richard
Morin and Claudia Deane, Page A14)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49173-2003Mar18.html
On War, Congress Gets Earful: Divided Electorate Vents to Lawmakers
(By Juliet Eilperin, Page A14)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49040-2003Mar18.html
Democrats Lose Bid to Obtain Estimate of War's Cost: Senators Propose
Tying Vote on $1.6 Trillion in Tax Cuts to Request, but Numbers Fall
Short (By Peter Slevin and Helen Dewar, Page A16)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49402-2003Mar18.html
Military May Microwave Iraqi Electronic Circuits: New Beams Destroy
Without Killing (By Guy Gugliotta, Page A18)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49406-2003Mar18.html
Quick Collapse of Iraqi Military Is 'Very Real Likelihood' (By Vernon
Loeb and Jonathan Weisman, Page A18)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49263-2003Mar18.html
Duration of War Key to U.S. Victory: Deaths, Time Factor Will Drive
Opinion (By Thomas E. Ricks, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49408-2003Mar18.html
Two Sons Of Hussein Reign With Fear, Violence (By Peter Slevin, Page
A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49562-2003Mar18.html
In Major Case, U.S. Alleges Tobacco Firms' Conspiracy (By Neely
Tucker, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49859-2003Mar18.html
Educators Angry Over Proposed Cut in Aid: Many Children in Military
Families Would Feel Impact (By Brian Faler, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48889-2003Mar18.html
Senator Eyes an Old Flame (By Al Kamen, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49905-2003Mar18.html
Parliament Backs Blair on Action Against Baghdad: Party Revolt Fails
by Vote of 396 to 217 (Post, March 19, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49086-2003Mar18.html
Russian Deputies Shelve Treaty: Arms Control Postponed to Protest U.S.
War Plans (Post, March 19, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49332-2003Mar18.html
Panel Urges U.S.-N. Korea Talks: Varied Group of Experts Criticizes
Bush Administration Policy (Post, March 19, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49092-2003Mar18.html
China's Leader Outlines a Social Agenda: New Prime Minister Talks of
Kinder Government, With Focus on Economic Woes (Post, March 19, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49141-2003Mar18.html
Arafat Signs Legislation Creating Prime Minister Post: Move Signals
Weakening of Power, Steps Toward U.S.-Sought Reforms (AP, March 18,
2003; 2:04 PM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46799-2003Mar18.html
Aznar Says Spanish Troops Won't Join Iraq Attack (AP, March 18, 2003;
11:41 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46053-2003Mar18.html
Turks Balk at Deal With Kurds: Parliament to Vote Today on U.S. Use of
Airspace (By Philip P. Pan, Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49139-2003Mar18.html
Top Officers Fear Wide Civil Unrest: Bloodshed Among Iraqis Could
Create Challenge for Invading Troops (By Peter Baker, Page A18)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49477-2003Mar18.html
Good Morning, Soldier, This Is Your Life (By Rick Atkinson, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49089-2003Mar18.html
Disquiet on the Northern Front: Along Kurdish Zone's Frontier With
Iraq, Both Camps Gird for War (By Daniel Williams, Page A20)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49090-2003Mar18.html
Bush Warning To Hussein Panics Israelis: Recalling '91 Scud Attacks,
Many Brace for the Worst (By Molly Moore and John Ward Anderson, Page
A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49928-2003Mar18.html
Many Arabs Lay Blame on Their Leaders: Angry and Fearful, Citizens Say
Disunity and Weakness Have Fostered Atmosphere for War (By Emily Wax,
Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49968-2003Mar18.html
Tiny Qatar Discovers the Pitfalls of Its Alliance With U.S. (By Alan
Sipress, Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49955-2003Mar18.html
Egyptian Court Acquits Activist: Professor Was Accused of Defamation;
U.S. Lauds Decision (By Lucy Fielder, Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49808-2003Mar18.html
Modern science can thank Saturn
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/077/science/Modern_science_can_thank_Saturn+.shtml
(3/18/2003)
Every stargazer with a telescope has been looking at Saturn lately.
This year the planet reaches the point in its orbit that brings it
closest to the Earth. It appears bigger and brighter than at any time
in the past 30 years.
Al Qaeda's Money Man
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885924.asp?cp1=1
Investigators hope the arrest of a key ‘paymaster' may provide clues
to the terrorist-funding trail
Rumble for the Robes
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885883.asp
Miguel Estrada is no household name. But both parties see his bid for
a judgeship as an issue in 2004
The Arrogant Empire
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885222.asp
America's unprecedented power scares the world, and the Bush
administration has only made it worse. How we got here-and what we can
do about it now
Blair Sweats It Out
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885968.asp
Bush may have angered much of the world, and even his most stalwart
ally faces a revolt within his own political party
Powell In the Bunker
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885957.asp
The diplomatic fight is almost finished. But the blame game has just
begun
‘Don't Die For a Doomed Regime'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/886458.asp
U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz spells out his vision for
a postwar Iraq-and calls on its people to help liberate their country
What Oil Wants
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885939.asp
In Iraq, it hopes to own the black gold, and to write the rules of the
game, too
A Rare Opportunity
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885915.asp
Mexico and Chile are now key swing votes in the U.N. Their actions
could change the shape of Latin American diplomacy
Manila's Twin Nightmare
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885899.asp
Political and religious extremists may be joining forces
A Pact with the Devil
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885896.asp
Serbia loses more than a leader. Its very future as a nation is at
stake. Will democrats rule—or gangsters?
‘It Will Be a War for the Iraqi People'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885893.asp
Interview with Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz
Sleuths For Hire
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885863.asp
Beijing likes to play the part of Big Brother. But suddenly China's
private investigators are posing a challenge to the police state
India's Big River Plan
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885861.asp
It would dwarf Three Gorges Dam and cover 10,000 kilometers. But the
engineering will be the easy part
Letter From Doha: Tips for Women in Qatar
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885857.asp
Women in this tiny country are much freer than in their giant neighbor
The Road to Capital
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885945.asp
Is Africa's socialist Big Man changing his mind?
No More Mary Poppins
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885921.asp
A nanny glut takes its toll on Britain's caretakers
The Last Word: Christopher Szpilman
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885860.asp
His Father, The ‘Pianist'
Fall of the Mayans
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885920.asp
One man's quest to prove massive drought brought low a once mighty
empire
Say Hello to the Silicon Dons
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885916.asp
Sicily is an emerging electronics and high-tech hub
Productivity's False Facade
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885455.asp
It's tempting to believe that rising efficiency will rescue the
economy. But the surge reflects more bad news, such as mass layoffs,
than good
The Unmighty Dollar
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885956.asp
A costly war could drive more foreign investors away from the United
States, hurting living standards and our influence abroad
Real World Robots
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885876.asp
They're finally among us. They may not look like the Jetsons' Rosie,
but they are actually doing real jobs alongside humans-in homes,
hospitals and on the battlefield
Babylonian Booty
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885467.asp
Ancient Mesopotamia, modern Iraq: once again, bombing and looting
threaten the cradle of civilization
A New Baby Debate
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885412.asp
As pro-lifers adopt embryos, critics raise questions
Quindlen: Some Strange Spring Break
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885879.asp
‘If war starts while you're gone, I'll text-message your cell phone
and send you an e-mail. And then I want you on the next plane.'
An American Family Goes to War
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030324/story.html
Meet the Richardsons, the first husband and wife battalion commanders
in the new married-with-children military
Why Asia Fears Bush's War
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501030324/story.html
The repercussions of a U.S. campaign in Iraq will be widespread-and
Asians are dreading the coming fight
Chameleon Country
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030324-433335,00.html
Japan always had a genius for reinventing itself, argues Ian Buruma.
Lately, that gift has gone missing
"If We're Attacked, Israel Is Obliged to Defend Itself"
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2003/0324/war/mofaz.html
As his country prepares for possible Iraqi attack, Israeli defense
minister SHAUL MOFAZ, 54, talked with TIME's Matt Rees and Aharon
Klein about the effect of war, and the need to retaliate
Too Little, Too Late?
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901030324-433235,00.html
Schröder swallows hard to take tough economic medicine
Seven Days In Hell
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2003/0324/war/story.html
At the precipice of war, facing mutiny at home, Tony Blair stays cool
and doesn't crack. A character study
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THE ATTACKS BEGIN
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=388885
A flash lights the dawn sky as President Bush launches war on Iraq
with an attempt to take out Saddam Hussein and his henchmen
Robert Fisk in Baghdad
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=388881
Even as we shop for canned food and painkillers, it is difficult to
grasp the reality of what is coming
Leading article
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=388828
When democracies do battle with a despot, they must hold on to their
moral superiority
Lawrence James: The revival of benevolent imperialism
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=388824
20 March 2003
Dominant powers have often demonised their enemies and claimed to be
acting on behalf of the oppressed
Dilemmas of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,916976,00.html
Jonathan Freedland: It is entirely consistent to be against this
invasion - yet hope for a speedy victory in the interests of the
Iraqis.
Beyond the sandstorm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,917695,00.html
Timothy Garton Ash: Three visions of the future compete. Blair's is
best, but can it ever be realised?
Don't blame the French
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,917693,00.html
William Pfaff: And so we go to war, the United States, Britain and
Australia - alone.
Labour, not just Iraq, needs postwar reconstruction
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,917713,00.html
Jackie Ashley: When the guns fall silent, the left will drive a hard
bargain with Blair.
We are all afraid, but of what, exactly?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,917712,00.html
Jacqueline Rose: Fear is everywhere - endlessly exploitable,
impossible to pin down.
Unhappy campers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,917738,00.html
Do the double-glazing salesman, the second world war veteran and the
boat builder camped outside Fairford airbase in Gloucestershire really
think they can stop the B-52s bound for Baghdad? Tania Branigan spends
24 hours with them.
Weather Forecast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,917814,00.html
A new poem by Harold Pinter.
What can Eritrea possibly do to help the US in Iraq?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,917741,00.html
Emma Brockes phones the embassies of the 'coalition of the willing'.
Unsure? Be swayed by the stars
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,917744,00.html
Catherine Bennett: Could a personal call from Cherie Blair change your
mind on the war? I wonder.
Rachel's last mail
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,917749,00.html
On Tuesday we ran a series of emails from Rachel Corrie, the American
peace activist killed by an Israeli army bulldozer. Here we publish
her final exchange with her father.
Short tempered
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,917751,00.html
Anne Perkins asks whether the minister has softened at last.
Side lines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,917752,00.html
We were very disappointed not to receive a call from Cherie. It seems
this has something to do with some trifling little detail about us not
being members of parliament, or something.
Clare, you've let me down. Again
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,917750,00.html
Corinne Sweet is not surprised by Clare Short's failure to resign.
Twenty years ago she witnessed another devastating last minute U-turn.
A picture of health
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
British soldiers are back in the Gulf, but it is uncertain whether
they are being protected from future war-related illnesses
One angry man
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,917013,00.html
It was a time of political, cultural and social upheaval. And that's
what makes the ragtime era perfect material for a musical, says
Stafford Arima.
The passion and the tears
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,917888,00.html
During Tuesday's parliamentary debate I watched Tony Blair exhibit
gravitas, passion, belief, oratory skill and even humour.
...the money and the oil
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,917889,00.html
British governments supplied much of Iraq's weaponry, yet the blank
cheque signed by Gordon Brown to pay for their removal hugely exceeds
the revenue those sales generated.
When men will be boys
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,917890,00.html
Why do grown men become "boys" in the armed forces?
Dogs of war with the latest weaponry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,917891,00.html
When the government ratified the Ottawa convention, prohibiting the
use of anti-personnel land mines, a clause was included which exempted
British servicemen from the legislation if they were operating
alongside soldiers of another country - such as the United States -
which had not ratified the convention.
Flag signals
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,917892,00.html
It is incorrect to state (British ships may reflag to dodge EU race
equality rules, March 4) that the 1976 Race Relations Act allows
discrimination against seafarers on the basis of colour, ethnic
origin, race and nationality.
Remembering Rachel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,917893,00.html
Millions remember a Chinese man standing in front of a tank in Beijing
in 1989.
Hope against hope
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,917883,00.html
Pray that the war is quick and clean.
Divided we stand
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,917885,00.html
Crude calls for unity are out of place.
Fog of doubt lifts to reveal golden scenario for investors
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,917688,00.html
UN failure was a buy signal in markets confident of a speedy victory.
Question of confidence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,917690,00.html
Hope held for short conflict
US bombers target Saddam
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,918072,00.html
· Missiles strike Baghdad
· Bush and Saddam make TV addresses
· Iraq claims civilian casualties
Lawyers scrutinise strike plan
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,917926,00.html
Military targets ruled legal
Government refuses to rule out use of cluster bombs despite MPs' fears
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,917912,00.html
Ban on landmines but lethal 'bomblets' may be used
UK asks UN to aid postwar building
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,917944,00.html
Britain is sponsoring two new UN security council resolutions on the
postwar reconstruction of Iraq as part of a wider effort to reunite
the international community in the aftermath of the war. The
resolutions are designed to reassure the UN countries that Britain and
the US will not exclude non-combatants from the rebuilding of Iraq.
UK was informed at midnight
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,918066,00.html
9.15am: Government was informed about America's targeted air strikes
on Iraq's leadership at midnight last night.
Blair briefs war cabinet
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,918088,00.html
9.15am: PM briefs war cabinet on the start of military action against
Iraq.
Blair tries to bind his party's wounds
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/comment/0,11538,917870,00.html
Rival factions rally to support British troops
France: don't blame us for conflict
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,9061,917968,00.html
Fears that Britain will be isolated in EU as Paris expresses 'shock
and dismay' at comments before Blair and Chirac meet tonight.
Bugging devices found in EU offices
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,9061,918010,00.html
Britain among countries targeted as officials deny US link to breach
'Blair played his cards brilliantly'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/story/0,12123,917990,00.html
The papers were impressed by the prime minister's performance.
Praise for our boys, fears for Iraq's children
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/comment/0,11538,917936,00.html
Simon Hoggart: This is Tony Blair's fourth war - the fifth if you
count Sierra Leone - and the pattern is familiar now.
Staged protests
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,917370,00.html
Two new shows recall Vietnam-era struggles with echoes in today's
campaigns against exploitation and war, writes Duncan Campbell.
Sad Blix says he wanted more time for inspections
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917924,00.html
The UN chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, yesterday expressed sadness
that he had not been allowed more time to complete his work, as
foreign ministers from France, Germany and Russia condemned the US and
British rush to war.
Turkey opens airspace but blocks airbases
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917849,00.html
The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, confirmed last night
that he will ask parliament to allow the US overflight rights for a
war on Iraq but to deny the Americans use of their bases in Turkey.
Shift of power on Kurdish border
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917848,00.html
Sympathy for Saddam's troops left in firing line.
Kurds' precarious freedom may be early casualty of conflict
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917850,00.html
If there has been one fixed point in debate about war with Iraq, it
has been that Iraqis deserve deliverance from Saddam Hussein, and that
the Iraqi Kurds in particular - who now have a precarious freedom -
should have it confirmed.
After the onslaught, a leap in the dark
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917784,00.html
Early bombardment will create 'shock and awe' but endgame in Baghdad
will prove more of a test.
Playing card murderer strikes again
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917727,00.html
Madrid shootings confirm serial killer fears.
ANC's apartheid-era hero jailed for fraud
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917904,00.html
A South African court jolted the ruling African National Congress
yesterday by sentencing a prominent party member to four years in jail
for fraud after a trial widely regarded as a test case for tackling
government corruption.
Baghdad shelters that are a shrine to the dead - not a place of safety
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917922,00.html
Beneath the yellow sky of a gathering dust storm, Iraqis hunkered down
for a long and unpredictable siege yesterday, gripped by only one
certainty: come what may they will not set foot in the city's bomb
shelters.
'Forces have begun striking select targets'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918033,00.html
Bush praises support of 35 countries
Cruise missile attack to shock and awe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918034,00.html
Allied military chiefs hope for swift end to war
Britons abroad warned of terror attacks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918020,00.html
The Foreign Office warned Britons around the world last night that
they face an "especially high" risk of terrorist attacks during the
war with Iraq.
Anti-Bush remark hits band CD sales
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917832,00.html
Growing signs of backlash against anti-war sentiment
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917833,00.html
An occasional series which decodes the military jargon
Action against Israelis and apartheid blocked regularly
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917834,00.html
US veto
Invading troops will have to feed 16m Iraqis, warn aid agencies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917787,00.html
US and British troops invading Iraq will have to care for 16 million
Iraqis - almost two-thirds of the population - for whom state handouts
of food are the only income, aid agencies are warning.
Inspectors say US intelligence was wrong
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917788,00.html
One of the UN weapons inspectors evacuated from Baghdad yesterday
accused the US of providing the mission with wrong and misleading
information about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Soldiers ready for battle - with pills, pads and powder
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917789,00.html
Clumps of hair lie in a pile on the sand-covered wooden floor of the
tent. A soldier has hold of a pair of hair clippers and is buzzing
away, shearing locks down to a number two crewcut as part of the
last-minute preparations of the Household Cavalry Regiment's D
Squadron - an armoured reconnaissance unit - before they go into
battle.
Soldiers ready for battle - with pills, pads and powder
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917789,00.html
Clumps of hair lie in a pile on the sand-covered wooden floor of the
tent. A soldier has hold of a pair of hair clippers and is buzzing
away, shearing locks down to a number two crewcut as part of the
last-minute preparations of the Household Cavalry Regiment's D
Squadron - an armoured reconnaissance unit - before they go into
battle.
UN tries to halt staff protest against attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917866,00.html
Kofi Annan's office has barred UN staff from open opposition to the
war in Iraq.
Mugabe critics spurred on by strike
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917725,00.html
After a two-day anti-government strike, Zimbabwe's Movement for
Democratic Change yesterday vowed to escalate "mass action" to force
President Mugabe's government to reform or leave office.
Arafat appoints new prime minister
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917965,00.html
Mahmoud Abbas, a pragmatic leader and critic of the armed uprising,
accepted Yasser Arafat's offer of the post of Palestinian prime
minister yesterday, raising hopes of a way out of the bloody
Israeli-Palestinian deadlock after 30 months.
Developers menace Pasternak village
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917728,00.html
One of Russian literature's most famous houses, where the writer Boris
Pasternak lived and composed his best work, including Dr Zhivago, will
soon be "ruined" by the construction of an estate of holiday homes
opposite it, according to his relatives.
Cubans accuse US of fomenting revolt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917966,00.html
The head of the US diplomatic mission in Havana has been accused by
the Cuban government of encouraging a counter-revolution. Government
opponents have reportedly been arrested as former President Jimmy
Carter said he was "disappointed" by Cuba's reaction to proposals for
change.
Three face trial over video nasty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917873,00.html
Three film-makers in California are to be tried for allegedly paying
homeless men and women to beat each other and even themselves up on
camera, then selling videotapes of their fights on the internet.
Serbian judges dismissed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917876,00.html
Serbia's parliament voted yesterday to force 35 judges into
retirement, amid accusations that the judiciary failed to prosecute
underworld bosses who masterminded last week's assassination of the
prime minister, Zoran Djindjic.
French oil chief admits payments
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917931,00.html
A former chief of the French oil giant at the centre of a money
scandal acknowledged in court yesterday that commissions on oil deals
were paid to African leaders.
Rail giant faces WW2 court action
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917945,00.html
An 82-year-old Frenchman stood in a Paris courtroom yesterday to
demand damages from France's state-owned rail company, SNCF, for
carrying his mother and father to their deaths in Nazi concentration
camps.
Chad troops help restore order
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,917947,00.html
About 100 soldiers from Chad flew to the Central African Republic
yesterday to help end days of widespread looting in the capital,
Bangui, by gangs of armed men after a coup at the weekend.
Baked beans and batteries - the key to surviving a terror attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,918021,00.html
Home Office advises householders to lay in stores
Breakthrough in search for killer bug
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,917706,00.html
Scientists hope they have identified the bug responsible for worldwide
health warnings linked to a virulent form of pneumonia.
Pager claims are rot, major tells court
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,917865,00.html
Contestant describes 'awesome' time in quiz hotseat
The bear's necessity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,917411,00.html
Bamboo 'corridors' could save pandas and the planet, writes Keith
Laidler.
Seeing is believing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,917410,00.html
Michael Morgan on how our brains piece together the great illusion
that we call 'reality'.
Tomb with a grave view
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,917409,00.html
Keith Devlin explains the link between a London cemetery and the war
on terrorism.
Science update
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,917566,00.html
How not to make a splash | The sounds of sighing | A spark from the
compost heap
Dotcom's fishy ending
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,917391,00.html
Comment: Why technology is more interesting than ever. By Peter Rojas.
At home with the wireless
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,917402,00.html
Despite economic problems, Europe's biggest IT show still packs a
punch. Ashley Norris reports.
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The War Begins
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S3E4221E3
For now, we simply hope for the welfare of those men and women - sons
and daughters - who will be flinging themselves into the Iraqi desert.
Heads in the Sand
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X1F4211E3
The biggest secret kept by the White House seems to be the estimated
cost to the nation's taxpayers of invading and rebuilding Iraq.
Ready for the Peace?
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V215421E3
By BOB HERBERT
We have plunged not just into war, but toward a peace that is
potentially more problematic than the war itself.
French Connection II
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D635121E3
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Despite a denial from President Jacques Chirac, the evidence points to
French arms dealings with Iraq.
The War After War With Iraq
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M245211E3
By TIMOTHY GARTON ASH
Three ideas are competing for the succession to the cold war West -
the Rumsfeldian, the Chiraco-Putinesque and the Blairite.
The Pentagon's Scariest Thoughts
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O355111E3
By ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN
War is never a cakewalk, but most "worst cases" in Iraq are ones our
troops are well trained and well equipped to handle.
Helping the New Serbian Prime Minister
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I265321E3
The new prime minister of Serbia is a politician the West will be
happy to welcome but whom it must be careful not to endanger.
In Baghdad, Sirens Wail as Missiles Strike
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E273124E3
By JOHN F. BURNS
Saddam Hussein exhorted his people to "draw your swords" against
invaders and referred to the U.S. government as "criminals" and
"Zionists."
Military Analysis: Setting the Stage
http://www.iht.com/articles/90427.html
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Some wars begin with a bang. Others begin with limited airstrikes and
psychological operations to weaken the enemy's resistance. This war
began with both.
Day of Waiting and Wondering Ends With Word From President
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F295425E3
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
At 10:15 on Wednesday night, President Bush ended what had become an
anxious guessing game in Iraq, in Washington and around the world.
Iraqi War Worries Seoul That North Korea Might Be Next
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F186515E3
By DON KIRK
The first American air and missile strikes on Iraq inspired worries
here today that North Korea might be next on the list of Washington's
targets and that South Korea could be drawn into conflict whether it
likes it or not.
Persian Gulf Oil Disruptions Have Begun
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D1A6255E3
By NEELA BANERJEE
So far, the markets have shrugged off concerns that problems with
shipping in the region could be substantial or last long.
Border Fight Follows Iraq Firing Missiles at G.I.'s in Kuwait
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X1B6235E3
By JOHN F. KIFNER with DAVID E. SANGER
A patrol of light armored vehicles from the Marine First Division
encountered two Iraqi armored personnel carriers south of the border
with Iraq.
With Battle Ahead, Sober Time for Troops
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H2F6515E3
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
As soldiers prepared for the drive to Iraq, they attended religious
services, bought items in the almost empty post exchanges and made
last-minute phone calls.
U.S. Uncertain Whether Air Strike on Baghdad Got Hussein
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A217525E3
By DAVID STOUT
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today that he was not
certain whether it was indeed Saddam Hussein who appeared on Iraqi
television last night.
W.H.O. Reports Gains Against Respiratory Outbreak
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H127325E3
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN with MARK LANDLER
The World Health Organization expressed optimism that scientists had
found a virus that could be the cause of a respiratory ailment.
Approach of War Reveals an Alienation in California
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R547155E3
By DEAN E. MURPHY
As Americans braced in recent days for the war against Iraq, many
Californians were feeling strangely out of it.
Administration Seeks More Money to Protect Against Terror Attacks
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J177225E3
By PHILIP SHENON
The White House has said that it plans to ask Congress for an
emergency spending package for domestic counterterrorism programs.
Bin Laden Chose 9/11 Targets, Qaeda Agent Says
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2C7625E3
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
A senior leader of Al Qaeda captured early this month in Pakistan has
told interrogators that Osama bin Laden personally selected the
targets for the Sept. 11 attacks.
Drilling in Alaska, a Priority for Bush, Fails in the Senate
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J5F7235E3
By DAVID FIRESTONE
The Senate narrowly voted against drilling for oil in the Alaskan
wildlife refuge, dealing a crippling blow to the central element of
the Bush energy plan.
As War Starts, Refugees Feel a Mixture of Dread and Relief
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z178255E3
By JACQUES STEINBERG
Many Iraqi-Americans are elated by the prospect of "regime-change,"
but fearful for relatives in Iraq and worried about a backlash in the
United States.
Senator Deplores Attack on Iraq
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2A8525E3
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, the senior member of the Senate, said
that he mourned the prospects for his nation at the start of a war he
has long opposed.
Sending 'Liberal Media' Truism to the Fact-Checker
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D2C8125E3
By ORVILLE SCHELL
In an impressively researched book, Eric Alterman provocatively
challenges the conservative belief in a liberal media bias.
A Most Unsettling Time for French Wineries
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C1D8235E3
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
The threat of a boycott of French wines by Americans could not come at
a worse time for a struggling industry.
A Trade Show Talks Shop Between Talk of an Invasion
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q619225E3
By SIMON ROMERO
War worries were pervasive on Wednesday at a large international
gathering of the wireless communications industry.
2 Scholarly Articles Diverge on Role of Race in Medicine
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M139215E3
By NICHOLAS WADE
Two articles in The New England Journal of Medicine take different
views on whether race is a meaningful factor in medicine.
Watching Intently as a War Is Born 6,000 Miles Away
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G449215E3
By TINA KELLEY and ELISSA GOOTMAN
After months of diplomacy and ominous words from Washington, there was
some shrugging acceptance now that the moment for action had come.
A Political Force Grows in Buffalo
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G269315E3
By JONATHAN P. HICKS
Founded in 1986, Grassroots Inc. has grown to include hundreds of
members in Buffalo. The group is considered one of the savviest
political groups in the U.S.
A City in Fear Loses Some of Its Swagger
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O179245E3
By JOYCE PURNICK
Subtle fears have been part of life in New York for a long time, since
Sept. 11. But they are more pronounced in the face of war.
A Parents' Guide to War Anxiety
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X289135E3
By SUSAN GILBERT
How teachers and parents should deal with children's thoughts and
feelings about the war with Iraq.
Study Challenges Case for Diversity at Colleges
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D5B9125E3
By GREG WINTER
A study financed by supporters of challenges to affirmative action has
found that diversity does not improve perception of educational
quality or ease racial tensions on campuses.
'Our Purpose Is Sure,' President Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57351-2003Mar19.html
President Bush announced last night that U.S. forces had begun "the
early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq," vowing to wage a
"broad and concerted campaign" to drive Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
from power.
Air Raids Resume Over Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61203-2003Mar20.html
U.S. bombs rained down on the Iraqi capital just hours after Secretary
of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld warned Iraqi military officers today to
refuse any orders to destroy any oil wells or use chemical weapons.
Most World Leaders Condemn U.S. Attack
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57593-2003Mar19.html
World leaders commented Thursday on U.S. airstrikes on Baghdad, with
several nations supporting the action, while nations opposed to action
expressed concern and dismay.
Palestinians Get Their First Prime Minister
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56419-2003Mar19.html
Mahmoud Abbas, critic of Palestinian violence and advocate of peace
with Israel, agreed today to serve as the Palestinians' first prime
minister.
Once Upon a Time
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56350-2003Mar19.html
Between the 8th century, when it was constructed, and the 13th, when
it was destroyed, Baghdad was the most learned and most opulent city
in Islam
War In Prime Time
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58977-2003Mar20.html
It's amazing how riveting television can be even when it doesn't show
you what in hell is going on -- and even when the journalists who are
supposed to be telling you what's going on aren't quite certain
themselves.
Some Journalists Hampered in Leaving
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56380-2003Mar19.html
The decision to leave Baghdad is hard, but getting out of town can be
even harder due to "a shakedown by Iraqi bureaucrats."
Counterterror Team's Turnover Continues
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58934-2003Mar20.html
The resignation Monday of Rand Beers, the National Security Council's
senior director for combating terrorism, marked the second round of
upheaval in the White House's counterterrorism team in less than 18
months. Beers, who had served twice before on the National Security
staff in previous administrations and held a number of senior State
Department positions, was brought on board in August after the abrupt
departure of Wayne A. Downing as deputy national security adviser.
Even With a War, Business as Usual
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58981-2003Mar20.html
President Bush sat at his desk in the Oval Office last night, holding
in his hands the speech he would read in a minute's time to announce
that the nation was at war. Spotting an aide in the audience, Bush
pumped his left fist in a gesture of grim determination. "I feel
good," he said.
Revision of Special Education Law Sought
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55927-2003Mar19.html
The Republican proposals in the House are the opening salvos in what
is expected to be a long debate over reauthorization of the
Individuals With Disabilities Act.
U.S. Troops Strike At Afghan Targets
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58974-2003Mar20.html
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, March 20 (Thursday) -- About 1,000 U.S.
troops launched a raid on villages in southeastern Afghanistan today,
hunting for members of the al Qaeda terrorist network in the biggest
U.S. operation here in just over a year, military officials said.
Hong Kong Suggested as Origin of Outbreak
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55928-2003Mar19.html
The new ailment, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, aroused intense
concern largely because it is the first often life-threatening illness
to surface in nearly two decades that spreads directly from one person
to another.
Markets Across Asia Move Up
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57541-2003Mar19.html
SHANGHAI, March 20 (Thursday) -- As Asia this morning absorbed the
beginning of the long-expected war in Iraq, markets across the region
traded higher on what many analysts read as expectations that the
conflict will end quickly and decisively.
For Spanish Leader, War Is a Gamble
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57433-2003Mar19.html
Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar of Spain is making a gamble: The war
in Iraq will be swift and comparatively bloodless, and when Spaniards
vote in local elections in May, they will have forgiven him for
supporting the war in near total disregard of public opinion.
Turkish Leader Makes Request on Airspace
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56991-2003Mar19.html
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked parliament Wednesday to open
Turkish airspace to the U.S. military, but he turned down a Pentagon
request to let U.S. warplanes use Turkish air bases.
Tapped Phones Found At EU Headquarters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57510-2003Mar19.html
PARIS, March 19 -- Unidentified spies using sophisticated,
computer-based eavesdropping techniques recently tapped phone lines of
work rooms assigned to six European nations at European Union
headquarters in Brussels, the EU announced today.
U.S. Opens War With Strikes On Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56689-2003Mar19.html
U.S. forces opened an assault on Iraq early today with a barrage of 40
Tomahawk cruise missiles that slammed into three targets around
Baghdad in an attempt to hit Saddam Hussein.
Explosion Shatters the Quiet of the City
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57082-2003Mar19.html
The U.S. attack was aimed at targets on the southern and eastern
outskirts of the city. No destruction was visible from the heart of
the capital.
Arab World Erupts in Fury
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60440-2003Mar20.html
Protests outside U.S. embassies draw hundreds of thousands; Cairo in
riot.
Skepticism on Hussein Video
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60695-2003Mar20.html
A senior Bush aide questions whether man in uniform is really Iraqi
leader.
War Surprises Carrier's Crew
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62725-2003Mar20.html
On the USS Abraham Lincoln, most pilots were asleep when word broke.
A Permanent Exclusive
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60157-2003Mar20.html
Even before first bombs hit, we had the first spectacular media
blunder of the war.
FBI Recovers Missing Copy of Bill of Rights: Document Was Stolen From
N.C. During Civil War (Post, March 20, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57421-2003Mar19.html
CIA Had Fix on Hussein: Intelligence Revealed 'Target of Opportunity'
(Post, March 20, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58177-2003Mar20.html
Rules on Detention Widened: FBI, Marshals Can Hold Foreigners (Post,
March 20, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56948-2003Mar19.html
First Strike
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57539-2003Mar19.html
Page A28
AS AMERICAN FORCES launched their first strikes on Iraq, President
Bush told the country that a "broad and concerted campaign" against
Saddam Hussein had begun. The attacks last night were limited to what
the president called "selected targets of military importance"; the
explosions of cruise missiles and guided bombs in and around Baghdad
suggested an attempt to eliminate senior Iraqi leaders. Far more
intensive air and ground strikes were expected. Mr. Bush said that
"now that conflict has come . . . this will not be a campaign of half
measures, and we will accept no outcome but victory."
Rebuilding A Nation's Dignity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57331-2003Mar19.html
By David Ignatius, Page A29
KUWAIT CITY -- If you want to understand the problems the United
States will confront in postwar Iraq, take a look at France.
Seriously.
Hussein's Shame Strategy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57330-2003Mar19.html
By Jim Hoagland, Page A29
Saddam Hussein's only effective weapon in the 1991 Persian Gulf War
was the shame factor. He is preparing to deploy it again in a grisly
replay of a military strategy based on sacrificing as many Iraqi
civilians and soldiers as he must to save himself.
An Air of Empire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57329-2003Mar19.html
By Leon Fuerth, Page A29
The word "empire" has been used fairly often as a metaphor to
convey the global scope of American interests and of American
military, economic and political influence. After the conquest of
Iraq, however, it can be fairly argued that we shall have created not
a figure of speech but a concrete reality.
Evil Isn't a Dream
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57327-2003Mar19.html
By Richard Cohen, Page A29
I am reproached by my e-mails -- dismissed as a fool, condemned as
a warmonger. How could I, a supposed liberal, support the war in Iraq?
I have several reasons, but the most important has to do with a
recurring dream I used to have. In it, I am entering Auschwitz.
Unprepared for Tractors (or Terror)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57293-2003Mar19.html
Page A28
On Monday afternoon some yahoo drove his tractor into a pond on the
Mall and claimed he had a bomb. The police closed Constitution Avenue
between 15th and 23rd streets NW to protect people from exploding
engine parts in case he actually had such a device.
Differing Over Dividends
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57319-2003Mar19.html
Page A28
In his March 11 op-ed article, "A Boon to Ordinary Investors,"
Charles Schwab said that companies refrain from paying dividends
because investors have to pay taxes on those dividends, which are paid
from funds that have already been taxed, which constitutes double
taxation, which is unfair. In other words, the company won't pay me a
dividend because doing so would put an unfair tax burden on me.
Behind the Estrada Filibuster
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57321-2003Mar19.html
Page A28
The March 7 editorial condemning the Senate filibuster against
Miguel Estrada's confirmation only half-quoted Abraham Lincoln.
No Choice but War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57324-2003Mar19.html
Page A28
Do the war protesters really think that continuing to turn our back
on Iraq's stockpile of chemical and biological weapons is even an
option ["Opponents of War Decry U.S. Stance; Many Nations Assail End
of Diplomacy," front page, March 19]? Are they suggesting that we
appease and buy off aggressors?
Bush Tries to Block Senate Push to Cut Tax Plan in Half (By Mike
Allen, Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56514-2003Mar19.html
Senators Reject Call For Drilling In Alaska: Bush Defeated on Key
Issue by Slim Margin (By Helen Dewar, Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57397-2003Mar19.html
Tax-and-Spend Republicans?: Budget Crunches in Nevada, New Mexio
Challenge Democratic, GOP Stereotypes (By T. R. Reid, Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58902-2003Mar20.html
Graham's Recovery Expected: Heart Surgery Should Not Limit Senator,
Doctors Say (By Rob Stein, Page A05)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56491-2003Mar19.html
Son of Carnahan Eyes Gephardt's House Seat (By Brian Faler, Page A05)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57440-2003Mar19.html
Al Qaeda Official Tells of Planned Attacks: U.S. Assessing Credibility
of Information From Captured Operations Chief Mohammed (By Susan
Schmidt and Dan Eggen, Page A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56515-2003Mar19.html
Registration Program Problems Cited: Immigrants' Attorneys Kept From
Investigative Interviews (By George Lardner Jr., Page A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55994-2003Mar19.html
Hughes's New Role In Shaping Bush's Message Questioned: Ethics,
Politicization Concerns Cited (By Dana Milbank, Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58210-2003Mar20.html
GOP to Hammer Democratic War Critics: Both Parties Willing to Try to
Gain Political Advantage in Conflict With Iraq (By Jim VandeHei, Page
A14)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57444-2003Mar19.html
Chemicals Use Considered Less Likely: Experts Say Iraq Does Not Have
Means to Deliver Them Against Invaders (By Walter Pincus, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56744-2003Mar19.html
Environmental Damages a Concern: Experts Fear Effects of War on
Persian Gulf Region Could Be 'Irreversible' (By Eric Pianin, Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57503-2003Mar19.html
Focus at U.N. Turns To Iraq's Recovery: Germany, France Stress
Organization's Role (By Peter Slevin and Colum Lynch, Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56638-2003Mar19.html
'Forces Are in the Early Stages Of . . . Operations to Disarm Iraq'
(Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58976-2003Mar20.html
Across the U.S., Reality Sinks In: Glued to TVs, Americans Watch, Wait
(By William Booth, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58998-2003Mar20.html
N. Korea Stymied On Plutonium Work: Reprocessing Lab Called Antiquated
(By Glenn Kessler and Walter Pincus, Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57266-2003Mar19.html
U.S.: Mideast Plan Is Nonnegotiable: Bush Statement Sparked
Uncertainty (By Glenn Kessler, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57505-2003Mar19.html
Trio Switches Pharmaceutical Groups (By Judy Sarasohn, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57518-2003Mar19.html
Recordings Banned As Scalia Accepts Free Speech Award (By Charles
Lane, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55961-2003Mar19.html
Changes at VA Vex Advocates For Homeless: More Veterans' Programs
Compete for Federal Funds (By Edward Walsh, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55960-2003Mar19.html
Kurds Hope U.S. Will Let Them Join the Fight in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63029-2003Mar20.html
Turkish Refusal to Allow U.S. Troops Seen as Boon to Cause
Japan, South Korea Exhibit Support for Iraq Attack (Post, March 20,
2003; 8:00 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60602-2003Mar20.html
U.S. Troops Strike at Afghan Targets (Post, March 20, 2003; 7:53 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60432-2003Mar20.html
Mexican President Says He Is Against War in Iraq (AP, March 20, 2003;
12:07 PM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61880-2003Mar20.html
Cuba Continues Crackdown on Dissidents: Movements of U.S. Diplomats
Restricted (AP, March 20, 2003; 12:43 PM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50426-2003Mar19.html
South Korea Increases Military Readiness (AP, March 20, 2003; 12:31
AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57987-2003Mar20.html
U.S. Reaps New Data On Weapons (By Barton Gellman, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57066-2003Mar19.html
Unspoken Fears, and Talismans (By Monte Reel, Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56990-2003Mar19.html
U.S. Attack in Northern Iraq To Be Smaller Than Planned (By Jonathan
Weisman, Page A20)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56525-2003Mar19.html
Arab Leaders Fail in Last-Minute Efforts: Mubarak Blames Iraq,
Cautions Coalition; Bahrain Signals It Would Give Hussein Sanctuary
(By Emily Wax, Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57129-2003Mar19.html
A Popular Request to the Rescuers: 'Make Sure You Get Me' (By Mary
Beth Sheridan, Page A16)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57499-2003Mar19.html
When the Enemy Doesn't Fight Back (By Jonathan Finer, Page A16)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57506-2003Mar19.html
No-Frills Force Paves Way in a High-Tech War (By Peter Baker, Page
A16)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56989-2003Mar19.html
Rumsfeld Promises Iraq Campaign Will Escalate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62422-2003Mar20.html
Future Attacks Will Go Well Beyond Initial Salvo
Iraq Fires Missiles at Kuwait
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60671-2003Mar20.html
KUWAIT CITY, March 20-Iraq fired two missiles today toward U.S. forces
in northern Kuwait and another at this capital city, just hours after
more than 40 U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles slammed into targets in and
around Baghdad.
American Ground Forces Poised to Strike
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61526-2003Mar20.html
Troops Make Their Way to Iraq-Kuwait Border
Web Sites Vandalized With Antiwar Messages
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62865-2003Mar20.html
A hacker group marred hundreds of Web sites with digital graffiti last
night in an apparent response to the onset of the U.S.-led war against
Iraq, prompting security experts to warn of further cyberattacks in
the days to come.
Antiwar Protesters Ride Through D.C.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60776-2003Mar20.html
About 30 antiwar activists marched on the Key Bridge this morning,
forcing police to briefly shut down one of the District's major
traffic arteries and causing officials to gear up for further possible
disruptions from demonstrations planned later this afternoon and
evening.
As U.S. Attack Begins, World Media Recoil from 全hock and Awe'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55823-2003Mar19.html
As the U.S. attack on Baghdad gets underway, the military strategy
dubbed "Shock and Awe" by Pentagon war planners is emerging as a
lightning rod for criticism in the international online media.
FBI Wants Al Qaeda Suspect
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63244-2003Mar20.html
Agency issues worldwide alert for man it says poses "serious threat."
'This Is the Real Live Stuff, Ladies'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61528-2003Mar20.html
Incoming Missiles Send Soldiers Scurrying
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62530-2003Mar20.html
No Casualties Reported in 82nd Airborne Camp
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A continent betrayed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,918763,00.html
Polly Toynbee: By backing Bush and blaming France, Tony Blair has
missed his - and Britain's - European destiny.
Now Bush's doctrine of war will be put to the test
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,918784,00.html
Martin Woollacott: Will pre-emption survive the war on Iraq?
Redeem this day of shame
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,918782,00.html
Andrew Murray: The assault on Iraq which began yesterday is a war the
British people do not want.
Thank God for the death of the UN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,918764,00.html
Richard Perle: Its abject failure gave us only anarchy. The world
needs order.
Redrawing the colour line
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,918783,00.html
Randeep Ramesh: Britain embraces the cool exotica of India while
deriding one of the subcontinent's great religions - Islam.
Power tool
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,918712,00.html
Perhaps the least surprising thing about the second Gulf war is that
it began with a volley of Tomahawk missiles. Since they were first
used in the 1991 conflict, they have become the ultimate symbol of US
military power. Oliver Burkeman reveals how a hi-tech weapon that
promised blood-free combat changed the way America thinks about war.
How I learned to hate the bomb
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,918627,00.html
Scientist Joseph Rotblat is more qualified than most to speak out
against the current conflict - he was part of the team that developed
the first atomic weapon. He tells Stephen Moss why he has spent most
of his life campaigning against his creation.
Behind the lines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,918628,00.html
Footnotes to a war
God on the Brain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrain.shtml
Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious
visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died;
she thought she had given birth to Jesus. Both have temporal lobe
epilepsy.
That'll be the deity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,918780,00.html
According to Horizon (BBC2), our belief in belief is hardwired into
our brains, and visions - like that of St Paul on the road to
Damascus, on which sects, cults and denominations are founded - can be
explained as fits of temporal lobe epilepsy. The Seventh-Day
Adventists, for example, might be behaving all devout and pious not
because their founder Ellen White really did have visions of the
Almighty but because she was hit in the face as a child and
consequently developed the condition.
The war debate
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Head in the sand
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,918902,00.html
Diversion is good, making like an ostrich is better- and systematic
self-deception is absolutely essential
The price of overconfidence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
The first day of the attack on Iraq shows that the spin many believed
is not matching the reality of what is happening on the ground
Blair's brave new world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,918768,00.html
I have a certain sympathy with the vision of a new world order set out
by Timothy Garton Ash (Beyond the sandstorm, March 20).
Parallels and ironies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,918769,00.html
I am surprised that the remarkable parallels between the present Iraqi
problem and the Suez crisis have received so little media intention.
We're in this together
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,918770,00.html
At least this war will emphasise the commonality of American, British
and Iraqi citizens in one respect: we all know what it's like to have
governments which lead us into illegal wars of aggression.
What Bill said last time
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,918771,00.html
Now that the war proper has started, it is worth recalling the speech
Bill Clinton delivered at the Labour party conference last October.
Our plea
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,918774,00.html
We are a group of black, Jewish and Asian people who meet regularly.
We are worried that the attack on Iraq will spark off new tensions
between our communities in Britain.
Clare's war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,918772,00.html
This demonisation of Clare Short should stop.
More thoughts for the day
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,918773,00.html
David Aaronovitch complains that the broadcast media, and the BBC in
particular, have failed to reflect the degree of support in the
country for a war with Iraq (G2, March 18).
Into a fearful future
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,918766,00.html
The outcome belongs to Bush not Blair.
Striking at Saddam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,918765,00.html
Washington misses its target again.
Not in our courts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,918767,00.html
Americans should try suing in America.
Markets brought down to earth as Bush warns war may drag on
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,918650,00.html
Reports of burning Iraqi oil wells punctured the mood of euphoria in
the stock markets yesterday as the first day of air strikes on Iraq
brought a warning from President Bush that the war could drag on
longer than anticipated.
Ad slots empty as brands avoid war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,918732,00.html
Big advertisers yesterday pulled advertisements across the entire
media sector as the outbreak of war in Iraq threatened to compound the
worst industry recession in living memory.
US networks suffer as advertisers abandon ship
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,918735,00.html
US television networks have suffered a wave of advertising
cancellations following the outbreak of conflict in Iraq as war
threatens to derail a tentative recovery in the world's largest media
market.
Blair addresses divided nation
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,918898,00.html
Tony Blair called on Britain last night to unite behind the country's
armed forces as they joined the war in Iraq 'from air, land and sea'.
Blair appeals for national unity
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,918853,00.html
Tony Blair appealed to a deeply divided Britain last night to unite
behind the country's armed forces as they joined the attack to deliver
the Iraqi people from their "barbarous rulers".
Leaders apart at EU summit
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,9061,918849,00.html
Blair and Chirac avoid each other as war breaks out.
'Britain has never been a nation to hide at the back'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,918660,00.html
The full text of Tony Blair's recorded television address.
Blair told but not consulted on attack
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,918843,00.html
Prime minister woken at midnight to be given notice of raid.
Land, sea and air assault
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918846,00.html
Baghdad under cruise missile attack · UK and US marines fight way to
Basra · Initial Iraqi resistance light · Reports of oilfields set
ablaze · Rumsfeld promises force 'never seen before'.
A short, sharp shock, then Baghdad bounces back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918845,00.html
The plaintive wail of the air raid siren sliced through the evening at
around 9pm, announcing the moment Iraqis had awaited with dread: the
definitive start of the war.
British elite troops push towards Basra
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918817,00.html
Royal marines and paras spearhead operation to take first major
objective of the campaign amid fears of oilfield fires.
Stay at home to avoid Saddam's fate, Rumsfeld tells Iraqis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918835,00.html
The US vowed yesterday to unleash a bombing attack against Iraq of
unprecedented scale and intensity and warned Iraqis to stay at home
and listen to American radio broadcasts.
Harsh words from peace camp, muted praise from backers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918665,00.html
Russia, France and China - UN security council members opposed to war
- led a storm of international protest yesterday against the US
strikes on Iraq, while praise from Washington's allies was restrained
and often outweighed by street protest.
Caught between 'Arab Nero' and hated US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918637,00.html
Saudis marked the long-expected start of the war against their
neighbour - a war which the kingdom has battled long, hard and
unsuccessfully to prevent - with a flurry of anti-American text
messages sent to friends on their mobile phones.
Bush plan to exploit Alaskan oil thwarted
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918642,00.html
Just as the war was starting in Iraq, President Bush lost a different
kind of battle in the senate as his plans for drilling for oil in the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska were defeated.
Britain reveals France's £135m exports to Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918836,00.html
Britain intensified its propaganda campaign against France yesterday
by releasing figures showing that Paris has exported goods worth
hundreds of millions of dollars to Iraq.
Anglo-French rancour poisons mood of EU dinner
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918925,00.html
British fury as Chirac vetoes reference to resolution 1441
Terror fear after ricin is found in Paris
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918926,00.html
Bio-weapon discovery puts French capital on alert
Crossinginto the unknown - tanks roll off to battle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918816,00.html
US tanks sped through a border checkpoint on the main Kuwait to Basra
highway at dusk yesterday, as US and British forces swapped artillery
fire with Iraqis in a crescendo of violence which continued into the
darkness.
Southern oilfields set ablaze in act of sabotage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918927,00.html
The long-feared sabotage of Iraq's oilfields appeared to have begun
last night. Orange flames lit up the skies of southern Iraq near
Basra, the country's oil centre.
Commandos secure foothold
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918928,00.html
Lightning land attack opens route to capital
Short cut move fails, the bombing goes on
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918808,00.html
New wave of attacks after Saddam survives missile assault on suspected
hideout
Caution over Scud attack claims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918756,00.html
Kuwait says attacks from Iraq used banned missiles claimed to have
been destroyed
Leaders on the CIA's hit list
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918815,00.html
The US has a long history of seeking to assassinate leaders who have
challenged American interests. The plots, some of them farcical, have
generally been unsuccessful or not implemented, though some targets
have fallen in later US-inspired coups.
Attempt to assassinate Saddam legal - unless he surrenders first
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918758,00.html
Leader is deemed fair target because he is also military chief
Rising anger grips the Middle East
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918636,00.html
Amid growing anger in the Arab world, anti-war protesters clashed with
riot police in Cairo yesterday, hurling stones and metal barricades
and shouting slogans against Arab leaders as well as the US.
Defiant Saddam broadcasts poetic vow to crush the enemy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918649,00.html
Looking tired and puffy-faced, his moustache a little greyer than
usual, Saddam Hussein appeared on television early yesterday to dispel
any idea that he was killed in the American assassination attempt.
Lengthy advance spells short supply for troops
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918741,00.html
Tens of thousands of US and British soldiers are poised to start the
journey from Kuwait to Baghdad and beyond, to the oilfields in
northern Iraq.
Everytown, USA, backs Bush
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918745,00.html
Smalltown America is supportive but the mood may change if the
bodybags begin to pile up
Protests at Turkish mobilisation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918746,00.html
US withdraws aid plan as Ankara claims humanitarian motive
US forces target Taliban massing near Kandahar
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918753,00.html
Gunships back 1,000 soldiers in assault on caves
Kenya questions 'al-Qaida planner'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918754,00.html
The Kenyan national security minister said yesterday that a man
arrested in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and brought to Nairobi was
a high-ranking al-Qaida member who organised terrorism in east Africa.
Al-Qaida suspects detained in Berlin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918889,00.html
German investigators were last night questioning five suspected
Islamist terrorists detained on suspicion of planning an attack to
coincide with the start of the war in Iraq.
Cold water poured on idea of business helping thirsty world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918643,00.html
International financiers unveiled a multibillion pound plan yesterday
to prevent the world suffering a water crisis that they warn could be
far more catastrophic than the war in Iraq.
Shell faces violence in Nigeria
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918644,00.html
Violence has escalated in the volatile Niger delta with up to 15
people killed in intercommunity conflicts in the past week and oil
companies forced to evacuate staff and cut production.
Aids protesters accuse Pretoria ministers of manslaughter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918693,00.html
Hundreds of Aids activists gathered illegally and marched into South
African police stations yesterday to begin a campaign of civil
disobedience against the government for its refusal to provide
life-extending drugs to those with HIV.
Serb prosecutor held in PM murder case
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918932,00.html
A senior Serbian official held in connection with the killing of the
prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, has admitted he was on the payroll of
the gang boss allegedly behind the assassination, the authorities said
yesterday.
Czechs learn who spied on them
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918694,00.html
Tens of thousands of snoopers and spies who worked with the
Czechoslovak communist regime to denounce their neighbours, friends
and families were unmasked on the internet yesterday.
Monica Lewinsky heads for TV big time with a new Mr Personality
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918695,00.html
Monica Lewinsky, whose affair with Bill Clinton nearly cost him the US
presidency, is to host a new dating show.
Zimbabwe soldiers attack farmworkers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,918697,00.html
A Zimbabwean farmworker was killed and scores of others were seriously
injured by army troops who invaded a farm leased by an opposition MP,
his party alleged yesterday.
Thousands take to the streets in protest as war begins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,918834,00.html
Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters filled streets and squares,
blocked roads, walked out of schools and universities and temporarily
stopped work yesterday.
'Shock and awe, coming up soon'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,918666,00.html
Broadcasters had been so prepared for the so-called Shock and Awe
beginning to the war - in which thousands of bombs were supposed to be
dropped on Baghdad at once - that coverage by the 24-hour news
channels on what on-screen graphics called Day 1 had a tone which
might be called Shock and Bemusement.
Pentagon hawk linked to UK intelligence company
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,918742,00.html
Amid general stock market jitters, one British company linked to the
American hawk Richard Perle and dealing with secret intelligence is
among the few UK commercial organisations that stand to profit from
the Iraq war and its accompanying worldwide terrorist alert.
Surveillance of suspected extremists stepped up in UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,918722,00.html
The number of suspected Islamist extremists under surveillance by the
anti-terrorist branch and MI5 has been increased as part of a broad
operation undertaken to coincide with the start of war in the Gulf, it
emerged yesterday.
Bishops and imams unite in call for peace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,918721,00.html
Faith leaders from the Archbishop of Canterbury to imams in Bradford
added their voices yesterday to calls for a swift end to the war and
an emphasis on building a lasting peace in the Middle East.
Strangers in a strange land
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,918127,00.html
As Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, Stefanie Zweig's family found
sanctuary in British Empire Kenya, before returning home after the
war. Now their story has become a film.
The Apu Trilogy
http://film.guardian.co.uk/video/review/0,12340,918598,00.html
Rob Mackie looks back in wonder at Satjavit Ray's landmark film
trilogy: Pather Panchali, Aparajito and The World of Apu
Can we salvage our relationship with Europe once the shooting stops?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/donald_macintyre/story.jsp?story=388826
Britain may have to show that Iraq is not a precedent for slavishly
following George Bush into his every military adventure
Don't idealise the soldiers fighting this unjust war
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/natasha_walter/story.jsp?story=388823
Tony Blair has entered a plea yesterday for the country to stop
bickering and to unite behind our armed forces. And members of
Parliament have responded, with even the most vigorous rebels,
including Charles Kennedy and Robin Cook, pledging their support for
the troops.
Leading article
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=389120
Only freedom for the Iraqi people can justify this war
1,000 arrests at San Francisco demo
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=389212
21 March 2003
Galvanised by the Anglo-American attack on Iraq, thousands of anti-war
activists around the world have taken to the streets, with more than
1,000 people arrested while demonstrating in San Francisco.
Bush had Iraq in his sights before he became President
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=389193
21 March 2003
How the American administration moved, after 11 September 2001, from
its pledge to hunt down Osama bin Laden "dead or alive" to launching
all-out war on Iraq is one of the imponderables of international
diplomacy.
Bush spin doctor is recalled in bid to control news
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=389186
21 March 2003
George Bush has recalled Karen Hughes, his longtime close political
adviser, to help shape his administration's tightly controlled
communications strategy for the war against Iraq.
Fears grow that US has shelved Middle East peace plan
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=389202
21 March 2003
Fears were growing yesterday that the American administration may have
put the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians on hold.
Australia commits 2,000 troops to fight alongside America
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/story.jsp?story=388269
18 March 2003
Australia allied itself to the war effort by pledging troops for Iraq
after the United States and Britain threatened to launch military
action.
Do you trust George Bush to run the war?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/johann_hari/story.jsp?story=389116
The thought of the President losing the plot suddenly is frightening -
and not implausible
The best course for America is to have power without responsibility
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/deborah_orr/story.jsp?story=389117
The only way to save the US from its own dream of painless hegemony is
to take the lead in mending the damage
A quiet pacifism has eaten into British souls
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/terence_blacker/story.jsp?story=389118
Generations have grown up softened by the long years of comfy,
unthreatened consumerism
Christopher Bellamy: The opening shots that meant the strategy was
rewritten
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=389198
"Expect the unexpected." And the new Gulf war began as expected -
unexpectedly.
Lawrence Freedman: Lessons from the bombing of Baghdad, 1991
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=389115
There is no evidence that the Allied bombardment in the first Gulf War
made any difference to Saddam's hold on power. But it did have
long-term consequences
Richard Perle-What do you know about him
http://forums.indigital.co.uk/id-argument/messages?msg=19034
Who Lost the U.S. Budget?
http://tinyurl.com/7w12
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The simple truth is that the Bush tax cuts have utterly transformed
our fiscal outlook, for the worse.
After War, Let Iraqis Triumph
http://tinyurl.com/7w14
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
We should make the outcome in Iraq seem, as much as possible, like a
victory for Iraqis, and we should put them in charge quickly.
Wars Can't Be Won Only From Above
http://tinyurl.com/7w17
By ROBERT PAPE
The public should not be led to believe that air power alone is likely
to win a decisive victory in a major war.
An Empty Pledge to Civilians?
http://tinyurl.com/7w19
By SARAH SEWALL
The Department of Defense has never undertaken a systemic evaluation
to determine whether its efforts to spare civilian lives succeed or
fail.
Note to the Security Council: Get Involved
http://tinyurl.com/7w1b
By DAVID L. PHILLIPS
The obstructionism of some Security Council members where the Oil for
Food Program is concerned is hurting the people of Iraq.
How to Watch the War
http://tinyurl.com/7w1d
Four criteria by which the American public can evaluate the progress
of the invasion of Iraq.
Gideon's Trumpet Stilled
http://tinyurl.com/7w1h
It is time to make the fundamental and essential right to counsel a
reality for low-income defendants.
In Iraqi Capital, Sirens Precede Two Direct Hits
http://tinyurl.com/7w1r
By JOHN F. BURNS
A second wave of air attacks against the heart of Baghdad had all the
sudden, devastating power of modern high-technology warfare.
U.S. Reports Talks Urging Surrender
http://tinyurl.com/7w1s
By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that allied officials had
held secret talks with Iraqi troops about defecting or surrendering.
Protesters Across the Nation Try to 'Stop Business as Usual'
http://tinyurl.com/7w1y
By KATE ZERNIKE and DEAN E. MURPHY
Thousands of protesters converged on plazas, bridges and federal
buildings to proclaim their opposition to war.
Wave of Protests, From Europe to New York
http://tinyurl.com/7w20
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
Leaders and protesters around the world condemned the start of war in
Iraq, with President Jacques Chirac warning that it "will be fraught
with consequences for the future."
Networks Make the Most of Their Frontline Access
http://tinyurl.com/7w23
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
The first full day of television coverage of the invasion of Iraq
revealed not the fog of war but a firestorm of amazing combat images.
A Swift, and Risky, Attack by Land, With Surprise in Mind
http://tinyurl.com/7w26
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
American commanders sought to reclaim an element of surprise on
Thursday after the war's unexpected start.
U.S. Troops Open Ground Attack
http://www.iht.com/articles/90571.html
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
As the first of some 20,000 soldiers from the Third Division poured
across the border, Iraqi resistance was light.
Surprise Strike at Outset Leaves Urgent Mystery: Who Was Hit?
http://tinyurl.com/7w2a
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and DAVID JOHNSTON
U.S. officials said that they were not sure which, if any, top Iraqi
officials where killed in the first airstrike on Baghdad.
A Mundane Thursday, Shadowed by Foreboding
http://tinyurl.com/7w2f
By JODI WILGOREN with DAVID LEONHARDT
As the first day of the attack on Iraq unfolded, people struggled to
balance joy at the first signs of spring with a nagging sense that the
mood should be somber.
Resentful of Treatment, Muslims Still Work With Authorities
http://tinyurl.com/7w2h
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Many prominent Muslims resent the government's focus on Muslims and
Arabs, but have agreed to act as a bridge between their communities
and law enforcement officials.
ABC, Caught Unprepared, Apologizes to Its Affiliates
http://tinyurl.com/7vu8
By BILL CARTER
On the opening night of the war, when every other television news
organization enjoyed substantial ratings gains, ABC News had a
disastrous evening.
F.B.I. Seeks Qaeda Suspect in U.S.; Troops Sent to Nuclear Plant
http://tinyurl.com/7w2o
By PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU
Federal law-enforcement officials warned again about new domestic
terrorism threats, including an "imminent threat" that might be posed
by a Qaeda suspect.
Officer Shows Uncertainty in Disputed Drug Cases
http://tinyurl.com/7w2p
By ADAM LIPTAK
A white former undercover police officer whose uncorroborated
testimony led to drug charges against 46 people, almost all black,
took the stand to defend his actions.
U.S. Ready to Rescind Clinton Order on Government Secrets
http://tinyurl.com/7w2r
By ADAM CLYMER
By revoking an order by President Bill Clinton on classified
information, the administration will make it easier for the government
to keep documents secret.
Paying the Price for Isolation
http://tinyurl.com/7w2t
By JEFF MADRICK
American unilateral bravado regarding the war could be costly when it
comes to the economy.
What Will Sell When Duct Tape Is Passé?
http://tinyurl.com/7w2v
By FLOYD NORRIS
It is hard to remember a time when people were more sure about who
would win a war, and less sure of what would happen after it.
Europeans Worry About War's Economic Ripples
http://tinyurl.com/7w2y
By MARK LANDLER
Europeans on Thursday debated how war might affect their economies,
with some experts noting that France and Germany could end up
benefiting most.
Nervous Day in the Pit for Traders of Crude Oil
http://tinyurl.com/7w30
By NEELA BANERJEE
The price of crude oil and the anxieties of oil traders on the floor
rose and fell with the news from the Persian Gulf.
Amid Tight Security, Market Extends Rally
http://tinyurl.com/7w32
By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER
Investors reacted calmly to hostilities after the long walkup to war.
Fuel Economy Regulations Could be Revised
http://tinyurl.com/7w33
By DANNY HAKIM
The Bush administration is considering changing fuel economy rules to
drive automakers to offer more large cars and station wagons.
Pentagon Adviser Is Also Advising Global Crossing
http://tinyurl.com/7w35
By STEPHEN LABATON
Richard Perle, who advises the Pentagon, has been retained by Global
Crossing to help overcome Defense Department resistance to the
company's proposed sale.
Finding Ghosts in the Mountains
http://tinyurl.com/7w3c
By TIMOTHY EGAN
For the hunter of rock art, the Southwest is never one-dimensional.
Asian Medics Stay Home, Imperiling Respiratory Patients
http://tinyurl.com/7w3f
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
The care of patients with a mysterious illness is being jeopardized
because health care workers are staying away from their jobs out of
fear of getting sick themselves.
Of Rhythms Slightly Altered and Events That Weren't
http://tinyurl.com/7w3h
By JAMES BARRON
New York had been anticipating the American-led attack on Iraq, but
when the war came, it altered the rhythms and routines of life in the
city in many ways.
On the Water in Wartime, an Eerily Calm View
http://tinyurl.com/7w3j
By COREY KILGANNON
The New York Police Department's harbor unit handles the city's
waterfront. Sensitive areas include the United Nations as well as
Lower Manhattan.
A Lesson Plan About Generosity
http://tinyurl.com/7w3l
By STEPHANIE STROM
A charitable project at P.S. 234 exemplifies a much-discussed trend in
philanthropy today - an explosion of young people involved in
nonprofit activity.
3 Co-op Buildings on Madison Reflect an Upturn in East Harlem
http://tinyurl.com/7w3p
By RACHELLE GARBARINE
In the last two years three vacant sites along Madison Avenue in East
Harlem have filled with co-op apartment buildings intended to attract
buyers with moderate to middle incomes.
Overlooked Women of Ancient Times
http://tinyurl.com/7w3r
By HOLLAND COTTER
This exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University
successfully alters the perception of women's roles in Byzantine
society.
Holocaust's Dailyness, Depicted by Its Victims
http://tinyurl.com/7w3u
By GRACE GLUECK
By Nazi standards Theresienstadt, euphemistically styled a ghetto by
Hitler's SS, was a model concentration camp. It had an orchestra, art
instruction for children, musical and theatrical performances, a cafe,
and workshops where prisoners sewed, made shoes and other leather
goods and produced small-scale consumer goods (for Aryan Germans
only).
7 in 10 Americans Back War Decision
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1733-2003Mar21.html
While most Americans support the war in Iraq, a new Washington
Post-ABC News poll indicates disagreement on what constitutes a
success.
FBI on Global Hunt for Saudi Al Qaeda Suspect
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1056-2003Mar20.html
The FBI launched a global manhunt Thursday for a suspected Saudi al
Qaeda member who is feared to be planning new terrorist attacks.
Bipartisan Logic
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1218-2003Mar20.html
Page A36
IN THE DEBATE over Iraq policy, too many Democrats, including
members of Congress, have hidden behind easy statements of support for
U.S. troops and loathing for Saddam Hussein without clarifying how
they would have put their loathing into action. Too many Republicans,
including some in the Bush administration, have discounted the value
of allied support and multilateral institutions. In both parties, as
in Congress and the administration, the commitment to postwar
reconstruction and democratization remains disturbingly gauzy.
No Hear Ye
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1220-2003Mar20.html
Page A36
SUPREME COURT Justice Antonin Scalia accepted the Citadel of Free
Speech Award on Wednesday from the City Club of Cleveland, which
wished to honor him for his devotion to free expression over the
years. But Justice Scalia, it turns out, does not favor the free
exchange of all speech; specifically, he is a bit touchy about his
own. As a condition of appearing at the award ceremony, he insisted
that broadcast media be barred from recording his remarks -- thanks to
which only those present got to hear what the court's wittiest orator
had to say.
A Double Standard On Dissent
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1193-2003Mar20.html
By E. J. Dionne Jr., Page A37
Wartime is dangerous to liberty and free expression.
The Dash to Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1197-2003Mar20.html
By George F. Will, Page A37
The first line of the founding work of Western literature --
Homer's "Iliad," a war story -- announces a tale of passion: "Rage --
Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles." America's critics
cannot truthfully charge that rage or any other passion fuels
America's remarkably measured and patently reluctant resumption of the
war against Iraq -- the 12-year war, the war of 17 U.N. resolutions.
Don't Go Back to the U.N.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1196-2003Mar20.html
By Charles Krauthammer, Page A37
Don't go back, Mr. President. You walked away from the United
Nations at great cost and with great courage. Don't go back.
How He Got Here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1194-2003Mar20.html
By Jim Hoagland, Page A37
In the end it came down to George W. Bush's code of moral
geopolitics and the deceptively swift pace of U.S. military
deployments into the Persian Gulf region this winter. Nothing else
counted for much on the road to launching the second American war on
Iraq.
By Whose Authority?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1152-2003Mar20.html
By Michael Kinsley, Page A37
Until this week, the president's personal authority to use
America's military might was subject to two opposite historical
trends. On the one hand, there is the biggest scandal in
constitutional law: the gradual disappearance of the congressional
declaration of war. Has there ever been a war more suited to a formal
declaration -- started more deliberately, more publicly, with less
urgency and at more leisure -- than the American war on Iraq? Right or
wrong, Gulf War II resembles the imperial forays of earlier centuries
more than the nuclear standoffs and furtive terrorist hunts of the
20th and 21st. Yet George W. Bush, like all recent presidents, claims
for his person the sovereign right to launch such a war. Like his
predecessors, he condescends only to accept blank-check resolutions
from legislators cowed by the fear of appearing disloyal to troops
already dispatched.
A Fiscally Responsible Approach
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1222-2003Mar20.html
Page A36
Regarding the March 13 editorial "Half a Loaf Is Still Too Much":
Another Persian Gulf War Begins
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1162-2003Mar20.html
Page A36
Experts now predict that if Iraq has stockpiles of chemical or
biological weapons, it does not have the means to deliver them
["Chemicals Use Considered Less Likely," news story, March 20].
Hussein Was Target of Bombing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A682-2003Mar20.html
U.S. intelligence officials believe Saddam Hussein was still inside a
compound in Baghdad on Thursday when it was struck by a barrage of
bombs and cruise missiles.
Ground War Begins Earlier Than Planned
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A820-2003Mar20.html
The long-awaited ground war started a day earlier than planned because
of Bush's decision to launch the "decapitation" attack on the Iraqi
leadership.
Annan Seeks to Oversee Oil-for-Food Program
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1286-2003Mar20.html
Kofi Annan asked the Security Council to put him in charge of a
program that uses money in Iraqi oil proceeds to pay for the delivery
of humanitarian supplies to Iraqis.
Chretien Tells Canadians To Respect U.S. Decision
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1355-2003Mar20.html
TORONTO, March 20 -- Prime Minister Jean Chretien today asked members
of his cabinet and Canadians in general to stop making anti-American
comments as the United States leads an assault on Iraq that Canada has
declined to join.
Hearing Chief Urges Against Court-Martial Of U.S. Pilots
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1274-2003Mar20.html
NEW ORLEANS, March 20 -- A military hearing officer today recommended
against court-martialing two U.S. pilots who killed four Canadian
soldiers in Afghanistan last year in a friendly-fire bombing one of
the men blamed on the "fog of war."
Thousands Worldwide Protest Start Of Iraq War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1351-2003Mar20.html
Much of the world condemned the start of war against Iraq, as numerous
governments said the U.S.-led assault was not justified.
Worldwide, Civil Disobedience
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1331-2003Mar20.html
SAN FRANCISCO, March 20 -- The day after war began, antiwar protesters
here and across the country took their anger and dismay to the
streets, from rallying and marching to blocking intersections,
paralyzing traffic and getting arrested.
Scientists Close In on Cause of Mystery Disease
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1212-2003Mar20.html
The World Health Organization yesterday said researchers were close to
identifying the cause of a new, mysterious and sometimes fatal
respiratory disease that surfaced in Asia.
Turkey to Let U.S. Use Airspace
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A128-2003Mar20.html
Turkey also authorized the deployment of its troops into Iraqi
territory, an incursion the U.S. and its Kurdish allies have warned
could result in clashes with their forces.
Senate Unanimously Backs Bush, 250,000 U.S. Troops
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1360-2003Mar20.html
Senators put aside their disagreements over the invasion of Iraq to
praise, unanimously, President Bush and the 250,000 U.S. troops
carrying out his war plans in the Persian Gulf region.
Across the Nation, Christian 'Prayer Warriors' Join Battle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1347-2003Mar20.html
Many religious leaders have opposed the war, and many churchgoers have
prayed for peace. But as U.S. troops invaded Iraq yesterday, Christian
"prayer warriors" across the United States were doing their bit for
victory.
Uncle Sam and the Art of Decapitation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A944-2003Mar20.html
Saddam Hussein is the target of American forces and the U.S. is once
again trying to take out the Bad Guy directly. While most experts are
hopeful, past experience has some people wondering.
Body Double: Both Sides Of the Ploy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A985-2003Mar20.html
Everybody was a Saddamologist, having read past reports that Hussein
has up to 10 body doubles. Was that one of them on Iraqi television,
proving he'd survived our missile attack?
Improved Air Defense Gets Tryout in Combat (Post, March 21, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1265-2003Mar20.html
U.S. Urges Iraqi Army Loyalists To Give Up (Post, March 21, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1006-2003Mar20.html
Calibrated War Makes Comeback (Post, March 21, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A975-2003Mar20.html
Judge to Decide The Owner of Nazi Documents (Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1216-2003Mar20.html
GOP Outpaces Democrats in Fundraising With New Restrictions (By Thomas
B. Edsall, Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1200-2003Mar20.html
House Approves Bush's $726 Billion Tax Cut: Wartime Budget Plan Faces
Tough Challenge in Senate (By Helen Dewar and Juliet Eilperin, Page
A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1288-2003Mar20.html
Agriculture Dept. Nominee Vows to End Rights Abuses (Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1326-2003Mar20.html
Bush's Strong Arm Can Club Allies Too: Lawmakers, Activists Say
Tactics for Enforcing Loyalty Are Tough and Sometimes Vindictive (By
Dana Milbank and Jim VandeHei, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2713-2003Mar21.html
6 Cubans Face Hijacking Charges (Page A08)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2665-2003Mar21.html
Democrats Tread Carefully as War Begins: Presidential Hopefuls Express
Support for Troops, Temper Criticisms of Bush (By Edward Walsh, Page
A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1329-2003Mar20.html
A Day When Business Was Not as Usual: War's Long Shadows Leave Many in
the Government City Preoccupied With U.S. Invasion (By David S. Broder
and Christopher Lee, Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1361-2003Mar20.html
Psychological Operations Go Into High Gear: Rumsfeld Tells Iraqis
Hussein Is 'Going to Be Gone,' That His Military Is Wavering (By
Vernon Loeb, Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1261-2003Mar20.html
U.S. Says War Has Legal Basis: Reliance on Gulf War Resolutions Is
Questioned by Others (By Peter Slevin, Page A14)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1332-2003Mar20.html
White House Spreads Three Messages to American People: Mantra Involves
War's Duration, Casualties and Support (By Karen DeYoung and Mike
Allen, Page A16)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1373-2003Mar20.html
Bush Walks a Thin Tightrope of Expansive Goals (By David Von Drehle,
Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1324-2003Mar20.html
Kurds Hope U.S. Will Let Them Join the Fight in Iraq: Turkish Refusal
to Allow U.S. Troops Seen as Boon to Cause (By Daniel Williams, Page
A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63029-2003Mar20.html
Detroit Area's Many Iraqis Have Mixed Emotions (By Robert E. Pierre,
Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1317-2003Mar20.html
Many Americans Worrying About Attack on Home Front: Amid Support for
Troops, Doubts About Bush Decision Linger (By William Booth, Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1371-2003Mar20.html
United States Puts a Spin On Coalition Numbers (By Glenn Kessler, Page
A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1325-2003Mar20.html
Iraq Neighbors Asked to Aid Refugees: U.N. Predicts Food, Supplies
Needed for 2.1 Million People in Coming Month (By Peter Slevin, Page
A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1313-2003Mar20.html
Fiscal 2003 Deficit Has Hit $193.9 Billion (By Jeannine Aversa, Page
A35)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1177-2003Mar20.html
Fringe Benefits (By Al Kamen, Page A35)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1179-2003Mar20.html
Worries Grow on Space Flight's Future: Columbia Inquiry Wearing on
NASA Employees (By Eric Pianin, Page A35)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1173-2003Mar20.html
Infantry Confronts Scant Resistance (Post, March 21, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64762-2003Mar20.html
Nice to See You Again; Grab Your Gas Mask (Post, March 21, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64736-2003Mar20.html
Arab Media Look Past War, Focus On Future: Mideast Witnessing 'Hours
of Destiny' (Post, March 21, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1271-2003Mar20.html
Iraq Invasion Sparks Protests in Arab Capitals: Demonstrators Defy
Security Forces in Mideast Cities, Voicing Support for Iraq's Besieged
Leader (Post, March 21, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64902-2003Mar20.html
Overtaken by Events, the Battle Plans Are Tossed Aside (Post, March
21, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A906-2003Mar20.html
Iraq Fires Missiles Toward Kuwait (Post, March 21, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60671-2003Mar20.html
Kurdish Militias Eager to Join U.S. in Northern Assault (Post, March
21, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63170-2003Mar20.html
Mighty Flashes in the Sky: Brief but Intense Attacks Illuminate an
Ancient City (Post, March 21, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64833-2003Mar20.html
Unease in Britain as Troops Go to War: Blair Tells Nation of Threat
Posed by Terrorists, Dictators (By Glenn Frankel, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A683-2003Mar20.html
EU Calls for U.N. Role in Postwar Iraq: U.S. Military Rule Would Be
Resisted (By Robert J. McCartney, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1328-2003Mar20.html
U.S. Targets Militant Leaders In Southern Afghan Assault (By Marc
Kaufman and Jonathan Weisman, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1334-2003Mar20.html
Security Is Beefed Up At U.S., Western Sites: Officials Fear Reprisals
by Al Qaeda (By Peter Finn and Ellen Nakashima, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1330-2003Mar20.html
Serbs Jail 1,000 in Murder Inquiry: Arrests Target Criminal Groups (By
Jovana Gec, Page A34)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1316-2003Mar20.html
In Kuwait, Under the Spell of the Sirens' Song (By Richard Leiby, Page
C01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1259-2003Mar20.html
Many Mideast Nations Roll Up Journalists' Welcome Mat (By Paul Farhi,
Page C01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1320-2003Mar20.html
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Bin Laden's victory
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,919538,00.html
Richard Dawkins: A political system that delivers this disastrous
mistake needs reform.
Peaceniks lost the war but changed the shape of battle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,919608,00.html
Jonathan Freedland: The anti-war movement transformed the landscape
and our leaders have had to respond.
Children of the revolution
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,919580,00.html
Claire Phipps: Who can blame the decision-makers of the future for
taking to the streets?
Military mind games
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,919539,00.html
Mark Lawson: The shock spin that kicked off the mother of all
propaganda wars.
Liberators or vigilantes?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,919579,00.html
Labour MPs Clive Soley and Glenda Jackson exchange emails as their
leader takes the country to war
Not in a soldier's name
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,919491,00.html
Our armed forces in Iraq put a brave face on it all: "We're here to do
a job." But killing, and being killed, isn't just a job, says Paul
Oestreicher.
Readers between the lines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,919661,00.html
Ian Mayes: During times of international crisis we hasten to the
forum. Inside the Guardian, the forum is the editor's morning
conference. On several days this week more than 60 journalists have
attended, far more than usual.
Smallweed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,919537,00.html
Could we please from now on be spared the line: "Nobody wants war"?
Contemplate the face of George Bush. Does he look like a man who does
not want war?
The war debate
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
JFK versus the sonofabitch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,919506,00.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/secrets_leadership/index.shtml
A cold shoulder for Saddam's victims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,918279,00.html
The government uses Saddam's persecution of Iraqis as a justification
for war. But when those same people escape to the UK, they are given a
wretched reception. By Melanie McFadyean.
Pacific overtures
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918605,00.html
The northwestern city of Seattle is home to Boeing and is ringed by
military bases. But new voices are being raised against Bush's war on
Iraq, says Jonathan Raban
Tidewater traumas
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918606,00.html
The descendant of slaveowners, William Styron's 50-year writing career
has been dogged by depression - chronicled in an acclaimed memoir.
Described by some as a successor to Faulkner, he has also attracted
controversy, notably for his novel on slavery
The steamy side of life
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918459,00.html
Ian Sansom enjoys Alexia Brue's soul-searching tour of bathing,
Cathedrals of the Flesh
East of Eden
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918456,00.html
Peter Jay finds valuable lessons for Tony Blair in DR Thorpe's
biography of Anthony Eden
More means better
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918460,00.html
Lucasta Miller on Anna Stott's portrait of a woman torn between
religion and the racy world of the London literati, Hannah More
Spookily empty
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918462,00.html
Richard L Holm's account of his time as a counter-terrorism expert
with the CIA, The American Agent, is hamstrung by an instinct to give
little away
The outer limit
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918461,00.html
François Bizot's account of his capture by the Khmer Rouge, The Gate,
reveals the humanity and sensitivity that saved his life
Desert island scripts
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918454,00.html
Martin Wainwright happily follows the footprints of a 12th-century
Muslim Robinson Crusoe
A touch of evil
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918463,00.html
In the third of our series on political theatre, playwright Mark
Ravenhill argues that metaphysics is essential to our depiction of the
real world
For God and Gilead
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918465,00.html
Margaret Atwood was surprised when a composer suggested making an
opera of The Handmaid's Tale, her dystopian vision of America under a
theocracy. Now she's dazzled by the work's power and prescience
Curiouser and curiouser
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918467,00.html
Agility is needed to thwart the vagaries of the market and prejudices
of critics, writes James Fenton
Battle in the bayou
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918471,00.html
White Doves at Morning, James Lee Burke's foray into the US civil war,
has the makings of a great movie
Savonarola's women
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918472,00.html
Sarah A Smith enjoys the painterly textures of Sarah Dunant's
quattrocento Florentine tale, The Birth of Venus
Explaining nothing, brilliantly
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918477,00.html
Nicholas Lezard finds Charles Seife's plethora of equations and graphs
more of a help than a hindrance in Zero
Echoes of war and peace
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,918604,00.html
Critical eye: In a time of crisis, reviewers look to the past
Divided over 'our boys'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,919568,00.html
I'm writing on behalf of myself and my wife. This immoral, illegal war
is not being waged in our name, yet now we're told we must support
"our boys" (Blair appeals for national unity, March 21).
Shock, awe and Perle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,919569,00.html
Operation Shock and Awe does not frighten me, but Richard Perle's
chilling words do (Thank God for the death of the UN, March 21).
Make up or break up?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,919570,00.html
The "special relationship" between the UK and the US is akin to that
between a battered wife and a violent and abusive husband. The wife
(the UK) is offered a refuge (in the EU) but she keeps going back to
her violent husband (the US).
Protest on the curriculum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,919571,00.html
It is astonishing and inexcusable that headteachers and others who
made schoolchildren skip lessons to watch the funeral of the Queen
Mother should give such authoritarian warnings not to walk out of
school and protest against this immoral war (Fighting for peace:
Schoolchildren in countrywide protests, March 20).
Late caller
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,919574,00.html
I hear that Tony Blair was rudely awakened again late at night to be
told that the war had started (Blair told but not consulted on attack,
March 21). Sustained sleep-deprivation has all the efficacy of secret
police mind-control techniques.
Force field
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,919572,00.html
The BBC reports that the perimeter wire at RAF Fairford has notices
stating: "Use of deadly force authorised". We have not noticed any
proclamation of martial law, and wonder who has authorised this use of
deadly force, and on what legal basis.
Taking care of the troops
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,919573,00.html
How right David Batty is to look behind ministers' public pledges to
look after "our boys" in the Gulf (War Analysis, March 20).
Awe from the air
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,919566,00.html
The aim is to show resistance is futile.
Back to the UN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,919565,00.html
However hard, it is the right way.
War-driven rally pushes up stocks for seventh day
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,919532,00.html
The London market notched up its seventh successive day of gains
yesterday in its war-driven rally as dealers anticpated the imminent
collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime.
The long, hard trail to revival
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,919613,00.html
The language of the financial markets, often so violent in its
descriptions of price movements and corporate actions, may have been
subtly softened in recent days, but their business proceeds as usual.
Quiet pride in their efficiency rather than any collective callousness
is the motive force.
Blair tries to end European rift
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,9061,919438,00.html
Post-war aid plea to France and Germany.
Legal adviser quits over war
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,919647,00.html
A senior Foreign Office legal adviser has quit over the legality of
the war.
Blow for Short in battle with Pentagon
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,919479,00.html
Military wants US firms to run Iraq's hospitals
School's out as the young rediscover radical voice
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/apathy/story/0,12822,919498,00.html
Student walkouts see thousands take to the streets.
100,000 expected at London peace march
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,919511,00.html
More than 100,000 people are expected to demonstrate today in central
London, the anti-war coalition said yesterday as peace activists
continued to protest around the world, stopping airports, blocking
roads, holding vigils and burning British and US flags.
Ethnic minority groups' job prospects diverge
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,919465,00.html
Differences in job prospects among England's ethnic minorities are now
almost as big as the differences between them and the majority white
community, according to a Cabinet Office strategy unit study published
yesterday.
A new world disorder?
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,9321,919111,00.html
Blair is right about one thing, writes Nick Clegg MEP: after this war,
the world will never be the same.
Why the Tories need an ethical foreign policy
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,919169,00.html
The Conservatives need to think the unthinkable, ditch realpolitik and
embrace human rights and democracy, argue Benedict Rogers and James
Mawdsley.
Hopes and fears
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,919138,00.html
March 21: Much of Iran will celebrate if Saddam Hussein's regime is
overthrown, writes Dan De Luce.
'I have waited a long time for this'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,919321,00.html
March 21: The Kurds of northern Iraq are understandably pleased that
the US-led offensive has begun, writes Luke Harding.
Full-blooded onslaught is launched on Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919628,00.html
US and British warplanes unleashed the much-anticipated "shock and
awe" attack on Iraq when they delivered a devastating aerial
bombardment on Baghdad and other cities.
'We tore down Saddam signs to convince them'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919627,00.html
US marines took Safwan at about 8am yesterday. There was no rose-petal
welcome, no cheering crowd, no stars and stripes.
Anxious families await names of dead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919630,00.html
Relatives of servicemen fighting in Iraq yesterday endured an
agonising wait for word of their loved ones following the helicopter
crash which claimed the lives of eight Britons.
Iraqi troops offered cash reward for killing enemy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919423,00.html
Saddam Hussein yesterday issued a decree offering substantial cash
rewards to his soldiers who kill or capture enemy personnel.
Kurds wary as Turkish tanks arrive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919495,00.html
The Kurds are preparing to resist a possible Turkish incursion into
Kurdish autonomous areas.
Muslim elders try to calm passions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919541,00.html
Britain Imam fears backlash and sees war as 'test from Allah'.
De Klerk 'lied to cover up human rights abuses'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919586,00.html
Apartheid era president condemned by report.
Israeli loan deal claim irritates US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919545,00.html
Israel has irritated the US by revealing private assurances that the
White House has approved $10bn (£6.4bn) in aid before it was formally
announced.
Two killed as Arab anger grows
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919540,00.html
Two people were shot dead in Yemen yesterday as anti-war protesters
staged the biggest demonstrations yet across the Arab world.
30 years of Saddam razed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919699,00.html
Ten minutes was all it took to keep the Pentagon's promise of a
bombardment of "shock and awe", as the trappings of Saddam Hussein's
regime were obliterated.
Unscathed locals sense hope
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919629,00.html
The Iraqi government minister punched his nickel-plated AK-47 in the
air in a gesture borrowed from Saddam Hussein and let loose a tide of
venom. Shame on little Bush - a swipe at the US president much
favoured by Iraqi officials since the opening of this war - and shame
on Tony Blair. The pair were gangsters and criminals, and they had
made a fatal miscalculation, said Iraq's interior minister, Mohammed
Dimab al-Ahmed
Turkish troops enter northern Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919698,00.html
Ankara ignores US warning of secondary battle front
Gains in south spur thrust to Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919635,00.html
· US and British forces encircle Basra
· Tanks push north to strategic city of Nassiriya
· Iraqi base falls near Kirkuk
Tornado pilots: 'Baghdad was a red glow'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919745,00.html
The British Tornado air crews who paved the way for the massive aerial
bombardment of Baghdad returned safely to base in northern Kuwait late
last night and spoke of the "awesome" sight of the city erupting in
flames as they delivered their missiles and turned for home.
Sneaky-average commander thrives on success
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919473,00.html
Modern career soldiers do not achieve greatness; they have it thrust
on them. The first requirement is timing: just over 18 months ago
Tommy Franks was looking towards a gentle ride towards retirement, and
an increasing amount of concentration on his motorbike and golf clubs.
US generals embrace new kind of warfare
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919477,00.html
The tactics used in 1991 do not fit today's conflict
It's all about dying. But how many casualties will the public take?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919482,00.html
The reality of war is that it is about people dying. As the news comes
in of the first casualties, the politicians rehearse their messages of
sympathy to the families of those killed. The remarks are undoubtedly
sincerely meant, but are scarcely listened to by the wider public, and
the families have much grieving ahead.
A modern day blitzkrieg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919746,00.html
The shock and awe tactic was invented by the American rightwing
military strategist, Harlan Ullman.
Americans raise hackles by flying Stars and Stripes in Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919700,00.html
American marines swept aside Iraqi sensibilities yesterday to raise
the Stars and Stripes at the entrance to Iraq's main port of Umm Qasr.
The reality of war on the ground
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919480,00.html
Hundreds surrender but it's not yet a flood
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919489,00.html
An occasional series decoding the military jargon
Oil well fire teams mobilise
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919492,00.html
Oil well fire specialists were preparing to fly to southern Iraq last
night to extinguish wells blown up by Iraqi forces.
Saddam: US asks if he is dead or alive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919696,00.html
US officials were yesterday investigating whether President Saddam
Hussein had been killed or wounded in Thursday's surprise pre-dawn
bombardment of the command bunker in Baghdad.
Bunkers feel the power of the navy's big guns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919425,00.html
It took only 20 seconds for HMS Marlborough's main gun to fire 10
rounds at the Iraqi bunker complex six miles away on the Faw
peninsula. The shock wave of each high explosive round exiting the
barrel might have shaken the 3,500 tonne ship to the core, but it was
nothing to the effect the shells had when they hit their target 25
seconds later.
Protest 'anarchy' in San Francisco
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919502,00.html
More than 1,600 people have been arrested in San Francisco while
taking part in protests against the war
Actors' protests bring changes to Oscar awards
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919505,00.html
The Oscar show will go on this Sunday, but with many modifications and
with many actors wearing anti-war badges
Faith leaders in call for lasting peace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919509,00.html
Jews, Muslims and Christians in show of unity
At a glance
Military action
Capital letters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919584,00.html
Sentenced to death by thugs of 'world's greatest soccer club'
Pitch war breaks out among 'centurions'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919587,00.html
Three of Rome's self-styled "centurions" have been arrested after they
came to blows outside the Colosseum where their thriving trade -
posing in historical dress for photos with tourists - is soon to be
curbed.
Slovenia split in run-up to Nato referendum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919588,00.html
Slovenia is to vote tomorrow on whether to join Nato, with opinion
finely balanced and the war in Iraq likely to dent popular support for
membership of the western alliance.
Guardian writers on Orwell prize shortlist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,919443,00.html
George Orwell set out "to make political writing into an art", and
yesterday three Guardian writers took up half the places on the
shortlist for an award in his name which acknowledges journalism that
comes close to achieving this aim.
Cannabis medicine 'on sale this year'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,919450,00.html
The first cannabis-based prescription medicines for more than 30 years
will be available in high street chemists this year, the drugs
minister, Bob Ainsworth, revealed yesterday.
Frederic Raphael: The wondering Jew
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/interviews/story.jsp?story=389429
After 37 books, Frederic Raphael has finally written about his own
childhood. He tells Dina Rabinovitch why a thin skin drove him to
write
A war in the name of democracy must tolerate some dissent at home
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=389509
Democracy works best, and people are more likely to be persuaded, when
those of differing opinions show respect towards each other
European unity cannot be dictated by a bureaucrat's pen
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=389508
Closer political union must come before a united foreign policy - it
cannot happen the other way round
How easily death comes to those who are in the wrong place at the
wrong time
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/fergal_keane/story.jsp?story=389506
Already the conflicts of the future are brooding in the hearts of men.
That is the most certain truth of our age, and the saddest
Howard Jacobson: I've suddenly grown interested in Clare Short
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/howard_jacobson/story.jsp?story=389504
Remember Hector in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida? Did ever man
marshal more persuasively the arguments for peace? Reporting that the
Greeks have made again their offer to end this "cormorant war" and let
bygones be bygones so long as Helen is returned, Priam, King of Troy,
turns to the noblest and most clear-headed of his sons.
A mother's lament for all the soldiers
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/sue_arnold/story.jsp?story=389505
Boys join the Army mainly because they haven't grown out of wanting to
fight
Hugh McManners: Why the military thinks it has to fight the media
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=389503
Military planners are as concerned with the politics of their every
move as they are with the logistics
Faith & Reason: War is not a time for keeping your head down,
Archbishop
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=389502
Rowan Williams is one of the most thoughtful and gifted communicators
of our time - which makes it odd that he has so little to say now
about Iraq
Christopher Bellamy: In scale, scope and sweep, this dwarfs any other
war operation
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=389552
"Shock and awe", they promised, and so it was. Donald Rumsfeld had
threatened Iraq with attacks of "unprecedented brutality" if it did
not give in. After unexpected resistance by Iraqi forces in the south
of the country yesterday morning, the Americans struck last night.
The Week in Politics: Downing Street wobble was bigger than the world
realised
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=389554
It has been a momentous week at Westminster. I cannot remember such a
dramatic one since the fall of Margaret Thatcher. Tony Blair survived
Tuesday's critical Commons vote but it could easily have been much
worse.
Forward march: the Allied military machine rolls on towards Saddam
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=389580
22 March 2003
They were the first confirmed casualties of the second Gulf War.
Worldwide peace protests marred by death and violence
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=389573
22 March 2003
Protesters against the war in Iraq took to the streets in dozens of
cities around the world yesterday.
Britain and France stress UN's role but remain at odds
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=389568
22 March 2003
The United Nations' role in post-Saddam Iraq becamea new area of
Anglo-French friction last night despite efforts by Britain and France
to patch up their bitter diplomatic feud over the war in the Gulf.
UN prepares urgent plan to meet starvation threat
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=389562
22 March 2003
Proposals to ensure that post-war Iraq has adequate food and medicine
supplies were tabled by the UN yesterday, as it attempted to revive
its role and recover from the humiliating failure to achieve agreement
in the Security Council on the use of military force.
Shockingly, principle is back in fashion
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915112,00.html
Andrew Rawnsley: Tony Blair shouldn't be surprised that others in his
Cabinet feel as passionately about Iraq as he does
Women of Britain say 'No'
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915111,00.html
Mary Riddell: Female voters made Tony Blair. It is now within their
power to break him.
Democracy is not in the war plans
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915183,00.html
Henry Porter: Once Saddam has fallen, America wants to see another
strongman emerge to take his place.
Today, Blair speaks for enslaved Iraqis
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915088,00.html
Tipped for a senior role in a future Iraqi government, Barham Salih is
Prime Minister of the Kurdistan region in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq.
Here he appeals to the British Left to back a war to depose Saddam
Hussein.
Up to the top of the hill...
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915355,00.html
Richard Ingrams: Tony Blair is no Churchill; the Grand Old Duke of
York is more his mark.
Diplomacy is still the best weapon
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915108,00.html
UN unity can still be achieved.
Open wide...
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915109,00.html
That's your wallet and your mouth.
Truth will out
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915110,00.html
Seeing through the secrets and lies.
Brawling Europe must pull together
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915089,00.html
Neal Ascherson: If George Bush is to be contained, then a common EU
foreign policy is needed.
Did Robert Maxwell really have seven buttocks?
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915104,00.html
Euan Ferguson has a few suspicions of his own about conspiracy
theorists.
Two-faced peaceniks
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915117,00.html
When it comes to Sinn Fein, the Irish 'peace' movement is the dog that
doesn't bark says Henry McDonald.
A conspiracy against the public
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,913734,00.html
The European Union's failures are more cock-up than conspiracy, says
John Naughton.
Shock. This time is just like last time
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,914998,00.html
William Keegan: Financial markets? Don't you love them? One day the
stock market loses 5 per cent of its value, the next day it rises by 6
per cent.
Newspapers will lose this war, whoever wins
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915031,00.html
High costs and lost revenue make conflict bad news, says Peter
Preston.
Poor Tony Blair wakes up
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,914504,00.html
It's not easy when you find out that your friends have been using you
as a chump, says Terry Jones.
Sorry Martin, President Bartlett would back this war
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915231,00.html
Martin Sheen is getting flak for heading America's anti-war movement.
But his West Wing alter ego would support Bush over Iraq, says Sunder
Katwala
Faisal Islam: The green shoots of global democracy?
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,915396,00.html
The high priests of globalisation at the World Bank and the IMF are
facing new democratic pressures, says Faisal Islam.
Our shoddy treatment of victims of injustice
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,915393,00.html
Michael Naughton asks why we insist on adding insult to injustice by
suggesting that those wrongfully convicted should have money docked
from compensation to account for their saved living expenses while in
jail.
Bullets in the Balkans
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,914940,00.html
While the world watched the United Nations, an historic assassination
in Serbia and the collapse of peace hopes in Cyprus risked slipping
off the international radar, says Bulent Yusuf in his weekly round-up
of world press opinion.
Final play in Blair's diplomatic gamble
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,915126,00.html
A desperate eleventh-hour effort to secure UN backing for war is under
way and the PM is steeling himself to fight Iraq - and members of his
party.
Death of a Balkan hero
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,915084,00.html
Serbia's mafia warlords showed they will stop at nothing to protect
their criminal empire when they assassinated Prime Minister Zoran
Djindjic - burying the country's best chance of escaping from the dark
age of Milosevic. Report by Ian Traynor in Zagreb and Dejan
Anastasijevic in Belgrade.
Left high and dry by the water companies
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,915139,00.html
It was hailed as the only success at the Johannesburg Earth Summit
last September. World leaders agreed to halve the number of people
without basic sanitation - at present 2.4 billion - by 2015.
After 26 years, UK food group squeezes poverty-stricken Guyana for £12
million
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,914946,00.html
Big Food Group, owner of the Iceland store chain, is demanding £12
million from the government of the tiny, poverty-stricken South
American country of Guyana.
Bush's Republican guard
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,914959,00.html
In the race to rebuild Iraq, US firms with close links to the
President already have a head start, writes Oliver Morgan.
UK pushes for a share of the spoils
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,914958,00.html
The UK government last week put pressure on the Bush administration to
include UK companies in its plans for reconstruction in a
post-conflict Iraq.
'When bullets fly, stocks are a buy'
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,914960,00.html
George Bush is taking a gamble that decisive action in the Gulf will
trigger an economic revival, writes Joanna Walters.
American markets fight to beat drop
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,914966,00.html
US shares have further to fall if they are to reflect the pain felt
this side of the Atlantic, says Heather Connon.
Why the reporter is the last bastion of truth
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,914970,00.html
On the eve of another conflict in the Gulf, veteran war reporter Jon
Swain argues that the correspondent on the front line plays the
ultimate journalistic role.
An audience with the king of world banking
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,915180,00.html
He was not elected President of the World, James Wolfensohn reminded
hectoring global parliamentarians gathered in Athens last week, just
President of the World Bank.
'Rich people are now talking about social justice'
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,914892,00.html
Online extra: More from Faisal Islam's interview with James
Wolfensohn, as the World Bank President says that tackling corruption
will prove to be an election-winning issue in developing countries
around the world.
Word is made flesh as God reveals himself... as a fish
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915125,00.html
An obscure Jewish sect in New York has been gripped by what many
believe is a modern miracle - a 20lb carp that was heard shouting
apocalyptic warnings in Hebrew.
Jiang steps aside but keeps clout
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915121,00.html
China's parliament elected a new president yesterday from the choice
of one offered by the Communist Party - but it delivered a slap to his
predecessor who is refusing to go quietly.
Palestinians caged in beach paradise
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915189,00.html
Bush's unveiling of a 'road map' for Middle East peace will bring hope
to Arabs fenced in by Israel. Conal Urquhart reports from Al Mawasi in
the Gaza Strip.
Anger as CIA homes in on new target: library users
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915173,00.html
On the check-out desk at Santa Cruz public library, beside the usual
signs asking people to keep quiet and to return their books on time,
there is what might be called a sign of the times.
World Bank chief issues opium alert
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915127,00.html
Opium cultivation has reached record levels in Afghanistan, World Bank
president James Wolfensohn warned yesterday. In an exclusive interview
with The Observer, Wolfensohn revealed that drugs were now a bigger
earner for the Afghan economy than overseas aid.
Aids activists resort to civil disobedience
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915188,00.html
Activists in South Africa are planning to launch a civil disobedience
campaign this week to pressure President Thabo Mbeki into introducing
anti-retroviral drugs to combat the HIV-Aids.
Scandals put Berlusconi at bay
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915114,00.html
Italy's wealthy leader will be accused this week of running down the
state TV service to boost channels he owns. Sophie Arie reports from
Rome.
'Prophet' opens theme park for our alien heritage
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915242,00.html
Erich von Daniken, author of Chariot of the Gods and more than two
dozen 'true-life' accounts of alien visitation, is set to join the
ranks of the world's media elite: he is about to open his own theme
park.
British dig uncovers mummies
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,915148,00.html
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of two embalmed humans,
providing the first proof that ancient Britons made mummies of their
kings and queens.
Bard proven to be an expert on the brain
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,915131,00.html
He wrote about the mind's construction in Macbeth. Now science shows
just how much he really knew about it.
Journey into flight
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,914834,00.html
From Afghan refugee camp to top prize at the Berlin Film Festival,
Tony Grisoni charts the long, strange course of In This World.
Sam the sham
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,914894,00.html
He was a liar, cheat and conman, but Sam Spiegel deserves a place in
movie history. Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni reveals the shady beginnings
of the maker of Lawrence of Arabia
So long, and thanks for the index
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,914900,00.html
Where Douglas Adams dazzled, MJ Simpson disappoints with a pedestrian
biography of the fantastical storyteller, Hitchhiker
A brush with destiny
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,914886,00.html
The setting is Medici Florence, but Sarah Dunant looks at issues of
work, freedom and gender in The Birth of Venus
Why Hess dropped in
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,914904,00.html
A new theory suggests the odd flight of Hitler's deputy was a plot to
oust Churchill and end the war. Roy Hattersley on a historical
detective story from Martin Allen and a TV spin-off from Andrew
Roberts
Wake me up in Samarkand
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,914905,00.html
If only Alexandra Tolstoy had kept her eyes open. Her memoir, The Last
Secrets of the Silk Road, does little to live up to its title, says
Clover Hughes
Bayou tapestry
http://www.observer.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,914790,00.html
Through his Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux, author James Lee Burke
brings the sluggish heat, twisted landscapes and booze-soaked
no-hopers of Louisiana into vibrant relief. Here, he talks to Euan
Ferguson about good and evil, being drunk and sober, and why his new
novel is not about crime.
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Marching Forward
http://tinyurl.com/7y7k
By DAVID CALLAHAN
In the last few months, the United States has seen the emergence of
the largest antiwar movement since the days of Vietnam.
Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy
http://tinyurl.com/7y7n
By EDWARD C. LUCK
The United Nations, sadly, has drifted far from its founding vision.
Why Colin Powell Should Go
http://tinyurl.com/7y7o
By BILL KELLER
This war - undertaken at such cost to America's own interests - is
specifically a failure of Colin Powell's politics.
The Blitz Over Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/7y7p
The dramatic televised images of deafening, earthshaking explosions in
the middle of Baghdad brought home the escalating violence of this
conflict in a way not previously seen.
Invoking War to Ease Rules
http://tinyurl.com/7y7q
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has begun a campaign
it calls, portentously, "Operation End Extremism."
He Does Not Need Acclaim, Just House Paint and Plywood
http://tinyurl.com/7y7s
By ADAM COHEN
Moses Tolliver is a legend these days, the only artist still alive
from the Corcoran's seminal 1982 exhibition of African-American folk
art.
Hundreds of Targets in Baghdad Hit, Officials Say
By PATRICK E. TYLER
U.S. air power devastated parts of Baghdad, including several
government buildings and palaces built by Saddam Hussein.
Muted Joy as Troops Capture an Iraqi Town
http://tinyurl.com/7y7w
By DEXTER FILKINS
Villagers celebrated in a kind of grim ecstasy as American and British
troops swept into the border town of Safwan on Friday.
Aerial Pounding Intended to Push Iraq's Government Toward Brink
http://tinyurl.com/7y7x
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
The airstrikes the U.S. military carried out were intended to destroy
Saddam Hussein's ability to control his forces.
Support for Bush Surges at Home, but Split Remains, Poll Shows
http://tinyurl.com/7y7y
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JANET ELDER
American support for President Bush's policy in Iraq has surged now
that the war has begun, but there are deep partisan divisions in the
nation's view of the conflict.
Crowds Protest Iraq War in Cities Around World
http://tinyurl.com/7y85
By SUSAN SACHS
Demonstrations against the war in Iraq roiled cities around the world
on Friday, with riot police in several Arab nations firing on
protesters.
Critics Say Coverage Helped Lead to War
http://tinyurl.com/7y89
By JIM RUTENBERG and ROBIN TONER
Critics of the war against Iraq are not reserving their anger
exclusively for President Bush. Some also blame the news media.
For Squadron in the Gulf, a Mission Filled With Miracles Is a Pilot's
Dream Come True
http://tinyurl.com/7y8d
By LYNETTE CLEMETSON
As the adrenaline-pumped pilots returned from the giant show of force
unleashed by coalition forces over Iraq, it was clear that this was no
ordinary mission.
For G.I.'s, a Dusty Drive to the First Iraqi Defense
http://tinyurl.com/7y8f
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
American armored and infantry forces advanced to the Euphrates River
today, and overwhelmed resistance from Iraqi forces.
A Staggering Blow to the Heart of the Iraqi Capital
http://tinyurl.com/7y8j
By JOHN F. BURNS
The war on Saddam Hussein exploded on Friday in a ferocious display of
airstrikes that blasted the heart of the Iraqi ruler's power.
Antiwar Rallies Draw Thousands Worldwide
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thousands of angry protesters from Japan to New Zealand marched
Saturday against the war in Iraq, in some cases condemning their own
governments for supporting the United States.
'Sick Feeling' for a Pilot's Family
http://tinyurl.com/7y8l
By JODI WILGOREN
For one Illinois family, the first inkling of bad news came as they
watched the war on television on Thursday night.
Religious Leaders Play a Part in Shaping Views on War
http://tinyurl.com/7y8m
By PETER STEINFELS
In a poll, few say religion shaped their views on Iraq. The truth may
be more complex.
Family Members Defend Man Sought as 'Imminent Threat'
http://tinyurl.com/7y8p
By DANA CANEDY with ERIC LICHTBLAU
Family members of a suspected operative of Al Qaeda insisted that the
federal authorities were looking for the wrong person.
Nationwide, Peace Rallies Continue, Nonviolently
http://tinyurl.com/7y8r
By LESLIE EATON
Americans continued to protest the war in Iraq Friday as antiwar
activists prepared to march through the streets of Midtown Manhattan
Saturday.
Safety Rules Are Adjusted at Airports
http://tinyurl.com/7y8t
By EDWARD WONG
American travelers debating whether to fly during the war are
wondering not only whether airport security is tight enough, but also
whether travel will be worth the hassle.
Senators' Sons in War: An Army of One
http://tinyurl.com/7y8u
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Senator Tim Johnson, Democrat of South Dakota, is the lone member of
the Senate - and possibly the only member of Congress - whose child is
fighting in Iraq.
Rumsfeld Says Iraq Is Collapsing, Lists 8 Objectives of War
http://tinyurl.com/7y8v
By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT
The first of the eight specific aims, Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld said, is to "end the regime of Saddam Hussein."
Bush Asks Seizure of $1.7 Billion Held in U.S.
http://tinyurl.com/7y8w
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
President Bush has ordered the Treasury Department to seize about $1.7
billion in Iraqi government money in American bank accounts.
Both Chambers Back Tax Cuts
http://tinyurl.com/7y8z
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
The House approved a $2.2 trillion spending plan that included the
deep tax cuts backed by President Bush and the Senate rejected a move
to reduce the cuts by half.
House and Senate Praise Troops
http://tinyurl.com/7y90
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
After hours of wrangling over the language, the House joined the
Senate in adopting a resolution praising American military forces for
their bravery.
Dow's Week Is the Best in 20 Years
http://tinyurl.com/7y94
By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER
Stocks soared on Friday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to
its best weekly performance in more than 20 years.
War Ripples Hit Real Estate
http://tinyurl.com/7y95
By JONATHAN D. GLATER and JENNIFER BAYOT
Real estate agents and brokers in Washington and New York say that
both buyers and sellers are waiting to see whether the war with Iraq
goes well.
Nigerian Strife, Little Noticed, Is Latest Threat to Flow of Oil
http://tinyurl.com/7y97
By SOMINI SENGUPTA with NEELA BANERJEE
Ethnic conflict has begun to limit oil shipments from Nigeria and
could complicate American refiners' efforts to produce more gasoline.
Baghdad Bombing Brings Back Memories of 9/11
http://tinyurl.com/7y9d
By DAVID W. CHEN
For some New Yorkers, the televised bombing of Baghdad brought back
particularly visceral and chilling memories of Sept. 11.
As War Tops News, Parents Unsure About What to Discuss
http://tinyurl.com/7y9f
By LISA W. FODERARO
With the yearlong buildup to war in Iraq finally over, parents and
educators are figuring out the best way to help children grappling
with global issues.
How Much Freedom Is Too Much?
http://tinyurl.com/7y9h
By ADAM LIPTAK
In "After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era," Steve Brill
calls for "a recalibration between freedom and security."
Civilian Toll: A Moral and Legal Bog
http://tinyurl.com/7y9i
By DAPHNE EVIATAR
Civilian casualties inevitably bring anguish and outcries. That is
particularly true now, when war's face can be instantaneously
broadcast and magnified to millions all over the globe.
For a Kurdish Filmmaker, Art and War Have Become Tightly Intertwined
http://tinyurl.com/7y9j
By NANCY RAMSEY
These days a conversation with Bahman Ghobadi, a Kurdish director
whose latest feature is set on the Iran-Iraq border, doesn't stay on
the topic of filmmaking for very long.
A Farewell to Visiting Relics of Genius
http://tinyurl.com/7y9l
By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
After all too brief a time, a rare assemblage of drawings by Leonardo
da Vinci at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is scheduled to disperse on
March 30.
It Started With a Vision of Tolstoy's Death, Then Segued Into a First
Novel
http://tinyurl.com/7y9o
By MEL GUSSOW
Ken Kalfus's first novel, "The Commissariat of Enlightenment," focuses
on how images, in particular those in movies, can affect the course of
history.
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U.S. Troops Advance Closer to Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7829-2003Mar21.html
A day after crossing the border from Kuwait, U.S. Army
forces drove north toward Baghdad Friday, heading to what commanders
said could be a decisive battle.
From Sea to Sea, Rallies For, Against the War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7839-2003Mar21.html
Demonstrators against the war picked up where they left off Thursday,
marching, holding vigils and continuing a wave of blockades at
intersections, buildings and roads that triggered more rounds of
arrests coast to coast.
Mourning the First Casualties
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7835-2003Mar21.html
It was dark early Thursday when a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter
containing U.S. and British troops crashed just over the Kuwaiti
border from Iraq, claiming the first of four U.S. casualties of a new
war.
Oil Prices Fall as Allied Forces Secure Fields
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7744-2003Mar21.html
U.S. and British forces took control of critical oil fields and
terminal facilities in Iraq's southern tip Friday, while other
military units attacked Iraq forces near the country's second major
oil region in Kirkuk.
Strikes Intensify as Forces Move North
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7523-2003Mar21.html
As bombs and missiles crashed into Baghdad, Army units moved north and
U.S. Marines seized oil installations and moved toward Basra.
Havens Offered to Defectors
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7672-2003Mar21.html
U.S. military and intelligence officers have communicated with some
Iraqi commanders, senior U.S. officials said.
Tens of Thousands Around the World Protest War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6211-2003Mar21.html
Police clashed with 30,000 anti-war demonstrators Friday outside the
U.S. Embassy in Yemen. Similar outrage over the U.S.-led assault on
Iraq spilled into streets in cities around the world.
Coca Trade Booming Again in Peru
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7534-2003Mar21.html
The mountain slopes that rise around this town in Peru's high eastern
jungle were the site of a rare success story in the U.S. war on drugs.
But the resilient Andean drug industry is flowing back into the
Apurimac River Valley, testing a model partnership in Washington's
increasingly aggressive counter-drug campaign.
Trade Brings Riches, but Not to Mexico's Poor
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7669-2003Mar21.html
Irma Osorio Soriano crouched on the muddy ground outside her shack
washing dishes in soapless gray water. A dreamy look came into her
eyes as she imagined the luxurious trappings she doubts she will ever
afford: "A refrigerator and a TV," she said, scrubbing in hard
circles. "And a big radio."
For 'Shock and Awe' Author, Concern
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7837-2003Mar21.html
Two months ago, "shock and awe" was just a complex and slightly vague
notion from the abstruse world of military eggheads. Now, the phrase
is on tongues and TV screens around the world, serving as a virtual
#### for boom and blast in Baghdad.
Mysterious Illness Kills 2 In Sign of Spread
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7532-2003Mar21.html
Chinese doctors Friday reported two deaths in Beijing and 20 people
stricken in Shanghai by a disease with symptoms similar to severe
acute respiratory syndrome.
Moussaoui Asks to Call Three More al Qaeda Witnesses
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8084-2003Mar21.html
Zacarias Moussaoui wants to call three additional al Qaeda members as
defense witnesses in his trial on charges that he conspired in the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to four handwritten motions
unsealed yesterday in federal court in Alexandria.
With Concern But Not Panic, Stoic Britons Stock Up
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7730-2003Mar21.html
By 11 this morning, the shelf displaying bottled water was empty at
Sainsbury's supermarket in Chiswick, West London, and the cartons of
long-life milk were going fast.
First Salvos Unify Veterans' Support
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8122-2003Mar21.html
Merle Hancock is 78 years old. He was a top-turret gunner on a B-17 in
World War II, and on his 37th bombing mission his plane was shot down
and he was taken prisoner by the Germans.
CIA Questioned Documents Linking Iraq, Uranium Ore
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9011-2003Mar22.html
CIA officials now say they communicated significant doubts to the
administration about the evidence backing up charges that Iraq tried
to purchase uranium from Africa for nuclear weapons, charges that
found their way into President Bush's State of the Union address, a
State Department "fact sheet" and public remarks by numerous senior
officials.
War, Live
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8074-2003Mar21.html
Page A16
MUCH OF THE NATION spent yesterday riveted by broadcast images of
war: tanks rumbling across the sand, explosions lighting the night
Baghdad sky, smoke and dust. Watching so much of a war "in real time,"
especially the infantry's advance, was a new experience, uncomfortable
and compelling. For many relatives of soldiers, this was especially
true, the intimacy of live broadcasts mesmerizing as well as
terrifying. From her living room in Fort Stewart, Ga., Stefanie Lyle
watched her husband, a tank commander with the U.S. 7th Cavalry,
charge through southern Iraq. She taped it of course, she told the
Associated Press. In Fort Campbell, Ky., the families of the 101st
Airborne get constant feeds thanks to reporters #### from all three
local stations. ("I love this gun. I love you, Theresa.") At the same
time the mother of one of the U.S. Marines killed in a helicopter
crash told NBC's Tom Brokaw that the live coverage was torture.
While Oil Wells Burn
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8075-2003Mar21.html
Page A16
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. This week's decisive Senate vote against oil
drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ought to be considered
the last word on this subject, notwithstanding Alaska Sen. Ted
Stevens's troubling claim that "it's never decided until we win." Most
everyone else would think it was decided when America's elected
representatives voted against it. More important, even proponents of
the measure do not claim that lifting the ban on drilling in the
refuge would contribute quickly or substantially to American domestic
oil production. Nor would increasing the domestic supply ever protect
the United States completely from supply cuts or price spikes, as some
mistakenly imply: Oil is a fungible commodity, Saudi Arabia will
always control a great deal of it, and the world price would remain
the same even if the United States were no longer directly reliant on
supplies from the Middle East. Far too much congressional time has
therefore been wasted on the controversial question of Alaska drilling
-- time that could have been spent far more usefully working on other
ways to reduce American dependence on oil, which continues to grow
dramatically.
History Recovered
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8041-2003Mar21.html
Page A16
EVEN AS the United States goes to war, the FBI and a museum in
Philadelphia have together taken care of a bit of unfinished business
from an older American conflict. In a sting operation this week, the
bureau recovered one of the original copies of the Bill of Rights,
which was stolen from North Carolina by a Union soldier in 1865. When
Congress sent the Bill of Rights to the states, scribes made 14
copies: one for the federal government and one for each of the 13
states that made up the new union. Some of those priceless historical
documents have since gone missing. One is believed to have been
destroyed. But North Carolina's copy has been floating around since
the Civil War in the underworld of precious contraband.
A Multicultural Military
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8038-2003Mar21.html
By Dennis C. Blair and Joe R. Reeder, Page A17
One vital requirement of the American military -- one we cannot
afford to lose sight of in peace or war -- is a highly qualified,
racially diverse officer corps that is educated and trained to command
America's racially diverse enlisted ranks. A cohesive officer corps is
essential to the military's ability to protect national security. This
is not an abstract academic goal, it is a combat imperative.
War Talk at Darrell's Barbershop
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8040-2003Mar21.html
By Colbert I. King, Page A17
The mood inside Darrell's barbershop pretty much matched the
feeling of residents in the surrounding inner-city neighborhood.
Unlike opinion polls showing strong nationwide support for the war,
people in and around Darrell's weren't too big on the idea of invading
Iraq. But they were on the same page with the rest of the country when
it came to Saddam Hussein.
Free for All
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8022-2003Mar21.html
Page A15
Delayed Reaction
I was bemused by Frederick W. Kagan's piece "Pearl Harbor 2003?"
[op-ed, March 18].
Deadly Protest
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8018-2003Mar21.html
Page A15
It was shocking to read about the death of Rachel Corrie, who was
run over by an Israeli bulldozer as she protested the destruction of
Palestinian homes [news story, March 17].
The Senator's Misdiagnosis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8019-2003Mar21.html
Page A15
I read Bill Frist's op-ed column with increasing disbelief and
dismay ["When War Is the Best Medicine," March 16].
A Front for Anti-Americanism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8015-2003Mar21.html
Page A15
Courtland Milloy praises student Peta Lindsay because "she refuses
to be duped by the Bush administration" [Metro, March 19]. He exalts
the group ANSWER as having been organized to "challenge the
warmongering and the racial and religious profiling that emerged
after" the terror attacks on America. Wrong.
Why I'm Qualified To Be President
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8017-2003Mar21.html
Page A15
In "Black Candidates: We Can Do Better," Jonetta Rose Barras
[op-ed, Feb. 27] condemns Al Sharpton and me as the "mediocre [African
American] candidates" who have entered the Democratic primary for the
presidential nomination. She dismisses my candidacy shallowly because
I was "accused of misusing campaign funds . . . and cavorting with
Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha."
The Crash That Killed My Data
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8021-2003Mar21.html
Page A15
Eight academics at eight different universities have informed me
that they have written to your paper in response to two recent attacks
on me and my research. But your paper has chosen not to publish the
letters, not even one from an academic who wanted to correct a
statement attributed to him that was the opposite of what he had
written.
All Security Is Local
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8020-2003Mar21.html
Page A15
In her March 12 op-ed column, "To Each According to the Risks,"
Anne Applebaum asserts that America's cities and towns seek federal
homeland security funds as a "solution" to their budget problems and
that only a "few dozen" large cities need federal funds for homeland
security. Both assertions are wrong.
Musings on a Jittery Time
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8079-2003Mar21.html
Page A16
I appreciated the March 16 Emergency Preparedness Guide, but one
aspect of our area's planning needs more thought:
The War Against Iraq, Cont'd
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8080-2003Mar21.html
Page A16
As I write, the "shock and awe" campaign is underway over Baghdad.
The TV broadcasts of the bombing are unprecedented. We are seeing
history as it happens, but without fear of personal injury.
BEYOND REGIME CHANGE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8218-2003Mar21.html
Page B01
The rumble of armor across southern Iraq and the thunder of bombs
in Baghdad ended the debate over whether to go to war. But it opened
new fronts in the debate over the use of American power.
POWER: Resentment Comes With the Territory
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8217-2003Mar21.html
By Max Boot, Page B01
There is an emerging consensus about the invasion of Iraq.
Virtually all commentators agree that U.S. troops -- better trained,
better motivated and better equipped than their enemies -- will be
successful in relatively short order. When it comes to the diplomatic
maneuvering that put them on the road to Baghdad, however, there is
well-nigh universal condemnation, even from many who support the
overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
On Overflights and Understandings
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8219-2003Mar21.html
Page B01
On the day that war began last week in Iraq, Turkey's new prime
minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, acknowledged that the United States
did not notify him before the bombs began falling. This was no
accident. For months, the Bush administration had been seeking to base
U.S. troops and planes in Turkey. But the Turkish government didn't
move on the request and, ultimately, the parliament withheld its
approval. Last week, after the 49-year-old Erdogan took office, Turkey
belatedly offered its cooperation. But U.S. Secretary of State Colin
Powell said it was too late; the alternative invasion plans were set
and all the U.S. military wanted now from Turkey was overflight
permission.
OCCUPATION: No Model for This One
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8221-2003Mar21.html
By Wesley K. Clark, Page B02
He had been a hero in World War I, and a very young Army chief of
staff. As a retired general, he accepted an appointment to the
Philippines and was later recalled to active duty. As the commander
there, he suffered the humiliation of early defeat and the loss of his
force. He fought back, later accepted Japan's surrender, and, as the
supreme commander of the occupation forces, set out to remake a
nation. And he largely succeeded.
DISSENT: Antiwar and Postwar, Too? You Bet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8220-2003Mar21.html
By Robert Kuttner, Page B02
What does an antiwar movement do with a war likely to be over in a
matter of weeks? Plenty, it turns out.
DEMOCRACY: Be Careful What You Wish For
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8222-2003Mar21.html
By Youssef M. Ibrahim, Page B03
There were two striking results in an opinion survey conducted
earlier this month by Zogby International in six Arab countries --
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and
Lebanon.
IDENTITY: Iraq, More Unified Than It Looks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8223-2003Mar21.html
By Andrew Cockburn, Page B03
Back in March 1991, when much of Iraq had risen in revolt against
Saddam Hussein, posters of the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini
began appearing in southern Iraqi towns, where the population is
overwhelmingly Shiite. Nothing could have been more calculated to give
heart palpitations to the Bush administration of the day, since the
posters signaled that the Shiite rebels were mere cat's-paws of the
ruling Shiite mullahs in Tehran.
On the Line From Baghdad, A Family's Stoicism and Fears
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8226-2003Mar21.html
By Zainab Salbi, Page B04
My parents called me from our home in Baghdad a day before the
first Persian Gulf War to tell me the contents of their will. I had
gone to the United States on vacation and was unable to return because
of the sealed borders and the embargo that was imposed on Iraq soon
after its invasion of Kuwait. They wanted to make sure that at least
one other member of the family knew what we owned in case they died.
A 1943 Iraq Primer: Differences Galore!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8225-2003Mar21.html
Page B04
During World War II, the War and Navy Departments issued "A Short
Guide to Iraq," one of a series of pamphlets for American military
personnel who were sent to various unfamiliar countries in the Middle
East. Some excerpts:
O, Give Me a Home Where the Like-Minded Roam
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8229-2003Mar21.html
By Bill Bishop and Richard Florida, Page B05
When Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines told an audience in
London she was "ashamed" that President Bush came from Texas, she had
no reason to think her words would cause country music stations in
parts of the United States to boycott the trio's latest album and
their best-selling hit single, "Travelin' Soldier."
Before, and After, the Shooting Started
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6151-2003Mar21.html
By Michael Getler, Page B06
Here we go again. Wednesday night's bombing began the second war
against Iraq in little more than a decade. It transformed a year of
rhetoric, buildup and waiting into a final, lethal reality. It may
also transform the tenor of mail that an ombudsman receives, as
citizens rally around a wartime president. But that hasn't happened so
far. Readers who oppose the president's policy -- and, at times, The
Post's coverage -- continued to find fault, at least until the
shooting started.
We Forgot the Russians
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8070-2003Mar21.html
By Martin Indyk, Page B07
This may not seem the ideal time to start second-guessing the Bush
administration on what it could have done better. But its failure to
get the nine votes necessary for a U.N. Security Council resolution
justifying the use of force casts a shadow over our subsequent action.
What was lost at the United Nations in the days before the war will
need to be regained in coming weeks in order to gain international
support for the transition to stable, representative government in
Iraq. Without it we run the considerable risk that our well-meaning
efforts will be seen as a military occupation, to be resisted rather
than assisted.
Bracing for a Backlash
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8068-2003Mar21.html
By Mona Eltahawy, Page B07
Two days before the war against Iraq began, I printed out the
"Muslim Community Safety Kit" that arrived in my e-mail in box.
United In the Gamble
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8069-2003Mar21.html
By Ellen Goodman, Page B07
BOSTON -- This is how war makes its debut: as a television
surreality program.
The Squeeze On Our Children
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8067-2003Mar21.html
By David S. Broder, Page B07
Under the shadow of war with Iraq, the House and the Senate last
week fought a series of skirmishes over the federal budget for next
year. One big, overriding question was at stake: Would President Bush
and the Republican majorities in Congress step up to the costs of
battle, of homeland defense and of national obligations at home, or
would they pass the costs on to future generations?
A Fight for Freedom
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8071-2003Mar21.html
By John McCain, Page B07
Critics who deem war against Saddam Hussein's regime to be an
unprecedented departure from our proud tradition of American
internationalism disregard our history of meeting threats to our
security with both military force and a commitment to revolutionary
democratic change.
Remaking Medicare
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8081-2003Mar21.html
Page B06
There are two problems with the March 14 editorial "Medicine for
Medicare."
The Call to Serve -- and Protest
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8082-2003Mar21.html
Page B06
Thank you for the March 20 editorial "Local Contributions."
CBS Breaks In
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3987-2003Mar21.html
We were #### with CBS in New York yesterday, and we'll get to our
regular roundup after this report from the journalistic front lines:
Al Ortiz leans over a microphone in the darkened control room and
barks: "Let's get Dan wired up. We're gonna go early."
Franks Reports Gains in Multi-Front War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10012-2003Mar22.html
U.S. military leader says thousands have "laid down their weapons;"
other military sources say two officers are negotiating surrender of
division.
U.S. to Open Northern Front
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10562-2003Mar22.html
Kurdish official says troops will arrive in force in northern Iraq
within days.
Missiles Hit Southern Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10213-2003Mar22.html
Heavy black smoke in Basra suggests nearby oil fields may be on fire.
Bush Wins Tax Cut Votes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7710-2003Mar21.html
The House narrowly approves budget blueprint; Senate beats back
efforts to slash tax cut package.
Daring Race for Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7565-2003Mar21.html
Analysis: Land war reveals a more aggressive, daring modern military.
For 'Shock and Awe' Author, Concern (Post, March 22, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7837-2003Mar21.html
U.S. Strikes Alleged Al Qaeda Allies: Kurdish Militias Mass in Hope
Air Assault Paves Way for Ground Attack (Post, March 22, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7797-2003Mar21.html
Iraqi Units Showing Little Early Resistance: U.S., Allies Surprised,
Cautiously Optimistic (Post, March 22, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7765-2003Mar21.html
A Generation Used to War Voices Doubts On New Fight (Post, March 22,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7535-2003Mar21.html
More U.S. Cases of New Respiratory Disease Reported, 3 in Va.: 22 Sick
in 12 States; Most Had Traveled In Asia; 2 May Have Spread the Illness
(Post, March 22, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7531-2003Mar21.html
Federal Agents Arrest 9 in Moves Against Possible Terrorist Funding
(Post, March 22, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7530-2003Mar21.html
Havens Offered to Defectors: U.S. Steps Up Bid to Divide Iraqi
Leadership (By Dana Priest and Walter Pincus, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7672-2003Mar21.html
Rules for Releasing Papers Readied: Standards for Reclassifying
Documents Would Be Eased (Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7533-2003Mar21.html
Bush Sees 'Progress' in War Reports: President's Aides Urge Iraq
Forces to Surrender (By Dana Milbank and Dan Balz, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7873-2003Mar21.html
Turkey To Send Troops Into Iraq: U.S. Fears Wider Fighting With Kurds
(By Glenn Kessler and Philip P. Pan, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7605-2003Mar21.html
In U.S. Air Campaign, the Hour of Precision (By Bradley Graham, Page
A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7836-2003Mar21.html
Bush's Posture: A Leader Apart: Distance From Details May Reflect Bid
Insulate President From Any Early Setbacks (By Mike Allen and Karen
DeYoung, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7838-2003Mar21.html
Ind. Lawmaker Will See War From Front Row: Rep. Buyer's Stint at POW
Camp Will Be His Second Tour in Gulf Region (By Juliet Eilperin, Page
A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7671-2003Mar21.html
France Opposes U.S., British Postwar Plans
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7859-2003Mar21.html
President Jacques Chirac of France issued new objections Friday,
saying he would try to block any U.N. resolution authorizing the
United States and Britain to administer Iraq.
Two Suspects Arrested During Afghan Raids (AP, March 22, 2003; 10:27
AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9719-2003Mar22.html
In Rolling Waves, Blasts Demolish Symbols of Power (Post, March 22,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7464-2003Mar21.html
U.S. Troops Advance Closer to Baghdad: 3rd Infantry Meets Little
Opposition (Post, March 22, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7829-2003Mar21.html
Marines Lay Their Hands on a 'Jewel' (Post, March 22, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7812-2003Mar21.html
'We Had to Drive Right Into It': Carrier's Pilots Dodge Missiles and
'Rush-Hour Traffic' in the Crowded Skies Over Iraq (Post, March 22,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7798-2003Mar21.html
Saudi Officials Shield U.S. Troop Presence From Public (Post, March
22, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7731-2003Mar21.html
With Concern But Not Panic, Stoic Britons Stock Supplies (Post, March
22, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7730-2003Mar21.html
Mysterious Illness Kills 2 In Beijing in Sign of Spread (By John
Pomfret and Peter S. Goodman, Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7532-2003Mar21.html
Pakistan's Mullahs Speak Softly: Now in Government, Religious Leaders
Temper Their Agenda (By Pamela Constable, Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7670-2003Mar21.html
Thousands Protest Across Arab World: Marches Turn Violent; Three Die
in Yemen (By Emily Wax, Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7729-2003Mar21.html
A Heart Divided: Far From Home, Iraqi Exiles Watch the News, Torn by
Fear and Hope (By David Montgomery, Page C01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8210-2003Mar21.html
Islamic Radicals Retaliate for U.S. Attacks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9781-2003Mar22.html
Australian Journalist, 2 Kurds Reported Killed
Region's Muslims Worship, Worry About the War: Security Tight at
Friday Services; Many Criticize U.S. Attack on Iraq (Post, March 22,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7840-2003Mar21.html
Arab Media Look Past War, Focus On Future (Washington Post)
By Nora Boustany Page A27, Mar 21, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1271-2003Mar20.html
Aside from a few cartoons, one depicting President Bush in cowboy duds
dunking a scrawny Saddam Hussein wearing tattered combat fatigues into
an oil ...
Thomas Paine
http://tinyurl.com/7yn1
and thread
The Age of the Enlightenment
http://tinyurl.com/7yn3
and thread
Cities gain bohemian boom
http://tinyurl.com/7ynq
and thread
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'Generations of Captivity': The History of a Monstrous Enterprise
http://tinyurl.com/7zuz
By CHARLES B. DEW
Ira Berlin has written what will undoubtedly become one of the
indispensable books on North American slavery. ''Generations of
Captivity'' traces the history of this dismal institution from its
17th-century origins to its 19th-century destruction in the maelstrom
of civil war. He comes closer than any other contemporary historian to
giving us an opportunity -- in a single, readable volume -- to come to
grips with a subject very few of us wish to think about but which all
of us surely need to consider: how millions of white Americans over
the course of three centuries came to hold millions of black Americans
in chattel bondage while managing to lose nary a moment's sleep over
their complicity in this monstrous enterprise.
'Ending the Vietnam War': Kissinger Presents a Defense
http://tinyurl.com/7zv0
By EVAN THOMAS
Henry Kissinger has been an insider so long -- grave talking head,
wise op-ed-page illuminist, summer houseguest of the late Katharine
Graham -- that we forget he was once an outsider. The child of Jewish
immigrants, he scrambled for entry into the East Coast foreign policy
establishment, at that time a largely WASP preserve. Even after he had
caught the public's attention by dating starlets as he advised
presidents on geostrategic policy -- Henry ''the secret swinger,'' or,
as Newsweek once called him, ''Super-K'' -- he remained slightly
suspect, not quite ''American.'' When Kissinger was President Nixon's
national security adviser, White House aides permitted pictures at his
press conferences, but no sound. They were afraid that Kissinger's
heavy accent would offend Middle America.
'The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch': First Mistress of Paraguay
http://tinyurl.com/7zv4
By MIRANDA SEYMOUR
"This is a novel. . . . It is Not True." Or so Anne Enright tells us
in a taut afterword to "The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch."
'Rational Mysticism': On a Journalistic and Spiritual Quest
http://tinyurl.com/7zv9
By DICK TERESI
John Horgan has two all-consuming problems: (1) he worries about his
death; (2) he actually likes Iron Butterfly's ''In-a-Gadda-da-Vida.''
There's not much to be done about the second problem. For the first,
we would suggest that he explore the meaning of life and death by
embarking on a spiritual journey, visiting religious leaders,
postmodern theologians, neurotheologians, bodhisattvas and drug gurus.
'Darwin's Blind Spot': Biotech Merger
http://tinyurl.com/7zvb
By MARK RIDLEY
The idea of natural selection, says Frank Ryan, is challenged by
symbiosis.
The Philosopher of Islamic Terror
http://tinyurl.com/7yf5
By PAUL BERMAN
The roots of Al Qaeda are not in poverty or in anti-Americanism but in
Sayyid Qutb's ideas about how Christianity went wrong and how
martyrdom could change the world.
Party of One
http://tinyurl.com/7zvi
By MATT BAI
Senator Lincoln Chafee is against the war, the tax cut - in fact, the
whole Bush agenda. It's no wonder that he's having a hard time fitting
in with his fellow Republicans.
The Anti-American Lifestyle
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/magazine/23ANTI.html
By FERNANDA EBERSTADT
My French neighbors like "Rugrats" and Tex-Mex. It's our soul they
don't want to import.
Factories Wrest Land From China's Farmers
http://tinyurl.com/7zvw
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
DAREN, China - Last May, Song Defu's cornstalks were already reaching
skyward when the local television station broadcast the news: from
that day forward, village officials announced, there would be no more
farming in Daren. The village's remaining fields, about 500 acres,
were being converted into an economic development park.
French Oil Company Shuts Down in Turbulent Nigerian Delta
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/international/africa/23NIGE.html
By REUTERS
WARRI, Nigeria, March 22 - The French company TotalFinaElf shut its
oil production facilities in Nigeria's western delta and evacuated
workers today because of spiraling tribal unrest in the area, company
officials said.
Technology Companies Take Hope in Charity
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/business/23PHIL.html
By SUSAN E. REED
Hewlett-Packard has been working with the United Nations on ways to
standardize and computerize the small-loan industry in the developing
world.
Isolated Bangladeshi Area Proves an Ideal Lab
http://tinyurl.com/7zw0
By AMY WALDMAN
For decades, a delta area in Bangladesh has been studied by countless
researchers seeking solutions to the health problems of the developing
world.
Another War Taps Well of Mother's Bitter Tears
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/nyregion/23TOWN.html
By MATTHEW PURDY
As television produces daily images of another United States rout of
the Iraqi army, a mother who lost her son in the first Persian Gulf
war relives her loss.
When Japan Adopted the Camera as Its Very Own
http://tinyurl.com/7zw8
VICKI GOLDBERG
A Houston exhibit chronicles a culture's love affair with photography
that was interrupted by global politics and war.
U.S. and Mexico Coordinate Efforts for Mutual Protection
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/international/worldspecial/23MEXI.html
By TIM WEINER
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico, March 21 - The United States and Mexico, after
battling over their common border for so many years, are now
coordinating military missions to protect it from attack.
'In a Few Days, the Mood Shifted: Why Hadn't We Won Yet?'
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/weekinreview/23WORD.html
By KATE AURTHUR
The 1991 Persian Gulf war began at roughly the same moment that the
United States first found itself the world's remaining superpower, and
the conflict would provide a ready means for the nation to understand
its new stature. The war delivered - at least in the short term - a
certain victory, a popular president and new conclusions about such
things as the utility of international coalitions, the role of the
media in wartime, and even the wisdom of stopping short of Baghdad and
leaving Saddam Hussein in power.
True Horror: When Movie Violence Is Random
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/weekinreview/23SCOT.html
By A. O. SCOTT
Gaspar Noé's "Irréversible," which opened in the United States this
month after variously sickening and enthralling audiences in France,
has provoked a predictable, yet interesting, range of responses. The
movie relates, with a backward chronology similar to "Memento," the
brutal rape of a woman and the equally violent revenge her current and
former lovers inflict on a man they mistakenly believe to be her
attacker.
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A fight on many fronts
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1663752
Mar 22nd 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The war has intensified with massive air strikes against Baghdad and
fierce battles in southern Iraq. Turkish incursions into
Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq have led to fears of a war within a
war
Halfway to Baghdad
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1663977
Mar 22nd 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
American and British forces are halfway to Baghdad. While massive air
strikes are continuing, the worst battles could still be to come
How to analyse the battle
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1647703
Mar 21st 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Military action always involves uncertainties, but some of the biggest
ones can be found in America's own plans to invade Iraq
Re-ordering the world
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1651240
Mar 21st 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
It is already clear that whatever the outcome of the war in Iraq,
relations between the world's most powerful countries have shifted
significantly. How far-reaching will the post-war changes in
international relations be?
In need of repair
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1648286
Mar 21st 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The Brussels summit of European heads of government took place in an
unusually frosty atmosphere. Repairing relations after the divisions
on Iraq will take considerable time and effort
Flying the unfriendly skies
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1648210
Mar 22nd 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
America's big airlines say the war in Iraq could make their current
dire predicament turn catastrophic. But this may not be enough to win
them further state aid
Putin's proposition
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1651376
Mar 21st 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Will peace and prosperity follow if Chechens vote yes to Russia's
offer of limited autonomy this weekend? Vladimir Putin says so but the
signs are not hopeful
After Iraq
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1649441
Mar 20th 2003
From The Economist print edition
It will be worth trying more peaceable ways to curb nasty weapons
Letters
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1648380
On George Bush, Brazil, racial profiling, illegal drugs
Mar 20th 2003
The battle for northern Iraq
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1650002
Mar 20th 2003 | ANKARA AND TEHRAN
From The Economist print edition
They all want a piece of the action
His father's shadow
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1650286
Mar 20th 2003 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
George Bush is going to war in Iraq in a much stronger position at
home than abroad. In 1991, it was the other way round
Hard times, same old politics
http://www.economist.com/world/la/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1649208
Mar 20th 2003 | BUENOS AIRES
From The Economist print edition
The campaign for a wide-open election reveals more continuity,
personified by Carlos Menem (above), than change. Unfortunately
The survivor takes over
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1650319
Mar 20th 2003 | BEIJING
From The Economist print edition
China's new prime minister, once a protégé of China's disgraced
reformist, Zhao Ziyang, shows few signs of seeking to rock the boat
Dreaming of an economic revival
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1649421
Mar 20th 2003 | BERLIN
From The Economist print edition
Gerhard Schröder has revealed his plans. Now he must get his hands
dirty
Democratic feudalism
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1649843
Mar 20th 2003
From The Economist print edition
A vote for greater princely power in one of Europe's smallest
countries
What turned it for Tony
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1650097
Mar 20th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Things have gone from bad to better for Tony Blair in the past
week-thanks, in part, to some of his opponents
On a knife edge
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1648674
Mar 20th 2003 | BUJUMBURA
From The Economist print edition
A small and bloodied central African nation struggles to make peace
Send in the soldiers
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1648476
Mar 20th 2003
From The Economist print edition
America's military forces around the world are run by five men. A new
book looks at their power and influence—and claims it is excessive
Who shot the president?
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1648616
Mar 20th 2003
From The Economist print edition
A possible explanation for conspiracy theories
Some cool ideas
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1648576
Mar 20th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Traditional refrigeration may be eased out by new technologies
In search of those elusive returns
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1649643
Mar 20th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Despite this week's stockmarket rally, tumbling equity prices and bond
yields have sparked a fierce debate over asset allocation
Cheney's cronies?
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1649479
Mar 20th 2003 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
Rumours are rife about who will make money out of rebuilding Iraq
This is the reality of war. We bomb. They suffer
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=389918
Veteran war reporter Robert Fisk tours the Baghdad hospital to see the
wounded after a devastating night of air strikes
Martin Bell: This television conflict will make the next war even
harder to justify
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=389752
23 March 2003
Wars are dangerous.
Richard Overy: Europe is in tatters
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=389751
23 March 2003
A month ago, at the mass demonstration in Hyde Park, I saw a woman
walking solemnly along with a placard bearing the words, "I never
thought I would say vive la France". The war against Iraq has produced
a sudden and unexpected shift in European alignments and attitudes.
Zoe Pilger: Generation Apathy has woken up
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=389745
23 March 2003
Of all the carnage to come from a war in Iraq, one positive element
has emerged.
US embassies besieged across the globe
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=389891
Anti-war protesters staged a fresh wave of marches in cities worldwide
yesterday, focusing on US embassies and provoking clashes with police.
For the second week, hundreds of thousands rallied on European and US
streets, staging the largest series of wartime protests since the
Vietnam war.
Perle's Plunder Blunder
http://tinyurl.com/7zms
By MAUREEN DOWD
Richard Perle, who urged America to war with moral certitude, finds
himself subject to questions about his own standards of right and
wrong.
The New Agenda: Go It Alone. Remake the World.
http://tinyurl.com/7zn7
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
The United States has been the primary force behind several
international transformations - from rebuilding Germany and Japan, to
the defeat of the Soviet Union.
Blair Is So Far Down He's Up
http://tinyurl.com/7zna
By WARREN HOGE
At considerable cost to his image, Prime Minister Tony Blair of
Britain stood up for an American president whose manner sparked alarm
abroad.
Freedom: More Than Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose
http://tinyurl.com/7znb
By GEOFFREY NUNBERG
There was a time when wars were fought in the name of liberty. Now
Americans fight under the banner of freedom.
Rich in Glory and Agony, the Cavalry Rides Again
http://tinyurl.com/7znc
By MICHELLE O'DONNELL
As satellite television beamed images of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry
Regiment advancing toward Baghdad, a moment in American history echoed
through the Iraqi desert.
Can You Get to Palestine From Here?
http://tinyurl.com/7zne
By JAMES BENNET
With rebuilding Iraq, confronting North Korea and addressing the
American economy, the White House may never make the conflict in the
Middle East a top priority.
Weighing Your Risks of Becoming a Terror Victim
http://tinyurl.com/7znn
By JOHN TIERNEY
The probability of a terrorist attack occurring in the U.S. may be
high, but the risk to any one person seems relatively low.
Congress Makes Law, Not War
http://tinyurl.com/7znt
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
When the bombs began dropping on Baghdad last week, the only
declaration in the Capitol was the one in support of President Bush
and the troops.
Japanese Technology May Help Islands Reap Pacific's Waters
http://tinyurl.com/7znx
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A number of Pacific island nations may use new Japanese technology
that can both desalinate seawater for drinking and produce
electricity.
Pre-emption: Idea With a Lineage Whose Time Has Come
http://tinyurl.com/7zo9
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
The second Persian Gulf war reflects the ascendance under President
Bush of the conservatives' idea that "rogue states" must be confronted
with pre-emptive action.
The Western Front
http://tinyurl.com/7zof
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The angry chasm between France and both England and the U.S. has
shocked many people in Paris and prompted some to ask whether France
went too far.
The Actors Who Reflect the Stars
http://tinyurl.com/7zoj
By JAMES McCOURT
Sometimes, Oscar knows subtlety when he sees it.
Hunting for Iraq's Terror Weapons
http://tinyurl.com/7zom
America will not be able to claim victory in Iraq until it secures
Saddam Hussein's missing troves of unconventional weapons, the
ingredients to make them and the scientists.
Grounded by War
http://tinyurl.com/7zoo
Many of America's good-will ambassadors are likely to avoid the rest
of the world at a time when their engagement with others is most
needed. This is unfortunate.
The Missing Energy Strategy
http://tinyurl.com/7zop
The Senate struck a blow for the environment and for common sense by
defeating President Bush's second attempt to open the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration.
Show of Awe: A Thrill Ride, but No Blood
http://tinyurl.com/7yx5
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
The first scenes of the invasion of Iraq did more than bring viewers
closer to the front lines of battle than ever before. They looked at
warfare through an entirely new prism.
Around the World, Thousands Protest the War
http://tinyurl.com/7zou
By ALAN COWELL
Tens of thousands of protesters from Berlin and London to Indonesia
and Malaysia took to the streets to condemn the United States-led war.
In New York, a Security Blanket With Holes
http://tinyurl.com/7zoz
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
As the United States wages war on Iraq, New Yorkers and others across
the region are witnessing an extraordinary state of heightened
security.
Grenade Attack Kills 1
http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208~27080~1263610,00.html
By JIM DWYER
In an apparent fratricide attack, one soldier was killed and 13 others
were injured when grenades were thrown and shots were fired into a
tent.
U.S. Says the Iraqis Are Repositioning Their Missile Sites
http://tinyurl.com/7zp6
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Iraqi forces are expected to try further missile attacks against
advancing American troops, senior American officials said.
Reporters Respond Eagerly to Pentagon Welcome Mat
http://tinyurl.com/7zpd
By TODD S. PURDUM and JIM RUTENBERG
The Pentagon's policy of "####" reporters with invading troops has
produced coverage so positive as to verge on celebratory.
Cuban Exiles Finding Spirit of Reconciliation
http://tinyurl.com/7zpm
By DANA CANEDY
A growing number of Cuban immigrants say they favor a more
conciliatory approach to Cuban relations.
The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Domino Theory
http://tinyurl.com/7zpp
By SAM TANENHAUS
As the war in Iraq began last week, some prominent members of the Bush
administration were repeating their hope that the removal of Saddam
Hussein will be the catalyst for a wave of democratic reform
throughout the Middle East. In making their case these planners have
revived a staple of cold-war thinking, the domino theory: the idea
that sudden change in the leadership of one nation can set off a chain
reaction in its neighbors, transforming an entire region.
Iraq's Exiled Opposition: Waiting, Watching, Hoping
http://tinyurl.com/7zps
By TOM ZELLER
For decades, they have waited. Some fled more than 30 years ago, as
Iraqi political life died under the Baath Party. Some escaped Saddam
Hussein's brutal rule more recently by slipping over the borders. Some
were lucky and had their families with them. If they did not, their
families were likely murdered.
Learning the Economics of This War
http://tinyurl.com/7zpt
By ALEX BERENSON
War is not always good for the economy, but it seemed that way last
week.
Lessons of 'Civilizing Missions' Are Mostly Unlearned
http://tinyurl.com/7zpy
By A. G. HOPKINS
According to the latest official reports, the United States envisages
a short, "necessary occupation" in Iraq, lasting months and intends to
have "the structure of a post-Saddam society in place within a year."
If this occurs, the world will witness an exercise in social
engineering on a scale of intensity never before contemplated, still
less achieved.
North Korea Expects the Worst
http://tinyurl.com/7zpz
By JAMES BROOKE
Few regimes perhaps watched the British-American advance into Iraq
with the nervousness felt, on the far eastern tip of President Bush's
"axis of evil," by the government of North Korea. Believing that
deterrence is the best weapon against the United States, North Korea's
leader, Kim Jong Il, is believed to be in a sprint for a nuclear
arsenal.
What It Means to Be From Texas
http://tinyurl.com/7zq3
By PAUL BURKA
AUSTIN, Tex. - Say 'Texas' anywhere," wrote the historian T. R.
Fehrenbach, "and people answer 'cowboy.'"
For Veterans of 1991, a War Without End
http://tinyurl.com/7zq5
By GINA KOLATA
You may have thought that the previous gulf war ended in 1991. But
that would be wrong. It turns out that the first President George Bush
never declared an end to it. In fact, so far as one special benefit
for veterans is concerned, the United States has been at war all
along.
Why 'Shock and Awe'?
http://tinyurl.com/7zr2
The Pentagon's "shock and awe" strategy of quickly overwhelming Iraq
was the inspiration of a military analyst guided by the 2,500-year-old
writings of Sun Tzu, the Chinese strategist; Pizarro's defeat of the
Incas in the 16th century; the German blitzkrieg of World War II; and
the atomic bombing of Japan.
Concerns About Commerce as Borders Tighten
http://tinyurl.com/7zqr
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Security and law enforcement officers of the United States, Canada and
Mexico raised their guard against possible terrorist infiltrators.
Oil Trenches Set Ablaze Around Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11810-2003Mar22.html
The flames produced a haze that may have been intended to confuse the
guidance systems of U.S. weapons or the pilots releasing them over the
city.
Troops Advance Halfway To Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11891-2003Mar22.html
The American invasion prompted hundreds of Iraqi soldiers to surrender
and thousands of others to shed their uniforms and head home, said
Gen. Tommy R. Franks.
Alliances Shifting in Northeast Asia
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12046-2003Mar22.html
A shuffling of alliances is taking place in Northeast Asia,
accelerated by the U.S. failure to defuse the North Korean nuclear
crisis.
Peruvian Guerrillas Fight New Battle in Court
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11706-2003Mar22.html
LIMA, Peru -- When he was arrested in a residential neighborhood here
in 1992, Abimael Guzman was transformed by the Peruvian government
into a cross between a war trophy and a museum exhibit.
Cameraman Is Killed, 3 Journalists Are Missing in Iraq Incidents
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11740-2003Mar22.html
An Australian cameraman was killed in a suicide bombing and three
British journalists were missing yesterday as the war in Iraq suddenly
turned deadly for those trying to cover it.
3 Russian Firms' Deals Anger U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13057-2003Mar23.html
The United States delivered a protest to the government of President
Vladimir Putin yesterday for refusing to stop Russian arms dealers
from providing illegal weapons and assistance to the Iraqi military.
Battle for Basra Met by Strong Iraqi Resistance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10213-2003Mar22.html
U.S. Marine AH-1 Cobra helicopter gunships fired repeated volleys of
missiles and machine gun blasts at targets in and around Basra,
touching off blazes that sent half a dozen huge plumes of black smoke
wafting over the strategic southern city.
U.S. Soldier Held for Another's Death in Grenade Attack
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12212-2003Mar22.html
One soldier from the 101st Airborne Division was killed and 13 were
wounded when two hand grenades were thrown into the 1st Brigade
tactical operations center in Kuwait.
Marines Killed in Iraq Are Mourned
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12196-2003Mar22.html
Lt. Therell S. Childers, one of the first Americans killed in combat
in Iraq, had wanted to be a Marine "since he could spell it," a family
member said yesterday.
For Many Americans, It's the Economy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12182-2003Mar22.html
SEATTLE -- Frank Miller drives a truck for a living, moving cargo from
the port, paid by the trip. Work is slow and getting slower. "I think
I'm your typical American," Miller said. "All we talk about is the
war. But all I think about is my paycheck."
Al Qaeda Near Chemical Arms Production
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12187-2003Mar22.html
The network has reached the threshold of biological and chemical arms
production and may already have manufactured some of them, according
to the documents obtained by the U.S.
Question Dogs Bush Officials
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12217-2003Mar22.html
The administration was peppered with questions about why allied forces
have not found any of the chemical or biological weapons that were
Bush's justification for disarming Iraq.
Toward Liberation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12139-2003Mar22.html
Page B06
THE FIRST NEWLY freed Iraqis emerged cautiously onto the streets of
Safwan on Friday -- cautious not because they feared U.S. Marines but
because they could hardly believe that Saddam Hussein and his
apparatus of terror ruled them no more. By yesterday families with
children were lining roads near the southern city of Basra, waving and
cheering at U.S. and British forces as they rumbled north. Some of
those troops were encountering significant Iraqi resistance, and the
war appeared far from over. But in its first three days the Iraq
campaign was making rapid progress toward the systematic destruction
of an aggressive and murderous regime and the liberation of a
long-suffering people.
Soft Backbones
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12048-2003Mar22.html
Page B06
THERE ARE PEOPLE who compromise and people who capitulate -- and
then there are moderate senators who sometimes manage to do both at
once. That is the conclusion one is tempted to draw from a series of
Senate votes Friday on the fiscal 2004 budget, and from predictions
regarding the vote next week on the final budget resolution. The
central issue is the president's proposal to cut $726 billion worth of
taxes over the next 10 years -- a plan that would, when combined with
other tax cuts he has put forward, plunge the federal government deep
into deficit, lead to unacceptable spending cuts in core programs or,
most likely, both. Nearly all congressional Democrats and a solid
group of congressional Republicans claim to oppose this tax cut.
Indeed, senators valiantly voted early Friday to reduce the tax cut by
$100 billion to pay for the war in Iraq. To general surprise, and to
the administration's consternation, that small rebellion in the name
of fiscal sanity won the day.
'Webloggers,' Signing On as War Correspondents
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12179-2003Mar22.html
L.T. Smash provided a terse after-action report on one close encounter
with the Iraqis:
"Saddam fired a couple of those Scuds that he doesn't have at me this
afternoon.
"He missed."
U.S. Pressing From the North
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13818-2003Mar23.html
Hundreds of special forces have been dropped into Kurdish area.
War Began in Secret Earlier
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12215-2003Mar22.html
Bush administration tore up its war plan on the fly in bid to get
Hussein.
Protests Around the Globe
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12211-2003Mar22.html
Hundreds of thousands are marching against the war.
U.S. Wary in Choosing Iraq's New Leadership
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12202-2003Mar22.html
Administration Divided Over Postwar Role of Exile Politicians and
Rivals Inside the Country
Civil Strife Figures in U.S. Thinking: Planners View Military's
Mission as Liberation, and Infighting as Way to Weaken Hussein (Post,
March 23, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11854-2003Mar22.html
Plans for Muslim Camp Reveal Iowa Town's Fears: Opposition Dismays
Longtime Islamic Community (Post, March 23, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12067-2003Mar22.html
Colorado Residents Still Trapped After Historic Snowstorm (Post, March
23, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12050-2003Mar22.html
Bush to Ask Congress for $80 Billion: Estimate of War's Cost Comes as
Thousands March in Protest (By Dana Milbank and Mike Allen, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12214-2003Mar22.html
N.C. Split on Edwards's Bid (Page A05)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12162-2003Mar22.html
Bush War Ratings May Not Reach 9/11 Levels: Terror Attacks Brought
Unity, but President Is a Polarizing Figure in Iraq Conflict (By Dan
Balz, Page A05)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11680-2003Mar22.html
O'Keefe: Man With a Past -- and a Future?: NASA Chief Has Handled a
Crisis Before, But This One May Determine His Career (By Eric Pianin
and Guy Gugliotta, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12087-2003Mar22.html
Connecticut's Rowland Denies Involvement in Bribery Scandal:
Three-Term Governor's Administration Under Scrutiny as Aide Pleads
Guilty and Others are Subpoenaed (By Susan Haigh, Page A07)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12044-2003Mar22.html
Bill of Rights Copy's Seller Might Face Prosecution: Proving Intent
Could Be Difficult (Page A07)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11681-2003Mar22.html
16 Cubans On Seized Plane Opt To Return: Six Hijackers Will Be Tried
in U.S. (Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12034-2003Mar22.html
Incident at Elevator Felt Round World: Chinese Doctor Is Identified as
Start of Health Emergency (By Rob Stein, Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12047-2003Mar22.html
Talks on Turkish Role Are Underway (By Michael Dobbs and Philip P.
Pan, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12209-2003Mar22.html
Forces Leave Instability in Wake (Post, March 23, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11924-2003Mar22.html
Thousands Protest Across Europe, Asia: Some Marches Turn Violent; Pope
Speaks Out Against War (Post, March 23, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12210-2003Mar22.html
An Edgy Place, a Suicide Bombing and a Near-Miss (Post, March 23,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11937-2003Mar22.html
One 'Good Fight' but Little Else (Post, March 23, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11207-2003Mar22.html
War? Nothing to It for Young Troops, at Least on the First Few Days
(Post, March 23, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12122-2003Mar22.html
War News Filtered Through Nations' Politics: Reporting Is Extensive,
but Nature of Coverage Largely Depends on Stance of Governments (Post,
March 23, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12144-2003Mar22.html
Watching The War, Anxious For Action (By Monte Reel, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12116-2003Mar22.html
Target Practice Of a Different Sort (By Lyndsey Layton, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12118-2003Mar22.html
Supply Team Embraces Stealth Role Behind Iraqi Lines (By Mary Beth
Sheridan, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12112-2003Mar22.html
Military Adapts Its Weapons And Tactics for Global War: Little
Smilarity Between Now and '91 (By Rick Atkinson, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12183-2003Mar22.html
Arabs Make U.S. Object of Anger: Officials and Protesters Criticize
War (By Carol Morello and Emily Wax, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12200-2003Mar22.html
Kurd Expects Arrival of Large U.S. Contingent (By Daniel Williams,
Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10562-2003Mar22.html
'Unilaterals,' Crossing the Lines: Reporters Who Venture Out on Their
Own Can Find the Going Deadly (By Richard Leiby, Page F01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12207-2003Mar22.html
'Shock and Awe' Author Uneasy With New Fame
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7837-2003Mar21.html
Ullman Fears Thesis May Be Misconstrued
Iraq May Regain Status As Oil Industry Power (Post, March 23, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12094-2003Mar22.html
Saudi Officials Shield U.S. Troop Presence From Public
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7731-2003Mar21.html
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 21 -- The Saudi monarchy, concerned about
a public backlash against the war and fearful of inflaming the
passions of Muslim extremists, is going to great lengths to cloak the
degree to which it is cooperating with the United States against
neighboring Iraq.
San Francisco's Prosaic San Mateo Bridge Is a Possible Terror Target
http://tinyurl.com/7ztl
By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN
According to information provided to interrogators by Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed, the San Mateo Bridge is among Al Qaeda's possible targets.
On New York's Streets and Across the Nation, Protesters Speak Out
http://tinyurl.com/7zto
By LESLIE EATON
It was a beautiful day for a demonstration - sunny, breezy and just
warm enough - as more than 100,000 people took to the streets of
Manhattan to protest the war in Iraq.
C.I.A. Aides Feel Pressure in Preparing Iraqi Reports
http://tinyurl.com/7ztv
By JAMES RISEN
Analysts at the C.I.A. said they had felt pressured to make their
intelligence reports on Iraq conform to Bush administration policies.
Democrats Praise U.S. Troops
http://tinyurl.com/7ztw
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Democratic leaders of Congress muted their criticism of President Bush
and affirmed their support for military men and women fighting the war
in Iraq.
On the Hill, Business as Usual
http://tinyurl.com/7ztz
By CARL HULSE and DAVID FIRESTONE
Though Democrats pleaded for a halt after the war began, the
Republican leaders of the House and Senate chose not to stop their
march toward tax cuts and record deficits.
Which Companies Will Put Iraq Back Together?
http://tinyurl.com/7zu0
By DIANA B. HENRIQUES
Government contract officers plan to give American companies the first
contracts to rebuild Iraq, a task that experts say could eventually
cost $25 billion to $100 billion.
Untested Companies Enlist in U.S. Biodefense
http://tinyurl.com/7zu5
By ANDREW POLLACK with MELODY PETERSEN
With the nation now at war in Iraq, the efforts to create a vibrant
biodefense sector have had only partial success.
War Rally Loses Sight of Deeper Risks
http://tinyurl.com/7zu8
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Though it is understandable that investors would seize on positive war
news as a reason to buy stocks, such a focus is exceedingly narrow.
Looking at Both Sides of the Pill
http://tinyurl.com/7zua
By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN
"The Merck Druggernaut: The Inside Story of a Pharmaceutical Giant"
puts the industry into the context of society's demands.
How Soon Former Governors Forget
http://tinyurl.com/7zud
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
WASHINGTON -- Across the country, state governments are laying off
employees, raising taxes, postponing construction projects and taking
other measures that are clearly bad medicine for a sick economy.
War Can Send Shares Higher or Lower
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/22/business/22PLAC.html
By FLOYD NORRIS
The guns began to roar this week, and stocks began to soar, not just
in the United States but around the world.
'Regarding the Pain of Others': Sontag Changes Lenses
http://tinyurl.com/7zuk
By JOHN LEONARD
In this coruscating sermon on how we picture suffering, Susan Sontag
sees photography as a challenge to conscience.
'Reporting Civil Rights': The Fire Last Time
http://tinyurl.com/7zuo
By WILLIAM FINNEGAN
Two volumes of essays, news stories and eyewitness accounts show how
the civil rights movement changed this country forever.
'The Point of Return': An Indian Don Quixote
http://tinyurl.com/7zuq
By SUZANNE RUTA
In Siddhartha Deb's novel, an aging Indian civil servant clings to an
outmoded vision of his country as a tolerant secular democracy.
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Only Iraqis can decide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,920465,00.html
Neal Ascherson: If the US denies Iraq democracy and independence, its
freedom will be bought with blood.
This is not war as we knew it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,920464,00.html
Peter Preston: Public opinion has not rallied to this dehumanised
campaign.
It's my family they're bombing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,920466,00.html
Aida Kaisy: It's easy for people in Britain to find war exciting when
it has no effect on their own lives.
The west has given Saddam the role he always longed for
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,920588,00.html
Said Aburish: The Iraqi dictator's brutal successes may now appear
greater in retrospect.
Email from Tianjin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,920589,00.html
Like many young Chinese, Fang Fang loves western pop music.
Don't give up on the party now
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,920587,00.html
Roy Hattersley: If Labour members resign they will only strengthen our
enemies.
Assassins at large
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,920586,00.html
Norma Percy: Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic is not the only
former opponent of Slobodan Milosevic to be killed.
Baghdad calling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,920505,00.html
The most vivid account of the build-up to war in Iraq and the start of
the bombing has appeared on the internet - on the weblog of an unknown
Iraqi writing under the name Salam Pax. But who is he? Leo Hickman
investigates.
Salam's diary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,920506,00.html
The extraordinary diary of the Baghdad blogger, Salam Pax.
Friends disunited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,920599,00.html
Michael Ignatieff marched against the Vietnam war with people he
liked. Now he finds himself supporting the attack on Iraq alongside
people he detests. But, he argues, you should not take moral decisions
to make friends.
Don't lose your head
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,920516,00.html
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/E/edward_mary/index.html
Historical drama just doesn't cut it these days until you've jazzed it
up with a bit of flashy Cops-style camera work. What's the point, asks
Stuart Jeffries
Twenty First Century Warriors
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/science/war/index.html
They can see in the dark. They can sense the presence of the enemy by
detecting body heat. They can pinpoint their own position in a vast
and empty desert. They are the new world, hi-tech soldiers.
The Nuclear Threat Is Real
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/science/war/nuclear.html
He was part of the crack US team that developed the atom bomb 60 years
ago. Here, Joseph Rotblat contends that the greatest nuclear threat to
world peace now comes from the US itself.
Bombs With Brains
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/science/war/index.html
The indiscriminate blanket bombing of cities is in the past. Today we
have bombs that are accurately guided by inertia, lasers and most
recently by satellites that orbit Earth. This is the era of the
intelligent bomb.
'Iraq is being destroyed again'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Reverberations of the massive aerial onslaught on Baghdad
Dawkins' abuse of logic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,920457,00.html
Condi Rice and Colin Powell are not the only members of the US
administration who would be bemused at Professor Richard Dawkins's
accusation that only "pure racism and/or religious prejudice" can
account for their citing September 11 as relevant to the Iraq campaign
(Bin Laden's victory, March 22).
After the marches
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,920456,00.html
I did not attend last weekend's peace rally in London, as I had done
on February 15, because I could not bear the thought of taking part in
the sorts of civilised public protest permitted in this country if no
one is going to pay the slightest attention (Thousands take to
streets, March 21).
America's big bang
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,920455,00.html
The US's massive ordnance airblast bomb is apparently capable of
destroying everything within a 600m radius (that means killing
everything within an area almost a mile) wide.
Bringing home the reality of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,920454,00.html
As an American writer who has served in the US airforce, I definitely
do not support "our troops" fighting in Iraq (Letters, March 21).
Tougher than it seemed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,920445,00.html
Nothing about war is straightforward.
No to the oil man
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,920444,00.html
The US senate is right to draw the line.
Exploit US rift with Europe, firms told
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,920414,00.html
Digby Jones, the director general of the CBI, has urged Britain's
hard-pressed exporters to exploit Washington's deep rift with Paris
and Berlin.
War's a perfect Budget foil
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,920406,00.html
Larry Elliott: Gordon Brown's plan over the next few months is to turn
Basil Fawlty's instruction on its head.
Price of conflict may be seen as too high by the public
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,920405,00.html
'Not in my name' is the slogan of the anti-war protesters - but as
Gordon Brown prepares to dig deep to pay for rolling the tanks into
Iraq, taxpayers could find themselves thinking 'not with my money'.
I'm not going away, says Cook
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,920511,00.html
Robin Cook made himself available to lead the left in parliament
yesterday in his first interviews since his resignation.
'We are risking a gulf between the West and the Islamic world'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/interviews/comment/0,11660,920207,00.html
Six years ago, Will Hutton interviewed Robin Cook as he took charge of
the Foreign Office after the 1997 election. Now, he returns with Kamal
Ahmed to hear Cook, in his first major interview since resigning, tell
why he had to go - and warn of the dangers ahead for foreign policy.
UK sees biggest wartime protest
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,920695,00.html
Organiser claims world outcry is saving Iraqi lives.
New leader, new extremists, new struggles
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/interviews/story/0,11660,920664,00.html
If Trevor Phillips ever wonders, deep down, whether the commission for
racial equality is really needed, then each day when he arrives for
work he only has to glance at its doorway.
Reconstructing the UN
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,918538,00.html
The answer to new international dangers is not less liberalism but
more, argues Charles Kennedy
'Blair is a symbol of braveness'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,919758,00.html
March 22: Jalal Talabani, head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan,
believes that American and British forces have come to liberate the
Iraqi people, reports Helena Smith.
American prisoners paraded by Iraqis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920611,00.html
· Up to 10 marines killed
· Fury over TV pictures of dead
· Advance slowed by fierce clashes
Chemical plant find investigated
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920712,00.html
US officials were last night investigating a large factory in southern
Iraq, which reports suggested could have been used to make chemical
weapons.
US protests at Russian arms sales to Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920683,00.html
The United States protested to the government of President Vladimir
Putin Saturday for refusing to stop Russian arms dealers from
providing illegal weapons and assistance to the Iraqi military.
Weary Chechens turn out to vote for Russian peace plan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920479,00.html
Chechnya went to the polls yesterday to vote in a Kremlin-backed
referendum that Russia hopes will forge a path to peace and end a
decade of bloody separatist conflict.
Nigerian militants threaten oil facilities as conflict grows
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920684,00.html
Militant Ijaw youths yesterday threatened to blow up oil facilities in
the Niger delta as troops battled to quell tribal warfare that has
shut down about 30% of Nigeria's total oil output.
Slovene double 'yes' to Nato and EU leaves pollsters red-faced
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920477,00.html
Slovenia decided by a comfortable majority yesterday to join Nato,
despite public opposition to the war in Iraq which had clouded the
government's chances of winning a referendum.
Resistance raises fears for the endgame
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920577,00.html
Rapid campaign hit by unexpectedly fierce battles.
Muted Oscars goes ahead with call for peace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920713,00.html
A muted Oscars ceremony went ahead in Hollywood last night with a call
for peace which was greeted with loud applause.
The band plays for Baghdad's new mood
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920610,00.html
Yellow police boats sped over the muddy brown waters of the Tigris.
Soldiers fired machine guns into clumps of reeds in a hunt for what
they thought was a downed American pilot. A band played patriotic
tunes, and for an afternoon at least a battered city was ready to
believe that truly it could win this war.
Al-Jazeera screens gruesome footage of battle casualties
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920703,00.html
Al-Jazeera, the Arab satellite channel which angered the United States
with its coverage of the Afghan war, has caused a new furore by
broadcasting blood-and-guts images from the invasion of Iraq.
'I'm Edgar from the United States. My name is Edgar'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920705,00.html
The casualties and the interviews with four men and a woman were
broadcast by the Arab satellite station al-Jazeera with footage from
state-controlled Iraqi television.
America shaken by images of PoWs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920704,00.html
Outrage as interviews with injured prisoners broadcast
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920602,00.html
An occasional series decoding the military jargon
Dodging between two hostile armies, desperate to reach market in
Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920603,00.html
Yesterday morning, in the hot glare of midday, Ahmed Adel and his
partners were embarking on a journey through Iraq more perilous, in
its way, than any soldier's march.
Battle for key city leads to 'massacre of children' claim
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920576,00.html
Allies silent on claim of dozens killed by bombing
Firefight delays push
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920579,00.html
Marines killed as advance is held up
Fierce battle around port
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920580,00.html
Republican Guard squad resists advance
One killed, 12 injured by 'resentful' Muslim GI
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920560,00.html
Kuwait Soldier in custody after grenade attack at US base
Urgent review of friend or foe ID technology
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920561,00.html
Two deaths due to first serious targeting error
Saddam's fate still uncertain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920562,00.html
After three days of furious and anonymous briefing by American and
British officials that Saddam Hussein may have been injured or killed
on Thursday, it was conceded yesterday that the fate of the Iraqi
president remains uncertain.
'This makes us love Saddam, not America'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920556,00.html
34 die as US missiles hit wrong target
US special forces mass in Kurdish enclave
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920557,00.html
We had nearly given up hope, say locals
Turkish troop incursion denied
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920558,00.html
Border tension high over rumour of invasion
Bush to ask for $80bn war chest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920674,00.html
President to offer Congress belated costing
Surrender in the oilfields
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920552,00.html
From its headquarters in the western Hijara desert the Iraqi brigade
was meant to protect the oilfields, its anti-tank weapons trained on
the advancing allied forces as they made their way up from Kuwait.
Rogue missile wrecks homes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920553,00.html
Target miss reduces five Baghdad houses to rubble
Bush faces uphill struggle satisfying demands of both victors and
vanquished
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920554,00.html
The Bush administration likes to project confidence and it is now
being assisted in that by generals with an abundance of what American
soldiers call "command presence".
Al-Jazeera causes outcry with broadcast of battle casualties
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920544,00.html
Al-Jazeera, the Arab satellite channel which angered the United States
with its coverage of the Afghan war, has caused a new furore by
broadcasting blood-and-guts images from the invasion of Iraq.
Off to war with the armchair division
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920545,00.html
Three decades have passed since American television networks were
famously said to have brought war into a nation's living rooms. But
it's only in the last three days that this idea has become reality.
At a glance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,920502,00.html
Military action
ITV stands down crews as reporter is killed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,920594,00.html
Terry Lloyd and two colleagues apparently killed by coalition forces.
Catholic and Anglican primates join in condemnation and prayer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,920593,00.html
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the leader of the Catholic Church in
England and Wales, described the war in Iraq as "wrong and evil"
yesterday as he urged members of his flock to pray for a swift end to
the hostilities.
Troops find hidden Iraqi cruise missiles
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,920601,00.html
British soldiers stumble upon bunkers full of arms and ammunition
including sophisticated Russian-made rockets.
UK firm denies selling to Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,920681,00.html
The British defence company Wallop Industries denied last night
supplying Iraq with the boxes of rocket-propelled grenades bearing its
name found near Basra.
All fired up
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,920363,00.html
The US press has worked itself into such a frenzy over the conflict in
the Gulf, says Michael Wolff, that it has forgotten why it is there in
the first place - to report the war clearly and objectively
The late, late show
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,920365,00.html
The Iraq war's opening salvos were covered by last editions produced
in the small hours. But do such heroic newsroom performances tell us
much or put on sales, asks Roy Greenslade.
Journalists in the line of fire
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,920367,00.html
The attack on Terry Lloyd reminds us that bearing witness is never
without risk, says Matt Wells.
War is on, and the bulletins are flying
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,920366,00.html
David Liddiment: Bush and Blair have gone to war and so has
television. There is an almost unseemly enthusiasm in the news
organisations, and the war is giving everyday competition extra bite.
Will BBC act as the people's war blog?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,920376,00.html
David Docherty: Rolling electronic news changed the relationship
between audience and reporter. Viewers have always had different
expectations of electronic media than of their newspapers.
Crisps to die for
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,920371,00.html
Tim Dowling on the launch of conflict-friendly products.
No quiet on the western front
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,920374,00.html
Media coverage of the current war will be more comprehensive than ever
before. But it's not that governments don't want to halt the flow of
information, says Roger Mosey - just that they can't.
Is this the new Gotcha?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,920379,00.html
The Sun's new web game could set the xenophobic tone for its Iraqi war
coverage but only if it is ever launched. Dawn Hayes reports.
The good, the bad and the ugly
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,919852,00.html
Experts agree war in Iraq will have profound economic consequences.
But, as Faisal Islam explains, it all depends on how far the
conflagration spreads, and global recovery may be hampered by a US
trade war.
'Boycott' that the US may regret
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,919854,00.html
America would have more to lose than the French if consumers vote with
their wallets. Edward Helmore reports
Moral maze over who pays to rebuild Iraq
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,919855,00.html
The UN is wrestling with the question of whether one of the world's
biggest oil producers should foot the bill for its reconstruction.
Oliver Morgan reports.
Capitalism needs soul power
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,919867,00.html
A provocative new book says we must remember that companies are made
by human beings - and can be just as individual, says Simon Caulkin.
E Blair on T Blair's call to arms
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,920061,00.html
Bernard Crick: George Orwell's biographer considers what our greatest
political writer would make of today.
George Orwell
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"Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.
Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn
paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh
blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that
were plastered everywhere."
The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of
Airstrip One.
Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is
eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and
Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all
existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with
Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war
with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston Smith knows this,
because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant
"correction" of such records. "'Who controls the past,' ran the Party
slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the
past.'"
In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always
Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind,
Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory
still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a
fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them
lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of
bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his
fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from
reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love
affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary
organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of
the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a
deadly match against the powers that be.
Newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime--in 1984, George Orwell created a
whole vocabulary of words concerning totalitarian control that have
since passed into our common vocabulary. More importantly, he has
portrayed a chillingly credible dystopia. In our deeply anxious world,
the seeds of unthinking conformity are everywhere in evidence; and Big
Brother is always looking for his chance. --Daniel Hintzsche
How to save Brand America
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,919987,00.html
Henry Porter: As Iraqis quake in justified terror, Americans fret
about the threat to their 'values' and wonder why they are so widely
disliked. Here one friend of America lists the reasons... and the
remedy.
Why I weep for my country
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,919976,00.html
Robert Byrd, 85, the oldest and longest-serving man in the US
Congress, last week denounced his nation's march to war. Byrd, a
Democrat from West Virginia, was first elected to the Senate in 1958
after six years in the House of Representatives. This is an edited
version of his speech.
How war has brought hope to British Muslims
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,920288,00.html
Fareena Alam on an unexpected boost for community integration.
Making of a martyr
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,919973,00.html
Sandra Jordan reports from Rafah on the death of American activist
Rachel Corrie, crushed by an Israeli bulldozer as she battled to
prevent destruction at a refugee camp.
Voices of tomorrow don't wait to protest
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,919983,00.html
Amid all the division and confusion, what do parents and teachers tell
a generation brought up on computer battle games?
We are entitled to a say in the post-war settlement
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=390145
The post-war price that Tony Blair is able to extract from the US will
be the real test of the special relationship between our two
countries; Britain is paying the blood price, it is legitimate to ask
what is forthcoming in return
Teen spirit
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=390144
We should rejoice that the younger generation has confounded the
prophets of apathy by caring so deeply about world events
I am burning with fury because my country has been betrayed
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/yasmin_alibhai_brown/story.jsp?story=390143
If they elected a monkey as President of the United States, Tony Blair
would ingratiate himself and do its bidding
British diplomacy has finally met its Waterloo
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/bruce_anderson/story.jsp?story=390142
It is a source of surprise to Mr Bush that he finds it easy to
collaborate with a non-conservative
Curiously, the French now respect Blair
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/andreas_whittam_smith/story.jsp?story=390140
For relief from the monumental argument between the British and French
governments over Iraq, there is, strangely enough, an exhibition in
London at Tate Britain, on Millbank, which serves the purpose. It
reflects an unusual period when British artists exhibited at the Paris
Salon and French artists came to work in London, and when French
rulers remembered with affection their periods of exile in England.
Robert Fisk in Baghdad: 'Iraq will become a quagmire for the
Americans'
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=390147
Iraq stunned the Americans and British last night by broadcasting
video tape of captured and dead American troops - the nightmare of
both George Bush and Tony Blair.
Robert Fisk in Baghdad: 'Iraq will become a quagmire for the
Americans'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=390147
24 March 2003
Iraq stunned the Americans and British last night by broadcasting
video tape of captured and dead American troops - the nightmare of
both George Bush and Tony Blair.
Turkey's Wrong Turn
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/opinion/24SAFI.html
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
The Islamic-influenced government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has
transformed Turkey, the formerly staunch U.S. ally, into Saddam's best
friend.
War Is Personal
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/opinion/24HERB.html
By BOB HERBERT
The sudden loss of life, as seen in reminders direct from the
battlefield, is not given nearly enough thought when we consider going
to war.
Battling the Fog of Finance
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By JAMES GRANT
The truth about the decline in stock prices and the poor economy is
that they have their roots in prosperity, not in war.
Citibank and Microcredit
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/opinion/L24MICR.html
Re your March 19 news article about the growth of microfinance in
Mexico:
Since you contrasted the small local groups making these loans with
Citibank, it may surprise you to know that we are among the top
financial supporters of Finca and Grameen Bank, two of the major
microfinance networks mentioned.
With Little Loans, Mexican Women Overcome
http://tinyurl.com/81i9
By TIM WEINER
Guadalupe Castillo Ureña was widowed at 31, left alone with five
children when her husband died trying to get to the United States from
their hut here in the foothills of Mexico's southern Sierras.
Technology Companies Take Hope in Charity
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/business/23PHIL.html
By SUSAN E. REED
HEWLETT-PACKARD has been working with the United Nations on ways to
standardize and computerize the small-loan industry in the developing
world. The goal, the company says, is to expand a limited range of
loans financed by a hodgepodge of nonprofit groups.
Microfinance
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Microcredit
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A New War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/opinion/24MON1.html
In the first days of the war we saw a great deal of good. Now we are
beginning to see the bad. In a sense, the real war has just begun.
The Pinking of the Armed Forces
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/opinion/24MON2.html
The present war, which will engage the greatest-yet number of American
women, could help debunk the arguments against fully employing them.
Richard Perle's Conflict
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/opinion/24MON3.html
As a government employee subject to federal ethics rules, Richard
Perle cannot work for Global Crossing and the Defense Department.
Watching Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/opinion/24MON4.html
What most of us know of Iraq we know from just the kind of television
we are watching now.
Attempt to Rally the Troops
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By PATRICK E. TYLER
The speech, which cited recent events and praised individual army
commanders, seemed timed to take advantage of the worst day yet for
the coalition forces.
As Allies Race North, Iraq Warns of a Fierce Fight
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By JOHN F. BURNS
Iraq's defense minister said that forces driving toward Baghdad would
eventually have to "pay a heavy price in blood."
In Crucial Step, U.S. Starts Push Near Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/81j6
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
U.S. forces began the battle for the "Red Zone," the area around
Baghdad that is defended by the Iraqi Republican Guard.
Bush Moves to Prepare Public for a Harder War
http://tinyurl.com/81j9
By R. W. APPLE Jr.
President Bush pressed an effort on Sunday to temper public
anticipation of an early, relatively painless victory.
U.S. Ties to Turkey May Face Enduring Strain, Officials Say
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/worldspecial/24TURK.html
By FRANK BRUNI
Turkish and American officials said that a series of misunderstandings
between the two countries had created profound tensions that are
likely to endure.
After Days of Buoyant Images, Reporting Enters a Second and More
Ominous Act
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/worldspecial/24WATC.html
By JIM RUTENBERG
Sunday's coverage showed what happens when the enemy fights back.
Eyes on Capital, U.S. Troops Flow Past the South
http://tinyurl.com/81jc
By DEXTER FILKINS
Nearly everything American is heading to Baghdad, flowing north in an
unending stream of people and steel that stretches from horizon to
horizon.
Allied Troops Are Flown in to Airfields in North Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/worldspecial/24NORT.html
By C. J. CHIVERS
American military transport planes landed in northern Iraq, ferrying
military equipment and allied troops into the Kurdish-controlled zone.
Marines Meet Potent Enemy in Deadly Fight
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/worldspecial/24BATT.html
By MICHAEL WILSON
What seemed an easy ride into Nasiriya turned into a messy fight that
left as many as 10 marines killed and dozens wounded.
Argentine Is Expected to Be Prosecutor for War Crime Court
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/americas/24COUR.html
Luis Moreno Ocampo, an Argentine lawyer who was involved in the trials
of Argentina's former military dictators, is expected to become the
first chief prosecutor of the new permanent war crimes court in The
Hague, diplomats from several nations say.
ChevronTexaco Shuts Facilities in Nigeria Delta
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/africa/24NIGE.html
ChevronTexaco evacuated staff members and shut down most of its
installations in Nigeria today after weeks of fighting between ethnic
militants and government forces that has killed scores of people.
The New Chinatown? Try the Asian Mall
http://tinyurl.com/81jh
By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN
The growth of Asian malls and supermarkets mirrors the growing
prosperity of Asian-Americans who have left urban enclaves for
mainstream suburbs.
For Parishioners, Right or Wrong Takes a Back Seat to Prayer
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/worldspecial/24CATH.html
By MONICA DAVEY
Roman Catholic leaders vigorously opposed the prospect of war with
Iraq for months, but now the faithful have turned to a more basic,
immediate need: comfort.
New Online Guides Rate Professors
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/education/24PROF.html
By TAMAR LEWIN
Pick-a-Prof, a three-year-old Web business, is taking consumerism in
higher education to a new level, allowing students to read reviews of
professors.
Administration Is Heeding Lessons of First Gulf War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/national/24LETT.html
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
If the Persian Gulf war sometimes seems like a rerun of the first, it
is not a coincidence. The White House is literally studying the
playbook from the 1991 conflict to choreograph the opening days of the
current war, senior officials acknowledged last week. So far, they are
heeding these crucial lessons from the past:
First, depersonalize the conflict so that it does not seem like
another President Bush-Saddam Hussein bout, and portray the president
as a confident commander in chief who is not micromanaging the war.
Army Offers a Few Details and a Theory of Motivation
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/worldspecial/24SERG.html
By PETER T. KILBORN with DIANA JEAN SCHEMO
The soldier suspected of killing a fellow soldier and wounding 15
others was identified as Sgt. Asan Akbar, a member of an engineer
battalion.
Thousands Gather to Back U.S. Troops and Policy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/worldspecial/24RALL.html
By DOUGLAS JEHL
Rallies around the country supporting the military on the first
weekend of the war were meant as an angry protest against the antiwar
sentiment.
Kidnapping Case Puts Mormons on Defensive
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/national/24UTAH.html
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
That David Brian Mitchell might have justified the abduction of
Elizabeth Smart as a polygamist mission strikes many people in Salt
Lake City as cruel and irrelevant.
Rumsfeld Says Important Targets Have Been Avoided
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/worldspecial/24PENT.html
By ERIC SCHMITT
American commanders have avoided bombing high-priority Iraqi targets
for fear of civilian casualties, military officials said Sunday.
Iraq Violates Rules of War, U.S. Complains
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/worldspecial/24GENE.html
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO
Reports of Iraq's tactics on the battlefield and its treatment of
captured Americans were seen by officials as evidence of violations of
international conventions.
Iraq Broadcasts Images of Prisoners - U.S. Assails Ruses
http://tinyurl.com/81kl
By PATRICK E. TYLER
An Army convoy was ambushed, resulting in the death or capture of
about a dozen soldiers, some of whose images were aired by Arab
television.
Bush, Pleased by Progress, Tries to Lower Expectations
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/worldspecial/24BUSH.html
President Bush said today that he was pleased with the progress made
by American and allied forces in the early stages of the war against
Iraq, but warned against any expectation that the conflict would end
quickly.
Skeptical Economic View Takes in More Than Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/81kv
By DAVID LEONHARDT
Increasingly, executives and economists worry that the slow economy of
the last three years might in fact be the new reality.
War Is Test of High-Speed Web
http://tinyurl.com/81l0
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
A sudden surge in wartime demand for online news has become a pivotal
test of the potential of high-speed Internet connections.
Improved Tools Turn Journalists Into a Quick Strike Force
http://tinyurl.com/81l2
By AMY HARMON
Reporters covering the war in Iraq are at one with their technology as
never before.
Fall in Oil Price Seen as Motivator for Stock Rally
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/business/24STOX.html
By ALEX BERENSON
The biggest reason for investor optimism comes from the fall in oil
prices, which have plunged more than 25 percent in the last 10 days.
New Patents Are Stressing Security
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/technology/24PATE.html
By SABRA CHARTRAND
New patents focus on security devices that might have been considered
extreme just a few years ago.
Venture Capitalists Finding Biotech Relatively Attractive
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/technology/24VENT.html
Biotechnology and medical device companies have become relatively more
attractive to venture capitalists in the aftermath of the dot-com
collapse, according to a survey being released today.
Germany Restricts Game It Says Glorifies War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/technology/24GAME.html
By JOHN MARKOFF and MARK LANDLER
Electronic Arts, the nation's largest maker of video games, says it is
caught in the cross-fire between the German and United States
governments over the Iraq war.
Turn Around, and You're in College
http://tinyurl.com/81ld
By KAREN W. ARENSON
Want a formula for making high schools work? Put them on college
campuses.
Standing Up (and Walking) for Rights
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/nyregion/24MATT.html
By JOYCE PURNICK
Well done, New York. The city proved that it can handle protest, even
in an era of war and security alerts.
Happy Springtime! Now . . . Here's Dye in Your Eye
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/nyregion/24JOUR.html
By COREY KILGANNON
While weekend marchers in Manhattan chanted about the war in Iraq,
tens of thousands of people gathered in southern Queens for a very
different type of procession.
Armed With Persistence, the Army Goes to New York High Schools
http://tinyurl.com/81lg
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Even with war erupting in Iraq last week, recruiters in the Bronx and
elsewhere said they expected to get the same number of enlistments as
they would normally.
Midwest Tribes See Big Payoffs in the East
http://tinyurl.com/81ll
By IVER PETERSON
Two centuries ago, thousands of Indians were pushed out of New York
State. Today, their descendants are moving back, drawn by a near
monopoly on casino gambling.
'Support Our Troops' Is This Rally's Call
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/international/worldspecial/24SQUA.html
Bearing American flags and placards saying "Support Our Troops," more
than 1,000 people gathered in Times Square yesterday for a rally
supporting the war in Iraq.
Bishop Moore Takes to Pulpit to Condemn War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/nyregion/24MOOR.html
On a weekend of strident antiwar protest, it seemed a poignant
reminder of past struggles as retired Bishop Paul Moore Jr. returned
to the pulpit last night at the Cathedral Church of St. John the
Divine.
Statuettes and War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/arts/television/24WATC.html
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
The dissonance of Oscar Night Shlock and Awe on one channel as images
of allied soldiers fighting and dying filled another was too powerful.
Teaching Western Books in Iran, and in U.S., Too
http://tinyurl.com/81m8
By JULIE SALAMON
Azar Nafisi, teacher and writer, has become a professional partisan by
teaching Western literature to both Iranians and Americans.
Faces, Not Passions, Obscured
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/24/arts/dance/24TECH.html
By ANNA KISSELGOFF
In "French Overtures," Eliot Feld reaches beyond his usual formula to
say something about period style and emotions.
U.S. Casualties Expose Risks, Raise Doubts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16458-2003Mar23.html
The casualties raised questions about how effective the U.S. approach
has been in persuading Iraqi troops and civilians that Hussein's
removal is inevitable.
U.S. Steps Up Secret Surveillance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16287-2003Mar23.html
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. has allowed authorities to tap
telephones and obtain information in counterterrorism probes with no
immediate court oversight.
Bush Demands POWs Be Treated Humanely
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16378-2003Mar23.html
President Bush demanded that U.S. military captives in Iraq be treated
humanely and said that those responsible for any mistreatment would be
treated as war criminals.
Clashes Bring Heaviest Day of U.S. Casualties
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17578-2003Mar24.html
Iraqi forces ambushed U.S. troops Sunday at a key Euphrates River
crossing on the march toward Baghdad, killing an estimated 16
Americans and capturing at least five in two clashes.
Iraqi Government Emerges
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16200-2003Mar23.html
Saddam Hussein's government emerged emboldened and claimed that its
plans to create a quagmire for U.S. forces were succeeding.
Aid Efforts For Iraqis Stalled at Border
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16461-2003Mar23.html
Almost no humanitarian aid has reached Iraq since the start of the
war; unanticipated battles and problems made it unclear when aid will
arrive, aid officials said.
America's Arabic Voice
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16817-2003Mar23.html
Two wars are now underway in the Middle East. One is being fought with
tanks and missiles. The other, a struggle for the hearts and minds of
250 million Arabs, is being waged predominantly through the airwaves.
War Games on Korean Peninsula Upset North
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16158-2003Mar23.html
U.S. and South Korean armies staged a large mock battle near North
Korea as part of a month-long training exercise that has brought
threats and protests from the communist government.
Nationalist Keeps Eye on Japan's Top Job
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16756-2003Mar23.html
TOKYO -- The man who would rearm Japan, who would bomb North Korea,
who urged the United States to get on with Iraq "like we did with
Pearl Harbor," waits in the wings, offering advice and waiting for the
chance to become prime minister.
Britain Mourns More Servicemen Killed by Friendly Fire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16789-2003Mar23.html
LONDON, March 23 -- Britain today responded with grief and questions
to the downing of a Royal Air Force jet fighter with a two-member crew
and the death of a veteran television newsman, both apparently caused
by American fire.
Basra Defenders Burrow Into Residential Areas
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14208-2003Mar23.html
British troops and U.S. Marines continued to besiege the strategic
port city of Basra, where defiant Iraqi soldiers continued to hold out
with Soviet-made tanks.
Plane Drops Explosive Device in Turkey
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16196-2003Mar23.html
A plane flying along a path reserved for the U.S. military dropped an
object that exploded just outside a rural village in southeastern
Turkey, officials said.
Iraqi Militia No Match for Armored Column
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16460-2003Mar23.html
WITH U.S. FORCES NEAR NAJAF, Iraq, March 23 -- U.S. Army troops led by
tanks and armored vehicles overwhelmed Iraqi irregulars firing machine
guns from pickup trucks today and, continuing a relentless U.S.
advance, pushed on to seize an airfield near the sacred city of Najaf
only 100 miles from Baghdad.
Silent Majority Speaks Up
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16816-2003Mar23.html
Recent surveys suggest that a great majority -- some 70 percent -- of
Americans support the war in Iraq, even in the face of global
abandonment and a very vocal antiwar movement.
Conservatives' Uncivil War Over Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16764-2003Mar23.html
A Policy Debate Turns Bitter and Vindictive
Conservatives
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Liberals
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Grievous Losses
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16723-2003Mar23.html
Page A12
IN NOVEMBER 1942, U.S. and British forces began a desert war -- the
North Africa campaign of World War II -- with a three-day amphibious
landing operation against French forces, then aligned with Nazi
Germany. Operation TORCH ended in victory, and was reported as such
back home. But the three days were marked by confusion, error and
avoidable loss, as a recently published history, "An Army at Dawn,"
makes clear. The narrative (by Rick Atkinson, a Post reporter now
"embedded" with the 101st Airborne Division in the battle zone)
describes boats capsizing in calm seas, messages to headquarters going
unread because signalmen forgot to code them urgent, shells failing to
explode because of 35-year-old fuzes. A coxswain mistakes a French
ship for a U.S. Navy destroyer and approaches; the French sailors
machine-gun his crew, killing or wounding 28 Americans. "TORCH
revealed profound shortcomings in leadership, tactics, equipment,
martial elan, and common sense," the narrative concludes. Eleven
hundred American and British fighters died during the three days.
United by Free Trade
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16724-2003Mar23.html
Page A12
FAITH IN GLOBAL integration as inevitable and beneficial is
eroding. The sentiment was never unanimous of course, but the fight
over Iraq has estranged the United States from many of its traditional
European partners. Fear of terrorism has led to increased doubts about
opening borders to free movement of people and goods. Bedrock
institutions of multilateralism -- the United Nations, NATO, the
European Union -- are in various states of disrepair.
Stirrings of Arab Reform
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16717-2003Mar23.html
By Jackson Diehl, Page A13
The Bush administration's embrace of a democratization strategy for
the postwar Middle East has triggered a torrent of scorn from the
region's traditional political and intellectual elites, not to mention
regional experts at the State Department and CIA. Less noticed is the
fact that it has also produced a flurry of political reforms,
quasi-reforms and grass-roots initiatives in countries across the
region.
In Support, But Still Skeptical
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16719-2003Mar23.html
By William Raspberry, Page A13
The disclaimers practically write themselves. Of course I support
(and pray for) the Americans fighting in Iraq -- and their commander
in chief. I fervently hope for a quick end to the conflict, with a
minimum of death and suffering on all sides. I do not doubt that the
world will be better off without Saddam Hussein. I'm not interested in
making more difficult the brutal task on which America and its allies
are embarked.
Power to the New Prime Minister
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16720-2003Mar23.html
By Dennis Ross, Page A13
For the first time in its history, the Palestinian Authority has a
prime minister. Mahmoud Abbas, better known as Abu Mazin, is assuming
this post in what may be a historic development. Not only may power
reside in the hands of someone other than Yasser Arafat, the prime
minister may also represent a movement among Palestinians to transform
both their internal reality and their relationship with Israel.
Bracing For a Backlash
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16718-2003Mar23.html
By Mona Eltahawy, Page A13
Two days before the war against Iraq began, I printed out the
"Muslim Community Safety Kit" that arrived in my e-mail.
Operation Iraqi Freedom (Cont'd)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12021-2003Mar22.html
Page A12
Reading the March 22 Free for All, op-ed and editorial pages, and
then getting a call from our U.S. Marine son in Iraq, proves how
deserving America is of our love and sacrifice.
What to Do With America's Street
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12022-2003Mar22.html
Page A12
I have high regard for Robert L. Hershey and his excellent analysis
of how a bomb blast emanating from Pennsylvania Avenue would affect
the White House [Close to Home, March 9]. But a bomb blast's perceived
effect on the White House is no justification for reopening
Pennsylvania Avenue as it existed for many generations.
High-Flying Flag
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12023-2003Mar22.html
Page A12
While Gary Jacobsen's concern for displaying the American flag
properly is admirable [letters, March 18], he is incorrect in his
criticism of how it is displayed on the sleeves of U.S. military
uniforms.
No 'Dissent at The Pentagon'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12020-2003Mar22.html
Page A12
Our phone logs and e-mail show no record of Robert D. Novak
contacting the Pentagon to seek comment for his March 13 op-ed column,
"Dissent at the Pentagon."
U.S. Soldier Detained In Attack Is Identified
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16379-2003Mar23.html
The soldier who is being held in connection with the grenade attack at
Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait was identified as Sgt. Asan Akbar. He is
with an engineering company of the 101st Airborne.
Public Support Stays Strong
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18075-2003Mar24.html
Survey: 54 percent believe that allies will sustain "significant"
casualties.
Hussein Tries to Rally Troops
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17517-2003Mar24.html
TV shows what appears to be Iraqi president saying "victory will be
ours."
U.S. Warns Iraq on POWs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16520-2003Mar23.html
Televised images of five captured soldiers draw a firm official
rebuke.
Sleepless Nights in Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16197-2003Mar23.html
One family that weathered the first attacks is preparing for next
wave.
High Court to Hear Texas Gay Rights Case: Review of Sodomy Conviction
Seen as Important by Both Sides of Issue (Post, March 24, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15880-2003Mar23.html
Evidence on Hussein Detailed: Word That Leader Was Injured Came From
Intercepted Calls (Post, March 24, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16377-2003Mar23.html
In Fight for World Opinion, Results Are Mixed for U.S.: Media Access
Leads to Jarring Images (Post, March 24, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16297-2003Mar23.html
Sen. Kerry Not Banking on His Wife's Fortune: Candidate to Do Own
Fundraising in Effort to Win Democratic Presidential Nomination (By
Thomas B. Edsall and Dan Balz, Page A05)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16153-2003Mar23.html
Is Earth's Core a Nuclear Fission Reactor? (By Guy Gugliotta, Page
A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13080-2003Mar23.html
Helicopter Crash Kills Six From U.S. (Page A14)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16752-2003Mar23.html
Propaganda Seen as Key For Military, World Opinion: Leaflet Drops Are
Only Part Of U.S. Psychological Efforts (By Shankar Vedantam, Page
A18)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16295-2003Mar23.html
The War Against Battlefield Wounds: Medical Innovations Emphasize
Early Treatment, Critical Care During Transport (By David Brown, Page
A18)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16294-2003Mar23.html
Patriot Downs RAF Fighter: Two Crew Members Killed In Friendly-Fire
Attack (By Vernon Loeb, Page A20)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16159-2003Mar23.html
Experts Say War Backing Can Endure Rising Toll (By Rob Stein, Page
A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16382-2003Mar23.html
Supporters Of Iraq War Stage Rallies (Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16767-2003Mar23.html
Geneva Conventions (Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16788-2003Mar23.html
Media's Battlefield Reporting Outpaces Pentagon Officials: CBS Airing
of Al-Jazeera Tape a Surprise for Rumsfeld (By Howard Kurtz, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16801-2003Mar23.html
War's Gruff 'Composer' Strikes Confident Chord (By Vernon Loeb and
Thomas E. Ricks, Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16298-2003Mar23.html
Forever in Our Hearts, and Tax Code: House Democrats Pass Bill With
Addition of Astronaut Benefits (By Juliet Eilperin, Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16737-2003Mar23.html
None of the Above, and Miffed About It (By Al Kamen, Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16753-2003Mar23.html
Helen Keller Quarter Coins a Breakthrough: Blind Activist's Name
Appears in Braille (By Brian Faler, Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16694-2003Mar23.html
Vote Offers Chechens Chance to Pick Sides: Russia, Rebels Compete for
Loyalties (Post, March 24, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16281-2003Mar23.html
U.S. Troops Arrive in Kurd Area to Open Front (Post, March 24, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15575-2003Mar23.html
In War, Plans Yield To Improvisation (Post, March 24, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14988-2003Mar23.html
Ex-Kashmiri Separatist Commander Assassinated: Islamic Leader Pursued
Dialogue to End Conflict (Post, March 24, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16157-2003Mar23.html
Clashes at Key River Crossing Bring Heaviest Day of American
Casualties: 16 May Be Dead, Five Others Are Taken Prisoner (By Susan
B. Glasser and Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16610-2003Mar23.html
Tribal Warfare Imperils Nigeria's Oil Facilities (Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16758-2003Mar23.html
Grief Gives Way to Resolve At 101st Airborne Command (By Rick
Atkinson, Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16798-2003Mar23.html
Logistics Key to Success of Marines' Move North: Keeping Supplies
Flowing Is Key To Marines' Success (By Jonathan Finer, Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16173-2003Mar23.html
In Egypt, Anger at U.S. Displaces Admiration: Youth Love the Culture,
but Hate the Policies (By Emily Wax, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16787-2003Mar23.html
For Arabs, TV Images Unleash Emotions: U.S. Losses Spur Mix Of
Gladness, Sadness (By Emily Wax, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16174-2003Mar23.html
Wayward U.S., Iraqi Rockets Reported in Iran (Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16783-2003Mar23.html
The Age of the Enlightenment
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Thomas Paine
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"There will be no lasting peace for France, nor for the world until
the tyranny and corruption of the English government be abolished, and
England, like Italy, become a sister republic."
--Thomas Paine
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One rule for them
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,921192,00.html
George Monbiot: Five PoWs are mistreated in Iraq and the US cries
foul. What about Guantanamo Bay?
We have been set adrift in the middle of the Atlantic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,921190,00.html
Hugo Young: Blair's priority should be obvious: he must re-establish
our European mooring.
You should have known we'd fight
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,921189,00.html
Burhan al-Chalabi: The invading forces will never win over Iraqi
hearts and minds.
Death to French fries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,921193,00.html
Matthew Engel: This is a war, according to General Tommy Franks,
"unlike any other in history". He can say that again.
The party's over
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,921188,00.html
Zoe Williams: Labour takes not a blind bit of notice of its members -
until they stop paying their contributions.
Shock tactics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,921228,00.html
One man has been watching the fearsome bombardment of Baghdad more
closely than most - Harlan Ullman, the former US navy pilot who
convinced Washington to embrace his 'shock and awe' tactic. He tells
Oliver Burkeman why the strategy is working.
'The aim is to apply brutal levels of power and force'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,921229,00.html
Extract from the book in which Ullman first spelled out his idea of
'shock and awe'.
Is Abdelaziz OK?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,921236,00.html
When Jonathan Glancey visited Nassiriya in southern Iraq last year, a
friendly soldier showed him round the nearby ruins. Now the scene of
some of the conflict's fiercest fighting, he wonders how his young
friend is doing.
The real reasons so many are marching
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,921241,00.html
David Aaronovitch: A series of events and moods have, I think,
combined to help create this movement which, however much I disagree
with it, must be seen as unique.
Behind the lines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,921235,00.html
Footnotes to a war.
'The task now looks formidable'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Coalition suffers mounting casualties as Iraq parades prisoners.
Mixed messages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
The politicians need a 'rapid and decisive' campaign with minimal
civilian casualties. This is putting the military under great pressure
380,000 eyes fulfil a sculptor's vision
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,921159,00.html
Antony Gormley collaborates with Chinese villagers on huge project
Remember Guantanamo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,921177,00.html
With fury and indignation, politicians in both the UK and the US have
expressed severe dismay at the public footage of American prisoners of
war (American prisoners paraded by Iraqis, March 24).
Support our troops
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,921169,00.html
I was utterly dismayed to read the comments about the troops having to
take part in this war expressed by your correspondents (Letters, March
22).
Men in mufti
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,921165,00.html
Geoff Hoon (Blair tries to end European rift, March 22) says: "We will
avoid striking any target that has a long-term benefit to the people
of Iraq."
Civics lesson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,921160,00.html
I agree with Richard Dawkins's article (Bin Laden's victory, March
19), except for the rather complacent assertion of the superiority of
academia over the political arena.
Peace demonstrators must move on
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,921163,00.html
I was proud to attend both recent demonstrations (Letters, March 24).
We showed that there is huge public anger at the pre-emptive and
precipative nature of this attack on Iraq.
Rights case
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,921162,00.html
Today in Israel, Jonathan "Yoni" Ben-Artzi, nephew of Benjamin
Netanyahu, faces court-martial for refusing to serve in the Israeli
army (I realised the stupidity of it, G2, March 11).
Reporting is not a game
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,921161,00.html
The broadcast media reporting of this war really has exposed a
complete lack of professionalism (Media, March 24). Reporters
supposedly in the field are in reality trotting around doing exactly
as they are told by US and British troops.
No longer total war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,921182,00.html
But civilians are still in great danger.
Toughing it out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,921181,00.html
Blair may be riding out the storm.
Iraq setbacks rock markets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,921213,00.html
· Confidence in quick victory fades
· Concern grows that US cannot afford its war bill.
Support for war surges
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,921394,00.html
Outbreak of war triggers surge in support for military action,
according to latest Guardian/ICM tracker poll.
Baghdad chemical weapons fears
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,921451,00.html
· 2nd UK soldier dies in combat
· Clashes with Republican Guard
· More US pilots on Iraqi TV
Blair warns of setbacks ahead
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,921156,00.html
Forces approaching crucial moment, PM tells Commons.
Blair to fly to Washington for talks with Bush
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,921434,00.html
Tony Blair is to fly to Washington this week for urgent talks with
President George Bush about the conduct of the war and the
re-structuring of Iraq after what the prime minister insists is the
"certain" fall of Saddam Hussein.
I have no difficulties, says Short
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,921294,00.html
Clare Short appeared at the dispatch box yesterday to face her
critics.
£30m for UK forces' aid effort
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,921104,00.html
The government will spend £30m on the armed forces' humanitarian aid
effort in Iraq, Clare Short told MPs today.
The first casualty
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,921283,00.html
A look at how the war is being spun and reported.
Danger: unexploded civilians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0,7371,337484,00.html
Cartoon: Steve Bell on the humanitarian thrust towards Baghdad
It's their war too
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,921492,00.html
Education: Should schools encourage pupils to form and express their
own political views - or try to keep their minds on the curriculum?
Brown rejects US bid for Iraqi cash
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/economics/story/0,11268,921153,00.html
Reconstruction: Gordon Brown is unwilling to comply with a US demand
that he should turn over £200m Iraqi assets frozen in Britain to an
American-controlled account.
Time to send in the plumbers
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,9321,921173,00.html
Simon Hoggart's sketch: Tony Blair gave the Commons a briefing on the
war. It must have been hard.
Battle for Baghdad begins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921355,00.html
· Republican Guard bunkers bombed · Fears over too few coalition
troops · Blair and Bush to meet in Washington
Marines losing the battle for hearts and minds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921356,00.html
Hopes of a joyful liberation of a grateful Iraq by US and British
armies are evaporating fast in the Euphrates valley.
Crisis in Basra as troops fail to create corridor for aid
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921349,00.html
Nearly 100,000 children could be at risk, warns UN agency.
Exiles head home to fight 'invaders'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921351,00.html
Thousands of Iraqi exiles have been returning home over the past week
from Jordan, with many insisting they want to defend their country
against US and British "invaders."
The enemy is trapped: Saddam's message to Iraqis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921342,00.html
By the time the camera switched on to the olive green fatigues and
black beret favoured by Saddam Hussein in moments of crisis, the Iraqi
leader had achieved a milestone.
Peace prevails at the Oscar night love-in
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921220,00.html
Anti-Bush tirade from Michael Moore eclipses surprise of Polanski
award.
Manhunt after Hindus massacred in Kashmir
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921315,00.html
A huge manhunt has been ordered after 24 Hindus were massacred by
suspected militants in a remote village in Kashmir.
Man behind shock and awe says they've got it all wrong
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921348,00.html
The military tactic of "shock and awe" has been misrepresented, and
the Pentagon is partly to blame, according to the man behind the
phrase - who says he would rather have pushed for a second UN
resolution in any case.
US and Russia in weapons clash
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921453,00.html
The divide between Moscow and Washington on the war in Iraq grew even
wider yesterday when George Bush telephoned Vladimir Putin over US
claims that Russian firms were illegally selling military equipment to
Baghdad. But officials in Moscow fiercely rebutted the accusations.
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921341,00.html
An occasional series decoding the military jargon
The crucial moment: US must defeat elite Iraqi troops
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921336,00.html
Second line of defence will mean fights in populated areas
Hi-tech arsenal decisive - if targets can be found
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921337,00.html
Satellite and laser-guided bombs will take out tanks
The Republican Guard: outgunned and outnumbered, but they never
surrender
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921334,00.html
As US and British troops meet with fierce resistance, an expert on the
Iraqi army profiles Saddam Hussein's elite security forces and warns
they have the potential to be formidable opponents
Grief and pain in broken heart of Texas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921245,00.html
Garrison town prays for dead and captured soldiers
Footage of captives puts news channels under pressure from Pentagon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921246,00.html
As Arab television stations replayed pictures of bewildered and
disoriented US prisoners of war on an endless loop, western
broadcasters acceded to Pentagon requests to hold back until relatives
of the soldiers had been informed.
US accuses Saddam of chemical attack ploy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921452,00.html
The US state department claimed yesterday it had received credible
reports that Saddam Hussein's regime was planning to use chemical
weapons against Shia Muslims in the south of the country, and then
blame it on the United States.
Battle for port still in balance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921270,00.html
British Royal Marines were yesterday engaged in sporadic gun battles
with Iraqi troops spearheading resistance in Umm Qasr.
Marines pound city to seize key bridges
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921273,00.html
Stiff resistance stalls troops
Bombing raids signal start of mountain offensive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921272,00.html
Strikes follow arrival of special forces in Kurdish-controlled zone
Desert Rats retreat under fierce onslaught
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921271,00.html
Marines and paratroopers could be called in as British officers admit
underestimating resistance
At a glance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921237,00.html
Military action
Egypt accused over crackdown on protests
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921239,00.html
Egypt was accused yesterday of launching a crackdown on dissent and
threatening fundamental freedoms after mass anti-war protests in
Cairo.
US missile kills five Syrians on bus as they flee Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921423,00.html
Second attack within days
Report of arms factory played down
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921234,00.html
Hopes of a much-needed propaganda coup for the US seemed to be
crumbling yesterday, after reports of the discovery of an Iraqi
chemical weapons plant appeared false.
CNN defies Pentagon pictures plea
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921447,00.html
The American television network CNN yesterday defied Pentagon requests
not to show video footage of dead and captured American servicemen and
women. The move came as Arab television stations replayed the footage
on an endless loop.
Crew missing after Apache forced down
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921277,00.html
Pentagon names helicopter pair as more captured Americans are paraded
before the cameras
Pentagon demands $63bn handout
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921459,00.html
Funding Iraqi resistance may send war bill even higher
Black wins out in respectful fashion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921221,00.html
One of the effects of the war is that it made the Oscars a much duller
affair for fashion gawking.
Chirac fires up crusade to stub out smoking
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921313,00.html
Fifteen years after kicking a two-packets-a-day habit to improve his
presidential hopes, Jacques Chirac yesterday launched a "war on
tobacco".
Dutch nurse gets life for murdering four patients
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921316,00.html
A Dutch nurse thought to be one of the most prolific serial killers in
the Netherlands was yesterday jailed for life after a court found her
guilty of the murder of four of her patients and the attempted murder
of three others.
British soldier dies after rioting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,921424,00.html
A British soldier who was shot as he tried to calm rioting civilians
in southern Iraq died yesterday, the first British combat death since
the war began, the Ministry of Defence said.
Desert Rats retreat under fierce onslaught
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,921319,00.html
Marines and paratroopers could be called in as British officers admit
underestimating resistance.
Report points up extent of class divide in British education
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,921131,00.html
Britain still has one of the greatest class divides in education in
the industrialised world, according to a report which reveals that the
attainment gap between poor and better-off children emerges at 22
months.
Investors pressure drug firms on pricing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,921328,00.html
Multinationals urged to allow developing countries to sidestep patents
on life-saving treatments.
Radio stations ban war and gore from playlists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,921422,00.html
Radio stations have banned certain records from their playlists in an
attempt to protect their listeners from unpalatable references to war
and gore, it emerged today.
'Give us the facts - and the T-shirt'
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,920974,00.html
Two pupils give their views on the war.
Blown away
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,9959,920931,00.html
The road to Baghdad runs past Ur of the Chaldees, where more than
4,000 years ago the Sumerian army was depicted marching to war. Its
ancient ziggurat was damaged by American bombing in the last Gulf war
and troops helped themselves to bits of it as souvenirs.
Christopher Bellamy: How the resistance movement caught Allies in a
trap
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=390546
25 March 2003
As the Battle for Baghdad gets under way, the Iraqi defensive strategy
is looking increasingly sound.
John Nichol: This is the reality of being a PoW, fear of the unknown,
the pain of torture
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=390538
25 March 2003
As the search goes on for the two missing British soldiers and
American prisoners of war are paraded on Iraqi television, the reality
of war is once again flung in our faces.
Robert Fisk: Saddam starts to sound more like his hero, Uncle Joe
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=390536
25 March 2003
Let us now praise famous men.
Robert Fisk: The shocking truth about 'shock and awe'
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=390502
25 March 2003
So far, the Anglo-American armies are handing their propaganda to the
Iraqis on a plate.
Adam Roberts: Can the Geneva Convention still protect PoWs?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=390501
25 March 2003
Iraq parades captured soldiers on television while the US refused to
give enemy prisoners PoW status.
The Media Column: 'More news does not always mean better news'
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=390440
25 March 2003
Is instant coverage of war providing "the first draft of history"? The
last Gulf War was the conflict in which CNN came of age.
President Bush is right to condemn Iraq's treatment of captured
soldiers - but his outrage rings hollow
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=390504
25 March 2003
The international outcry over the display of American casualties and
prisoners on Iraqi state television is thoroughly justified.
Turkey plan to enter north puts Nato deal at risk
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=390532
25 March 2003
Germany and Belgium have threatened to pull out of Nato's operation to
defend Turkey against aggression, if Ankara sends its troops into
Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
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Channels of Influence
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/25KRUG.html
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Pro-war rallies are being promoted by key players in the radio
industry with close links to the Bush administration.
A Readers' Guide to the War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/25KRIS.html
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
With U.S. forces running into unexpectedly strong resistance, here are
a couple of guideposts to monitor progress of the war.
Just Following (Saddam Hussein's) Orders
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/25ALMA.html
By IBRAHIM AL-MARASHI
Documents taken in Iraq after the first Persian Gulf war demonstrate
Saddam Hussein's long history of abusing prisoners of war.
Using the News as a Weapon
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/25TRUS.html
By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
The Pentagon may have been dragged kicking and screaming into its
current embrace of the news media. But it is making the most of it.
Diminished Expectations in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/25TUE1.html
Some of the initial hopes - even assumptions - that Iraqi resistance
would quickly crumble seem not to be panning out.
Budgetary Shock and Awe
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/25TUE2.html
The White House and Congress are about to march under the public's
radar screen and lead the country into a decade of budgetary disaster.
National insurance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,12070,920798,00.html
March 24: David Fickling asks why a country with no strategic interest
in the Middle East is prepared to go to war.
Flags in the dust
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,920805,00.html
March 24: Coalition forces are winning the military battle but Iraq is
winning the battle of hearts and minds, writes Brian Whitaker.
On the sidelineshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,920918,00.html
March 24: Canadians fear a US backlash after declining to join the
coalition backing war in Iraq, says Anne McIlroy.
No standing on ceremony
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,921551,00.html
March 25: Michael Moore is not the first Oscar winner to court
controversy in his acceptance speech, as Duncan Campbell explains.
Move Cautiously on Amber Alerts
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/25TUE3.html
The proposed Amber Alert systems for notifying the public about
abducted children must be designed to ensure that they do more good
than harm.
Oscar in Wartime
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/25TUE4.html
The Academy Awards exemplified the trouble some entertainers are
having in treading the line between political sensitivity and
professional decorum.
Fierce Weather Impedes Coalition Even More Than Iraqi Resistance
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/worldspecial/25CND-MARI.html
By JOHN KIFNER
While the troops continue to move en masse toward Baghdad, their pace
was slowed by a huge sandstorm that brought a virtual halt to much of
the war.
British Troops Plan Move Into Iraq's Second Largest City
http://tinyurl.com/84z6
By PATRICK E. TYLER
The British Royal Marines said today that they had changed strategy
and would now take the southern capital by force if necessary.
Bush Asks for Nearly $75 Billion for War Costs
http://tinyurl.com/84zh
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and DAVID FIRESTONE
President Bush said today he would ask Congress for $74.7 billion to
pay for the war in Iraq "and our global war against terror."
TV Images Confirm Fears of Prisoners' Kin
http://tinyurl.com/84zk
By JIM YARDLEY
The number of American prisoners of war increased as Iraqi television
showed video images of two men who it said were captured pilots.
Hussein Rallies Iraqi Defenders in Speech
http://tinyurl.com/84zp
By JOHN F. BURNS
In a televised speech, Saddam Hussein said the allies will be dragged
into a "quagmire" by guerrilla warfare.
Reporting Reflects Anxiety
http://tinyurl.com/84zs
By DAVID CARR
War coverage that was speeding along on good news and victorious
imagery has bumped into hard realities.
Arab Foreign Ministers Urge U.S. Withdrawal
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/worldspecial/25ARAB.html
By SUSAN SACHS
The Arab League meeting, the first since the war began, put all the
tensions and fears of the region on display.
The Goal Is Baghdad, but at What Cost?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/worldspecial/25STRA.html
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
The cost of taking Baghdad and dislodging Saddam Hussein's government,
in terms of both allied and Iraqi casualties, is uncertain.
Marines Battling in Streets of Nasiriya
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/worldspecial/25TOWN.html
By DEXTER FILKINS and MICHAEL WILSON
Following heavy fighting on Sunday, the battle that unfolded on Monday
in Nasiriya had all the hallmarks of a confused and chaotic urban
shootout.
Loss of Apache Is Evidence of Vulnerability of Copters to Ground Fire
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/worldspecial/25WEAP.html
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS and NICHOLAS WADE
Experts say it is too early to judge whether the Apache helicopter
itself is at fault in its loss Monday near Karbala, Iraq.
Three Soldiers Who Died in Accidents While in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/worldspecial/25CASU.html
By MONICA DAVEY and LYDIA POLGREEN
Two soldiers died in separate vehicle accidents, while a third was
killed when a machine gun accidentally discharged.
Watching, and Praying, as a Son's Fate Unfolds
http://tinyurl.com/850b
By JAYSON BLAIR
Life is on hold in Cpl. Michael P. Gardner II's house, as it is for
thousands of families whose loved ones are in the military in Iraq.
Pacific Northwest Keeps Watch on Many Vulnerable Points
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/worldspecial/25HOME.html
By TIMOTHY EGAN
Terrorist targets crowd the map of Washington, a state with a long,
forested border with Canada and a half-dozen prominent military
installations.
Arkansas School Is Accused of Harassing a Gay Student
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/education/25GAY.html
By TAMAR LEWIN
Teachers and administrators who outed Thomas McLaughlin, a junior high
school student, have been disciplining him for discussing
homosexuality in school.
Lessons of the Past for Bush on War Leadership
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/worldspecial/25CHIE.html
By R. W. APPLE Jr.
The president needs to keep the country convinced of ultimate triumph
if he hopes to have it marching in solid ranks behind him.
Iraq War Keeps Generals Busy, Even the Ones Who Have Retired
http://tinyurl.com/850t
By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr.
A whole constellation of retired generals - including many who led the
recent wars in Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Persian Gulf - can be seen
across the television firmament.
Key to Baghdad: How Hard Will Republican Guard Fight?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/worldspecial/25GUAR.html
By ERIC SCHMITT
As the U.S. Army closes in on Baghdad, the central question facing
American commanders is how fiercely will Iraq's Republican Guard
fight.
Senate Votes to Slash Bush Tax Cut Plan
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Budget.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Senate unexpectedly voted today to trim more than half of
President Bush's proposed $726 billion tax cut.
Officials Fear Iraqis Plan to Use Gas
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/worldspecial/25INTE.html
By DAVID E. SANGER
U.S. officials said they believe that the Iraqi leadership may be
holding its chemical weapons in reserve until American forces approach
Baghdad.
U.S. Is Assembling a Civilian Team to Run Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/worldspecial/25POST.html
By ELIZABETH BECKER
The U.S. is preparing to establish immediate sole control of postwar
Iraq, initially without recourse to the U.N.
Democrat Seeks Inquiry on Bankrupt Firm's Adviser
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/business/25GLOB.html
By STEPHEN LABATON
Representative John Conyers asked the Defense Department to
investigate Richard N. Perle, the head of a Pentagon advisory board
who is also an adviser to Global Crossing.
World Stock Market Rally Ends
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/business/businessspecial/25STOX.html
By FLOYD NORRIS
The worldwide rally in stock prices ended, with some European
exchanges declining more than 5 percent.
War in Iraq Could Bring U.S. Recession, or Economic Growth
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/business/businessspecial/25COST.html
By DANIEL ALTMAN
Depending on the outcome of the war in Iraq, its impact on the economy
could range from a recession to a mild stimulant.
Sticking to Plans on Madison Ave.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/business/media/25ADCO.html
By STUART ELLIOTT
Madison Avenue is cautiously forging ahead with business as usual - or
as usual as possible given the war against Iraq.
U.S. Disfavor Drains Turkish Economy
http://tinyurl.com/851y
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
The Istanbul Stock Exchange has fallen by a quarter from its February
high and is approaching an all-time low.
Preparing Journalists for Battle
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/business/worldbusiness/25BRIT.html
By ALAN COWELL
British companies that equip and train members of the news media in
Iraq have experienced booming business.
Accused Adviser's Web Operator Is Arraigned
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/technology/25SHOR.html
By ANDY NEWMAN
The man who ran the Web site for a penny-stock adviser accused of
using information from the F.B.I. to manipulate stock prices was
himself arraigned on securities fraud charges.
Data Expert Is Cautious About Misuse of Information
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/technology/25DATA.html
By STEVE LOHR
Gilman Louie, who runs a venture capital firm founded by the Central
Intelligence Agency, warned of the danger of amassing a large, unified
database that would be available to government investigators.
Improved Tools Turn Journalists Into a Quick Strike Force
http://tinyurl.com/81l2
By AMY HARMON
Reporters covering the war in Iraq are at one with their technology as
never before.
Experts See Gains and Gaps in Planning for Terror Attack
http://tinyurl.com/852o
By DENISE GRADY and LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
With war under way, experts say the nation's capacity to respond to
terrorism is greater than it was in the past, but still has
significant gaps.
Wheeled Robots Are Ready to Explore Mars, Past and Present
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/science/space/25MARS.html
By STEFANO S. COLEDAN
Two identical rovers are to be launched in May and June, and are
scheduled to land next January near Mars's equator.
Did PCB's Save the Stripers? A Fish Story
http://tinyurl.com/8531
By JAMES GORMAN
Greatly restricted fishing, partly due to PCB's in the Hudson River,
has perhaps indirectly led to more stripers now than there have been
in decades.
Images of Preserved Embryos to Become a Learning Tool
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/health/25EMBR.html
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
A project is under way to put thousands of detailed images from a
collection of preserved human embryos on the Internet.
Treatment and Training Help Reduce Stress of War
http://tinyurl.com/853c
By ERICA GOODE
Many troops in this new gulf war will discover that battlefield
reality bears little resemblance to anything that they had imagined
beforehand.
In Search of a Gulf War With No Gulf War Illness
http://tinyurl.com/853l
By GINA KOLATA
Officials are coordinating their efforts - intense monitoring and
measurement of the health of the troops - to forestall another
outbreak of symptoms.
26 More People Fall Sick to Virus in Hong Kong
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/asia/25CND-HONG.html
By KEITH BRADSHER
The World Health Organization expressed concern that the disease had
been controlled elsewhere but was still spreading in Hong Kong.
Effort to Make Sex Drug for Women Challenges Experts
http://tinyurl.com/8541
By MARY DUENWALD
It may be impossible to devise any one treatment that works for most
women as well as Viagra works for men.
Procedure May Save Women in Third World From Cancer
http://tinyurl.com/854a
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Doctors are testing a simple one-visit procedure that could save many
of the thousands of women who die each year of cervical cancer.
In Medicine, Nature Plays Dirty Tricks
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/health/policy/25CASE.html
By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.
"Natural" alternatives are not always inexpensive, nor are they always
gentle, effective or safe.
Vaccines and Autism, Beyond the Fear Factors
http://tinyurl.com/854j
By JANE E. BRODY
The overwhelming body of evidence so far suggests that thimerosal
poses no significant threat to the developing brain.
Cause and Effect: Asthma's Link to Stormy Weather
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/health/25CAUS.html
By JOHN O'NEIL
Thunderstorms can set off asthma attacks, and fungus may be to blame,
a Canadian study has found.
A Guide to Talking the Talk
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/health/25TALK.html
By JOHN LANGONE
"Crucial Conversations" is an easy-to-read guide that aims to harness
the power of dialogue.
24-Hour Air Patrols Resume Over New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/worldspecial/25PATR.html
By PHILIP SHENON
The U.S. government has resumed air patrols after the city was warned
that it was in special danger from terrorists during the war with
Iraq.
Another Man in Buffalo Case Pleads Guilty to Qaeda Link
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/nyregion/25LACK.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
One of six men charged with attending a Qaeda training camp in
Afghanistan before the Sept. 11 attacks pleaded guilty to a charge
that he aided the terrorist group.
U.S. Says Lawyer Aided Terror Signals From Sheik
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/nyregion/25STEW.html
By BENJAMIN WEISER
The government has defended its prosecution of a prominent New York
lawyer charged with supporting a terrorist network of an imprisoned
sheik and his followers in Egypt.
2 Affluent Areas of Queens Adjust to a New Ethnic Mix
http://tinyurl.com/8552
By JOSEPH BERGER
In two Queens neighborhoods, the number of Asian immigrants has more
than doubled in 12 years. Yet it would be wrong to conclude that the
melting pot is without its lumps.
At Home, Volunteers at the Ready
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/nyregion/25NYC.html
By CLYDE HABERMAN
If Hollywood could make the supreme wartime sacrifice of eliminating
the red-carpet runway for the Academy Awards show, surely New York can
do its own bit.
Fresh Fish Can't Last Forever
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/nyregion/25MARK.html
By YILU ZHAO
The often-bustling Foodmart International supermarket will close, and
the reasons remain an upsetting mystery to the burgeoning Asian
population in Newport.
You Looking at Me? Yes, but It's Part of a Plan to Fight Terrorism
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/nyregion/25TUNN.html
By RANDY KENNEDY
Over the last several months, the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority developed an advertising campaign to help riders protect the
subway from a terrorist attack.
Shock, Awe and Razzmatazz in the Sequel
http://tinyurl.com/855m
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
With the new engagement in Iraq, the Pentagon and television news
coverage are blurring the lines between movies and real life as never
before.
Great Expectations
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23739-2003Mar25.html
Why did so many people think this would be a cakewalk?
Getting Ahead of the Pentagon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18419-2003Mar24.html
When Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld settled into his seat
yesterday on CBS's "Face the Nation," the Pentagon had been denying
media reports that at least 10 American soldiers were captured or
missing in Iraq.
A Test of 'Endurance and Discipline'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24011-2003Mar25.html
WITH U.S. FORCES IN CENTRAL IRAQ, March 25-It seemed like the convoy
to nowhere. With the combination of a severe sandstorm, unfamiliar
terrain, blackout conditions and driver fatigue working against them,
about 40 vehicles of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division took 10 hours to
travel 27 miles last night and early this morning.
U.S. Convinced That Hussein Is Alive
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21448-2003Mar24.html
While it's possible that the Iraqi leader's TV appearances have been
pre-recorded, U.S. officials believe they were taped after Thursday's
attack.
Air War Targets Enemy Troops
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21913-2003Mar24.html
After several opening days of precision airstrikes against government
buildings, military installations and other fixed targets in Iraq,
U.S. warplanes have expanded the air campaign to attacking Iraqi
troops and weapons in the field.
Moussaoui Hearing Closed to Public
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21277-2003Mar24.html
A federal appeals court has taken the unusual step of granting a
government request to bar the public from a key hearing May 6 in the
case against alleged Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.
Cold Virus Linked to Outbreak
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21028-2003Mar24.html
A previously unknown version of a virus that normally causes the
common cold may be behind a dangerous new respiratory infection
spreading around the world, U.S. officials announced Monday.
Guilty Plea in N.Y. Terror Probe
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21340-2003Mar24.html
A Yemeni American man accused of belonging to a terrorist sleeper cell
Monday pleaded guilty in federal court in Buffalo to supporting the al
Qaeda terrorist network by attending a training camp in Afghanistan.
Hussein Scores in Propaganda War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22157-2003Mar25.html
Saddam Hussein is extracting a propaganda victory from almost certain
military defeat, according to U.S. and Iraqi analysts.
Fighting Blocks Aid Shipments
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21579-2003Mar24.html
Fighting in southern Iraq Monday blocked the delivery of humanitarian
aid pledged by President Bush, frustrating war planners.
In Tight Quarters, Buddy System Rules
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21938-2003Mar25.html
WITH U.S. FORCES IN IRAQ, March 24 -- Three GIs find themselves aboard
an M88 armored recovery vehicle in Iraq, sharing a space six feet
wide, 12 feet long and 31/2 feet high.
Many Willing, But Few Are Able
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21268-2003Mar24.html
There must have been shock in Baghdad and awe in Paris last week when
the White House announced the news that Palau had joined the
"coalition of the willing."
Prisoner Images Are Tough Issue For Iraq and U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22132-2003Mar25.html
Iraq's televised images of American war prisoners may not constitute
violations of international agreements that govern the treatment of
captives, a range of military justice experts said yesterday. But some
human rights advocates sided with the Bush administration, saying the
Iraqis had intentionally humiliated the captives.
Militants Kill 24 Hindus in Kashmir
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21351-2003Mar24.html
NEW DELHI, March 24 -- Suspected Muslim militants gunned down 24
people in a Hindu village in India's part of the disputed Himalayan
region of Kashmir early today, police officials said, raising fears of
renewed hostility between India and Pakistan.
British Forces Confronted by Guerrilla Tactics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21500-2003Mar24.html
British forces manning the checkpoints, controlling the roads and
occupying the cities in southern Iraq say the military campaign for
them has taken on the feel of a Northern Ireland-style guerrilla war.
Bush, Putin Chide Each Other
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22136-2003Mar25.html
President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin traded jabs Monday
over the war in Iraq, with Bush protesting reports of Russian sales of
war materials to Iraq amd Putin warning of a "humanitarian
catastrophe."
Russia Hails Results Of Vote in Chechnya
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21345-2003Mar24.html
Russian officials said today that Chechens overwhelmingly approved a
new constitution that declares their separatist republic to be a part
of Russia.
$75B Request Envisions Long War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21596-2003Mar24.html
The White House Monday outlined a war spending plan that envisions a
protracted conflict and military occupation in Iraq, as the American
public showed signs that it, too, was bracing for an extended and
bloody fight.
Report Says Egypt Jails And Beats War Protestors
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22135-2003Mar25.html
CAIRO, March 24 -- Hundreds of activists opposed to the war in Iraq,
including leaders of Egypt's opposition political parties, have been
jailed, and several have been tortured by electric shock, according to
a report issued today by Human Rights Watch.
Tuning In, Even if Turned Off
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21335-2003Mar24.html
John French Allen was at a Northern Virginia Irish bar on a date
Wednesday when he learned that bombs were falling on Baghdad.
Night of the Livid Celeb
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21147-2003Mar24.html
The war in Iraq -- or maybe just something in the Evian water -- put a
lot of showbiz folks in a jittery mood last weekend and pushed a
couple of Hollywood's leading lights over the edge
Too Painful to Publish?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21300-2003Mar24.html
The question of whether images of prisoners of war should be shown
sparked impassioned debate as news executives wrestled with issues of
propriety, privacy and how graphic war coverage should be.
Journalism's Ugly Truth
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22092-2003Mar25.html
If a fact is ugly, should it be kept at a distance from readers and
viewers? And what do news organizations do with the simple fact that
there is both an eager appetite for, and a sincere disgust with,
graphic images?
Firing First Without the Cover of Rhetoric
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21384-2003Mar24.html
As American tanks race across the Iraqi desert and Apache helicopters
skid along the horizon toward suburban Baghdad, the claim that this
preemptive war is something new in our history registers as a touch
naive.
Day Five
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21795-2003Mar24.html
Page A08
THE FIRST FIVE DAYS of the military campaign in Iraq brought U.S.
forces to within about 50 miles of Baghdad, secured vital southern oil
fields as well as Iraq's only port and destroyed much of the
infrastructure of Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad, at a cost of
fewer than 25 U.S. and British servicemen killed by enemy action. Yet
by yesterday many people watching the war, a war waged more than any
previous conflict on live television, had begun to ask some worried
questions. Persistent Iraqi resistance and guerrilla attacks in
southern cities raised fears that the rapid advance had left U.S.
flanks and supply lines dangerously exposed -- a fear underlined by
the slaying or capture of up to 12 U.S. soldiers from a support unit.
#### news correspondents reported frustration among troops restrained
from using heavy weapons in civilian areas, reflecting the tension
between President Bush's promise to apply decisive force and his hopes
of minimizing the harm to a long-tyrannized population. The scenes of
street fighting in the south, meanwhile, presaged a potentially bloody
and protracted fight for control of Baghdad.
Now They Tell Us
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21766-2003Mar24.html
Page A08
IN THE NOT-SO-DISTANT PAST, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
described the costs of war in Iraq as "not knowable." A few weeks ago
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer agreed that "it is too soon to say
with precision how much this war will cost." Earlier this month the
president himself refused to discuss the costs of the war, while
calling the benefits "immeasurable -- how do you measure the benefit
of freedom in Iraq?" Nevertheless, yesterday -- just five days into a
war whose length, shape and final outcome remain unknowable -- the
administration managed to produce an admirably precise figure: $74.7
billion.
Mothers at War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21763-2003Mar24.html
Page A08
YESTERDAY MORNING relatives of one of the American prisoners of war
in Iraq, Army Spc. Shoshawna Johnson, went on television to say how
much everyone missed her: her parents, her cousins and especially her
2-year-old daughter, Janelle. Spc. Johnson is a single mother, one of
about 90,000 in the active-duty service. Lately such women have been
featured in heartbreaking photos in Air Force Times and Army Times:
Staff Sgt. Rikki Hurston, for example, feeding her four-month-old
while her 8-year-old daughter looks up with wide eyes, clutching her
mother's kit bag. Sgt. Hurston was headed with her unit to the Persian
Gulf. "Who knows when I'll be back," she said to the reporter; with
her children she strove for more cheerfulness. More than ever, women
are crucial to the U.S. military; they make up 16 percent of the force
and perform key front-line jobs. But the increased integration comes
at a price, in the form of tens of thousands of temporary orphans.
Shock, Awe and Overconfidence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21783-2003Mar24.html
By Ralph Peters, Page A09
The allied forces on the march in Iraq have performed impressively.
Within weeks, major operations will give way to a few months of
mopping up. Iraq will be liberated. This will happen despite serious
strategic miscalculations by the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Storm Before The Calm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21782-2003Mar24.html
By David Ignatius, Page A09
KUWAIT CITY -- U.S. planners expected that the military and
political structure of southern Iraq would implode in the early days
of the war. But on Saturday at the crossroads of the highways linking
Baghdad, Basra, Umm Qasr and Kuwait, it was obvious that this strategy
wasn't working out as planned.
Safe Driving In Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21778-2003Mar24.html
By Richard Cohen, Page A09
In Beirut during the Lebanese civil war, the early morning radio
had the oddest traffic report. It would announce what streets should
be avoided on account of snipers. If you paid attention, you could
drive with near absolute security. I know this because a colleague and
I did not pay attention. Nothing happened, but it was one ride I will
never forget.
A Fair Payment for War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21781-2003Mar24.html
By William H. Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins, Page A09
Last week we saw something unprecedented in American history: a
push for tax cuts targeted to the wealthy in a time of war. As U.S.
jets prepared to bomb Baghdad, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) offered an
amendment to the federal budget legislation accelerating the repeal of
the estate tax. It is a provision that would benefit less than 2
percent of the wealthiest taxpayers. It passed by a narrow vote of 51
to 48.
No Excuse for Tax Cuts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21780-2003Mar24.html
By E. J. Dionne Jr., Page A09
Do the leaders of Congress really want to make their branch of
government look foolish?
Before, During and After the War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21796-2003Mar24.html
Page A08
I am extremely concerned about the shameful, almost total passivity
of Congress during the period of preparations for our military attack
on Iraq. (I recognize as exceptions Sen. Robert C. Byrd's noble
statement in the Senate [In Brief, March 20] and the belated but
vigorous statements of Sen. Thomas A. Daschle [news story, March 18].)
One Thumb Up, One Thumb Down
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21798-2003Mar24.html
Page A08
I was dismayed to read Tom Shales's jingoism in denouncing
documentary filmmaker Michael Moore's speech at the Oscars as
"self-promoting," an "outlandish and outrageous disruption," "one of
the worst Oscar speeches" and an "obnoxious display" [Style, March
24].
Top Brass's Handling of Air Force Sex Assaults Criticized (Post, March
25, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21482-2003Mar24.html
Justices Hear Md. Death Row Appeal: High Court Weighs Issues of
Childhood Abuse, Lawyers' Competence (Post, March 25, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21270-2003Mar24.html
High Court Won't Rule on Terror Surveillance (Post, March 25, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21269-2003Mar24.html
Unfolding Battle Will Determine Length of War (By Thomas E. Ricks,
Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21578-2003Mar24.html
Illegal Immigrants Die in Field Fire (Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21818-2003Mar24.html
Texas Base Stunned to See POWs: Maintenance Unit Unexpectedly Caught
in Harm's Way (By Lee Hockstader, Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22134-2003Mar25.html
Series of Breaks Speeded Air Force Attack on Hussein Bunker: Commander
Notes Confluence of Tip and Plane Preparation (By Bradley Graham, Page
A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22130-2003Mar25.html
U.S. Identifies Copter Pilots Taken Prisoner (By Vernon Loeb, Page
A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22143-2003Mar25.html
Questions Raised About Invasion Force: Some Ex-Gulf War Commanders Say
U.S. Needs More Troops, Another Armored Division (By Vernon Loeb and
Thomas E. Ricks, Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21450-2003Mar24.html
For Blacks, the War Is Another Divide: African Americans Oppose the
Conflict More Than Whites Do, Polling Finds (By Darryl Fears, Page
A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21346-2003Mar24.html
War Support Persists As Casualties Grow: Poll: Public Expects
'Significant' Losses (By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane, Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21821-2003Mar24.html
For Three Soldiers, Death Came by Accident in Iraq: Victims of Jeep
Collision, Gun Discharge Were Reservists (By Amy Goldstein, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22154-2003Mar25.html
The Fallen (Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21803-2003Mar24.html
Few Clues to Grenade Incident: Jailed Soldier Remembered as Role Model
(By Rene Sanchez, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21835-2003Mar24.html
Tank Divisions Head Into the Media Fray (By Richard Morin and Claudia
Deane, Page A07)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21814-2003Mar24.html
VA Poised to Help Care for Troops: Veterans Facilities Prepare to Take
Military Hospital Overflow (By Edward Walsh, Page A07)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21804-2003Mar24.html
Suspect Arrested in Serbia Assassination (AP, March 25, 2003; 10:09
AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24126-2003Mar25.html
U.S. Plans to Create Military Command in Northern Iraq: Effort Aims to
Avert Turkish Deployment in Kurdish Region (Post, March 25, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21910-2003Mar24.html
U.S. Forces Push Closer to Baghdad As Iraqi Resistance Proves
Persistent: Republican Guard Is Target of Bombing (By Rajiv
Chandrasekaran and Peter Baker, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21628-2003Mar24.html
Ground Fire Repels Copter Assault: Two Crewmen Seized by Iraqis as
Apache Goes Down (By Mary Beth Sheridan, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21343-2003Mar24.html
In Address, Hussein Appeals to Nationalism (By Anthony Shadid, Page
A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21606-2003Mar24.html
Hong Kong Hospital Official Takes Ill: Mystery Disease Is Chief
Suspect (By John Pomfret, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21033-2003Mar24.html
Afghans to Free Prisoners From Guantanamo: 18 Detainees Now in Custody
of Kabul Police; Officials Say Most Will Be Released (By April Witt
and Marc Kaufman, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21344-2003Mar24.html
Missile Strike Shatters a House, and a Family: Attack on Neighborhood
Evokes Anger at U.S. (By Anthony Shadid, Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21501-2003Mar24.html
Modified Fighter Jets Lend More Fuel to the Fight (By Lyndsey Layton,
Page A18)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21968-2003Mar25.html
Iran Turns Away Militant Group: Halt in Aid to Kurdish Faction Comes
After Missile Attacks (By Karl Vick, Page A20)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21823-2003Mar24.html
Iran Turns Away Militant Group: Halt in Aid to Kurdish Faction Comes
After Missile Attacks (By Karl Vick, Page A20)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22144-2003Mar25.html
Senate Slashes Bush Tax Cut
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26376-2003Mar25.html
Senate reverses position, votes to reduce tax cut plan to $350
billion.
Along the Mall, a Chorus of Protests: U.S. Military Veterans Push for
Peace; Area Republicans Pull for Troops; Disappointed Marathoners Just
Go in Circles (Post, March 24, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16394-2003Mar23.html
maff
The Garbo doctrine
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,921971,00.html
Jonathan Freedland: After the war, America may ask UN blue helmets to
aid reconstruction. But the stars and stripes will prevail.
Forget them all, Mr Bush
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,921974,00.html
Charles Krauthammer: Don't go back, Mr. President. You walked away
from the United Nations at great cost and with great courage. Don't go
back.
Onward Christian soldiers?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,921975,00.html
Giles Fraser: Rowan Williams is wrong to tone down his opposition to
this war.
Slaves in Soho
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,921977,00.html
Ros Coward: Violent gangs have taken over the UK sex trade - an
unacknowledged result of intervention in the Balkans.
The day my father left to serve in Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,921921,00.html
Melissa Beswick, aged 13, on a tearful farewell.
War porn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,921919,00.html
With their jazzy graphics, fact boxes and breathless statistics, the
military pundits are everywhere. But aren't they enjoying themselves a
little too much? Could sex have something to do with it, wonders Emma
Brockes.
The Baghdad blogger
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,921920,00.html
Writing under the name Salam Pax, an unknown Iraqi is writing a vivid
weblog of what life is like in Baghdad as the American and British
forces bombard the city. Here are edited extracts.
Shock, awe and precision porkies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,921915,00.html
Rod Liddle: Saddam is winning the propaganda war.
Gary Younge in New York
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,921914,00.html
Brooklyn is going upmarket - but not all the locals are happy about
it.
Gulf war drinking game
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,921922,00.html
One of the most popular sites on the web this week is a list of rules
for an imaginary drinking game. Here is a selection.
'The media is a weapon of war'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Reporting of the conflict comes under the spotlight.
No easy way out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
Even if US and UK troops eventually declare a victory, it is no
guarantee that the fighting will stop. The next battle may be against
guerrillas
Should we stay or should we go?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,921872,00.html
Oh dear, I've walked away from the party I've been a member of for 23
years and Roy Hattersley doesn't like it (Don't give up on the party
now, March 24).
Picking up the tab
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,921874,00.html
How is it right that Iraq be made to pay for damage caused by US and
UK forces (Brown rejects US bid for Iraqi cash, March 25)?
Government failure on US detainees
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,921875,00.html
George Monbiot (One rule for them, March 25) draws attention to the
plight of the Guantanamo bay prisoners and the hypocrisy of the US
government but says nothing about the inaction of the British
government.
Iraqi view
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,921873,00.html
Burhan al-Chalabi's article (You should have known we'd fight, March
25) supports Saddam Hussein by labelling the campaign as imperial
occupation. It is a war of liberation and Iraqis welcome it
wholeheartedly.
My pride
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,921876,00.html
In Jackie Ashley's fair account of our discussion (New leader, new
extremists, new struggles, March 24), she noted that the CRE's
nameplate had been removed on the morning she arrived.
Too young to know
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,921877,00.html
Teenage political protest: cool (Schoolchildren in countrywide
protests, March 20).
The battle for Basra
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,921869,00.html
Caution over hopeful omens in the south.
Drug price wars
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,921870,00.html
Big investors step in to help the poor.
When the bubble burst
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,921871,00.html
In search of biodegradable gum.
Bush's tax cuts slashed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,922160,00.html
The US senate ripped a hole in President Bush's economic revival plan
by reducing his $726bn of proposed tax cuts to $350bn amid growing
worries about the cost of war in Iraq and rising deficits.
War confidence returns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,922077,00.html
Share prices rebounded yesterday as investors seized on rumours of a
popular uprising in the Iraqi city of Basra and began putting their
money back on an early victory.
PM pleads for end to rift over Iraq
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,922002,00.html
Tony Blair asks Europe and the US to mend relations to ensure
stability.
Rightwingers dismiss UN role in future Iraq
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,921973,00.html
UK and US at odds in talks on reconstruction
Can Blair convince Bush to share his belief in the international
institutions?
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,921983,00.html
It may not be too much to say that the shape of the postwar world and
not just of postwar Iraq could be decided in that country once the
fighting is over.
Coughs and Stam'rs help Blair say it clearly, again and again
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,921994,00.html
The history of modern warfare can be summarised as a reversal of two
numbers. In the second world war the aim was to kill as many people as
you could with as few as possible watching what you were doing.
Troops lay siege to Basra
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922006,00.html
· British artillery shells city outskirts
· Reports of local revolt against Saddam
· Blitz of Baghdad Republican Guard
US advance grinds to halt in teeth of storm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922004,00.html
It began as a strong breeze, spinning the fine dust thrown up by tanks
and trucks into vortices.
Baghdad: the struggle for survival
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922014,00.html
Ali Khalid racked up a small personal victory over the privations and
uncertainties of war yesterday. He satisfied a food craving that
recalled the few years he had spent in the US as a child.
British plan to take Basra by force
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922019,00.html
Despite fears of guerrilla war, commanders decide to make key city a
military target.
Fearing Saddam but not trusting the US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922036,00.html
It has been a central assumption of American and British plans that
war against Saddam Hussein would eventually trigger an uprising of the
country's Shia Muslims. Last night, six days into the conflict, came
signs that it might be happening in Basra.
Awkward squad tries to sharpen view
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922058,00.html
They call themselves the "awkward squad" and their questions to the
generals running the war in Iraq are starting to divide the sceptical
press from their more loyal American colleagues.
Man held for murder of Serbian leader
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922070,00.html
Serbian police have arrested the suspected assassin of Zoran Djindjic,
the pro-western prime minister who was killed two weeks ago, his
successor said yesterday.
Edith Cresson charged with fraud
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922069,00.html
Edith Cresson, the controversial former French prime minister and
European commissioner, yesterday became the most senior EU official
ever to be charged with fraud and abuse of confidence.
Voices from a city in chaos
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922005,00.html
For five days many of the 1.2 million residents of Basra have had to
survive without fresh water or electricity. Communications have been
badly hit, making it difficult for the outside world to get first-hand
accounts of conditions there. The Guardian managed, via their
relatives in London, to speak to two Basra residents yesterday. Here
are their accounts
Bush backer sponsoring pro-war rallies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922012,00.html
They look like spontaneous expressions of pro-war sentiment,
"patriotic rallies" drawing crowds of tens of thousands across the
American heartland.
Naval alert on suicide attacks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922013,00.html
Coalition naval forces were on high alert against suicide attacks
yesterday after Iranian gunboats intercepted an Iraqi speedboat packed
with half a tonne of high explosive.
Discovery of chemical suits at Iraqi base raises fears of gas attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922157,00.html
US capture of hospital reveals secret antidote stock
Friendly fire kills two UK tank crew
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922106,00.html
Two members of a British tank crew were killed and two critically
injured after their Challenger 2 tank was fired on by another
Challenger tank in southern Iraq. A single tank round took the turret
off the tank in the misdirected attack, which happened on Monday in
pitch darkness.
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922015,00.html
Decoding the jargon of war
UN will appeal for $1bn in largest ever aid operation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922018,00.html
The UN is to launch a $1bn appeal to cover the cost of feeding Iraq
for six months after the war ends, in what officials predicted would
be the largest humanitarian aid operation in history.
A lot of patience - and a little luck - help to clear aid channel of
mines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922020,00.html
It looked just like any of the other tugboats that had chugged out of
the Khawr abd Allah river on the first day of the war. The British had
initially boarded her looking for mines and weapons. They did a sweep
of the ship but found nothing. Later the same evening a US coastguard
cutter decided to take a look, with the same result.
Ulster experience may help - but only up to a point
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921987,00.html
British combat experience in Northern Ireland was yesterday being
promoted as the key to controlling captured cities where Iraqi
soldiers, some in civilian clothes, are waging a hit-and-run guerrilla
war.
City of conflict
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922023,00.html
Basra's violent history
Casualties
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922031,00.html
US
Veterans question war strategy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922034,00.html
Doubts over the US-led military strategy in Iraq intensified yesterday
as several Gulf war commanders added their voices to the charge that
it was a mistake to send such a small main force to advance on Baghdad
from the south.
US claims 500 killed in sweep past Najaf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922032,00.html
Marines finally secure Euphrates corridor after five days of bloody
battle while British signal end to port resistance
At a glance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922035,00.html
At the front
Disagreement that spans the centuries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922046,00.html
The division between Shia and Sunni Muslims goes back almost to the
founding of Islam when, after the prophet's death in 632, there was a
disagreement over the succession.
Iraqi exiles put patriotism first as they return home to fight
invaders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922047,00.html
Young Iraqi exiles are rushing home to defend their country in growing
numbers, even though many strongly oppose Saddam Hussein's regime.
Villagers caught in attack on guerrillas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922053,00.html
When US warplanes launched their early morning bombing raid, Farida
Baqi decided to stay in her small mud-walled house. Most of her
neighbours ran away. As explosions rocked the area, they hid in the
steep walnut orchards that surround the picturesque village of Tawela,
beneath two sheer mountains.
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922055,00.html
A look at the way the war is being spun and reported
4m in Europe sign up for al-Jazeera
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922057,00.html
Subscriptions to the Arabic-language television network al-Jazeera
have doubled since the war on Iraq began last week, signalling a
significant demand for an alternative to western media coverage.
Tributes paid to British combat victims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921990,00.html
Families and colleagues talk of 'heroes'
Killed in action
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921991,00.html
Helicopter crash, Friday. Eight British servicemen killed.
Berezovsky faces extradition warrant
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922072,00.html
The Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, who lives in London in
self-imposed exile, has been arrested by Scotland Yard on an
extradition warrant issued at the request of Russian authorities. He
is accused of an alleged fraud.
War confidence returns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922076,00.html
Share prices rebounded yesterday as investors seized on rumours of a
popular uprising in the Iraqi city of Basra and began putting their
money back on an early victory.
Iraqi state television 'off air'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,921783,00.html
· 30 explosions heard over Baghdad
· Reports of Basra 'uprising' persist
· Iraqis suffer huge losses in fiercest fighting of war
The alliance of science
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,7843,921537,00.html
As the government's strategy unit prepares its latest seminar on GM,
Andy Rowell looks at some of the lobbyists to have emerged on the pro
side in the past few years.
Robert Fisk: In the long hours of darkness, Baghdad shakes to the
constant low rumble of B-52s
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=390867
All night, you could hear the carpet-bombing by the B-52s.
Christopher Bellamy: The conundrum: Can Allies avoid a Battle of
Berlin?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=390866
26 March 2003
As US forces edged closer to Baghdad yesterday, their advance slowed
by a sandstorm, the armoured battle in the open that would have suited
US commanders failed to materialise.
Scorecard for the War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/26FRIE.html
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
To know whether the allied forces are winning, there are six things
one could watch out for.
Take Down Saddam TV
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/26DOWD.html
By MAUREEN DOWD
The Pentagon delayed strikes on Iraqi TV because it hoped to use the
network after the war. That target should have been one of the first.
How to Take Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/26PRES.html
By DARYL G. PRESS
America would do well not to embark on future wars whose political
success depends on the assumption that the enemy won't fight.
A Change of Course in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/26WED1.html
As allied forces rethink their ground campaign, the big risk is that
civilian casualties could provoke resentment against the invaders.
The Senate's Moment of Sanity
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/26WED2.html
Paying for the war is an issue of national honor, as is the Senate's
attempt to oppose the fiscal insanity of the latest tax-cut plan.
Protecting Prisoners of War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/26WED3.html
As Washington demands that the Geneva Convention be respected, it
should set an example with its own handling of battlefield captives.
Stock Exchange Follies
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/26WED4.html
It is the height of irony that the New York Stock Exchange has now
seen fit to revoke the credentials of two Al Jazeera reporters.
The Perilous Road to Baghdad: What Awaits?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/L26IRAQ.html
Re "Allies Confront Baghdad Defenders; Iraqis Repel Copters; One Goes
Down" (front page, March 25):
Michael Moore and the War, on Oscar Night
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/L26OSCA.html
Is the Hollywood that continually feeds us movies that celebrate the
iconoclast and glorify the guy who dares to speak out against the tide
the same Hollywood that is so aghast at the Oscar acceptance speech of
Michael Moore, in which he criticized both the war and the president?
Powell's Future
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/L26KELL.html
Re "Why Colin Powell Should Go," by Bill Keller (column, March 22):
In the postwar period, Colin L. Powell's services as secretary of
state are going to be essential in taking Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld's and Vice President Dick Cheney's thumbs out of the eyes of
our principal allies.
Third-Party Candidates
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/L26MALC.html
In David Callahan's essay about peace rallies (Op-Ed, March 22), his
favorable mention of third-party candidates invites the bitter
reflection that if there had been no third-party candidate in the last
presidential election, there would be no need for peace rallies today.
Democratic Primaries
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/L26DEMS.html
Re "Primary Mischief" (editorial, March 14):
You blame Democrats for front-loading the 2004 presidential
primary-caucus calendar.
Grades, Not Knowledge
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/L26COLL.html
Re "New Online Guides Allow College Students to Grade Their
Professors" (news article, March 24):
Of course college students "see higher education less as a learning
opportunity than as a high-priced commodity whose value will be
enhanced by good grades."
National Amber Alerts
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/L26AMBE.html
You are concerned that the creation of a national Amber Alert system
might lead to vigilantism ("Move Cautiously on Amber Alerts,"
editorial, March 25). As the creator of "America's Most Wanted," I
have heard these concerns before, but time has proved them to be
false.
Resistance by Militia Is Delaying Baghdad Battle, Officers Say
http://tinyurl.com/86gq
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
The attack on the Republican Guard will be delayed while American and
British forces fight in and around southern cities.
Heavy Iraqi Losses Seen in Big Battle
http://tinyurl.com/86gs
By PATRICK E. TYLER
American forces killed hundreds of Iraqis in what may be the biggest
battle so far of the six-day-old war. No American casualties have been
reported, but two tanks were lost.
Some of Hussein's Arab Foes Admire His Fight
http://tinyurl.com/86gw
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Arab governments share no great love for Saddam Hussein, but replacing
him by force seems a bad precedent.
Baghdad Empties, but Fills With Foreboding
http://tinyurl.com/86h0
By JOHN F. BURNS
Tuesday was a grim day in Baghdad, perhaps the grimmest since the war
began, and with the darkening prospect of worse to come.
Blair Heads to U.S. for Talks on Europe Rift
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26BLAI.html
By WARREN HOGE
Prime Minister Tony Blair will stress the need to mend
European-American divisions caused by the military campaign in Iraq.
U.S. Officials Say Iraqis May Have Killed Some American Prisoners
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26CAPI.html
By ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER
American officials said that some of the seven Army mechanics killed
near Nasiriya were apparently executed by their captors.
Opinions Begin to Shift as Public Weighs War Costs
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26POLL.html
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JANET ELDER
Americans say the war will last longer and cost more than they
expected, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Television Producers Struggle to Keep Track of War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26MEDI.html
By JIM RUTENBERG and BILL CARTER
Close-up media coverage of the war has created, some critics say, a
distorted impression that the war is going worse than it is.
Troops Endure Blowing Sands and Mud Rain
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26STOR.html
By JIM DWYER
The single, solitary departure from flying sand on Tuesday came from
rain, but what fell from the sky was not water but mud.
Top General Concedes Air Attacks Did Not Deliver Knockout Blow
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26AIR.html
By ERIC SCHMITT
The Pentagon's strategy to shock the Iraqi regime quickly with a
dramatic early air bombardment has not worked exactly as planned.
Displaying Solidarity, Many Iraqis Go Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26JORD.html
The kebab maker who hated Saddam Hussein returned to Iraq three days
ago to fight America, his friends say. A waiter at the stand unrolled
a poster of Mr. Hussein's stern face and kissed it. Muhammad Ali, 35,
an Iraqi who makes the tea, said today he wanted to go back to
Baghdad, also to fight the Americans.
18 Ex-Guantánamo Captives Suddenly Out on Kabul Street
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26AFGH.html
Eighteen Afghans who were returned from the American detention center
at Guantánamo Bay were freed today by the Afghan authorities and
suddenly found themselves, shaken and tired, on the streets of Kabul.
Fear Said to Be Keeping Iraqi Dissidents From Rebelling
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26BASR.html
American forces have been making a point in recent days of encouraging
the citizens of Iraq to rise up and fight the government of Saddam
Hussein.
Communist Revolt Is Alive, and Active, in the Philippines
http://tinyurl.com/86hf
A seeming anachronism that was almost eliminated in the mid-1990's,
the world's longest-running Communist insurgency is coming back to
life. It took the Rev. Paul Sahagun by surprise the other day.
A Confluence of Several Cultures
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/business/25GROU.html
Cape Town's many suburbs all have their own shopping and business
districts, but the real action is in Cape Town proper, with the
magnificent Table Mountain in the distance. As in Johannesburg, street
crime is an ever-present risk, and surveillance cameras have been
installed on most street corners and in parks; a new police unit - the
City Police - has been assigned to the business district.
Tears of Grief Mix With Pride Among Families of Dead Marines
http://tinyurl.com/86hp
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
For the families of nine marines killed on Sunday in a desert ambush a
world away in Iraq, absorbing their losses is simply unimaginable.
Lengthy Hours Magnify Strengths and Foibles
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26WATC.html
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Long hours of specials and extended newscasts showcase anchors'
fluency and aplomb. They also magnify the foibles of even the most
poised, experienced anchors.
U.S. to Appeal Order Giving Lawyers Access to Detainee
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26DETA.html
By BENJAMIN WEISER
The government will seek an expedited appeal of an order allowing Jose
Padilla, who has been held for more than nine months in military
custody, to meet with lawyers.
City by the Bay Becomes a Bottler, to Loud Attack
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/national/26WATE.html
By DEAN E. MURPHY
Hetch Hetchy Mountain Water, a new bottled water unveiled by the City
of San Francisco, brings back memories of one of last century's
biggest environmental defeats.
Little-Known Jewel of Lower East Side
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/education/26EDUC.html
By MICHAEL WINERIP
Public School 20 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan is one of the
poorest elementary schools in America (99 percent free lunches), but
also one of the most thrilling.
Army Says Sergeant Held in Grenade Attack Is Probably Guilty
http://tinyurl.com/86i6
By PETER T. KILBORN
The Army said that it was "probable" that Sgt. Asan Akbar, in custody
in Germany, was responsible for throwing the grenades into officers'
tents in Kuwait.
Families of the Missing Hold Nervous Vigils for Loved Ones
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26POW.html
By JIM YARDLEY
For the families of the five captured soldiers, the grim images shown
on Iraqi television, though terrifying, offered proof that the
prisoners remained alive.
4 Top Officers at Air Force Academy Are Replaced
http://tinyurl.com/86ia
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO
The Air Force is replacing the four top officers in charge of its
academy after a scandal in which dozens of women attending the academy
said they were raped.
As Possible Terrorist Targets, Universities Are Taking Precautions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/education/26COLL.html
By KAREN W. ARENSON
Some colleges are adding security patrols and others are adding mental
health counselors in response to concerns that they could be the next
targets of an attack.
Universities Exporting M.B.A. Programs via the Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/nyregion/26MBA.html
By OTTO POHL
Enabled by Internet-based technologies, M.B.A. programs in the United
States are expanding rapidly into new markets overseas.
City Districts Show Gains in Series of School Tests
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/national/26DIST.html
By GREG WINTER
Smaller classes, longer school days and mounting pressure for
accountability in public education have helped the nation's largest
urban school districts make significant gains.
Agency Suspends Smallpox Vaccines for People With Heart Disease
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/national/26SMAL.html
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Federal health officials issued the order after seven health workers
with a history of cardiac disease developed severe health problems
after being vaccinated.
China Bars W.H.O. Experts From Origin Site of Illness
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/health/26INFE.html
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN and KEITH BRADSHER
It is the second World Health Organization team since early February
to be denied access to Guangdong Province, just north of Hong Kong.
Medicare Recipients Face 12.4% Rise in Premiums
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/national/26HEAL.html
By ROBERT PEAR
Medicare beneficiaries face a large increase in premiums next year,
and doctors' fees will probably be cut because Medicare spending
surged unexpectedly last year.
Trial Under Way in Case of Vegetarians' Sick Child
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/nyregion/26BABY.html
By COREY KILGANNON
A State Supreme Court trial is unfolding in a Queens courtroom in the
case of a couple charged with endangering their child's life through a
strict vegan diet.
Front That Brought Winds and Dust Is Due to Lift
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26CLIM.html
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
The powerful front that brought gale-force gusts and intense clouds of
dust to much of Iraq is likely to clear.
An Eye Trained on Puerto Rico's Traditions
http://tinyurl.com/86im
By MIREYA NAVARRO
Rafael Tufiño, a Puerto Rican printmaker and painter, is the subject
of a major retrospective at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem.
MTV Is Wary of Videos on War
http://tinyurl.com/86is
By NEIL STRAUSS
A memo at MTV Europe advised the staff not to air videos depicting
images of war, bombs and other sensitive material.
Hearing Music Silenced by the Nazis
http://tinyurl.com/86iu
By ALLAN KOZINN
The conductor James Conlon has taken up the cause of recovering works
by Jewish composers that were lost or forgotten as the Nazis swept
through Europe.
A Beltway Show Intentionally Funny
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/arts/television/26WERT.html
By RON WERTHEIMER
Fox's promising new sitcom about an unorthodox reporter pokes fun at
television news in general and conservative commentators in
particular.
Justices Hear Arguments on Campaign Finance
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/politics/26SCOT.html
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
At issue before the court was the ban on direct contributions by
corporations to candidates in federal elections, part of federal law
since 1907.
Terror Suspect Is Believed Seen in Tampa
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/national/26SUSP.html
The Tampa police said today that they had received several calls from
people who said they might have seen a terrorism suspect in the city.
Senate Votes to Reduce Bush's Tax Cut Plan
http://tinyurl.com/86iw
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
Senate Democrats won a vote to reduce President Bush's proposed tax
cut by half, a rare political defeat for a wartime president.
Republicans Depict War as Harder Than Hoped
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26CONG.html
By CARL HULSE
Top Republican members of Congress sought to temper expectations of a
quick end to the war in Iraq, and some acknowledged that the
resistance was stiffer than expected.
Bush Orders a 3-Year Delay in Opening Secret Documents
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/politics/26SECR.html
President Bush today signed an executive order that will delay the
release of millions of government documents and make it easier for
presidents and their administrations to keep historical records
secret.
2 Courts Won't Stop Execution in Texas
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/national/26TEXA.html
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and a federal district court
refused today to stop the execution of a mentally ill convicted killer
who is scheduled to die on Wednesday.
Set on the Army Life Even in High School
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26RILE.html
James Riley started wearing Army surplus camouflage when he was still
at Pennsauken High School, and he told his guidance counselor when he
graduated that he did not need any career advice. The Army was going
to be the life for him.
War Fails to Halt Iraqi Oil Production, but Prompts a Debate
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26OIL.html
By NEELA BANERJEE and FELICITY BARRINGER
Iraq's massive Kirkuk field in the north is still pumping oil and
piping it to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, where storage tanks are
filling up.
Bank of Japan to Buy More Stocks From Lenders
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/business/worldbusiness/26YEN.html
By KEN BELSON
The Bank of Japan's policy board said it would buy more stocks from
the nation's lenders and flood the credit markets with yet more yen.
Home Equity Borrowing Rises to Worrisome Levels
http://tinyurl.com/86jg
By RIVA D. ATLAS
As Americans borrow against their homes at unprecedented levels, some
experts warn that many people will lose their houses.
Consumer Confidence Falls to Lowest Level Since 1993
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/business/26PLAC.html
By FLOYD NORRIS
Consumer confidence plunged to its lowest level in almost 10 years
this month, the Conference Board reported.
Banks Doubled Profit Increase in 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/business/26BANK.html
Banks doubled their increase in profits in 2002, relying on low
interest rates and a strong housing market to weather the slow
economy, a banking regulator said today.
Credit Agencies at Odds Over Law
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/business/26LEND.html
Two top credit rating agencies are scheduled to announce today
conflicting interpretations of New York State's new predatory lending
law.
Farm Exports Boom in Argentina
http://tinyurl.com/86jn
Horacio Castagnola permits himself a smile as, with a deft series of
mouse clicks, he fills his computer monitor with satellite photographs
of the multicolored patchwork of farms in Argentina's fertile corn
belt.
Chicago Industrial Area Reborn
http://tinyurl.com/86jq
By ROBERT SHAROFF
An island a mile from Chicago's Loop that once contained train yards
is booming as an office, manufacturing and warehouse center.
How Those at Home Support One Another
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26SOLD.html
By ANDREW JACOBS
Members of a Fort Dix, N.J., support group for those with relatives
deployed overseas expressed their fears as casualties rose and
American troops were taken prisoner.
New York Man Admits to Attending Al Qaeda Camp
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26LACK.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A second of the six men charged last fall with aiding Al Qaeda has
pleaded guilty and admitted to attending a Qaeda training camp in
Afghanistan prior to the Sept. 11 attacks.
At Veterans Home, the War Is Past and Present
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26BARR.html
By DAN BARRY
Residents at the Long Island State Veterans Home measure time by
medication schedules and meals, and sometimes by wars of the past.
Face of '91 War Is Back Again, Unbattered
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/nyregion/26TOWN.html
By MATTHEW PURDY
The face of the last war in the Gulf has become a talking head in this
one.
New York Restaurants Now Cope With a War, Too
http://tinyurl.com/86jx
By ERIC ASIMOV
Diners and restaurateurs respond to unease with the war in Iraq - and
with the French.
Man of Opposites, a Force for Good and Evil
http://tinyurl.com/86k0
By RICHARD PIPES
William Taubman's lively narrative is likely to remain for a
considerable time the standard study of the man who succeeded Stalin.
Iraqi Resistance Endures Amid The Rubble
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29094-2003Mar25.html
A week of airstrikes has left tons of rubble and deep craters at
hundreds of government buildings and military facilities around Iraq
but has yielded little sign of a weakening in the regime's will to
resist.
U.S. Cautious About Promoting Uprisings
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29004-2003Mar25.html
Amid reports of the first popular uprising against Saddam Hussein
since troops invaded Iraq last week, the U.S. Tuesday urged Iraqi
civilians to refrain from attacking until the allies were in a
position to help them.
U.S. Hits Snag in U.N. on Aid for Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28920-2003Mar25.html
U.S. efforts to tap into billions of dollars in Iraqi oil revenue to
finance the relief effort in Iraq remained at an impasse Tuesday.
Bush and Hill in Bidding War Over Homeland Security Funds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29322-2003Mar25.html
President Bush and members of Congress are locked in a bidding war to
protect the nation from terrorist attacks, as Republicans and
Democrats try to position themselves as the most concerned and
committed defenders of the homeland.
Japan to Launch Spy Satellites
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29205-2003Mar25.html
TOKYO -- Under tight security, Japan is preparing to launch two spy
satellites Friday that will mark the country's first military use of
space and begin moving its intelligence agencies away from dependence
on the United States.
Illness May Have Spread on Plane
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28790-2003Mar25.html
Nine Chinese tourists appear to have caught a dangerous new
respiratory illness by flying on a plane from Hong Kong to Beijing
with a man who was sick.
3rd from Cell Pleads Guilty To Having Al Qaeda Link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29327-2003Mar25.html
NEW YORK, March 25 -- A third member of an alleged six-person
terrorist sleeper cell in Lackawanna, N.Y., pleaded guilty in
Buffalo's federal court today, acknowledging he attended an al Qaeda
training camp in Afghanistan and allowed a recruiter from the
terrorist network to stay at his home through Sept. 11, 2001.
Sandstorm Delays Army's Advance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29014-2003Mar25.html
The U.S. Army's advance toward Baghdad paused for rest and resupply
Tuesday as a blinding sandstorm whipped across Iraq, but Marines
headed north in a second armored column targeting Baghdad and its
Republican Guard defenders.
In an Ominous Sky, a City Divines Its Fate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28995-2003Mar25.html
During six days of war, Baghdadis looking to the heavens for omens
have had much to contemplate: a cascade of U.S. bombs has been
followed by the smoke of oil fires and now a sandstorm.
Blocked Channel Is Critical for Aid
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28926-2003Mar25.html
British divers and mine sweepers worked to clear a channel to the
deepwater Iraqi port of Umm Qasr Tuesday, a critical step in
delivering relief supplies to Iraqis.
Returning Afghans Talk of Guantanamo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29276-2003Mar25.html
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 25 -- Afghan men freed today after spending
months in legal limbo as U.S. prisoners in the war on terrorism said
they were generally well-fed and given medical care, but housed in
cramped cells and sometimes shackled, hit and humiliated.
FBI Seeking Pakistani Pair Over Possible Al Qaeda Link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29408-2003Mar25.html
Authorities hunting for a suspected Saudi al Qaeda member from South
Florida have expanded the search to include a Pakistani couple with
suspected links to the man, authorities said yesterday.
Patriot Missiles Seemingly Falter For Second Time
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29390-2003Mar25.html
For the second time in as many days, a U.S. Patriot missile defense
battery has apparently locked its sights on an allied fighter plane,
raising concern about a potentially serious glitch in the system's
targeting software.
Britain Arrests Russian Tycoon In Fraud Case
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29071-2003Mar25.html
A business magnate and former Kremlin insider, Boris Berezovsky, was
arrested Monday after Russian officials sought his extradition on
fraud charges totaling $1.9 billion, British police said today.
First Waves of Wounded Arrive in Germany
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29386-2003Mar25.html
LANDSTUHL, Germany, March 25 -- A hulking gray C-141 Starlifter jet
pulled to a halt on a dark runway at Ramstein Air Base near here this
evening, and shortly afterward 10 stretchers bearing bandaged soldiers
and Marines were unloaded off the back. Two dark-green ambulance buses
carried them to a nearby U.S. Army hospital.
U.S. Acts To Shore Up Supply Lines
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28904-2003Mar25.html
U.S. military forces Tuesday reinforced vulnerable supply lines
stretching from Kuwait all the way to Karbala in central Iraq,
assigning a Marine unit to guard two key bridges at Nasiriyah and
detaching forces from the Army's 3rd Infantry Division to patrol the
rear.
S. Korean Assembly Stalls on Iraq War Request
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29438-2003Mar25.html
SEOUL, March 25 -- The National Assembly dealt President Roh Moo Hyun
an unexpected setback today by stalling on his request to send 700
South Korean engineers and medics to help in the war against Iraq.
Blair Plans To Press for U.N. Role
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29472-2003Mar25.html
LONDON, March 25 -- Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives in Washington on
Wednesday to confer on the war in Iraq and underscore his view that
the United Nations must play a major role in all aspects of postwar
reconstruction.
The Parallax View
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28854-2003Mar25.html
If there was something troubling about many of the images that emerged
Tuesday, it was perhaps because they clash so sharply with our
short-view logic for war.
NBC Dusting the Coverage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28771-2003Mar25.html
While all the networks are on a 24-hour war footing, only NBC is
blanketing the airwaves with a three-pronged approach that milks every
drop of its operation.
Capping the Damage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29238-2003Mar25.html
Page A16
IS HALF A LOAF worse than none? That's the question posed by the
surprise Senate vote yesterday in favor of a measure that would cap
President Bush's proposed $726 billion tax cut at $350 billion, and
the answer, apparently, is no. While this country is fighting a war of
unknown duration, while overall tax revenue is down thanks to
recession, while hundreds of thousands of people risk losing their
health insurance because of state fiscal crises and proposed Medicaid
cuts, it is irresponsible of Congress even to consider passing a tax
cut worth $350 billion -- let alone $726 billion -- over 10 years,
thereby creating a vast budget deficit for the next decade and
possibly beyond.
No Gays Except ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29240-2003Mar25.html
Page A16
IN THE YEARS since the "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gay
service members went into effect, the U.S. military has discharged a
steadily increasing number of men and women because of their sexual
orientations, although they wished to continue serving their country.
Then the United States went to war. And suddenly, according to a new
report from the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), the witch
hunts dropped off sharply. In 2001, 1,273 people were discharged for
being gay. Last year, by contrast, 906 were discharged. The sharp
decline, the SLDN notes, is consistent with the military's behavior in
past wars. When their services are truly needed, it seems, the threat
that gay men and lesbians supposedly pose to unit cohesion doesn't
loom as large.
Court of Extravagance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29241-2003Mar25.html
Page A16
STEVEN L. SCHOONER may not get invited to another birthday party
any time soon. At a conference last October commemorating the 20th
anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the
George Washington University law professor offered a modest thesis
about the court, which hears monetary claims against the federal
government. It is, he argued, an unnecessary waste of judicial
resources that should be abolished. He makes a persuasive argument.
A 'Much Tougher' Fight
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29267-2003Mar25.html
By Michael Kelly, Page A17
WITH THE 3RD INFANTRY DIVISION, Southern Iraq -- On Monday
afternoon, in a stifling hot tent that had been rigged up as the
tactical operations center for the 3rd Infantry's 1st Brigade, Maj.
Benjamin Matthews sat half-slumped in a metal folding chair by a metal
folding table in the sand. He looked very tired. Outside, a moderate
sandstorm was beginning to kick up, and the air in the tent was hazy
with brown dust.
When Women Go to War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29269-2003Mar25.html
By Anne Applebaum, Page A17
The argument about women in combat is over. In fact, it was over
three years ago, when two female sailors were among the victims of the
bombing of the USS Cole. Women had been serving aboard U.S. combat
ships only since 1994, yet these deaths -- the first time any female
sailor had been killed in hostile action onboard -- did not lead to a
reversal of policy. No special outrage accompanied the sight of "women
in body bags" being brought home for burial, as many had predicted,
either then or during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Now, as we fight a
new Gulf war, women constitute nearly a sixth of the armed forces.
More than 90 percent of service positions, including most combat
positions, are open to women. Although these facts have been noted
once or twice in recent days, they have provoked no special angst.
Right now, women are flying helicopters, launching missiles and
dropping bombs on Iraqi cities, and American civilization has not
collapsed as a result.
Conservatism's Moment of Truth
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29272-2003Mar25.html
By George F. Will, Page A17
Now, when the country needs the chastening sobriety that should be
conservatism's contribution to the national conversation, it has been
getting a whiff of something oxymoronic: conservative triumphalism.
There has been much breezy confidence that the war will be painless
and the aftermath -- replacing Iraq's regime -- easy. This has made
the public susceptible to mood swings.
Last Straw for First Responders?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29270-2003Mar25.html
By David S. Broder, Page A17
Rep. Mark Kirk, a second-term Illinois Republican, is also a
lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, one of the handful of
legislators who served on active duty during the 1991 Persian Gulf
War. Even in elective office, Kirk continues to pull 12-hour shifts
one weekend a month at the Alert Center in the Pentagon, monitoring
intelligence reports from the Middle East and parts of Asia.
Justice In the Aftermath
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29271-2003Mar25.html
By David J. Scheffer, Page A17
The plight of American prisoners of war in Iraq raises anew the
issue of accountability in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The planning for a
justice system in Iraq indeed may be underway by now, but no one in
the public realm has heard much about it. Initial reports appear to
confirm that it will be a matter of U.S. unilateralism guiding justice
for a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq.
Shocked and Awed by a War Far Away
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29290-2003Mar25.html
Page A16
On March 21, reporters on the major television networks used such
words as "incredible," "fantastic," "awesome," "fascinating" and
"amazing" to describe the more than 1,000 airstrikes on Baghdad. It
was as though they were watching a fireworks show on the Fourth of
July.
British Vow to Enter Basra
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29100-2003Mar25.html
Civilian uprising against Hussein reported in key southern city.
Conduct of War Is Defended
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29480-2003Mar25.html
President Bush, Rumsfeld dismiss criticism U.S. lacks sufficient
troops.
Hope for Girl Who Dreamed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29035-2003Mar25.html
A West Virginia town prays for return of missing 19-year-old soldier.
Sand Gives Troops Rest Day
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28998-2003Mar25.html
With speed and distance records set, tired soldiers get time to
refuel.
Senate Slashes Bush Tax Cut
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28860-2003Mar25.html
Worries about war-related costs key to halving of package to $350B.
Court Broadens Limits on Appeals: Justice Thomas Clarifies Rules in
Death Penalty Cases (Post, March 26, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28378-2003Mar25.html
Prosecutors Will Appeal Ruling on Access to Counsel (Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29373-2003Mar25.html
Senior Officials at Academy to Be Replaced: Senators Say Air Force
Secretary Will Announce Shake-up (By T.R. Reid, Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28757-2003Mar25.html
Bush Administration Using War to Justify Its Tax Cut: Plea Turned on
Its Head as Senate Snips Plan in Half (By Dana Milbank, Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28376-2003Mar25.html
Computer Problems Slow Tracking of Foreign Students (By Marcia Slacum
Greene, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29448-2003Mar25.html
From DeLay, the Sounds of Silence (By Juliet Eilperin, Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28377-2003Mar25.html
Woman to Head Reform Rabbis: Election Today is Formality for Vice
President of 2 Years (By Alan Cooperman, Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29328-2003Mar25.html
Fallen Soldier Mourned as a Brother by Friends: Intelligence Officer
Killed in Grenade Attack in Kuwait Had Passion for Serving Country (By
Dale Russakoff, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29475-2003Mar25.html
The Fallen (Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29340-2003Mar25.html
Nine Marines Killed in Iraqi Ambush Are Identified: Families and
Friends Across U.S. Recall Memories of the Young Lives That Were Cut
Short (By Amy Goldstein, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29005-2003Mar25.html
Bush Aides Adjusting War-Risks Message: Mounting U.S. Deaths Could
Erode Support (By Mike Allen, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28753-2003Mar25.html
Mother Prays for POW Son's Safe Return: 'Strong Faith' Helps Pass
Worried Hours (By Lee Hockstader, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29437-2003Mar25.html
Peace Groups Expand The Fight: They Aim to End This War, Prevent
Another (By Evelyn Nieves, Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28927-2003Mar25.html
At United Nations, Yet Another Clash Looms Over Iraq: U.S. Role in
Reconstruction at Issue (By Karen DeYoung, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28919-2003Mar25.html
Questions Surround $1 Billion For Turkey: Passage May Depend On Ankara
Role in War (By Glenn Kessler, Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28834-2003Mar25.html
Release of Documents Is Delayed: Classified Papers To Be Reviewed (By
Dana Milbank and Mike Allen, Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29446-2003Mar25.html
Harvesting Pearls (By Al Kamen, Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29326-2003Mar25.html
Survey Finds Federal Workers Are Restless: At Least a Third Are
Considering Leaving Jobs (By Christopher Lee, Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28623-2003Mar25.html
Copter Unit Retools Tactics After Fight: Small-Arms Fire, Sandstorms
Ground Highly Touted Apache Attack Gunships (By Mary Beth Sheridan,
Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29470-2003Mar25.html
Fake Surrenders Force Use of New Procedures (Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29445-2003Mar25.html
A New Enemy Appears: Fierce, Unrelenting Sand (By Peter Baker, Page
A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28776-2003Mar25.html
Foreboding Part of the Arab Report: Editorial Writers Mix Gloating and
Gloom (By Nora Boustany, Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29435-2003Mar25.html
The Parallax View: Photos Give a Different Perspective on 'Operation
Freedom' (By Philip Kennicott, Page C01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29440-2003Mar25.html
U.S. Watches Warily as Turkey's Economy Teeters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28840-2003Mar25.html
A Subject Students Can't Ignore
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28715-2003Mar25.html
Schools Consider How The Fighting Should Fit Into the Curriculum
Spending Request Envisions Long War (Post, March 25, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21596-2003Mar24.html
U.S. Plans to Create Military Command in Northern Iraq: Effort Aims to
Avert Turkish Deployment in Kurdish Region (Post, March 25, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21910-2003Mar24.html
Russia Vows to Stop US Move to Legitimize Iraq War (Reuters, March 22,
2003; 3:14 PM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10635-2003Mar22.html
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Kashmir
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The anti-war movement
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World Dispatch
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United States
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Economic Dispatch
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Russia
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Analysts Say Warnings Muted
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34283-2003Mar26.html
Intelligence analysts at the CIA and Pentagon warned the Bush
administration that U.S. troops would face significant resistance from
Iraqi irregular forces employing guerrilla tactics, but those views
have not been adequately reflected in the administration's public
predictions about how difficult a war might go, according to current
and former intelligence officials.
U.S., British Open New Front in Northern Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36197-2003Mar27.html
With sandstorms finally ended and a new front opened in the north,
U.S. commanders said Thursday they would swiftly intensify attacks on
Iraqi forces.
Trial of Four Terror Suspects Begins
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34731-2003Mar26.html
Opening arguments in the first terrorism-related trial of suspects
apprehended after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks began Wednesday.
Afghanistan Fighting Leaves at Least 13 Dead
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31150-2003Mar26.html
Suspected Taliban fighters attacked a government checkpoint in
northwestern Afghanistan, starting fighting that left at least 13
combatants dead, a military commander said Wednesday.
Afghans to Free Prisoners From Guantanamo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21344-2003Mar24.html
Afghan officials have said that most of the 18 prisoners flown home to
Afghanistan after being freed last week from detention at the U.S.
military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will soon be released.
Guantanamo
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A Buoyant Blair to Push Agenda
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34736-2003Mar26.html
Tony Blair faces many pitfalls in his attempt to close the gap that
has opened between the United States and Europe.
In a Moment, Lives Get Blown Apart
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34094-2003Mar26.html
In a moment, explosions transform a busy stretch of life in Baghdad
into a junkyard of uprooted trees, toppled lights, anguish and grief
Pakistan, India Test Short-Range Missiles
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33776-2003Mar26.html
India and Pakistan test-fired short-range missiles Wednesday as
violence increased in the disputed region of Kashmir.
WTO Rejects Steel Tariffs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34473-2003Mar26.html
The World Trade Organization has ruled that steel tariffs imposed by
President Bush last year violate international trade rules, handing a
victory to critics in Europe and elsewhere who regarded the tariffs as
a prime example of U.S. unilateralism.
Registrants May Face Deportation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34636-2003Mar26.html
Nearly 12 percent of the men who have registered under the
government's special program for temporary visa holders from Muslim
nations have been charged with violations that could result in their
deportation, according to statistics released yesterday.
Port in a Storm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34760-2003Mar26.html
The military focus in Umm Qasr has rapidly shifted from killing people
to loving them.
Iraqi Tanks Try to Break Out Of Basra
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32692-2003Mar26.html
A column of 70 to 120 Iraqi tanks broke out of the besieged southern
city of Basra tonight as British troops continued to barrage Iraqi
fighters there with artillery fire, British military officials said.
3 Americans Killed in Plane Crash in Colombia
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33754-2003Mar26.html
Three Americans working for the Pentagon died in a plane crash Tuesday
evening in southern Colombia as they searched for three other
Americans captured by rebels after a similar accident last month, U.S.
and Colombian officials said today.
Canadian Officials Advise Quarantine to Slow Spread of Illness
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34648-2003Mar26.html
TORONTO, March 26 -- Canadian health officials advised today that all
people who had contact with a hospital where three people died of a
deadly new respiratory illness should quarantine themselves in their
homes for 10 days.
Lawmakers Question Bush War Spending
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34727-2003Mar26.html
President Bush's war spending plan, which his aides had hoped would
sail across Capitol Hill, is loaded with provisions that are being
questioned by lawmakers from both parties.
Coming of Age in Era of Conflict Arouses Hatred Among Youth
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34172-2003Mar26.html
The young sons of Selwa Hazzaa consider it a mark of shame that they
were born in the United States, a country whose military they now see
nightly on television waging battle in neighboring Iraq.
'Beeb' in Their Bonnet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34033-2003Mar26.html
A cover-all-sides style, even as British troops are under fire, has
brought the BBC a steady fusillade of criticism.
Journalist's Report Provokes Military Ire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34758-2003Mar26.html
A reporter who never signed up for the Pentagon's embedding program
has run afoul of the military.
War Crimes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34654-2003Mar26.html
Page A20
REPORTS FROM BAGHDAD yesterday suggested that one or more U.S.
missiles might have struck a shopping street, killing a number of
people. If so -- and the Pentagon said it could not confirm that the
warheads were American -- it would be one of the most tragic instances
so far of civilian Iraqi casualties from allied fire. Those pictures
of destruction and death were getting plenty of airtime yesterday in
the world's media, as happens in every case when U.S. forces are
accused of harming the innocent. Yet a full assessment of civilian
suffering in the war's first week points in a different direction:
Iraqis have endured far more injury from Saddam Hussein's forces --
and those blows have been deliberate.
Smart Bombs, Dumb War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34663-2003Mar26.html
By Harold Meyerson, Page A21
In the history of the planet, ours is the only government to show
its concern for human life through the precision of its bombs. That
says a lot about our technological prowess. It also says a lot about
the insensitivity of our statecraft.
A Beautiful Mind
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34665-2003Mar26.html
By George F. Will, Page A21
Many of America's largest public careers have been those of
presidents. Many, but by no means all. Chief Justice John Marshall was
more consequential than all but two presidents -- Washington and
Lincoln. Among 20th-century public servants, Gen. George Marshall --
whose many achievements included discerning the talents of a Col.
Eisenhower -- may have been second in importance only to Franklin
Roosevelt. And no 20th-century public career was as many-faceted, and
involved so much prescience about as many matters, as that of Daniel
Patrick Moynihan, who died yesterday at 76.
The CNN Factor
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34662-2003Mar26.html
By Jim Hoagland, Page A21
In Biafra, battlefield resistance collapsed with the speed of air
escaping a punctured balloon. In Iraqi Kurdistan, I awakened one
morning to learn that the rebellion I had been covering had
essentially ended while I slept. The camp cooks had cleared out
overnight without saying goodbye. Commanders who had been vowing the
night before to fight on quickly followed them down from suddenly
besieged mountain posts.
The Gulf of World Opinion
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34664-2003Mar26.html
By Robert J. Samuelson, Page A21
The great breach between the United States and the rest of the
world over the war in Iraq will not be closed easily -- and this
matters. America isn't an imperial nation. It lacks both the will and
the ability to govern the world through political or military
commands. Cooperation is necessary in economic affairs, the campaign
against terrorism and specific crises: North Korea's nuclear program,
for instance. If world opinion becomes too poisoned, cooperation will
be harder; and poison is now flowing.
'Road Map' for Colin Powell
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34661-2003Mar26.html
By Richard Cohen, Page A21
For a time this week I was "embedded" in Secretary of State Colin
Powell's office at the State Department. I use the media-military term
of the moment because as war is being waged in Iraq, Powell is
planning some campaigns of his own. One of them -- maybe the most
important -- is to take the Israelis and the Palestinians and knock
their heads together. It's about time.
Misfires in the War Against Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34658-2003Mar26.html
Page A20
Even before the start of combat operations in Iraq, Bush
administration spokesmen and the media were focusing on Baghdad as the
location of the war's defining battle. These same sources also have
proffered the notion that, because the regime of Saddam Hussein is
dictatorial and oppressive, it is ripe for being overthrown. The Iraqi
people, having suffered for so many years, will surely welcome
liberation by allied forces.
My Role as a Presidential Adviser
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34656-2003Mar26.html
Page A20
A March 20 news story raised questions regarding my role as an
adviser to President Bush on communications strategy. It left the
impression that it is inappropriate for me to advise the president
while I am employed by the Republican National Committee.
A Budget for the Wealthy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34657-2003Mar26.html
Page A20
I find the $2.2 trillion budget resolution passed by the House
deeply troubling [news story, March 21].
Countries of Continuing Concern
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34655-2003Mar26.html
Page A20
The Post's March 17 editorial "No Particular Concern," about
religious freedom in Saudi Arabia, paraphrased State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher as saying that the government's experts
concluded unanimously that it was better to hold off and work with the
Saudi monarchy to improve matters.
Bush, Blair: Length Of War Not a Factor
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37008-2003Mar27.html
As campaigns resume at full intensity, the leaders vow to achieve
victory, saying it's not "a matter of timetables."
War Could Last Months
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33955-2003Mar26.html
Bad weather, insecure supply lines, resistance cause officers to
reassess.
Embedded in Controversy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36362-2003Mar27.html
It's suddenly become fashionable to dump on the embedded reporters.
Anxious Families Await Word
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34280-2003Mar26.html
Relatives of those missing in action are held in limbo by the lack of
news.
Bush Says U.S. Making Progress: But Effort to End Hussein Regime Is
'Far From Over,' President Warns (Post, March 27, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34224-2003Mar26.html
Court, 5-4, Backs Legal Aid Financial Plan: System Used Nationwide to
Afford Poor Free Representation Survives Challenge (Post, March 27,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33999-2003Mar26.html
Justices Hear Challenge to Texas Sodomy Law (Post, March 27, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33921-2003Mar26.html
Air Force Replaces Top Academy Officials (Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33733-2003Mar26.html
Senate Budget Halves Tax Cuts: Plan Must Still Be Reconciled With
House's (By Helen Dewar, Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34688-2003Mar26.html
GOP Liberals Are Key to Tax Cut: Fate of Bush Proposal Depends on
Votes of a Few Senators (By Jim VandeHei, Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33877-2003Mar26.html
FBI: Al Qaeda Can Construct Deadly Arms (Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34653-2003Mar26.html
Members of 9/11 Panel Warn of Funding Woe (By Dan Eggen, Page A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34690-2003Mar26.html
Cardiac Cases Raise New Vaccination Questions (By Ceci Connolly, Page
A12
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34000-2003Mar26.html
Mystery Illness's Mortality Rate 4%, WHO Official Says (By Rob Stein,
Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33750-2003Mar26.html
Tactics Show Iraqis Learned Lessons of War (By Vernon Loeb, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34229-2003Mar26.html
Relying on harassing tactics never exhibited during the 1991 Persian
Gulf War, the Iraqi military has inflicted heavy damage this week on
two of the U.S. Army's most fearsome weapons, the Abrams tank and the
Apache Longbow helicopter gunship.
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Pentagon Shuns Name 'Fedayeen' for Iraqi Irregulars (Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34652-2003Mar26.html
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Second U.S. Soldier Dies Of Injuries From Grenade Attack (By Shankar
Vedantam, Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33936-2003Mar26.html
Back at Home, Grieving -- and Some Questions: Lack of Details on
Deaths Angers Kin (By Anne Hull and Amy Goldstein, Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34091-2003Mar26.html
The Fallen (Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34668-2003Mar26.html
A Hopeful Ga. Family Waits for Good News: Town Remembers Captured
Pilot Shown on Iraqi TV (By Anne Hull, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34735-2003Mar26.html
Marine Base Is No Strangers To Worry: Camp Lejeune Has History of
Coping (By Manuel Roig-Franzia, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34188-2003Mar26.html
Powell Says U.S. Must Repair Image: Secretary of State Acknowledges
Negative Portrait in Media Abroad (By Glenn Kessler, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34514-2003Mar26.html
Bush Rallies Troops, Families at Fla. Base: Patriotism, Optimism on
Menu (By Dana Milbank, Page A33)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34171-2003Mar26.html
As It Battles Delays, U.S. Eager to Be First to Bring Aid to Iraqis
(By Karen DeYoung, Page A34)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34765-2003Mar26.html
Lending Lobbyists' Support (By Judy Sarasohn, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34724-2003Mar26.html
Government Printing Office to Reorganize: More Efficient Operation
Envisioned (By Brian Faler, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33780-2003Mar26.html
Tribal Militants in Nigeria Call for Cease-Fire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34640-2003Mar26.html
Relief Comes in Bag of Skittles: U.S. Aid Convoys Move Into Iraq
(Post, March 27, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34270-2003Mar26.html
Two Palestinians Killed in Israeli Raid (AP, March 26, 2003; 9:40 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34660-2003Mar26.html
DayBook: A look at the day's major developments in the war with Iraq
(Page A)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33963-2003Mar26.html
One Shot, and War Becomes Real: Ambush Ends Quiet Days for Marines
Escorting Tankers (By Jonathan Finer, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34763-2003Mar26.html
Troops Parachute In To Open a New Front (By Steve Vogel, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34187-2003Mar26.html
Iraqi Militia, Elite Forces Roll South Into Fierce Attack by U.S.
Warplanes (By Peter Baker and Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34148-2003Mar26.html
China Raises Disease's Death Toll: Under Pressure, Officials Admit
Spread of Infection to Beijing (By John Pomfret, Page A16)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33779-2003Mar26.html
Some Arabs Rally Behind Hussein (By Emily Wax, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34513-2003Mar26.html
When Atef Hamdan saw the television images of Iraqi farmers firing
dusty antique weapons at high-tech American helicopters, the
39-year-old used-clothing salesman got out his passport and rushed to
the Iraqi Embassy.
Saudi Again Calls For a Cease-Fire (Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34515-2003Mar26.html
A Harrowing Homecoming in a Sandy Fog on the Sea (By Lyndsey Layton,
Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34620-2003Mar26.html
Shiites' Sacred Cities Lie on Path to Baghdad (By Thomas W. Lippman,
Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34689-2003Mar26.html
Two Iraqi Deserters Describe Hard Duty: In Unit, Little Will To Fight,
They Say (By Daniel Williams, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34721-2003Mar26.html
Banned Weapons Remain Unseen (By Joby Warrick, Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34232-2003Mar26.html
Anti-Hussein Officials Rebuke Unilateral U.S. Battle Strategy:
Dissidents Say Failure to Incorporate Iraqis Constitutes 'War of
Conquest' (By Daniel Williams, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34762-2003Mar26.html
Words of War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/27NAFI.html
By AZAR NAFISI
When our lives are transformed by violence, we need works of
imagination to confirm our faith in humanity.
Will Baghdad Fight to the End?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/27BOWD.html
By MARK BOWDEN
Saddam Hussein might be on the verge of delivering the "mother of all
battles" he promised 12 years ago.
Casualties at Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/27HERB.html
By BOB HERBERT
The administration is actually fighting two wars, one against Iraq and
another against the idea of a humane and responsive government here at
home.
Help Iraqis Arise
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/27SAFI.html
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
The way to counter Saddam Hussein's strategies is by declaring
irrevocably that the only acceptable end to hostilities is
unconditional surrender.
En Route to the First Big Battle
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/27THU1.html
Just when or where the first battle will occur is not yet clear, but
its outcome may tell us how long and difficult this campaign will be.
Selective Sacrifice on the Home Front
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/27THU2.html
Senate moderates must resolve to stand up to Republican Congressional
leaders and vote against any budget resolution that hacks away at the
needy.
The Rights of Gay Americans
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/27THU3.html
Sodomy laws, which deprive homosexuals of the right to privacy that
other Americans take for granted, violate this nation's Constitution
and its spirit.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/27THU4.html
The fabled bootstrap formula of rising up to meet life's opportunities
was grandly personified by a donnish Democrat from New York.
The Twists in the Battles in the Sands of Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/L27IRAQ.html
National Amber Alerts Can Help Save Children
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/L27AMBE.html
Faces of Combatants
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/L27INNO.html
Richard Perle's Job
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/L27PERL.html
Rate the Professors?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/L27PROF.html
Trials on TV
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/L27COUR.html
Bush and Blair Voice Their Determination to Remove Hussein
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/international/worldspecial/27CND-PREXY.html
By DAVID STOUT
Uncompromising resolve was also voiced by Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld, who appeared before the Senate Approprations Committee as
the two leaders were speaking at Camp David.
Fight Far From Over in Kifl
http://tinyurl.com/8apb
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
Army forces seized a toehold in this village beginning late Monday
night. Seventy-two hours later the division has a foothold, but the
fight continues.
Baghdad Blasts Are Said to Kill 17 Civilians
http://tinyurl.com/8apg
By JOHN F. BURNS
Iraqi officials said an American missile was responsible for the
blasts, while American military officials said they did not know the
cause.
In Speech to Military Aides, Bush Shies From Quick End
http://tinyurl.com/8apl
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON with ELISABETH BUMILLER
President Bush delivered a message of resolve to military personnel on
Wednesday, but avoided mentioning a timetable for success.
Washington Trying to Curb U.N. Role in a Postwar Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/8apn
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN with FELICITY BARRINGER
Once again Britain, Washington's staunchest ally in the drive toward
Baghdad, is trying to play the role of mediator.
French Diplomat Offers Some Conciliatory Remarks
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/international/worldspecial/27CND-FRAN.html
By ALAN COWELL
Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin declined to say explicitly who
he hoped would win the war for Baghdad.
Anxiety Builds in First Week of Fighting
http://tinyurl.com/8apw
By MONICA DAVEY
Signs of anxiety about the progress of the war were evident in pockets
around Columbus, Ohio, and its mall-filled suburbs.
War News From MTV and People Magazine
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/international/worldspecial/27MTV.html
By DAVID CARR
Recognizing that not everyone gets their news from daily newspapers,
the Pentagon offered some of its "embed" slots to reporters from
magazines like People and Rolling Stone.
Urban Warfare: Long a Key Part of an Underdog's Down-to-Earth Arsenal
http://tinyurl.com/8aq5
By ALAN COWELL
Urban warfare has always set its own rules of guile and deceit, from
the use of a wooden horse to break the siege of Troy to modern times.
Up to 1,000 Iraqis Confront U.S. Troops in Surprise Attack
http://tinyurl.com/8aqn
By MICHAEL WILSON
Iraqis launched the largest and most organized surprise attack yet on
the American battalions south of the Euphrates River.
Marines 'Contested Every Inch, Every Mile'
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/international/worldspecial/27CND-MARINE.html
By JOHN KIFNER
Officers fear resistance from bands of irregular Iraqi fighters and
army units will only stiffen as allied forces get closer to Baghdad.
Wounded Americans Say Iraqi Soldiers Fought in Disguise
http://tinyurl.com/8aqq
By MARK LANDLER
Three American soldiers were wounded in two ambushes last weekend
sprung by armed Iraqis dressed in traditional robes.
The Medium Is the Message
http://tinyurl.com/8aqs
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
The decision not to attack Iraq's television broadcast capabilities at
the outset of this war is a telling one.
Relatives of Missing Soldiers Dread Hearing Worse News
http://tinyurl.com/8ara
By JAYSON BLAIR
For the families of the eight members of the 507th whom the Pentagon
lists as "whereabouts unknown," there is an extra degree of dread in
their wait.
Delicate Calculus of Casualties and Public Opinion
http://tinyurl.com/8arf
By TODD S. PURDUM
The Bush administration faces the challenge of preparing a public
lulled by the relatively low losses in Afghanistan for a conflict that
could be much costlier.
Democrat Pulls Her Support for Senate Malpractice Bill
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/politics/27MEDI.html
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
The lone Senate Democrat who publicly supports caps on jury awards in
medical malpractice suits is withdrawing her name from the
legislation.
Supreme Court Seems Set to Reverse a Sodomy Law
http://tinyurl.com/8ark
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
The court seems likely to overturn a Texas law that forbids sexual
practices between same-sex couples that the state deems lawful when
performed by a man and a woman.
Senate Approves $2.2 Trillion Budget
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/politics/27BUDG.html
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
The Senate approved a $2.2 trillion budget for the next fiscal year,
leaving intact the vote on Tuesday to slice President Bush's proposed
tax cut in half.
Drug Shows Promise in at Least 4 Cancers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/health/27CANC.html
By NICHOLAS WADE
A fourth kind of cancer has proved to be treatable by a drug that also
causes remarkable remissions in many patients with a rare form of
leukemia.
Panel Finds Manipulation by Energy Companies
http://tinyurl.com/8art
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
During the 2000-2001 energy crisis in California, electricity and
natural gas prices were driven higher because of widespread
manipulation by over 30 energy companies.
Hands Out for Shares of War Budget
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/politics/27COST.html
By DAVID FIRESTONE and PHILIP SHENON
President Bush's request for money to pay for the war in Iraq became a
magnet for various causes on Capitol Hill.
Senate's 'Vote a Rama': 80 in 3 Days
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/national/27SENA.html
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Like the cherry blossoms, Vote a Rama, seemingly endless back-to-back
votes on the budget, comes to Washington each spring, the budget
season in the Senate.
Stocks End Modestly Lower After Morning Slump
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/business/27CND-STOX.html
By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER
Stocks rebounded from early declines today after President Bush and
British Prime Minister Tony Blair defended the pace of the war against
Iraq.
I.M.F. Says Iraqi War Threatens Global Economic Recovery
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/business/27CND-IMF.html
By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN
Financial uncertainties related to the Iraqi war may stymie a nascent
global economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund said today.
Sears Reinvents Itself, but What Exactly Is It?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/business/27SEAR.html
By CONSTANCE L. HAYS
The decision of Sears to part with the credit business, which began
during the Depression, represents a marked shift in strategy.
W.T.O. Rules Against U.S. on Steel Tariff
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/business/27STEE.html
By ELIZABETH BECKER
If the United States loses on appeal, European and other nations could
impose trade sanctions of comparable value against the United States.
Republican Plan to Aid Airlines Is Below Request
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/business/27RELI.html
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Republican leaders voiced support for providing as much as $3 billion
in aid to the nation's airlines, far less than what the industry says
it needs.
Some Question Timing of Sears Credit Card Unit Sale
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/business/27PLAC.html
By RIVA D. ATLAS
Sears, Roebuck could be selling its giant credit card business at the
bottom of the market. But its portfolio may not be bottoming out as
quickly as those of its competitors.
Tracking the Injuries When S.U.V.'s Collide
http://tinyurl.com/8ash
By DANNY HAKIM
Initial results are in from the first tests to determine how vehicles
stand up in collisions with sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks.
Is War a Generator of Expenses or an Economic Stimulus?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/business/27SCEN.html
By VIRGINIA POSTREL
Why don't we hear more about how the Bush administration's request for
$75 billion to aid the Iraq war might help the U.S. economy?
When Images Compete as Fiercely as Armies (washingtonpost.com, March
27, 2003; 3:01 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35269-2003Mar27.html
All Is Not Quiet on Iraq's Northern Front (washingtonpost.com, March
26, 2003; 5:51 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30509-2003Mar26.html
War by Other Means
http://tinyurl.com/8at0
By LISA NAPOLI
Kill-or-be-killed encounters are at the core of a steady stream of
video games. Despite the war in Iraq, the virtual shooting has not let
up.
War Fails to Halt Iraqi Oil Production, but Prompts a Debate
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/international/worldspecial/26OIL.html
By NEELA BANERJEE and FELICITY BARRINGER
Iraq's massive Kirkuk field in the north is still pumping oil and
piping it to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, where storage tanks are
filling up.
Bank of Japan to Buy More Stocks From Lenders
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/business/worldbusiness/26YEN.html
By KEN BELSON
The Bank of Japan's policy board said it would buy more stocks from
the nation's lenders and flood the credit markets with yet more yen.
With Wires in the Walls, the Cyberhome
http://tinyurl.com/8at6
By LISA GUERNSEY
Networking without the netting: tangled cables begone!
Do Cheaters Ever Prosper? Just Ask Them
http://tinyurl.com/8at8
By PETER WAYNER
While breaking the rules has always been an accepted part of
single-player games, new online games match competitors remotely,
which changes the dynamic.
Your Brake Pads May Have Something to Say (by E-Mail)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/technology/circuits/27next.html
By IAN AUSTEN
By harvesting a car's digital signals, researchers plan to develop
systems that could warn motorists of potential problems.
A Trail of Cookies? Cover Your Tracks
http://tinyurl.com/8ate
By THOMAS J. FITZGERALD
The Internet's convenience is frequently offset by the sacrifice of
privacy. But much can be done to minimize the risks.
From the Airline Handbook, a Design for Outliving Terrorism
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/garden/27GOV.html
By PHIL PATTON
Ready.gov, the Department of Homeland Security's terrorism
preparedness Web site, has been a hit on the Web and in parodies.
In a Mustard Spoon, a Measure of Comfort
http://tinyurl.com/8ath
By SAVANNAH WARING WALKER
Internet auctions offer trinkets and treasures to feed the soul and
fill the house.
Behold, the Invisible Man, if Not Seeing Is Believing
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/international/asia/27INVI.html
By JAMES BROOKE
Susumu Tachi's invisible raincoat, unlike Hollywood "science fiction,"
is a "true scientific development."
Key to Strains of Anthrax Is Discovered
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/international/worldspecial/27ANTH.html
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Scientists have discovered why strains of the bacterium that causes
anthrax differ so much in virulence, which could help improve vaccines
and tools for tracking the germ.
Rules Approved to Reduce Pollutants at Power Plants
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/nyregion/27ACID.html
By KIRK JOHNSON
Power plants in New York State will have to sharply cut their output
of pollutants blamed for acid rain, smog and other environmental ills
beginning next year.
Experts Support Move to Curb Some Smallpox Vaccinations
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/international/worldspecial/27SMAL.html
By DENISE GRADY
Medical experts said the government acted correctly on Tuesday when it
temporarily suspended smallpox vaccinations for people with heart
disease.
Antiwar Demonstrations Jam Midtown
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Anti-War-Protests.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Anti-war groups called for a day of widespread civil disobedience
today, including blocking busy intersections and staging a "die-in."
New Yorkers' Sharp Divisions Fall Roughly on Racial Lines
http://tinyurl.com/8atv
By RANDY KENNEDY and DIANE CARDWELL
If part of the strategy of the war is trying to win more support for
it at home, then a battle was being lost badly the other afternoon on
a concrete bench in Harlem.
Censorship Is Patriotism to Big Board
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/nyregion/27MATT.html
By JOYCE PURNICK
Al Jazeera's business reporters were banned from the floor of the New
York Stock Exchange the day after the network broadcast images of
American prisoners and dead soldiers.
Dissection of a Crime Leaves Brazil Exposed
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/movies/27BUS.html
By A. O. SCOTT
This Brazilian documentary about the hijacking of a city bus is so
wrenching and absorbing that you can easily lose sight of the
sophistication of its techniques.
Trying to Understand a Heart of Darkness
http://tinyurl.com/8aub
By ALAN RIDING
François Bizot decided to write a book about surviving a Khmer Rouge
prison when he discovered the role his captor and liberator had played
in the regime.
Memoirs of a Queen, Middle East Perspective
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/books/27MASL.html
By JANET MASLIN
Queen Noor's memoir is glossy and decorous, but it is also a fiery
account of her Jordanian husband's frustrations in dealing with the
United States and Israel.
South Korea Announces Sweeping Economic Reforms
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/international/asia/27CND-KOREA.html
The government announced sweeping economic reforms today designed to
entice investment into fields ranging from golf courses to factories
to car dealerships amid rising fears of a second economic crisis.
Canadians of Two Minds Over Neighbor to the South
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/international/americas/27CANA.html
No institution is more typically Canadian than the CBC Saturday night
prime time television program "Hockey Night in Canada," which for 50
years has produced defining moments in almost every Canadian childhood
and filled every bar in the country with cheers and moans.
Militants in Afghanistan Fire Rockets at 2 American Bases
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/international/asia/27AFGH.html
Militants fired more than a dozen rockets on two American bases
overnight, the second heavy attack since the war in Iraq began, a
military spokeswoman said today.
Army Depots in Iraqi Desert Have Names of Oil Giants
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/business/27CAMP.html
The subtleties surrounding the sensitive role oil plays in the Iraqi
war may have eluded the United States Army. Deep in some newspaper
coverage yesterday was a report that the 101st Airborne Division had
named one central Iraq outpost Forward Operating Base Shell and
another Forward Operating Base Exxon.
Delays Are Rare at U.S. Borders
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/business/worldbusiness/27BORD.html
Heightened border security was widely expected to crimp the huge flow
of goods back and forth across the United States' borders with Canada
and Mexico when the war in Iraq began, just as it caused bottlenecks,
delays and headaches after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Bringing in reinforcements
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1666942
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
George Bush and Tony Blair meet for a war council as the coalition
prepares to bring in reinforcements and American paratroopers open up
a northern front
The limits of technology
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1666353
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Will Baghdad be the backdrop for the mother of all battles?
An UNconfirmed role
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1666332
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
At his summit with George Bush, Tony Blair urged a greater role for
the United Nations in Iraq once the war is over. But even the
multilateralist Colin Powell has insisted America will remain in
control of Iraq's post-war political structures
Eyeing Turkey nervously
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1664619
Mar 26th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Turkey prepares to send more troops into Iraq to stop the Kurds
seizing perhaps their best chance of self-rule since the Ottoman
empire collapsed
Tense times at home
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1664572
Mar 25th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
America and Britain have done much to guard against wartime terror
attacks but they are still vulnerable
Taxing times
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1666114
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The Senate has delivered a snub to President George Bush by voting to
halve his planned tax cut in a surprise vote. Even as American troops
are fighting in Iraq it looks as if the president's domestic agenda
may be in trouble
Clipped
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1666097
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The Securities and Exchange Commission is taking a "long, hard look"
at hedge funds. Much stricter regulation may not be far away
Deadlocked in Doha
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1667266
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist print edition
The Doha round of trade talks is in deep trouble-thanks mainly to the
European Union
Letters
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1648380
On George Bush, Brazil, racial profiling, illegal drugs
The not-so-quiet American
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1667191
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Tactful or not, Donald Rumsfeld is the face of America at war
Redrawing the federal map
http://www.economist.com/world/la/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1667161
Mar 27th 2003 | MEXICO CITY
From The Economist print edition
Long a fiction, Mexican federalism has become a political reality, but
not yet a fiscal one. That carries dangers
Read all about us
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1667061
Mar 27th 2003 | TOKYO
From The Economist print edition
Triumphalist books about Japan have given way to gloomier tomes
Can Gaullism work today?
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1667347
Mar 27th 2003 | PARIS
From The Economist print edition
Historical parallels may be giving comfort-for the time being-to
France's president in his continuing row with the Americans
Britain comes round to war
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1667241
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist print edition
There's been a remarkable shift in the opinion polls, but history
suggests Tony Blair should not rely on it
Peace, they say, but the killing goes on
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1667129
Mar 27th 2003 | BUNIA
From The Economist print edition
Against a vile background of slaughter, Congo is supposed to be
getting a new unified government
Damning and damned
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1667766
Mar 27th 2003 | CAIRO
From The Economist print edition
Aroused by Iraq's resistance, Arab crowds are angered by their leaders
The communist entrepreneur
http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1666584
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Yin Mingshan shows how to make profits and political friends in China
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1673727
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, politician and polymath, died on March 26th,
aged 76
Krakatoa: the day the world exploded
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1666444
Literary and geological tension are engaged to tell the tale of
Krakatoa
Mar 27th 2003
Climbing the helical staircase
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1647556
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Biotechnology has its troubles, but in the long term it may change the
world, says Geoffrey Carr
The spoils of war
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1666489
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist print edition
What can the past tell about the effect of military conflict on the
environment?
Primed to go
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1666547
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Mathematicians are discussing ways to make code-breaking easier
Basel brush
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1670284
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist print edition
American unilateralism over bank capital rules is upsetting Europeans
Military-industrial complexities
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1667370
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist print edition
The defence industry will not be the biggest beneficiary from the war
Hotspots and fries
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1668171
Mar 27th 2003 | SAN FRANCISCO
From The Economist print edition
Coming to a McDonald's near you: wireless access to the internet
Send in the soldiers
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1648476
Mar 20th 2003
From The Economist print edition
America's military forces around the world are run by five men. A new
book looks at their power and influence-and claims it is excessive
The widening Atlantic
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1648535
Mar 20th 2003
From The Economist print edition
THERE is a particular intellectual pleasure to be gained from the
originality and clarity of Robert Kagan's "Of Paradise and Power", an
extended essay on relations between the United States and Europe. Yet
the conclusions of the "Kaganthesis" are also disquieting.
Softbed of opposition to the war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,923703,00.html
March 27: The world's most populous Muslim country has not been rocked
by protest against the attack on Iraq, writes John Aglionby.
Fearful for the future
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,924026,00.html
March 27: Turkish Kurds fear that the war in Iraq could make their
harsh existence even worse, writes Helena Smith.
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Al-Jazeera tells the truth about war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,924469,00.html
Faisal Bodi: My station is a threat to American media control - and
they know it.
Forgotten lessons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,924400,00.html
Polly Toynbee: Roy Jenkins was Tony Blair's mentor, but on equality,
Europe and Iraq, Blair has betrayed his memory
Make war to the camera
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,924464,00.html
John O'Farrell: The auditions to be Saddam Hussein's lookalike must be
rather nervous affairs.
Freeing Iraqis will not be a single act, but a long process
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,924471,00.html
Martin Woollacott: Expect the remnants of dictatorship to linger.
Shades of grey
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,924257,00.html
He was an unlikely public figure, a quiet man whose hobbies were
preparing Swedish fish dishes and making marmalade - but for a few
brief months, the world hung on his every word. So could Hans Blix
have done anything to stop the war? Gary Younge asked him.
Nine objects, nine lives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,924285,00.html
It may not look much - a motley collection of bits and pieces, the
bric-a-brac of daily life. But for a group of Iraqi exiles, they are
their most prized possessions, each carrying a story of personal
struggle, hardship and courage. Stuart Jeffries meets the people
behind the artefacts in an extraordinary exhibition.
Behind the lines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,924273,00.html
Esther Addley: Our thanks to Sky News for the following important
headlines from Bush and Blair's press conference yesterday at Camp
David: first, viewers were told, "Resolve is firm."
The DIY children
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,924311,00.html
This weekend sees some of the countries top restaurants helping raise
money for deprived children in developing countries. Matthew Fort
reports from Kenya on how some who are affected by HIV and Aids are
helping themselves to survive.
Walking with Cavemen
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,924337,00.html
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'Bush has already lost the war'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Iraqi civilian deaths bring mounting pressure on US-led coalition.
Is it worth it?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
One thing is certain: the longer the war goes on the higher the risk
that Bush and Blair will pay a political price for mounting economic
costs
cost-benefit analysis
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Neo-conservatives
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Keep it real
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,922587,00.html
Film: The success of Bowling for Columbine has opened the door for a
wave of feature-length documentaries, says Geoffrey Macnab.
The realities of conflict
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,924220,00.html
The tabloid press advise outrage at the broadcasting by Arabic TV
stations of footage of war casualties (Defence chiefs demand
al-Jazeera stop screening film of dead soldiers, March 27).
House of criminals
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,924224,00.html
Tam Dalyell says Tony Blair should be branded a war criminal and sent
to the Hague (Comment, March 27).
After it's all over
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,924230,00.html
You make it clear (Humanitarian crisis, March 27) that the main aid
agencies still have a shortfall of approximately $55m.
How Iraqis are facing up to the bombs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,924231,00.html
Rocket-blitz and carpet-bombing is not only clearing the way to
Baghdad, it is also devastating the lives of human beings helplessly
caught in this violence.
Iraq's future
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,924217,00.html
The UN must be at the heart of it.
Hold our tongues?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,924218,00.html
What should we tell of the horror of war?
IMF warns of prolonged conflict jeopardising recovery
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,924353,00.html
The International Monetary Fund warned yesterday that a prolonged war
in Iraq could depress financial markets and put global economic
recovery in jeopardy.
Blair: war will take time
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,924587,00.html
9.30am: Iraqi troops 'fire at civilians'
· Bunker-busting bombs hit Baghdad
· Rumsfeld: US may lay siege to capital
Fleeing civilians wounded by Iraqi forces
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,924579,00.html
· Civilians 'fired on' by Iraqi troops
· Bunker-busting bombs hit Baghdad
· Rumsfeld: US may lay siege to capital
'We are working to make the world more peaceful'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,924437,00.html
Tony Blair and President Bush yesterday resolved in a display of
wartime steel that they would "fight for as long as it takes" to
remove Saddam Hussein from power and liberate the brutalised Iraqi
people.
Amnesty condemns 'safe haven' plan
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,924468,00.html
Criticism of proposals for 'transit processing centre' outside Europe.
Flagging the issues but the devil in lack of policy details
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,924303,00.html
Tony Blair and President George Bush yesterdayproclaimed unity in the
prosecution of the war against Iraq, the provision of humanitarian aid
and plans for a post-Saddam administration.
No 10 backtracks on claim that two British soldiers were executed
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,924450,00.html
Tony Blair appeared to backtrack yesterday when his official spokesman
said there was no "absolute evidence" that two British soldiers who
were killed after being separated from their unit in southern Iraq
were executed, as the prime minister had earlier suggested.
Israelis fear Blair's influence over Bush
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,924524,00.html
Sharon furious as Britain steers White House to strong commitment on
independent Palestinian state.
Diary
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/diary/story/0,9176,924489,00.html
Matthew Norman: Sneerers who doubt our government's influence over the
Americans need not wait for Mr Tony Blair to reverse Mr Bush's
thinking on postwar Iraq to feel foolish.
Longer war is likely, says US general
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924487,00.html
The top US infantry commander in Iraq has said that his troops'
overstretched supply lines, coupled with unexpectedly stiff Iraqi
resistance, had stalled the advance on Baghdad and increased the
possibility of a long war.
British anger as port contract goes to US firm rather than to locals
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924421,00.html
Serious divisions emerged last night between Britain and America over
plans for the running of Iraq's largest port at Umm Qasr.
France insists US should give way on rebuilding Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924429,00.html
The United Nations must play "the key role" in rebuilding Iraq after a
crisis that has "shattered" the existing world order, the French
foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, insisted yesterday.
Aid ship hold-up worries agencies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924428,00.html
Mine safety fears at port keep British vessel waiting.
Assad predicts defeat for invasion force
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924269,00.html
Mood of militancy grows as chief cleric calls on Muslims to launch
suicide attacks.
Russia adds to Iran nuclear row
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924202,00.html
A British company has denied Russian suggestions that it provided
uranium enrichment equipment to Iran.
We won't be subcontractors, warns UN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924427,00.html
The United Nations will refuse to play a "subservient" role or act as
a "subcontractor" to the United States in the reconstruction of Iraq,
the organisation's development chief has warned.
'I shot Fortuyn for Dutch Muslims,' says accused
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924324,00.html
The long-awaited trial of Pim Fortuyn's alleged killer got under way
in the Netherlands yesterday with a stark admission from the main
defendant that he had assassinated the anti-immigration politician as
a favour to the country's Muslim minority and other vulnerable
sections of society.
French PM speaks of possible bloodbath as hi-tech strategy comes
unstuck
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924540,00.html
The divide in Europe over the war's prosecution widened last night
when France's normally mild-mannered prime minister delivered a
stinging attack on the campaign, saying it could become a bloodbath.
Bush's defence adviser quits in row over conflict of interest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924554,00.html
Richard Perle, a chief architect of the war on Iraq, resigned
yesterday as chairman of the influential defence policy board
following allegations that he faced a serious conflict of interest
over his corporate connections. The US defence secretary Donald
Rumsfeld yesterday accepted his resignation but asked him to remain on
the board.
Refugees pour out of Basra
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924555,00.html
Hundreds of refugees left the southern Iraqi city of Basra yesterday,
passing through British frontlines blocking off the western side of
the city.
'We have very little time to decide if a bus is going to be hostile'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924425,00.html
Tactics change as lead units clearing road for advance leave 20 dead
US must not dominate post-war Iraq - France
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924556,00.html
The United Nations must play "the key role" in rebuilding Iraq after a
crisis that has "shattered" the existing world order, the French
foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, insisted yesterday.
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924447,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
How the Pentagon's promise of a quick war ran into the desert sand
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924430,00.html
Political oversights may have stalled offensive, but Rumsfeld is still
urging a faster, riskier attack
Political unity begins to melt as heat rises
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924439,00.html
As American and British troops ran into apparently unexpected levels
of resistance from irregular forces in Iraq, there were signs
yesterday of growing divisions within the US government over the
wisdom of the military strategy being pursued by Donald Rumsfeld, the
defence secretary.
Eager Kurds link up with US paratroopers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924258,00.html
The Iraqi army staged a tactical surprise last night when hundreds of
troops defending the northern oil city of Kirkuk abandoned their
vulnerable frontline positions and retreated 10 miles towards the
city.
'Friendly fire' injures marines and destroys vehicles at US post
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924259,00.html
Up to 37 US marines were injured yesterday and their armoured vehicles
destroyed, left, by "friendly fire", amid fierce fighting close to the
strategic southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya.
Scots Guards destroy 14 Iraqi tanks in confrontation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924261,00.html
British troops last night were camped outside Basra waiting for a
fresh opportunity to attack Iraqi forces after their first serious
engagement against enemy tanks.
Life for residents goes on amid bomb casualties
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924260,00.html
Explosions shook Baghdad yesterday as sandstorms abated and skies
cleared, exposing the capital to a second week of intensive air raids.
The first casualty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924262,00.html
A look at the way the war is being spun and reported
Behind the lines, the body bags arrive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924263,00.html
James Meek in Al Qadisiyah province sees how the US army is dealing
with the dead
'The rocket hit. It blew me out of the truck'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924264,00.html
Staff Sergeant Jamie Villafane, 31, from Long Island, New York, is
among 24 American servicemen recovering from combat injuries at the US
armed force's medical centre at Landstuhl in south-west Germany.
Come the movie, it's a role for Will Smith
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924266,00.html
The ultimate television war became explicitly a war about television
yesterday.
Confused, scared but unbowed - Iraqi deserters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924268,00.html
On the step outside our house is a pile of footwear. The old trainers
worn by the Kurdish peshmerga fighters who stop by for tea, the
guards' plastic flip flops and, as of 7.30 last night, two pairs of
battered, muddy Iraqi army boots.
Suspicious troops search refugees
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924331,00.html
Hundreds of refugees left the southern Iraqi city of Basra yesterday,
passing through British frontlines blocking off the western side of
the city.
An addition to the pile - two pairs of deserters' boots
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924539,00.html
On the step outside our house is a pile of footwear. The old trainers
worn by the Kurdish peshmerga fighters who stop by for tea, the
guards' plastic flip flops and, as of 7.30 last night, two pairs of
battered, muddy Iraqi army boots.
Suspected British PoWs are 'Kenyans' drivers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924336,00.html
Two men captured by the Iraqis and paraded on al-Jazeera television as
coalition soldiers are civilian drivers contracted by the British army
to deliver supplies to Iraqi prisoners, it emerged yesterday.
Bush leads tributes to Moynihan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924203,00.html
Daniel Moynihan, the only American politician to have served four
successive presidents in senior posts, has died, aged 76, after
complications following a ruptured appendix.
Protests at Croatia sentence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924295,00.html
Hundreds of nationalists and war veterans set up roadblocks across
Croatia yesterday to protest against a court's decision to convict and
sentence a former high-ranking army general and two others on war
crimes charges.
Africa Rebels close in on Monrovia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924297,00.html
Rebels fought their way to the outskirts of the Liberian capital,
Monrovia, yesterday in a renewed effort to oust President Charles
Taylor.
Food giant did not hire illegal staff
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924326,00.html
Tyson Foods, one of the world's largest chicken producers, was cleared
yesterday of smuggling illegal immigrants from Latin America into the
US to work in its plants. Three managers of the company were also
cleared at the end of a trial in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Launch of Japanese satellite fuels friction with North Korea
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924204,00.html
A glistening, black-and-orange rocket carrying Japan's first spy
satellites was moved to its launch pad for a final countdown on a
remote island yesterday, amid tight security.
Drug crisis after Serbia crackdown
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924248,00.html
A massive crackdown on crime after the killing of the Serbian prime
minister, Zoran Djindjic, has sent drug prices soaring in Belgrade and
many desperate addicts are now seeking medical help.
Big ideas unveiled as tiny bedroom opens
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,924306,00.html
As a shrine, it is very small: no more than 8ft by 6ft. But in this
bedroom, John Lennon and Paul McCartney composed Please, Please Me.
Russia adds to Iran nuclear row
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,924334,00.html
A British company has denied Russian suggestions that it provided
uranium enrichment equipment to Iran.
A mum's army that waits and hopes by the TV
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,924184,00.html
Today the Guardian begins a week-long journey around Britain to gauge
the public mood over the war in the Gulf, starting in Aldershot.
Start of television war brings big ratings rise
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,924265,00.html
A week after the war in Iraq began, the initial surge in ratings for
news programmes and channels appears to be slowing.
Film of PoWs within Geneva rules
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,924185,00.html
Media organisations which show pictures of prisoners of war are not
breaching the Geneva convention, international law experts confirmed
yesterday.
Lack of trust in media turns many to alternative sources
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,924186,00.html
The Muslim view of al-Jazeera and alternative websites sought out amid
suspicions that western networks are biased
Charities scorn aid cash from government
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,924332,00.html
British aid agencies have signed a statement declining financial
support from the government for their relief work in Iraq for fear of
compromising their independence.
EU faces big drop in birth rate
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,924350,00.html
With no immigration, the population of Europe could fall by 88 million
in the next 100 years, because women are having fewer children, and
starting families later.
Cover story: 90 minutes that shook the world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,922902,00.html
It took Alexander Sokurov two years to prepare his film tribute to St
Petersburg's Hermitage museum, once home to Catherine the Great and
backdrop to the start of the Russian revolution. But it took him just
an hour and a half to shoot it, in a single take. Jonathan Jones on
the making of a remarkable movie.
Welease Bwian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,922904,00.html
Monty Python's The Life of Brian was the most controversial film of
its time, incurring the wrath of religious zealots across the world.
But, as Robert Sellers reveals, the publicity only helped the film -
and its principal backer, George Harrison
The pin-up of protest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,922899,00.html
In 1949, a teenage model took the role of an Italian rice harvester -
and in doing so paved the way for a generation of film stars. David
Thomson on the life and times of Silvana Mangano.
In This World
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,922913,00.html
An urgently realistic account of the grim commerce in human beings.
Blair and Bush admit that war could last for months
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=391491
Tony Blair and George Bush have braced the British and American public
for a longer-than- expected war in Iraq
Arabian oasis
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=391431
28 March 2003
It is possible - and indeed necessary - to criticise al-Jazeera for
showing footage of dead British soldiers and at the same time to
congratulate the Qatar-based television station for its coverage of
the war in Iraq.
Andrew Buncombe: The priority here is clear: Oil comes before people
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391485
28 March 2003
Larry Flak looked as if he had been born to put out burning oil fires,
which was just as well because 30 yards behind him smoke and flames
were erupting into the sky from a roaring wellhead.
Christopher Bellamy: If the cities do not fall to the Allies, there
may be no alternative to siege warfare
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391465
28 March 2003
Four centuries before Christ, China's General Sun-Tzu wrote in his Art
of War: "The worst policy is to besiege cities."
Robert Fisk: Raw, devastating realities that expose the truth about
Basra
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391460
28 March 2003
Two British soldiers lie dead on a Basra roadway, a small Iraqi girl -
victim of an Anglo American air strike - is brought to hospital with
her intestines spilling out of her stomach, a terribly wounded woman
screams in agony as doctors try to take off her black dress.
Patrick Cockburn: Why the Iraqis are suspicious of their liberators
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391429
28 March 2003
Saddam has ruined Iraq, but his people do not blame him alone.
Whoever wins the war, the US has lost the peace
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/adrian_hamilton/story.jsp?story=391430
By Adrian Hamilton
28 March 2003
The propaganda war has now spread from the war to the diplomacy of
post-war. To listen to British briefers you would think that Tony
Blair had been leading a fully mechanised brigade over to the US to
force Washington to admit the United Nations to the task of
reconstructing Iraq, and to reverse its pro-Israeli stance.
Kim Sengupta: The eye of the storm
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=391417
From his hotel roof, Kim Sengupta watched the first bombs fall on
Baghdad. Here he tells, day by day, how the city has coped with its
first eight days of war
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We Interrupt This Campaign...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41516-2003Mar28.html
If the Democratic presidential campaign was a television show, it
would be canceled on account of war.
Moussaoui Said Not to Be Part of 9/11 Plot
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40081-2003Mar27.html
Captured al Qaeda operations chief Khalid Sheik Mohammed has told his
interrogators that Zacarias Moussaoui was not part of the September
11, 2001, hijack group but was in the U.S. for a second wave of
attacks, sources said.
Public Backs Reduced Tax Cut
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41295-2003Mar28.html
Most Americans want to slash President George W. Bush's proposed tax
cut as the country grows increasingly resigned to a longer, costlier
and much bloodier war in Iraq, according to a new Washington Post-ABC
News poll.
After '89 Oil Spill, Waves Of Money Changes Town
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39220-2003Mar27.html
In the lonely village of Akhiok, Alaska, residents are accustomed to
torment -- earthquakes, tsunamis, black rains of volcanic ash, and the
worst oil spill in history. Now, there's a new threat: too much
wealth.
Strategic Tracking of Sniffles
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39629-2003Mar27.html
Every morning, scientists gather in a secure war room in Howard County
to gauge how people in the Washington region are feeling.
Army Marks a Vigilant Pause in Desert
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39659-2003Mar27.html
WITH U.S. FORCES IN CENTRAL IRAQ, March 27 -- As dawn broke over the
arid landscape and three days of sandstorms gave way to a crisp clear
morning, the sound of explosions broke the stillness. Soon, plumes of
black smoke were rising to the east and north.
Red Cross Suspends Afghan Work
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42200-2003Mar28.html
The International Committee of the Red Cross suspended field
operations across Afghanistan today after gunmen ambushed and killed
one of its workers.
Diplomatic Missteps With Turkey Prove Costly
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39794-2003Mar27.html
A force of Army tanks and tens of thousands of troops would be bearing
down on Baghdad from northern Iraq as other armored troops converged
on the capital from the south.
Enduring Life, and Now War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39270-2003Mar27.html
A Shiite Muslim takes pride in her son's service in the army, but
deems the war a waste and waits for news she hopes will never come.
Former Street Urchin's Dream Ends in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39510-2003Mar27.html
Jose Antonio Gutierrez, who grew up as a homeless kid in Guatemala
City, became one of the first U.S. soldiers to die in combat in the
Iraq war last Friday.
U.S. Lands in Middle of Afghan Feuding
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39508-2003Mar27.html
Amanullah Khan and Ismail Khan despise each other and have been
killing each other's people for almost 20 years. The two men,
nominally loyal to the U.S.-backed government in Kabul, are the
strongest warlords in western Afghanistan along the long and barren
border with Iran, and their conflict has no end in sight.
Disease Forces Hong Kong School Closure
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39509-2003Mar27.html
Officials ordered schools closed for nine days and placed 1,080 people
under quarantine, threatening fines and jail time if they defy
government regulations.
Mystery Illness Hits Victims Hard
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39383-2003Mar27.html
At least 51 Americans in 21 states, including three in Virginia, are
believed to have been stricken by a baffling, sometimes deadly new
lung infection that has sparked a global health emergency.
Blair Seeks Focus on Postwar Iraq, U.N. Role
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38431-2003Mar27.html
The news conference by Bush and Blair revealed subtle but important
differences between the allies on the Iraq war and its aftermath.
Near Basra, British Purvey Juice, Milk and Artillery
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39821-2003Mar27.html
There were reports of an uprising in the making two days ago, but the
British troops in Basra said it was largely exaggerated and seems to
have ended.
General: A Longer War Likely
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38166-2003Mar27.html
The Army's senior ground commander in Iraq said that overextended
supply lines and a combative adversary using unconventional tactics
have stalled the U.S. drive toward Baghdad.
Arab World Is Seeing War Far Differently
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40075-2003Mar27.html
Egyptian women sitting in front of an Iraqi flag flash victory signs
during a demonstration north of Cairo.
Marines in South Struggle to Identify Roving Militiamen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40051-2003Mar27.html
NORTH OF NASIRIYAH, Iraq, March 27 -- They maneuvered like soldiers,
running a few steps and then dropping to their stomachs and waiting,
before continuing on their way. In bluejeans and button-down shirts,
they could hardly pass for local peasants, who wear long robes.
Blair Plans To Press for U.N. Role
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the Iraqis have been
disappointed before, but that "this time we will not let you down." He
also said a U.N. role is essential in rebuilding the country after the
war.
The News Veteran
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40055-2003Mar27.html
Perhaps the toughest moment for Ted Koppel in Iraq -- beyond the
sandstorms and the 14-hour drives and the nights with no sleep -- was
when he wound up in a ditch.
For Broadcast Media, Patriotism Pays
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40057-2003Mar27.html
Now, apparently, is the time for all good radio and TV stations to
come to the aid of their country's war
The Right Tone for Somber News?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40053-2003Mar27.html
It is hard not to notice Victoria Clarke's clothes whenever the
assistant secretary of defense for public affairs fields questions
from reporters.
Military Expels Journalist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40056-2003Mar27.html
The Pentagon expelled a Christian Science Monitor reporter from Iraq
on grounds that he revealed sensitive military information in
broadcast interviews.
Detention Without End (Cont'd)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39932-2003Mar27.html
Page A22
JOSE PADILLA has been confined in a military brig since June. An
American citizen arrested in this country by civilian authorities, he
is being held incommunicado, unable to speak even to his lawyers.
Recently a federal judge ruled that this state of affairs could not
persist: An American citizen detained indefinitely -- even during
wartime -- must be able to respond to the government's allegations
and, therefore, must have some access to counsel. This is hardly a
radical suggestion. But even the barest hint of an adversarial
proceeding is too much for the military these days. So the government
last week informed Chief Judge Michael B. Mukasey of the U.S. District
Court in New York that it will appeal his ruling.
Dynamic Deficits
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39911-2003Mar27.html
Page A22
FOR YEARS, tax-cut aficionados have argued that the green-eyeshade
crowd underestimates the benefits of tax cuts by measuring only the
costs. They say the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office should
include in its analyses extra revenue that would be generated by
economic growth stimulated by, yes, the tax cuts.
Kofi Annan's Offense
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39937-2003Mar27.html
By Charles Krauthammer, Page A23
The media could use some lithium. Not since I studied bipolar
disease 25 years ago have I seen such dramatic mood swings as in the
coverage of the first week of the war.
History and Humiliation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39903-2003Mar27.html
By Shibley Telhami, Page A23
As the battle for Baghdad begins and public opinion in the Middle
East is further inflamed, the prevailing view in Washington remains
that military victory will fix everything in the end. Two notions
drive this view: that the defeat of Saddam Hussein will put the
militant forces in the Middle East on the defensive and that the
overwhelming exercise of American power will command respect, thus
compliance, in the region, even if it doesn't win hearts. Neither is
supported by historical trends.
Impelled by Fear
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39935-2003Mar27.html
By David Ignatius, Page A23
KUWAIT CITY -- A week into the war in Iraq, it's time to shelve the
rosy scenarios and accept an unpleasant fact: The United States faces
a long battle to defeat resistance fighters organized by the Baath
Party and Saddam Hussein's secret police.
Our Kind of Law
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39936-2003Mar27.html
By Michael Kinsley, Page A23
If Daniel Patrick Moynihan hadn't died this week of complications
from a burst appendix, he might have died of embarrassment. Not
necessarily over what his country is doing in Iraq but over what his
country's leaders are saying about it. The late senator from New York
was a man of policy passions, and one of them was international law.
"In the annals of forgetfulness," Moynihan wrote in 1990, "there is
nothing quite to compare with the falling from the American mind of
the idea of the law of nations." The leading examples of the time were
a series of U.S. military adventures in Latin America during the
1980s, which we took less and less trouble trying to justify under our
various treaty commitments.
The Singular Moynihan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39934-2003Mar27.html
By E. J. Dionne Jr., Page A23
Why did people of every partisan and ideological hue love Daniel
Patrick Moynihan?
The Painful Dilemmas of War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39900-2003Mar27.html
Page A22
The March 25 editorial "Day Five" stated, "It may even prove true
that the American strategy of trying to focus the war narrowly on
Saddam Hussein and his power apparatus, and away from most Iraqis,
will make the fight more costly."
U.S. Gains Ground In West Of Iraq: Operation Creates A Buffer Zone
Against Attacks (Post, March 28, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38974-2003Mar27.html
Casualties, Expectations Might Collide: Experts Warn of Rising Losses
as Factor in Support for War (Post, March 28, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39764-2003Mar27.html
House Approves Anti-Abduction Measure: Legislation Includes Money,
Tougher Penalties, Expanded Police Authority (Post, March 28, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39462-2003Mar27.html
Iraq War Makes Big Dent In Norfolk: City Is Not the Same After 30,000
Ship Out (Post, March 28, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39678-2003Mar27.html
New Voting Systems Assailed: Computer Experts Cite Fraud Potential
(Post, March 28, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39241-2003Mar27.html
Bush Pledges U.S. Will Fight as Long as Needed (By Dana Milbank, Page
A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39803-2003Mar27.html
Final Report on Swissair Flight 111 Crash Released: Electrical Short
Circuit Started Fire, Board Says (By Don Phillips, Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39374-2003Mar27.html
Perle Resigns as Pentagon Panel Chairman: Facing Conflict-of-Interest
Questions, Adviser Says He Doesn't Want to Be a Distraction (By Walter
Pincus and Christopher Lee, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40076-2003Mar27.html
Second Vaccinated Health Worker Dies of Heart Attack (By Ceci
Connolly, Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39222-2003Mar27.html
Senate Bill to Aid Charities Retooled: GOP Abandons Funding Issue (By
Helen Dewar, Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39436-2003Mar27.html
Ex-Minister to Launch Iraqi Political Movement: Opposed to U.S.
Military Rule, Former Diplomat Seeks Role in Shaping Country (By
Caryle Murphy and Peter Slevin, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39244-2003Mar27.html
Iraq's 'Outside-In' Strategy More Effective Than Anticipated (By
Vernon Loeb, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40077-2003Mar27.html
CEO Bush Takes Over Management of Message: Job of Explaining the War
To Public Carries Added Risks (By Dan Balz and Mike Allen, Page A34)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39785-2003Mar27.html
Rumsfeld: Baghdad Must First Be Isolated: Secretary Hints at Aid From
Shiite Muslims (By Jonathan Weisman, Page A35)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38770-2003Mar27.html
U.S. Officials Seek Funding for War: Defense Secretary Asks Congress
for $75 Billion (By Jim VandeHei, Page A35)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39797-2003Mar27.html
Prolonged Iraq War May Imperil Reconstruction: Analysts Foresee More
Complex Problems for U.S. (By Peter Slevin, Page A36)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40079-2003Mar27.html
2 Christian Groups' Aid Effort Questioned (By Alan Cooperman and
Caryle Murphy, Page A38)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39600-2003Mar27.html
Protesters in New York Stage 'Die-Ins': Hundreds Arrested With Spread
of Civil Disobedience (By Christine Haughney, Page A38)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39601-2003Mar27.html
Birds of a Feather Make Fla. Refuge Home: Even in Protected Habitats,
Pelicans, Other Wildlife Face 'No Shortage of Threats' (By Manuel
Roig-Franzia, Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39443-2003Mar27.html
Appeals Court Nominee Clears Judiciary Panel (By Jesse J. Holland,
Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39451-2003Mar27.html
Protected Turf (Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39963-2003Mar27.html
They Got the 'Slov' Part Right (By Al Kamen, Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39962-2003Mar27.html
A 'Turkey Shoot,' but With Marines as the Targets (Post, March 28,
2003; 3:28 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40567-2003Mar28.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39022-2003Mar27.html
Israelis Seem Unconcerned About Iraqi Attack: Clashes in Palestinian
Areas Resume After Brief Lull Following the Onset of War (Post, March
28, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38652-2003Mar27.html
U.S. Launches New Operation in Afghanistan (Reuters, March 28, 2003;
3:58 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40659-2003Mar28.html
Police Kill 2 Suspects in Serb's Murder (Post, March 28, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39522-2003Mar27.html
Baghdad Hit Hard From Air As Ground Forces Regroup (By Rajiv
Chandrasekaran and Peter Baker, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39437-2003Mar27.html
Seen From Above: Friends and Maybe Foes (Rick Atkinson, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38541-2003Mar27.html
U.S. Reinforces Northern Front: More Troops Move Into Kurdish Areas,
Link Up With Militia Groups (By Steve Vogel and Karl Vick, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39654-2003Mar27.html
Patriots Give Sense of Safety to Kuwait: System Scores Success in
Intercepting Iraqi Missiles After Failures in 1991 War (By Susan B.
Glasser, Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39782-2003Mar27.html
Hair-Raising Exit From the Battlefield: Wounded Soldiers Tell of
Missile Strike, Enemy Confrontation (By Robert J. McCartney, Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40080-2003Mar27.html
U.S. Envoy to U.N. Walks Out During Iraqi Ambassador's Speech (By
Colum Lynch, Page A36)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40078-2003Mar27.html
3 American Journalists Are Missing (Page C03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40052-2003Mar27.html
Syria Lets Military Aid Flow to Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41941-2003Mar28.html
Rumsfeld says Syria must stop equipment from crossing border. U.S.
forces retrench for next big push.
Bandits Taking Advantage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42490-2003Mar28.html
As roving bands terrorize residents, Basra close to tipping into
anarchy.
Opposition Leaders Urge Iraqis To Prepare for Uprising
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43076-2003Mar28.html
SULAHADDIN, Iraq, March 28 -- U.S.-endorsed Iraqi opposition leaders
called today for Iraqis to "prepare for an uprising" against President
Saddam Hussein's government, but a visiting U.S. envoy, Zalmay
Khalilzad, declined to support the appeal.
Military Tech Coming to You?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39327-2003Mar27.html
As in every war, advanced battlefield devices will have civilian
applications.
Filter: Want More War Talk? Try 'Net
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/technology/columns/filter/
Blogging the War: A Guide
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42614-2003Mar28.html
Syria
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/mideast/neareast/syria/
http://tinyurl.com/8dge
http://tinyurl.com/8dgg
Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=391494
Editorials/Op-Ed
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html
http://forums.delphiforums.com/atheistrefuge/messages/?msg=1786.54
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Unity in diversity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,925072,00.html
When the Manchester Guardian was founded in 1821, it had strong roots
in the city's Unitarian tradition, later maintained by its great
editor CP Scott, himself raised as a Unitarian. But what are the
essential principles of Unitarianism, and what does it have to offer
now?
Give us triumph - not triumphalism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,925051,00.html
David Remnick: Global politics will be shaped forever by events in
Iraq. But only Blair seems to have grasped this.
Even if he wins the war, Blair has been humiliated
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,925049,00.html
Jonathan Freedland: It may not be time to write the PM's obituary, but
he has had a truly disastrous week.
'Blair provided perspective'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
The US press were more positive than the papers at home.
Spectre orange
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,923715,00.html
Nearly 30 years after the Vietnam war, a chemical weapon used by US
troops is still exacting a hideous toll on each new generation. Cathy
Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy report.
Time to settle an old score
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,923707,00.html
Alexander Chancellor: War seems to contribute to the cheerfulness and
complacency of the old.
Don't take my name in vain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,923706,00.html
Julie Burchill: NOT IN MY NAME! That's the giveaway. Who gives a stuff
about their wet, white, western names?
Nine objects, nine lives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/war/story/0,12958,924681,00.html
It may not look much - a motley collection of bits and pieces, the
bric-a-brac of daily life. But for a group of Iraqi exiles, they are
their most prized possessions, each carrying a story of personal
struggle, hardship and courage. Stuart Jeffries meets the people
behind the artefacts in an extraordinary exhibition
Strange times
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,924808,00.html
Continuing our series on political theatre, Naomi Wallace argues that
playwrights have a duty to engage with the here and now
Open corridors of peace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,925026,00.html
The delays in providing adequate humanitarian relief to those
civilians in greatest need in Iraq are a matter of increasing concern
to us all (Analysis, March 28).
hristianity in battle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,925014,00.html
I am saddened that Rev Dr Giles Fraser sees the archbishop's letter to
service chaplains merely as "an indication of the way in which his new
role in the establishment is forcing him to compromise" (Onward
Christian soldiers? March 26).
Virtual reality
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,925015,00.html
While appreciating a mention by Simon Hoggart (Sketch, March 27),
there has been a crucial misunderstanding of my question.
Vets' help
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,925023,00.html
There is no question of British forces deploying on military
operations without appropriate medical support (A picture of health,
March 20).
France's sinking feeling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,925018,00.html
Jean-Francois Langlois' words (Letters, March 27) will reassure all of
us who think Chirac's opposition to war in Iraq is about a power
struggle within the EU and not a hitherto absent set of principles.
Vital sites
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,925022,00.html
The prime minister gave a pledge that the government "would do
everything" to make sure that sites of cultural or religious
significance [in Iraq] are fully protected".
America in the vice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,925009,00.html
Lives and careers are on the line in Iraq.
A lantern on the stern
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,925010,00.html
Leader: Blair defies both failure and history.
March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam -- by Barbara W. Tuchman
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345308239/
Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345349571/
by Barbara W. Tuchman
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802138527/
by Barbara W. Tuchman, John K. Fairbank (Introduction)
War saps consumer confidence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,925083,00.html
Fears mounted last night that war in Iraq will bring global economic
recovery skidding to a halt, after surveys showed consumers on both
sides of the Atlantic more pessimistic than at any time since the
mid-90s.
WTO farm talks near deadlock
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,925097,00.html
The World Trade Organisation was last night facing the prospect of a
repeat of its disastrous Seattle meeting, after talks on agreeing a
framework for cutting farm subsidies ended in deadlock.
WTO
http://tinyurl.com/8ebp
http://tinyurl.com/8ebr
http://tinyurl.com/8ebt
Bear market tangled in web of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,925110,00.html
When sentiment can change with every shot fired, it's no wonder share
prices are so volatile
Family denies execution claim
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,925178,00.html
Government regrets causing offence after Blair maintained soldiers
were killed in cold blood.
Renewed threat to Blair
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,925145,00.html
PM faces rebellion from Labour MPs if war drags on without a
breakthrough.
Foreign Affairs
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/0,11538,637069,00.html
Politics and the war
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/0,12956,915999,00.html
Labour party
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/0,9054,442879,00.html
Bush will stand firm on Middle East road map
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,925061,00.html
George Bush will throw his full political weight behind the
long-expected road map for peace between Israel and the Palestinians,
according to sources close to Tony Blair.
This week
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/diary/story/0,9176,925107,00.html
Marina Hyde: 'You could say,' observed a US colonel in 1991, 'that Sun
Tzu's spirit is hovering above the whole conflict.' Early indications
from the second gulf war suggest the 2,500-year-old Chinese general
maintains his holding pattern.
Compromising justice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,924856,00.html
March 28: Belgium is poised to water down a controversial war crimes
law, writes Andrew Osborn.
Keeping it quiet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,925100,00.html
March 28: Critics are growing increasingly concerned about the amount
of information released by the White House, says David Teather.
Commanders admit unexpected resistance has put paid to 'quick war'
plan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925212,00.html
Senior American and British military commanders were last night
accepting the unwelcome reality that the strategy of a quick war
leading to an early collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime has failed.
52 die in Baghdad market blast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925251,00.html
· Women and children among victims of alleged missile attack
· US declines to comment
US pours an extra 100,000 troops into Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925186,00.html
Soldiers from the US army's most technologically advanced heavy
division were arriving in Kuwait yesterday as part of a wave of
reinforcements that will see between 100,000 and 120,000 troops added
to coalition forces.
And slowly, friends slip away from a city in fear
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925211,00.html
Friends slip away from a city in fear.
Mugabe troops 'torture hundreds'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925001,00.html
An unprecedented explosion of state-sponsored violence broke out amid
charges of massive vote-rigging before voting begins today in two
crucial parliamentary byelections.
Body of ex-Serb president found
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924977,00.html
Slobodan Milosevic, the former leader of Yugoslavia, is to be
questioned about the murder of a former president of Serbia.
New lease of life for Michelangelo's secret drawings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924985,00.html
Experts in Florence are restoring drawings Michelangelo doodled on the
walls of a cell-like room in which the artist hid for six weeks while
the Medici family wanted him dead.
Rumsfeld raises stakes with warning to Syria over military sales to
Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925240,00.html
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, delivered a stark warning
to Syria yesterday, accusing it of failing to stop cross-border sales
of military equipment, including night-vision goggles, to the Iraqi
army.
Sir Galahad finally defeats the elements
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925189,00.html
Coalition high command was determined that nothing should prevent the
first aid ship's arrival into Umm Qasr yesterday being anything but a
public relations triumph. It came 48 hours after the abortive start on
Wednesday, when the delivery of several truckloads of aid from Kuwait
resulted in a near riot in the town of Safwan.
Signs of unity at UN over relief package
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925209,00.html
Britain and France temporarily set aside their differences yesterday
to support a United Nations security council resolution that will
provide emergency humanitarian assistance to Iraq.
Missile blast shakes Kuwait
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925255,00.html
A missile exploded as it fell into the sea near a shopping centre in
Kuwait City early today, but officials said it caused no injuries and
little damage.
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925185,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
Marines forced to pause and regroup as the long haul beckons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925187,00.html
Tim Gelinas is 55, and he loves the US marines so much that he built a
house near their base at 29 Palms in California. "I can sit on my lawn
chair and watch them train," he said, squinting out of his wrinkles
into the desert light. "I used to watch the marines with a pair of
binos."
Attacked by their own, running for their lives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925127,00.html
British rescue 1,000 fleeing across bridge
'Clever tactics' needed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925128,00.html
British forces on the outskirts of Basra had underestimated the
problems they would face in capturing Iraq's second city, military
commanders admitted yesterday.
Attacks and storms stretch 350-mile supply line to breaking point
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925129,00.html
Stalled convoys become US battle plan's biggest weakness
New fears of Iraqi chemical attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925130,00.html
US claims shells have been sent to troops around Baghdad
One small step towards a return home
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925132,00.html
By the standards of modern warfare it was not much of an advance. By
yesterday afternoon the Kurdish peshmerga had crept forward a mere 10
miles across rolling green hills dotted with pine trees and bright
spring poppies.
British soldier killed by US jet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925131,00.html
Third inquiry after daylight strafing attack
Journalists missing in Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925171,00.html
A British journalist and a photographer working for an American
newspaper have disappeared from their hotel in Baghdad after
reportedly being expelled from the country. Molly Bingham, a US
freelance photographer, is also missing.
US accused of using cluster bombs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925141,00.html
US forces have fired cluster bombs in attacks near the towns of Najaf
and Kabala, according to reports yesterday.
Facts, some fiction and the reporting of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925142,00.html
Reports of uprisings, break-outs and breakthroughs from thick of the
action prove premature
Chirac the hero as nation unites
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925116,00.html
The Gulf conflict split Europe and soured many countries' relations
with the US. What is the mood now?
Part of Old Europe - and proud of it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925117,00.html
Considering that Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was the first leader of a
major European power to openly challenge the Americans' Iraq policy
last August, his government and country's response to what he termed a
"military adventure" has been notably free of "told you so"
Schadenfreude.
Aznar faces 91% opposition to war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925118,00.html
The Spanish prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, the third man on the
international stage beside George Bush and Tony Blair in the run-up to
war, was staring at political disaster yesterday as anti-war
demonstrations spread and opinion polls revealed 91% of Spaniards
against the war.
US army's desert filling stations add fuel to fire
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925139,00.html
In a war where public perceptions are arguably as important as the
military strategy, the US army appears to have handed a huge public
relations victory to those who believe the conflict in Iraq is all
about oil. The 101st Airborne Division has chosen to name two of its
main outposts in the desert Forward Operating Base Exxon and Forward
Operating Base Shell.
Scorned general's tactics proved right
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925140,00.html
Profile of the army chief sidelined by Rumsfeld
President's activities kept secret
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924989,00.html
President George Bush has been accused of quietly extending secrecy
restrictions while the country is preoccupied with Iraq. He has signed
an executive order that will delay the release of millions of
government documents and make it easier for presidents to keep secret
the details of their activities when in power.
Turkish hijacker ends siege
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925254,00.html
The hijacker of a Turkish Airlines plane released the passengers at
Athens airport early today, a Greek police spokesman said.
Belgium to legalise cannabis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925006,00.html
The Belgian parliament has voted to legalise the personal use of
cannabis, within certain guidelines, for anyone over the age of 18.
More child abductions in Uganda
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925007,00.html
Rebels in northern Uganda have abducted a record number of children in
the past year, according to Human Rights Watch.
Baghdad strike kills at least 50
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,924906,00.html
A four to six day pause in the advance on Baghdad is planned,
according to an unnamed US military officer quoted by Reuters.
The Weblog
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/0,6798,517233,00.html
For Arabs, a cruel echo of history
http://www.jordantimes.com/Wed/opinion/opinion2.htm
TO WASHINGTON and London, the attack against Iraq is part of a
historical process to promote Arab peace, liberty and democracy. To
most Arabs, it is a cruel reappearance of demons that have haunted
them for centuries.
The Guardian Weekly
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/0,12598,837809,00.html
Steve Bell
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0,7371,337484,00.html
Economic Dispatch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch
Suicide bomb kills five US troops
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,925260,00.html
10am: Suicide bomb at Najaf checkpoint
· Six day pause in advance
· 50 killed in Baghdad strike
Past masters in the art of peace protests
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,925114,00.html
The Guardian visits Stroud in Gloucestershire in a week-long journey
around Britain to gauge the public's view on the conflict in Iraq.
C4 delays film on US army hangings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,925041,00.html
Channel 4 is being accused of suppressing a documentary about the
wartime hanging of GIs in Britain which claims that a disproportionate
number of black soldiers were executed.
New strategy to combat alien invaders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,925036,00.html
Plans to combat alien species which threaten to take over from native
plants and animals in the British countryside were published
yesterday.
The Hermit of Heytesbury
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,924120,00.html
They were soldiers and friends. One died in action, one survived. Jean
Moorcroft Wilson reveals that Siegfried Sassoon was haunted by the
belief that he should have died in battle with Wilfred Owen -
expressed in a remarkable, previously unpublished, late poem
Dogged by destiny
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,923874,00.html
In the 1950s Arab nationalism looked set to spawn a secular superstate
in the Middle East. Adeed Dawisha charts its roller-coaster journey in
Arab Nationalism in the 20th Century
Tunnelling to the enemy
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,924123,00.html
After his debut as a child star, David Grossman worked for Israel
Radio for 25 years before he was sacked for controversial views and
became a novelist. A former army reservist, he saw Palestinian
aspirations as a mirror image of Jewish dreams of home
Happy new year from Tehran
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,924122,00.html
Christopher de Bellaigue finds the holiday dampened by concerns about
Iran's place on the axis of evil
Axis of Evil
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Them and US
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,924125,00.html
Brash, vulgar and absurdly patriotic - that was the view of America
held by 19th-century European visitors. Simon Schama presents a brief
history of mutual antipathy
What if...?
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,923876,00.html
Joseph O'Neill welcomes Richard English's scholarly addition to the
history of the conflict in Northern Ireland, Armed Struggle
Troubles and trials
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,923877,00.html
Sean McConville's even-handed account of the imprisonment of Irish
politicians, Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922, intrigues Garret
FitzGerald
The monstrous regiment
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,923881,00.html
Melanie Phillips suggests that the suffragette movement was a
precursor of the great dictatorships of the twentieth century in The
Ascent of Woman. Natasha Walter disagrees
Smug Shots
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,923882,00.html
Angela McRobbie finds that Cathi Hanauer's contributors have had a
rough time having it at all in The Bitch in the House
Maggie: a guide for aliens
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,923879,00.html
The time has not yet arrived for a retrospective analysis of the
Thatcher years, as Brenda Maddox's biography, Maggie, shows
Blond ambition
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,923878,00.html
Andrew Motion finds Joanna Pitman is dyeing to be taken seriously with
her study of hair colour, On Blondes
Out of the shadows
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,923884,00.html
They want to bridge the gap between east and west - but they are just
seen as trouble-makers. Malu Halasa on the new generation of Arab
women artists
Summing up the universe
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,923880,00.html
Manjit Kumar is gripped by João Magueijo's challenge to one of the
central tenets of modern physics in Faster Than the Speed of Light
Stars in their eyes
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,923903,00.html
Martin Rees on scientific research
From silence and obscurity
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,923888,00.html
Diary: Ian Jack lifts the lid off the delibrations behind the Granta's
Best of Young British Novelists, plus deconstructing the war
Does the West understand how this hated war is altering the Arab
world?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/fergal_keane/story.jsp?story=391779
Al-Jazeera has changed everything ? the agenda is no longer dominated
by Western news outlets or state-controlled media
John Peacock: Why al-Jazeera was right to show those terrible pictures
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391846
29 March 2003
It is a truism to say that war brutalises.
Christopher Bellamy: Bush's reinforcements cannot reach the front soon
enough
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391828
29 March 2003
The Pentagon signalled the most radical amendment to the strategic
plan since the war started nine days ago, by announcing yesterday that
an extra 100,000 troops would be sent to fight Iraq, in addition to
the 30,000 from the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanised) already in the
plan.
Robert Fisk: Bombing of phone system another little degradation
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391825
29 March 2003
It's difficult to weep about a telephone exchange.
The Week in Politics: The Great Persuader sees his new world role as
bridging the US-Europe divide
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391812
29 March 2003
As if Tony Blair did not have enough to worry about on the war front,
he has also appointed himself to the awesome and perhaps impossible
task of making peace between America and Europe after the conflict is
over.
Alexei Sayle: Show George some tough love, Tony
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391775
29 March 2003
So far I've had a good war : I have felt myself politically
reinvigorated by the struggle to stop the invasion, my shares in the
British Fragmentation Grenade and Needle Sharp Flesh Ripping Shrapnel
Corporation have gone through the roof, and I'm getting paid for this
article.
Lawrence Freedman: America needs a wider coalition, however difficult
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391774
29 March 2003
One of the striking features of American military policy since the
"war on terror" was declared is the lack of interest in extended
alliances.
There will be a severe political price to pay if the human and
financial costs of this conflict mount up
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=391778
29 March 2003
A cakewalk was originally an African-American dance competition
featuring a laid-back walking style, with a cake as the prize.
Richard Perle: On the defensive: America's Prince of Darkness
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=391782
Richard Perle is a man with many enemies. Some he has designated
himself, the list being topped by Saddam Hussein, whom he has elevated
almost single-handed to world-threatening despot. The majority,
however, he has made in the course of more than 30 years as the most
convinced and uncompromising of America's hawks.
Hawks
http://tinyurl.com/8ed5
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Doves
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Rumsfeld Insists War Plan Is Sound
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44605-2003Mar28.html
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday that the military has
no intention of launching a broader, more indiscriminate bombing
campaign.
U.S. Forces Fight to Protect Supply Lines
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44464-2003Mar28.html
Army and Marine units fought with Iraqi forces across southern Iraq
resistance threatened U.S. supply lines.
Poll: War Support Firm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44604-2003Mar28.html
The unexpectedly gloomy reports have not shaken public support for the
war in Iraq, according to the latest poll.
Terror Plots Thwarted, U.S. Officials Say
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44606-2003Mar28.html
Authorities in Yemen and Jordan have broken up plots by Iraqis who
were preparing to bomb Western targets in those nations in recent
days, and the United States has warned 10 other countries that small
groups of Iraqi intelligence agents are readying similar attacks
against Americans and other Westerners, according to U.S. government
officials.
FBI Official Rebuked Over Treatment of Whistle-Blower
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44327-2003Mar28.html
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has formally admonished the bureau
official who oversees internal discipline for poor judgment in the
treatment of an outspoken whistle-blower, according to documents
released Friday.
Suicide Bombing Casts Pall Over Continued Airstrikes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47049-2003Mar29.html
On another day of U.S. strikes by bombs, missiles and artillery fire
against Iraqi troops, military installations and political cadres all
across the country, U.S. forces were jolted by the deaths of four
soldiers in a suicide car bomb attack and the discovery of the bodies
of four U.S. troops missing since an earlier engagement.
Shiite Market Turns Into Scene of Carnage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44407-2003Mar28.html
Iraqi officials said at least 58 people were killed in the market in
Shuala, a working-class neighborhood on Baghdad's northern outskirts.
Afghan Figure Sent to U.S. Facility in Cuba
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44352-2003Mar28.html
Naeem Koochi, the Afghan tribal leader whose capture by U.S. forces
almost three months ago caused major protests by his followers and
Afghan government leaders, has been transferred from Bagram air base
to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
China Frees One of the 'Singing Nuns'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45753-2003Mar29.html
GUANGZHOU, China, March 29 (Saturday) -- China's longest-serving
female political prisoner, a Tibetan nun, was exiled from China and
arrived in the United States on Friday.
Red Cross Worker Gunned Down in Afghanistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44248-2003Mar28.html
The International Committee of the Red Cross suspended field
operations across Afghanistan Friday after gunmen ambushed and killed
one of its workers on an isolated road in a southern province that was
formerly a Taliban stronghold.
House Members Target Sodexho for French Ties
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44625-2003Mar28.html
Several dozen members of Congress are proposing to cut off U.S.
military contracts with Sodexho Inc., a French-owned food service
firm.
Lawlessness Spreads in Villages
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44665-2003Mar28.html
Banditry and lawlessness appear to be spreading through some areas in
southwestern Iraq as British troops sweep the countryside for remnants
of Iraqi forces and remain at a stalemate with fighters in Basra,
Iraq's second-largest city.
British Commanders Question War Strategy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44598-2003Mar28.html
British field commanders are echoing some of the same criticisms as
their American counterparts about the overall military strategy in
Iraq and the accuracy of intelligence, according to informed sources
and analysts, but have been less vocal in their complaints.
Arab Press Predicting Bloodbath
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44600-2003Mar28.html
Arab columnists have started sounding shrill alarms warning of
bloodbaths and massacres in Iraq, expressing dismay that the U.S.- and
British-led war is not turning out to be as short as initially had
been suggested.
Hussein's Enforcers At Work (By David Ignatius)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44925-2003Mar28.html
Gruesome details are emerging from Western intelligence sources
regarding the tactics that Saddam Hussein's regime is using to
maintain its control of southern Iraq. The stories suggest that while
Hussein's forces are fighting more fiercely than expected, they are
often doing so with a gun pointed at their head.
Two Generations of War (By Colbert I. King)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44927-2003Mar28.html
Whenever I visit a school and I am expected to share my life
experiences with the young students, it is usually I who ends up being
more enriched. My visit a few weeks ago to the Washington Jesuit
Academy in Northeast Washington proved to be no exception.
Qualified Free Speech
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45034-2003Mar28.html
As a regular reader who has found your paper's coverage of the Iraq
conflict conspicuously skewed in support of the administration's
position, I was initially pleased to see the March 21 editorial
"Speaking Out in Wartime," making the case that the voices of protest
in wartime should not be condemned as treasonous.
Pro-Life Priorities
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45026-2003Mar28.html
The Feb. 23 editorial attacking the Bush administration's pro-life
policies in Africa said that "abortion is sometimes a choice of last
resort for AIDS patients: A pregnant woman comes into a remote clinic
weak with AIDS. The medicine to prevent mother-to-child infant
transmission is not available. The pregnancy will weaken her immune
system further. Her choices are bleak: her other children orphaned, or
an abortion."
Kosovo's Killers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45029-2003Mar28.html
I am not in a position to contest what Bajram Rexhepi, the prime
minister of Kosovo, wrote ["The Victory in Kosovo," op-ed, March 19].
But I am in a position to note with alarm what he did not say or even
imply.
Free for All
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45033-2003Mar28.html
I found the March 25 editorial "Mothers at War" astounding. The
following clause is your paper's explanation for why granting
deferrals to single mothers in time of war can be problematic:
"downsizing in the volunteer force means that any no show is
disruptive." Your answer to the problem is a sketchy and convoluted
policy exercise that avoids an obvious conclusion.
A Waste of Good Textbooks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45080-2003Mar28.html
I support the premise described in the March 18 news story "A Radical
Formula for Teaching Science," but I have a more basic concern:
students who have no textbooks.
War Costs and Coalition Partners
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44923-2003Mar28.html
American taxpayers should not be saddled with the entire cost of the
war with Iraq. Before we turn over oil wells to the new Iraqi
government (or to a United Nations trustee), profits from those wells
should be used to reimburse the federal treasury for liberating the
Iraqi people. Surely no Iraqi should complain, because it was American
blood as well as American money that set them free.
Scholar, Statesman, Intellect, Teacher, Gentleman
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44922-2003Mar28.html
Among the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's [front page, March 27]
many contributions was his service as a regent of the Smithsonian
Institution.
Vision and Division
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45183-2003Mar28.html
Perceptions Where Al-Jazeera & Co. Are Coming From
By Mamoun Fandy, Page B01
The recent airing of gruesome pictures of American casualties and
POWs has again set the American media talking about the unbridled
nature of Arab television, particularly the Qatar-owned al-Jazeera
network. Indeed, the Arabs are watching a different war than we are
here.
Vision and Division
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45184-2003Mar28.html
Persuasion It Will Take More Than a Victory in Baghdad
By Michael Dobbs, Page B01
As we watch the televised images of a defiant Saddam Hussein and of
U.S. tanks stuck in the mud on the road to Baghdad, we might want to
keep in mind this sobering thought: The military battle now raging in
Iraq is merely a small slice of an even larger, longer and more
unpredictable political war.
Would You Go to Work in a New Skyscraper at Ground Zero?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45185-2003Mar28.html
By Jessica Bruder, Page B01
NEW YORK
In the quest to rebuild the World Trade Center site, planning has
focused from the start on moving forward, on "not letting the
terrorists win." Workers toiled around the clock to clear the debris
ahead of schedule. Dramatic designs were unveiled in December at the
Winter Garden....
Vision and Division
Credibility Can't Win Hearts and Minds Without It
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45187-2003Mar28.html
By Philip M. Taylor, Page B02
LEEDS, U.K.
The furious reaction in the United States to the stance taken by
France, Germany and the United Nations toward the current war in Iraq
appears to represent a serious failure in international communication.
While Europe debated whether it should join the war against Iraq
that...
Translation Mixed Success
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45188-2003Mar28.html
Page B02
American troops are watching for traps in the field of battle, such
as Iraqi forces posing as civilians to draw soldiers into an ambush.
VISION AND DIVISION
Shock and Awe The Idea Behind the Buzzwords
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45190-2003Mar28.html
Page B03
A 1996 paper by military strategists Harlan K. Ullman and James P.
Wade, titled "Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance," first used
the term that has become synonymous -- wrongly, in Ullman's view --
with the early phase of the current Iraq war. Ullman has said that the
paper, which was published by the National Defense University and
later became a book, was intended to spark a policy debate inside the
Pentagon about fighting wars with improving technology but a smaller
number of troops. The following is an excerpt from the paper's
introduction:
Verbatim
Last E-Mails From a Young Activist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45189-2003Mar28.html
Page B03
Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old activist from Olympia, Wash., was
crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer on March 16 as she tried
to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian home in Rafah, in the Gaza
Strip. In detailed e-mails to her parents, which they provided through
the organization for which she was a volunteer, she explained why the
work was so important to her. Excerpts:
More Afraid of Ideas Than of Capitalism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45192-2003Mar28.html
By Ross Terrill, Page B04
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
Recently in the Chinese city of Chongqing, a local school teacher who
drove me around spoke of the people's desire to have a comfortable
life. We saw billboards advertising apartments with swimming pools,
gardens and modern kitchens. "People here don't want any more...
Lincoln in Richmond: Worth Setting in Stone
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45194-2003Mar28.html
By Ronald C. White Jr., Page B05
The invitation to speak at the dedication of the new statue of
Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad in Richmond next Saturday took me by
surprise. But perhaps it shouldn't have. Last summer, one of the
architects designing the site had written to say he was reading my new
book on Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and that it was helping him
to clarify the spirit that he and others wanted the site at Richmond
National Battlefield Park to express. He had suggested to Robert H.
Kline, chairman of the U.S. Historical Society, which is paying for
the memorial, that the final paragraph from Lincoln's Second Inaugural
should be "inscribed boldly on granite pavers" around the statue by
New York sculptor David Frech.
UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
It Helps, Even If You Fake It
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45195-2003Mar28.html
Page B05
The news is grim these days, so we all could use a good laugh --
even a fake one, says a psychologist who claims that a minute of
forced laughter can chase away the blues.
Close-Up and Vivid Reporting
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45088-2003Mar28.html
By Michael Getler, Page B06
In the months and years to come, there will be countless panel
discussions, articles and books about the role and value of the 500 to
600 reporters whom the Pentagon allowed to be "embedded" with U.S.
forces in Gulf War II.
Iraqis Must Share in Their Liberation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45068-2003Mar28.html
By Kanan Makiya, Page B07
The United States is failing to make use of what should be its most
valuable asset in this war: the many Iraqis who are willing to fight
and die for their country's liberation.
Limited War, So Far
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45067-2003Mar28.html
By Michael Kelly, Page B07
WITH THE 3RD INFANTRY DIVISION, Iraq -- The war the United States
is waging against the regime of Saddam Hussein is a critical test of
several related and very ambitious concepts. First it is a test of an
evolving military doctrine. This holds that the American armed forces'
uniquely massive superiority in weaponry and in observation and
communication allows it to conduct war, in a sense, on the cheap: to
achieve even very large goals with relatively little force in little
time at little cost in American lives.
Page B07
The MIA State Department
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45065-2003Mar28.html
By Jim Hoagland, Page B07
Jim Baker demonstrated in Operation Desert Storm that war diplomacy
is not an oxymoron. But this time around, the Bush administration's
suddenly missing-in-action State Department has yet to deploy a
diplomatic strategy that reinforces the president's justified
battlefield aims.
A Budget of Dire Consequences
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45064-2003Mar28.html
By David S. Broder, Page B07
I am about to conduct class warfare -- not because it's my
ideological preference but because the facts compel it.
The President's Personal No-Fly Zone
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42113-2003Mar28.html
By Melanie Scarborough, Page B08
"The greatest threat to freedom, even in today's perilous times,
comes from no foreign force. It comes from the dangerous habit many of
our leaders fell into over several generations -- letting the power
and the resources that are the basis of freedom slip from grass-roots
America into the hands of a remote central authority."
Democracy in the Muslim World
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45086-2003Mar28.html
Page B06
Youssef M. Ibrahim [Outlook, March 23] is correct that the
introduction of representative democracy in most Arab countries would
bring Islamic fundamentalist regimes to power. He also observes that
Islamic fundamentalism appeals to elites as well as to the
poverty-stricken masses.
Two Takes on Tax Cuts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45087-2003Mar28.html
Page B06
The whopping tax cuts the Bush administration is pushing put a new
twist on the old theory of wartime economics concerning the trade-off
between guns and butter -- as in being able to afford either guns or
butter. Now it seems we'll have guns and whipped cream, at least for a
few.
Families of Missing Marines Open the Door to Anguish: Pentagon Reports
Eight Unaccounted-For Servicemen (Post, March 29, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44668-2003Mar28.html
Calif. City Uneasy About Firing of Peace Advocate: Panel Member Backed
Antiwar Measure (Post, March 29, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44669-2003Mar28.html
Iraqi Defiance Renews Debate Over Air Power: War Experts Differ On the
Effectiveness Of Coalition Strategy (Post, March 29, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44667-2003Mar28.html
Judge Backs State's Use Of Discount Drug Program (Post, March 29,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44238-2003Mar28.html
Military P.R. Force Wages a Battle to Stay on Message: Briefers Focus
On Iraqi Abuses, Not U.S. Problems (Post, March 29, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44666-2003Mar28.html
U.S. Teams Seek to Kill Iraqi Elite: Covert Missions Target Hussein's
Inner Circle (By Dana Priest, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44793-2003Mar28.html
Upbeat Tone Ended With War: Officials' Forecasts Are Questioned (By
Dana Milbank, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44801-2003Mar28.html
Perle's Resignation Not a Cure, Group Says: Ethical Dealings of
Advisory Boards Government-Wide at Issue, Watchdog Says (By
Christopher Lee, Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44496-2003Mar28.html
Daschle Regrets Timing of Bush Criticism (By Helen Dewar, Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45052-2003Mar28.html
9/11 Panel to Receive More Money: Negotiations Cut Commission's
Request by $2 Million (By Dan Eggen, Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44328-2003Mar28.html
Ullico to Share Internal Report: Insurance Executives Are Under Probe
for Insider Trading (By Thomas B. Edsall, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44239-2003Mar28.html
2 States Halt Smallpox Shots: Pentagon Reports First Post-Inoculation
Fatal Heart Attack (By Ceci Connolly, Page A07)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44240-2003Mar28.html
The Mystery Virus: A Guide to Origins, Symptoms and Precautions You
Can Take (By Rob Stein, Page A08)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44414-2003Mar28.html
FDA Limits Use of Drug To Treat Lice (Page A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44241-2003Mar28.html
U.S. Warns of Interference in Iraq: Syria Accused of Violating U.N.
Embargo; Iran Said to Be Training Rebel Group (By Peter Slevin, Page
A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44794-2003Mar28.html
Lotion Approved for Chemical Exposure (Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44795-2003Mar28.html
Planning Postwar Iraq Aid: White House Says Oil Will Fund Rebuilding
(By Mike Allen and Peter Behr, Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44458-2003Mar28.html
Blix to Depart at End of June (Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45182-2003Mar28.html
The Fallen (Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45113-2003Mar28.html
Kurdish-U.S. Assault Takes Town: Special Forces Call in Air Strikes
Against Islamic Radicals (Post, March 29, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44821-2003Mar28.html
U.S. Cool to Kurdish Call for Uprising: American-Backed Opposition
Groups Imply Allied Invasion Strategy Won't Work (Post, March 29,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44677-2003Mar28.html
Arms Outstretched in Desperation: Iraqis' Fears of Walking Away
Empty-Handed Turns Aid Mission Into Chaos (Post, March 29, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44674-2003Mar28.html
Council Approves U.N. Role in Meting Aid to Iraq (Post, March 29,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44602-2003Mar28.html
China Agrees to Release Daily Reports on Disease (By John Pomfret,
Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44247-2003Mar28.html
S. Korea Urges U.S. Initiative for North (Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44242-2003Mar28.html
Hijacker of Turkish Jet Surrenders: 3-Hour Standoff Ends in Athens as
200 Aboard Are Freed (By Philip P. Pan, Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44559-2003Mar28.html
Inquiry Shows Indonesian's Ties to Al Qaeda (By Ellen Nakashima, Page
A14)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44353-2003Mar28.html
The Stakes Are High, the Air Tense, in Marines' War Room (By The Tent
Where Decisions Are Made, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44597-2003Mar28.html
Chemical Threats Distract U.S. Troops: Tanker Attack Forces GIs to Don
Gas Masks (By William Branigin, Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45201-2003Mar28.html
A Flotilla of Army Helicopters Joins Attack on Karbala (By Learning
the Lessons of a Setback, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44469-2003Mar28.html
Kurds Voice Suspicion of U.S. Troops: Townspeople Complain That
Presence of GIs' in Schools Is Posing a Danger (By Daniel Williams,
Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44358-2003Mar28.html
Serving the War Effort In Theater's Mundane Jobs (By Lyndsey Layton,
Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44599-2003Mar28.html
Arabs Protest War With Prayers and Boycotts: Government Pressure
Convinces Demonstrators, Clerics to Show Restraint (By Emily Wax and
Carol Morello, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44675-2003Mar28.html
Mind Over Materiel: In the Battle to Sway Iraqis, Did the U.S.
Military Psych Itself Out? (By Joel Achenbach, Page C01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45206-2003Mar28.html
'The Whole World Cries'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44407-2003Mar28.html
Blast in crowded neighborhood market kills 58, Iraqi official says.
For Iraqi Exiles Calling Home, Nothing but the Ring of Fear (Post,
March 29, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45202-2003Mar28.html
Protesters' Human Chains Frustrate Police, Motorists (Post, March 29,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44370-2003Mar28.html
Prolonged Iraq War May Imperil Reconstruction: Analysts Foresee More
Complex Problems for U.S. (Post, March 28, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40079-2003Mar27.html
Affirmative Action - and Reaction
On Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases
challenging the University of Michigan's admissions policies, which
award minority applicants extra points. The court's decision could
change admissions policies nationwide and has prompted a debate about
diversity on campus and affirmative action in higher education.
Is Diversity Overrated?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/opinion/29ROTH.html
By STANLEY ROTHMAN
One cannot help but wonder why the public and private views of higher
education's leadership differ so greatly.
Race Is Never Neutral
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/opinion/29TRIB.html
By LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS and LAURENCE H. TRIBE
The supposedly race neutral alternatives the court is being urged to
embrace as the only permissible means of doing so have many striking
defects.
Admissions (and Denials) of Responsibility
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/opinion/29LOUR.html
By GLENN C. LOURY
Taking race into account, in university admissions or in other aspects
of life, does not require abandoning a commitment to individualism.
A Policy That Depends on Segregation
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/opinion/29FORE.html
By BENJAMIN FOREST
Texas-style plans achieve significant diversity only if high schools
are highly segregated. It is disingenuous to claim that these plans
are not racially conscious.
Supplying the Enemy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/opinion/29SAT1.html
Whatever one may think of Russia's political opposition to the war in
Iraq, no one denies Moscow's right to it. Supplying arms to Iraq is
something else.
Scandals in Connecticut
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/opinion/29SAT2.html
Connecticut, which used to bill itself as "the land of steady habits,"
has taken quite a few blows to its image of solid reliability.
Under the Armor
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/opinion/29SAT3.html
Under the high-tech armor of battle there is still only the body, the
flesh and blood and sinew of young soldiers.
A Win for Legal Services
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/opinion/29SAT4.html
The Supreme Court handed a major victory this week to poor people with
legal problems, and to the justice system as a whole.
Still riding the Trojan horse
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,729070,00.html
Peter Jay takes issue with a revolutionary theory about the role of
war in civilisation
Quagmire
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Vietnam
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Politics Shapes the Battlefield in Iraq
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By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
The original war plan and the changes made to it were driven not by
military tactics alone, but by politics.
The War in Iraq Turns Ugly. That's What Wars Do.
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By JAMES WEBB
The guerrilla tactics of Iraq's militias, while reprehensible, are no
different in fact or in moral degree from what our troops faced in
difficult areas of Vietnam.
Strategy, With the Benefit of Hindsight
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By MARY SUH
Given all the months of planning for - and talking about - the war in
Iraq, it appeared that every possible contingency had been accounted
for, if not by the military itself, then by the platoon of retired
officers that seems to populate television news.
McDonald's: When a Brand Becomes a Stand-In for a Nation
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/weekinreview/30WALK.html
By ROB WALKER
As protests all over the planet give vent to raw anti-American
sentiment, McDonald's has become a widespread target.
Patriot Games: Look Who's Embracing Flag and Country
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By DEAN E. MURPHY
There has been a lot of talking up Teddy Roosevelt in the antiwar
movement these days. Not because he won the Nobel Peace Prize for
mediating the Russo-Japanese War, but because nearly a decade after
leaving office he made a rather bold declaration about patriotism.
The End of Taxes as We Know Them
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By DANIEL ALTMAN
The White House has turned to supply-side economics, which advocates
removing taxes that discourage people from working and investing their
savings in the private sector.
Russia Sees a Chance to Get Some Respect
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/weekinreview/30WINE.html
By MICHAEL WINES
Some Russians are saying that the best thing that could happen to
President Putin might be for the U.S. invasion of Iraq to go badly.
Can the Justices Buck What the Establishment Backs?
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By LINDA GREENHOUSE
When the pubic speaks, does the Supreme Court listen? The answer is
often "yes."
Sparing Civilians, Buildings and Even the Enemy
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By MAX BOOT
Watching images of the bombing of Baghdad brought to mind another
American bombing campaign 58 years ago. On March 9, 1945, more than
300 B-29 Superfortresses attacked Tokyo. Their napalm bombs and
magnesium incendiaries turned 16 densely packed square miles into an
inferno. An estimated 84,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed,
making this one of the deadliest days of warfare ever.
France Sends Mixed Signals - and a Clear Message
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/weekinreview/30SCIO.html
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
President Jacques Chirac of France unveiled a half-billion-dollar
anti-cancer campaign last week, a cartoon in the daily Le Parisien
showed him smiling as he told an aide, "I want to fight cancer because
then in addition to the Nobel Peace Prize, I'll take home the one for
medicine too!"
Battle of Algiers
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In the Company of Vice Presidents, A Big Texas Contractor Prospered
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/weekinreview/30OPPE.html
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
One of the largest operating divisions of Halliburton, the
construction and energy giant, has already secured work to help
rebuild postwar Iraq. It has a long history, in fact, of winning
extraordinarily lucrative deals from the government because of its
ties - including huge contributions of cash and other favors - to the
hawkish politician who eventually became president.
Deviancy, Dependency, Dissembling: The World Is a Dangerous Place
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By SAM ROBERTS
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a scholar and statesman, a product of
Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan and of Harvard, the rare politician who
spoke his mind. It was no ordinary mind, but one blessed with
boundless curiosity. Mr. Moynihan, who died last week at the age of
76, was a United States senator from New York and advised four
presidents. He was prescient about the collapse of both the black
two-parent family and of the Soviet Union. He was also endowed with
wit.
At the Oscars, a Cause and Effect
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/weekinreview/30OSCA.html
By ERIC EFFRON
Famous for testing people's patience, the director Michael Moore tried
to outdo himself last Sunday when he accepted an Academy Award for
best documentary feature. But Mr. Moore's outburst against President
Bush and the war on Iraq was less than shocking, and not just because
his reputation for outspokenness had preceded him: by now, people
expect political speechifying by people clutching golden statuettes
(or handing them out).
Churchill, Heroic Relic or Relevant Now?
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By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Winston Churchill was a statesman with an inescapable presence,
despite military and political mistakes.
It's 1942: The Bronx Bombers Play and U.S. Bombers Attack
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/weekinreview/30SHAP.html
By MICHAEL SHAPIRO
Major League Baseball returns, once again in wartime.
Back Off, Syria and Iran!
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/opinion/30DOWD.html
By MAUREEN DOWD
Rummy was too busy shaking his fist at Syria and Iran to worry about
the shortage of troops in Iraq.
NATO's New Front
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/opinion/30FRIE.html
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The instrument through which the World of Order will try to deal with
threats from the World of Disorder will still be NATO.
An American Myth Rides Into the Sunset
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By SUSAN FALUDI
If President Bush's cowpoke credentials seem to be all simple syntax
and big belt buckle, his policies actually flout the cowboy charter.
The Weapons We Need Now
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/opinion/30SUN1.html
The lessons learned from this war should guide us in rethinking the
way we should equip the military of the future.
Why Al Jazeera Matters
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/opinion/30SUN2.html
If our hope for the Arab world is for it to enjoy a free, democratic
life, Al Jazeera is the kind of television station we should
encourage.
Iraq and the Lessons of Lebanon: 'Don't Forget to Leave'
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/opinion/30SUN3.html
By ETHAN BRONNER
Israel's experience in Lebanon - an ambitious invasion that turned
into a draining quagmire - is a cautionary tale for the American war
in Iraq.
Troubling Questions That Come With a War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/opinion/L30IRAQ.html
Nicholas D. Kristof ("Hearts and Minds," column, March 28) wants us to
stop talking about how we got into the war in Iraq, since this is "now
a historical question."
Struggle for Gay Rights
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/opinion/L30GAYS.html
"The Rights of Gay Americans" (editorial, March 27) tells the story of
Thomas McLaughlin, a 14-year-old who has been harassed by his school
because he is gay. My heart goes out to him. Although much progress
has been made in the struggle for gay rights since 1959, when, in my
final semester of college, I was expelled because of a gay
relationship with another student, the fight for dignity and equal
protection under the law continues.
Political Vulgarities
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/opinion/L30DEMS.html
"Democrats, Treading Carefully, Press On for Presidency" (news
article, March 25) says a fund-raiser for Senator Joseph I. Lieberman
was open to the public, though television cameras were prohibited. You
explain that "the last thing the campaigns want is news footage that
might capture images of politicians pleading for money from big-ticket
donors feasting at open bars and tables laden with food, an image that
arguably might seem vulgar when Americans are fighting in Iraq."
Bush's Peril: Shifting Sand and Fickle Opinion
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/worldspecial/29CND-ASSE.html
By R. W. APPLE Jr.
The war could last so long that the American public loses patience,
having been conditioned by predictions of swift victory.
Iraqis Threatening New Suicide Strikes Against U.S. Forces
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By JOHN F. BURNS
One of Iraq's top leaders said that the soldier who killed four
Americans in a suicide attack was the first in a wave of volunteers
ready to become "martyrs."
Militants Gone, Caves in North Lie Abandoned
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By C. J. CHIVERS
An American-coordinated ground offensive against a militant Islamic
group is nearly over, military officials said.
Missile Threat Means New Rules at Airports
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By PHILIP SHENON
Federal authorities will order major security improvements at several
of the nation's largest airports after finding they were vulnerable to
shoulder-fired missiles.
Bodies of First 10 British Soldiers Killed in Iraq Brought Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/worldspecial/30BODI.html
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
For the relatives gathered at the passenger terminal, the arrival of
the bodies was particularly emotional because none of the 10 men were
killed in combat.
As the Conflict in Iraq Deepens, So Does the Debate About Coverage
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/worldspecial/30STAN.html
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Pentagon officials have urged viewers not to believe everything they
see on television, saying that even the most disturbing images are
only a "slice of the war in Iraq."
In Nasiriya, Vigilance Is the Order of the Day
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/worldspecial/30NOTE.html
By MICHAEL WILSON
These days, the marines take no chances along the alley. They pass
through town in armor convoys. Every soldier not holding a steering
wheel is holding a rifle or a pistol.
From the Battlefield, Words Before Death
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By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Back home, what they remember most painfully, most poignantly, are the
last letters, the last telephone calls, the final e-mail messages from
Iraq or Kuwait.
U.S. Finds Buried Bodies of 4 G.I.'s
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/worldspecial/30VCOR.html
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
Military officials said they believed that the four were executed by
Iraqi paramilitary forces after they were seized in an ambush last
Sunday.
Annan Faces His 'Most Difficult' Moment
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By FELICITY BARRINGER
A war has erupted without sanction from the United Nations, and its
secretary general has to keep the Nobel Prize-winning institution from
reverting to its cold-war self.
Iraq Vows to Use 'Any Method' Against Foe
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A suicide bomber blew up his taxi on Saturday and killed four United
States soldiers from the Third Infantry Division near the southern
city of Najaf. American forces fired a heavy artillery and mortar
bomdardment north of that city overnight and allied warplanes resumed
pounding targets in and around Baghdad today.
With Bombing, Iraqis Escalate Guerrilla Tactics and Show New Danger
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/worldspecial/30BOMB.html
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
The explosion of a bomb in a taxi that killed four Army soldiers today
at a checkpoint north of the city of Najaf stunned and angered
commanders, who saw the division's war dead double in the suicide
bombing.
Military Mirrors Working-Class America
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By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and STEVEN A. HOLMES
Those risking and giving their lives in Iraq represent a broad swath
of American society - but by no means all of it.
Surprise, Mom: I'm Anti-Abortion
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By ELIZABETH HAYT
Parents expecting young people to take the liberal view, as in the
past, are learning otherwise.
President Keeps the Battlefield Close at Hand
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By ELISABETH BUMILLER
President Bush is said to be far more gripped by daily battlefield
developments than his father was in the first Persian Gulf war.
Attack on Colleges' Aid to Minorities Widens
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/education/30AFFI.html
By GREG WINTER
A new offensive is well under way against scholarships and summer
programs intended to ease minority students into college life.
U.S. Warning on Respiratory Disease
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/health/30INFE.html
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN with KEITH BRADSHER
The mysterious respiratory disease, which has infected hundreds of
people worldwide, may be only in the early stages of a much larger
epidemic.
Lifetime Affliction Leads to a U.S. Bias Suit
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By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
The federal government has filed suit against McDonald's, accusing
them of refusing to promote a former employee to manager because of
the way she looked.
For Some Entrepreneurs, Homicide Creates a Growth Industry
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/national/30HOMI.html
By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN
Taking on often grisly jobs, a growing number of companies specialize
in cleaning up after suicides, homicides and other deaths.
La Jolla Beach Battle: Not Exactly 'Jaws' but Seals
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/national/30SEAL.html
By BARBARA WHITAKER
It is man versus seal in a battle for a patch of prime protected beach
in the affluent La Jolla section of San Diego, and it appears the
seals are winning.
With God on His Side
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By GARRY WILLS
Throughout America's history, there has been one ally presidents have
invoked above all others.
Another War, Same General
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By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
In 1990 Alan Greenspan was wrestling with questions eerily similar to
those he faces today.
Rumsfeld's Imperious Style Turns Combative
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By TODD S. PURDUM
As the war progresses - though less smoothly than hoped - Donald H.
Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense, has assumed a crustier, testier
tone in defending his war plan.
As a Quick Victory Grows Less Likely, Doubts Are Quietly Voiced
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/worldspecial/30DISS.html
By DAVID E. SANGER
After 10 days of watching smart bombs, sandstorms and stiff resistance
from the Iraqi regime, a capital that usually embraces a president at
war is beginning to show fissures
Impasse on Judicial Pick Defies Quick Resolution
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By NEIL A. LEWIS
Both the Democrats and the Bush administration are refusing to back
down on the issue of access to memos written by federal appeals court
nominee Miguel Estrada.
On the Trailing Edge of the Arms Industry, by Choice
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/business/yourmoney/30ARMS.html
By BARNABY J. FEDER
Because of advancing technology, government offices and a handful of
private contractors have become the world's most sophisticated
managers of obsolescence.
Fighting Oil Fires, and Creditors
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/business/businessspecial/30BOOT.html
By J. ALEX TARQUINIO
The war in Iraq might determine the fate of a Houston company that
earned as much as $100 million putting out oil-well fires in Kuwait in
1991.
Keeping Soldiers on the Line
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/business/businessspecial/30PROF.html
By JULIE FLAHERTY
William J. Baumann, who oversees military services for AT&T, has his
work cut out for him as he tries to help troops call home.
Helping Soldiers Qualify for a Break
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/business/businessspecial/30SHOU.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Congress has passed military tax-relief bills that allow military
personnel to take advantage of a capital gains tax break that is
available to most homeowners.
In War, Forecasters Find Few Data Points
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/business/businessspecial/30VIEW.html
By DANIEL ALTMAN
Economic forecasters are spontaneously transforming themselves into
military analysts. But can they really handicap the war?
Projecting Oil's Course When Calm Is Restored
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/business/businessspecial/30INSI.html
By KENNETH N. GILPIN
Frederick P. Leuffer, senior energy analyst at Bear Stearns, talked
about the effects of the Iraq war on oil supplies and prices.
March of History Is Seldom in Step With Market Timing
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/business/yourmoney/30STRA.html
By MARK HULBERT
Many market timers doubt that the beginning of the war meant the end
of the bear market that began in 2000.
Tougher to Tell Who's Who in Commodities
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/business/yourmoney/30WATC.html
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
The Big Board is not the only regulator that seems eager to make nice
with some of the folks it polices.
The Complicated Calculus of Stock Options
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By DAVID LEONHARDT
Companies take varying approaches to estimating the cost of the stock
options they award to their employees.
No-Shows at the Masters
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By PATRICK McGEEHAN
Because of planned protests, companies like Citigroup and Coca-Cola
will not hold private parties at Augusta.
At a Food Distributor, Vendors Often Pay to Play
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By CONSTANCE L. HAYS
Was U.S. Foodservice, a leading food distributor, too passionate about
promotion?
Tax Law Is Leading to Some Serial Home-Buying
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By JENNIFER BAYOT and DANIEL ALTMAN
Changes in the tax law in 1997 allow certain taxpayers to sell their
primary residences without paying capital gains on the profits.
Haute Tech
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By JULIA SZABO
Cyber-ranges and Internet-ready refrigerators: A look into the kitchen
of the future.
On the Trailing Edge of the Arms Industry, by Choice
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/business/yourmoney/30ARMS.html
By BARNABY J. FEDER
Because of advancing technology, government offices and a handful of
private contractors have become the world's most sophisticated
managers of obsolescence.
On Horizon, Military Sees High-Technology Trucks
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/automobiles/30FUTU.html
By SUE MEAD
When today's military warhorses roll into the sunset, what will take
their place? The Big Three have plans.
Struggling to Regain Technological Buzz After Bubble's Burst
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By BARNABY J. FEDER
Like many once high-flying technology businesses, the Media Lab at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology could now use a greater buzz
factor.
AOL Says S.E.C. Is Challenging Its Accounting
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/technology/29AOL.html
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
AOL Time Warner disclosed that securities regulators believe that the
company improperly overstated its revenue by $400 million.
'A Dangerous Place': Ecological Code Red
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By STEVE ERICKSON
Marc Reisner's manifesto about California is the last furious
expression of a barely suppressed rage at civilization, for going
where the earth doesn't want it.
Protecting an Endangered Afghan Species: Books
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/arts/29LIBE.html
By FELICIA R. LEE
From the pages of yellowed books bound by string, the words of
Afghanistan's kings, poets and government officials are entering the
digital age.
Learning From the Last Time
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2003/03/24/health/index.html
Heeding medical lessons, and mistakes, of Desert Storm.
Armed With New Tools and Tactics, Doctors Head to the Battlefield
http://tinyurl.com/8g5v
By GINA KOLATA
From redesigned first-aid kits to a radically new kind of surgery on
the front lines, battlefield medicine has changed markedly.
Glowing Rash, High Fever, Kidney Failure
http://tinyurl.com/8g5x
By LISA SANDERS, M.D.
Every once in a while, a piece of information comes along that makes
the puzzle fall into place.
Exclude More From Smallpox Vaccinations, U.S. Is Urged
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/international/worldspecial/29SMAL.html
By DENISE GRADY
A panel of medical advisers recommended that people who have three or
more major risk factors for heart disease should also be excluded from
taking the smallpox vaccination.
Chemical Might Pose Health Risk to Younger Women and Girls
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/health/29ENVI.html
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
An internal Environmental Protection Agency report suggests that a
chemical used to produce Teflon might pose health risks for young
girls and women of childbearing age.
Walk a Mile for a Camel? Not Far Enough Anymore
http://tinyurl.com/8g5y
By ANDREW JACOBS
On Sunday, America's capital of freewheeling indulgence joins an
increasingly puritanical nation in its war on tobacco.
Decades Later, 60's Icons Still Live by Their Message
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/worldspecial/30SIXT.html
By JAMES BARRON
Forty years later, they march to the same song for a different war.
Puzzling Over Motives of the Men in the Lackawanna Qaeda Case
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/nyregion/30TOWN.html
By MATTHEW PURDY
The six Lackawanna, N.Y., men accused of attending a Qaeda training
camp are a cell of curiosity, a sign of what is unknown about
terrorists in this country.
New York and New Jersey Protests Continue
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/30RALL.html
By SUSAN SAULNY
Hundreds of people marched and rallied in the streets of New York and
New Jersey, protesting the war in Iraq in what has become a familiar
scene across the region.
Top-Performing School Teaches Art of Test-Taking
http://tinyurl.com/8g67
By JENNIFER MEDINA
At least twice a month, all third- and fourth-grade students at C.E.S.
35 spend three hours taking a practice standardized test modeled after
annual state and city exams.
Little-Known Jewel of Lower East Side
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/education/26EDUC.html
By MICHAEL WINERIP
Public School 20 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan is one of the
poorest elementary schools in America (99 percent free lunches), but
also one of the most thrilling.
Standoff with Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/issues_in_depth/20030129.html
Lesson plans, multimedia resources and more for classroom and home
use, from The Learning Network.
Iraq Around the Clock
http://tinyurl.com/8g69
By FRANK RICH
There's a second fight raging in television coverage of the war: the
pitched battle between journalism and the imperatives of show
business.
Can New York's Plays Get the Middle East?
http://tinyurl.com/8g6a
By CLYDE HABERMAN
Two off Broadway plays, John Patrick Shanley's "Dirty Story" and A. R.
Gurney's "O Jerusalem," come to grips with the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.
From Russia, With Love
http://tinyurl.com/8g6f
By ANNETTE GRANT
Can a St. Petersburg choreographer come up with a Slavic "Some Like it
Hot"?
Cutting Through Angkor's Wats Politics and Banyans
http://tinyurl.com/8g6i
By ROBERT TURNBULL
An unruly league of nations fights for the right to restore Cambodia's
temples.
A Philanthropy Rush in Corporate Brazil
http://tinyurl.com/8g6n
By TONY SMITH
If Brazilians needed any proof that having a social conscience is in
fashion here, they got it recently, when, during São Paulo Fashion
Week, the supermodel Gisele Bündchen gave half her $30,000 runway fee
to Zero Hunger, a program to eradicate poverty in this country.
Ricardo Semler
http://tinyurl.com/8g6s
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Ted Turner
http://tinyurl.com/8g72
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George Soros
http://tinyurl.com/8g76
http://tinyurl.com/8g77
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Philanthropy
http://tinyurl.com/8g7c
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Bribery Scandal Threatens Poland's Government
http://tinyurl.com/8g6q
By PETER S. GREEN
A widening political scandal over a reported attempt by a producer of
"The Pianist" to solicit a bribe from the editor of Poland's largest
newspaper is now threatening to bring down Poland's government and
block its entry to the European Union.
China Lets Tibet Nun, Long Jailed, Go to U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/asia/30CHIN.html
A Tibetan nun, China's longest-serving female political prisoner, was
allowed to leave for the United States on Friday, an American-based
activist said.
A Sign of the New Kenya: A Briefcase Filled With Cash Is Spurned
http://tinyurl.com/8g7h
One of the ministers in Kenya's new government found a briefcase full
of cash in his office recently, left behind by a visitor steeped in
the old way of influencing policy makers in this country, considered
one of the most corrupt in the world.
Thousands in Boston Demand End of War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/international/worldspecial/30PROT.html
By FOX BUTTERFIELD
About 25,000 people held a peaceful protest march through downtown
Boston today in what organizers said was the largest antiwar march
here since Vietnam.
Wind Stirs Up Rough Week in California
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/national/30WIND.html
By JONATHAN D. GLATER
There came a moment late Wednesday night when Officer Gilbert Campos
decided that the hot gusts of wind buffeting the helicopter were too
much to handle. He and his co-pilot decided to return to the helipad
downtown and call it a night.
Commentary From Around the World Shows Division Still Deep
http://tinyurl.com/8g7m
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
More than a week and a half after the fighting in Iraq began,
newspaper editorials around the world are as bitterly divided about
the wisdom of the war as ever.
Fears of War and Illness Hurt Tourism in Asia
http://tinyurl.com/8g7q
By DAVID BARBOZA
The war in Iraq and the outbreak of a mysterious respiratory ailment
that began in China are combining to wreak havoc on tourism in Asia,
and are threatening to weaken economies throughout this region.
To Offset Stocks, a Look to Futures
http://tinyurl.com/8g7r
By DONNA ROSATO
WORRIES about war and the economy have made global financial markets
extremely volatile, but David Keating says he believes he has found a
way to weather the market's wild swings.
When It Comes to Taxes, There Is a Second Chance
http://tinyurl.com/8g7s
By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr.
NOT only is the current tax code forbiddingly long and complex, it is
also in almost constant flux from court decisions, I.R.S.
interpretations and annual tinkering — or, on occasion, overhaul — by
Congress. More than three million taxpayers a year now take the
trouble to amend previously filed tax returns, all but a relative
handful of them to claim deductions they had overlooked, inadvertently
shortchanging themselves.
Anti-Semitism and Love Gone Bad, From George Eliot
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/arts/television/29GUSS.html
By MEL GUSSOW
"Daniel Deronda," published in 1876, was George Eliot's last and most
controversial novel, dealing with anti-Semitism and other social
injustices in Victorian England. As late as 1948, F. R. Leavis
objected to the Jewish aspect of the novel and suggested that it
should be removed and the book retitled "Gwendolen Harleth," after its
leading female character. With the distance of time, the novel has
taken its place alongside "Middlemarch," "The Mill on the Floss" and
other Eliot masterworks.
An Unblinking Eye on a Searing Topic
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/movies/29FORG.html
By ELVIS MITCHELL
Kim Longinotto's powerful documentary, "The Day I Will Never Forget"
makes its points with a low-key directness. Ms. Longinotto knows that
the subject is so discomforting that it's best for her to let it
unfold without hysteria.
At Columbia, Call for Death of U.S. Forces Is Denounced
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/education/29PROF.html
By TAMAR LEWIN
The president of Columbia University said yesterday that he was
horrified by the remarks of an anthropology professor who said at a
campus antiwar teach-in Wednesday night that he hoped to see "a
million Mogadishus" — referring to the city in Somalia where American
soldiers were ambushed in a lethal firefight in 1993.
As the Battles Heat Up, War Buffs Turn to Maps and Play Board Games
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/international/worldspecial/29BUFF.html
By DAVID W. CHEN
Military buffs are breaking out their board games: "Back to Iraq 3" or
"Gulf Strike," portrait of Saddam Hussein included.
War in Iraq Stokes Battle Between the City's Tabloids
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/nyregion/29PAPE.html
By JACQUES STEINBERG
The New York Post and The Daily News have been sparring for decades,
but with the war in Iraq, the newspaper battle has reached a fever
pitch.
Health Care for the Poorest as a Central Human Right
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/arts/29QNA.html
Paul Farmer, a Harvard Medical School professor and anthropologist,
discusses health care for the world's poor.
Argentina Will End Freeze on Bank Savings Accounts
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/business/worldbusiness/29ARGE.html
By TONY SMITH
Buoyed by signs of economic recovery and with an eye on next month's
elections, the Argentine government said yesterday that it would end
an unpopular freeze on bank savings accounts imposed in late 2001 as
the country slid into financial chaos.
Adviser to U.S. Aided Maker of Satellites
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/business/29PERL.html
By STEPHEN LABATON
Richard N. Perle advised Loral Space and Communications as it faced
accusations that it improperly transferred sensitive rocket technology
to the Chinese.
Oil Prices End Week Higher on Fears of Protracted War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/business/businessspecial/29OIL.html
By NEELA BANERJEE
Oil prices rose 12 percent this week as global markets grappled with
the prospect of a protracted war and a cut in exports from Nigeria.
Bechtel Top Contender in Bidding Over Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/international/worldspecial/29POST.html
By ELIZABETH BECKER and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
Bechtel has emerged as one of the top two contenders for the major
contract to reconstruct Iraq, people involved in the bidding said.
Senators Set Deal on Religion-Based Initiative
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/politics/29FAIT.html
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
The leading Congressional sponsor of President Bush's religion-based
initiative has agreed to strip the measure of a provision that would
have helped religious groups compete for government grants. The move
will clear the way for Senate passage.
U.S. Is Preparing to Try Iraqis for Crimes Against Humanity
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/international/worldspecial/29RULE.html
By NEIL A. LEWIS
Senior administration officials said that they were collecting
evidence of war crimes in Iraq, including the apparent execution of
Americans held prisoner.
Rumsfeld Cautions Iran and Syria on Aid to Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/international/worldspecial/29PENT.html
By ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld accused Syria and Iran on Friday
of interfering with the American war effort in Iraq.
Powell Sees Major Role for U.N. in Postwar Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/8g8d
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said that opposition around the
world toward the war in Iraq would pose a significant challenge for
the U.S. in the future.
Antiwar Stance Buoys Howard Dean in Iowa
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/international/worldspecial/29DEAN.html
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor, is making the most of his
position as the antiwar candidate for president.
Pentagon Strokes Lawmakers Every Morning, and They Seem to Like It
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/international/worldspecial/29CONG.html
By CARL HULSE and ERIC SCHMITT
The administration is using high-level access and information-laden
briefings to keep lawmakers on board with the war effort and from
being too vocal about the war's cost.
White House Says War Is 'On Track'
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/international/worldspecial/29CAPI.html
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
The Bush administration worked to counter pessimism and solidify
support for the war.
2 Views of War: On the Ground and at the Top
http://tinyurl.com/8g8j
By JOHN M. BRODER with ERIC SCHMITT
As opposed to on the ground, officials at Central Command headquarters
say the air war is going just as they envisioned.
Pentagon Strokes Lawmakers Every Morning, and They Seem to Like It
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/international/worldspecial/29CONG.html
By CARL HULSE and ERIC SCHMITT
Each weekday morning, four senior officials from the Pentagon and
State Department arrive on Capitol Hill to conduct top-secret
briefings on the war for any member of Congress who wishes to attend.
Donors Add Watchdog Role to Relations With Charities
http://tinyurl.com/8g8o
By STEPHANIE STROM
In a new more muscular style of philanthropy, eagle-eyed donors are
increasingly keeping close tabs on the organizations and institutions
they support.
Antiwar Effort Emphasizes Civility Over Confrontation
http://tinyurl.com/8g8s
By KATE ZERNIKE and DEAN E. MURPHY
The most influential antiwar coalitions are shifting away from
large-scale disruptive tactics and stepping up efforts to appeal to
mainstream Americans.
Weak Economy Beneath the Steeple
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/national/29RELI.html
By MAREK FUCHS
"Ask and you shall receive" does not always hold when times are tough.
War Brings New Surge of Anxiety for Followers of Islam
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/international/worldspecial/29MUSL.html
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
Muslim Americans say the backlash they have felt since the attacks of
Sept. 11 has intensified since the United States attacked Iraq.
Out of Chaos, Mystery and Death, a New Faith
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/international/worldspecial/29MISS.html
By MONICA DAVEY
All they know so far is that their loved ones, all of them marines,
were there, by a bridge in Iraq, when Iraqis in civilian clothes
pulled out weapons and started firing.
Bombing May Signal the Future Use of Guerrilla Tactics
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/international/worldspecial/29WEB-BOMB.html
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
A Iraqi suicide bomber killed four U.S. soldiers today by luring them
to his taxi cab at a checkpoint north of Najaf and then detonating an
explosive.
Iraq Blames U.S. for Market Blast That Killed Civilians in Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/8g91
By JOHN F. BURNS
Iraqi officials said that at least 35 people were killed when a
missile or bomb struck a crowded marketplace in a Baghdad suburb.
Airstrikes Continue as Allies Consider Timing of a Thrust
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By PATRICK E. TYLER
The timing of any assault on Baghdad is under intense review, with
generals debating the merits of speed against those of patience.
Either Take a Shot or Take a Chance
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By DEXTER FILKINS
American commanders halted one of the main groups advancing toward
Baghdad to give the troops time to rest.
Security Council Votes to Revive Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/8g9c
By FELICITY BARRINGER
The Security Council gave Secretary General Kofi Annan temporary
authority to provide food and medicine to Iraq through a
seven-year-old program.
Thousands Across Mideast Protest, Urging Holy War Against Allies
http://tinyurl.com/8g9f
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Protesters took to the streets by the thousands across the Middle
East, with calls for a holy war against the American and British
forces in Iraq.
Military Gravy Train
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/opinion/L29HALL.html
To extinguish oil field fires and repair damaged oil wells in Iraq,
the Army Corps of Engineers has just awarded the job to the
Halliburton Company, whose previous chief executive was Vice President
Dick Cheney (news item, March 25).
Don't Punish Al Jazeera
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/opinion/L29JAZE.html
I agree that it is "the height of irony, if not foolishness, that the
New York Stock Exchange has now seen fit to revoke the credentials of
two Al Jazeera reporters" (editorial, March 26).
To the Gates of Baghdad, and Other Fronts
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/opinion/L29IRAQ.html
Re "New Reality, Hard Choices" (military analysis, front page, March
28):
If an American-led siege or storming of Baghdad should inflict
casualties in the tens of thousands on the city's populace — which
looks increasingly necessary to achieve victory — Iraqi, Arab and
world reaction would be such that America's postwar plans would be
impossible to fulfill.
Millenniums of Asia, Packed Into a Week
http://tinyurl.com/8g9t
By HOLLAND COTTER
This week thousands of Asian objects have landed in Manhattan as part
of the annual spring Asia Week.
Divided Over Another War, but Still on Speaking Terms
http://tinyurl.com/8g9x
By LESLIE EATON
Americans may not agree on the wisdom of going to war with Iraq, but
polls and interviews around New York suggest that the two sides remain
on speaking terms.
A Prominent Rabbi Reconsiders His Recent Antiwar Remarks
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/international/worldspecial/28SPEE.html
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
The case of Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, a widely respected spiritual and
intellectual leader, is a reminder of the delicacies involved in
opposing a freshly minted war.
Research Shows Sperm Has Egg Locater
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/health/28CONC.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The discovery could help develop a new form of contraception or lead
to new help for infertility.
Japan Launching Spy Satellites Despite North Korean Threats
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/international/asia/28JAPA.html
By JAMES BROOKE
The satellites, which carry radar equipment and cameras, will allow
Japan to monitor North Korea.
War Weighs on Consumer Sentiment
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Consumer-Sentiment-Index.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
War worries sent consumer sentiment about the economy spiraling
downward at the end of March, a report released today found.
Stocks Slip on Fears of a Prolonged War
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-markets-stocks.html
By REUTERS
A report of weak American consumer sentiment compounded fears that a
long Iraq war might dent the economy and corporate profits.
French's Unmentioned British Flavor
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/business/28NORR.html
By FLOYD NORRIS
Economic jingoism is on the rise. For example, a recent press release
proclaims: "the only thing French about French's Mustard is the name!"
Conservatives Tailor Tone to Fit Course of the War
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0328-01.htm
By JIM RUTENBERG
Conservative pundits like Rush Limbaugh are on the offensive, echoing
President Bush's optimism and denouncing what they see as pessimism in
the news media.
March to Baghdad Slowed, U.S. Forces Weigh Strategies
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By MICHAEL R. GORDON
The U.S. military now faces a series of difficult calculations in its
efforts to overthrow Saddam Hussein and his government.
Bush Administration Frustrated by War Doubts
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=2467408
By REUTERS
Administration officials today denied U.S. war planners were caught
off guard by Iraqi resistance on the road to Baghdad.
War to Keep Going Until Regime Ends, Bush and Blair Say
By THOM SHANKER and ELISABETH BUMILLER
President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair defended the war's
progress and vowed to finish off Saddam Hussein's regime.
On 2nd Try, U.S. Court Nominee Advances
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By NEIL A. LEWIS
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along straight party lines to
approve the nomination of Priscilla R. Owen to a federal appeals court
and send it to the full Senate.
A Gulf Commander Sees a Longer Road
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By JIM DWYER
The removal of the Iraqi government is likely to take longer than
originally thought, Lt. Gen. William Wallace said.
War to Keep Going Until Regime Ends, Bush and Blair Say
http://tinyurl.com/8gaq
By THOM SHANKER and ELISABETH BUMILLER
President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair defended the war's
progress and vowed to finish off Saddam Hussein's regime.
U.N. Gives Secretary General Control of Iraq's Oil-for-Food Plan
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/international/worldspecial/28CND-NATION.html
By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN
UNITED NATIONS, March 28 - The Security Council reorganized a
controversial oil for food program with Iraq, giving control of the
program to Secretary General Kofi Annan for the next 45 days.
Iraqi Resistance and Resupply Delays Slow Marine Advance
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/international/worldspecial/28CND-MARINE.html
By JOHN KIFNER
A Marine officer said today that Iraqi attacks are being organized in
the major towns that the military had planned to bypass on its way to
Baghdad.
Endless Supply Convoy Is Frustrated Endlessly
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/international/worldspecial/28CONV.html
By DEXTER FILKINS
The rapid advance of American forces through Iraq has left allied
supply lines stretching thin and vulnerable.
Iraqi Defense Chief Vows Fight, Predicting Baghdad Clash in Days
http://tinyurl.com/8gb1
By JOHN F. BURNS
The Iraqi defense minister said U.S. forces could surround Baghdad
within 10 days but that ensuing street fighting could last months.
A Village Is Bloodied in a Stubborn Battle
http://tinyurl.com/8gb6
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
The Third Infantry Division has a foothold on Kifl, but the fight is
not over, tying down an ever-growing number of troops.
Hearts and Minds
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28KRIS.html
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Americans should be able to find common ground, for all sides dream of
an Iraq that is democratic and an America that is again admired around
the world.
Delusions of Power
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28KRUG.html
By PAUL KRUGMAN
In the last two years Dick Cheney and other top officials have gotten
it wrong on energy, on the economy - and their mistakes keep getting
bigger.
Loyalty at the Point of a Gun
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28BARA.html
By AMATZIA BARAM
As long as Saddam Hussein is able to maintain even the appearance of
control, high-level defections seem unlikely.
And Now, the Good News
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28OHAN.html
By MICHAEL O'HANLON
The administration should have prepared the country better for the
cost of war, but at least this war will be won, and won decisively.
A Role for the U.N. in Iraq's Future
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28FRI1.html
The best - and perhaps only - hope of leaving Iraq with a democratic
political structure is by making its rebuilding an international
effort.
The Vulnerable Supply Lines
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28FRI2.html
There is potential for problems in the supply lines between Kuwait and
Baghdad, which are constantly under attack from small groups of
fighters.
Secrecy: The Bush Byword
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28FRI3.html
An executive order that makes it easier for government agencies to
keep documents classified is a reminder that this White House is
obsessed with secrecy.
AIDS Funding and Politics
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28FRI5.html
Never has the far right's agenda been as potentially disruptive as it
is now on the crucial issue of fighting AIDS overseas.
30 year's war
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Thirty year's war
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The Last Valley
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Southern Strategy
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Total war
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"we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support
any friend, oppose any foe"
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Preamble
http://usconstitution.net/const.html#Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect
Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings
of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish
this Constitution for the United States of America.
--
"My country, right or wrong; to be defended when right and righted
when wrong." - Thomas Jefferson
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good
is my religion." - Thomas Paine
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Covert Searches Yield No Banned Weapons
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49385-2003Mar29.html
Ten days into a war fought under the flag of disarmament, U.S.-led
troops have found no sign of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Thirsty Cities Look Seaward For More Water
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49323-2003Mar29.html
MARINA, Calif. -- As California and other thirsty states face a
seemingly endless search for more water, one possible future is
already here: a desalination plant that sucks salty water out of the
sea and transforms it into drinking water.
War's Military, Political Goals Begin to Diverge
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49102-2003Mar29.html
The imperative of waging a short and decisive campaign is increasingly
at odds with the military necessity of preparing for a protracted and
costly war, officials said.
Epidemic Kills Scientist Who Helped Discover It
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48905-2003Mar29.html
The scientist who discovered the first clue that a dangerous new
microbe was beginning to spread around the globe succumbed to the
frightening disease he alerted the world to.
Former State Senator To Lead Common Cause
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49103-2003Mar29.html
Common Cause, the nonpartisan reformist group that gained prominence
in the Watergate era, has again turned to a defeated Democrat to try
to revive the group, which has suffered stagnant membership and
declining revenue.
Israel Suicide Bombing Injures 38
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52660-2003Mar30.html
Explosion injures 38, according to Israeli police and hospital
officials.
British Troops Find Iraqi Weapons Cache
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52618-2003Mar30.html
Routine stop leads British troops to biggest weapons find of the war
so far: an arsenal stored in at least seven buildings on an abandoned
Iraqi military compound.
Suicide Bomb Kills Four U.S.Troops in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48767-2003Mar29.html
U.S. branded the blast as terrorism. But Saddam Hussein's government
warned that suicide attacks will become "routine military policy" in
Iraq and the U.S.
A Salvadoran Town's Dream Rises Slowly From the Rubble
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49026-2003Mar29.html
El Salvador is still putting itself back together after a
7.6-magnitude earthquake that hit in January 2001, followed by a
devastating 6.6-magnitude quake one month later.
Pope Warns That War Could Bring 'Religious Catastrophe'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49390-2003Mar29.html
VATICAN CITY, March 29 -- Pope John Paul II said today he hoped that
the human tragedy of the war in Iraq would not set Christians and
Muslims against each other and spark "a religious catastrophe."
What Is Known, What Can Be Done About Mysterious New Disease
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49283-2003Mar29.html
. The epidemic is thought to have begun in Guangdong province of
southern China, spreading elsewhere in China and through Hong Kong to
Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Canada, the United States and
Europe. It may be caused by a previously unknown type of coronavirus,
one of many viruses that cause the common cold.
Pakistani Children Add School to Workday
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49008-2003Mar29.html
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The newly baked bricks are neatly lined up, row
after row, across a mud-colored pit that surrounds a tall, smoking
chimney. It is Zabiullah's job to keep them stacked straight until
they dry, and he does it with quick, precise motions. Though only 5
years old, he is a valuable member of the team of bonded laborers who
work in the Amadkhel brick kiln -- far too valuable for his family to
spare from their daily toil.
U.S. Moves to Increase Firepower in the North
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49367-2003Mar29.html
U.S. forces rushed to build combat power for operations that could
include sending troops north, to keep a large Turkish force from
entering Kurdish-controlled Iraq, or south and west toward Iraqi
forces.
Rift Over War Sours Bush-Putin Partnership
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49386-2003Mar29.html
Russia is eager to display its unhappiness over the U.S. invasion of
Iraq in any way it can that does not permanently damage U.S.-Russian
relations.
Pentagon Says Some Missiles Strayed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49022-2003Mar29.html
At least a half-dozen cruise missiles have gone badly astray in the
Iraqi war, prompting both Saudi Arabia and Turkey to shut down U.S.
firing lanes and leading to new concerns that two devastating blasts
in Baghdad last week might have resulted from American errors.
Hospital Reveals Treatment of Iraqi Victims
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49320-2003Mar29.html
The U.S. Army field hospital at an abandoned Iraqi military airfield
in south-central Iraq has been busy with the war's wounded, most of
them Iraqi civilians or prisoners of war bloodied in battles near
Nasiriyah and other nearby towns on the road to Baghdad.
Palestinian Premier Visits Gaza in Effort to Form Cabinet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49009-2003Mar29.html
GAZA CITY, March 29 -- The new Palestinian prime minister visited the
Gaza Strip today for the first time since he was appointed, meeting
leaders of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement as he works to form a
cabinet.
Assault Strains U.S.-Arab Relations
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48367-2003Mar29.html
A shuddering sense of outrage at Bush and the U.S. fell over the Arab
world as media reported a U.S. air assault at a vegetable market in
Baghdad that killed 58.
How Green Was Our Warning
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42116-2003Mar28.html
These are the times that call for bursting into off-key Rodgers and
Hammerstein. Perhaps the only refuge, the only return to green days,
is our American talent for denial.
POW Redux
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42117-2003Mar28.html
News of captives brings it all back for Gulf War prisoners.
Perseverance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49187-2003Mar29.html
Page B06
ALLIED MILITARY and political leaders now are stressing their
expectation that the Iraq war may be long, "tough and difficult," as
British Prime Minister Tony Blair put it. Since the war began 11 days
ago, the more optimistic scenarios of a quick Iraqi collapse have
evaporated, and commanders in the field have faced unexpectedly fierce
Iraqi resistance in unexpected places and from unexpected sources --
especially from thousands of paramilitary fighters in the south. The
Iraqi irregulars have not won any battles, but they have slowed the
allied advance on Baghdad and prevented any popular uprising against
Saddam Hussein. They also have raised the specter of a protracted and
costly fight for the capital and other key cities. Some U.S. and
British commanders appear inclined to await the arrival of
reinforcements before attempting these assaults; one suggested to Post
correspondent Rick Atkinson that a prolonged bombing campaign, deemed
unnecessary before the war, should now be undertaken. From outside the
theater it's impossible to judge whether a field officer's predictions
that the war could last past summer and require tens of thousands of
additional troops will prove accurate. But if such a commitment is
needed to ensure success, the United States should make it.
Taking Rape Seriously
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49188-2003Mar29.html
Page B06
THE AIR FORCE Academy announced on Wednesday changes that are
serious enough to jolt the institution -- the most drastic of which
was the firing of four top officers who presided during the recent
rape scandal. Although the leaders were due to leave soon, the
dismissals are symbolically important, especially in the case of the
chief of cadets, Brig. Gen. S. Taco Gilbert III. Gen. Gilbert showed
up repeatedly in women's testimonies as the voice blaming the victim.
One woman who says she was raped after a party and then nudged out of
the academy after reporting it quoted Gen. Gilbert as saying, "YOU
didn't have to go to that party. YOU didn't have to drink that night"
-- an account Gen. Gilbert did not deny in a recent Post story by Lee
Hockstader.
A Budget of Dire Consequences
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45064-2003Mar28.html
By David S. Broder, Page B07
I am about to conduct class warfare -- not because it's my
ideological preference but because the facts compel it.
Limited War, So Far
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45067-2003Mar28.html
By Michael Kelly, Page B07
WITH THE 3RD INFANTRY DIVISION, Iraq -- The war the United States
is waging against the regime of Saddam Hussein is a critical test of
several related and very ambitious concepts. First it is a test of an
evolving military doctrine. This holds that the American armed forces'
uniquely massive superiority in weaponry and in observation and
communication allows it to conduct war, in a sense, on the cheap: to
achieve even very large goals with relatively little force in little
time at little cost in American lives.
Iraqis Must Share in Their Liberation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45068-2003Mar28.html
By Kanan Makiya, Page B07
The United States is failing to make use of what should be its most
valuable asset in this war: the many Iraqis who are willing to fight
and die for their country's liberation.
Halliburton Unit Loses Out on Rebuilding Iraq (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48751-2003Mar29.html
A construction subsidiary of Vice President Cheney's former company is
no longer in the running for a $600 million government contract to
help rebuild Iraq after the war.
U.S. Hopes Aid, Selective Favors Will Help Win Political Allies (Post,
March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47985-2003Mar29.html
Two trucks laden with food and water pulled up in front of a school
this morning on the southern edge of this dusty industrial town where
paramilitary fighters loyal to President Saddam Hussein have roamed
the streets since shortly after the U.S.-British invasion of Iraq.
Push Toward Baghdad Is Reaffirmed: Bush Backs War Plan Of Rumsfeld,
Generals (By David Von Drehle and Mike Allen, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49101-2003Mar29.html
Could U.S. 666 Be a Highway to Hell? (Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49331-2003Mar29.html
In N.Y.,'Beautiful Love' Becomes Political Peril (Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49330-2003Mar29.html
Bush's Domestic Agenda Suffers Hill Setbacks: Actions on Tax Cut, Oil
Drilling in Alaska, Faith-Based Initiative Reflect Problems (By Jim
VandeHei, Page A05)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48911-2003Mar29.html
At Boston U., 'Holistic' Admissions Venture Beyond Black and White:
Struggle With Race Comes Scrutiny in U-Mich. Court Case (By Michael A.
Fletcher, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49278-2003Mar29.html
At CDC, Big Steps to Stem Epidemic: Warnings Cover Travel, Treatment
(By Rob Stein, Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48943-2003Mar29.html
Official Expounds on Oil Drilling in Alaska: Wildlife Group Cool to
Secretary's Ideas (By Darryl Fears, Page A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48944-2003Mar29.html
Shuttles' Future May Hinge on Key Evidence: Technicians Work to
Decipher Flight Data Recorder, Other Remnants (By Kathy Sawyer, Page
A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48947-2003Mar29.html
The Wooing of House Democrats (By Juliet Eilperin, Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49267-2003Mar29.html
Hawks, Doves Circle Ground Zero: In 9/11 N.Y. Neighborhoods, War in
Iraq Ignites Despair, Anger, Acceptance (By Michael Powell, Page A20)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49015-2003Mar29.html
This Week in the Iraq War (Page A20)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49224-2003Mar29.html
Images of Death, Ruin Inflict Setback in Propaganda War: U.S.
Officials Hope for Eventual Success in Swaying Opinion in Iraq, Rest
of Arab World (By Michael Dobbs and Mike Allen, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49317-2003Mar29.html
The Fallen (Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49366-2003Mar29.html
The Missing (Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49322-2003Mar29.html
Medic Who Died Torn by Duty, Doubts: Navy Man Asked For Assignment In
Middle East (By Amy Goldstein, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49023-2003Mar29.html
Rumsfeld Faulted For Troop Dilution: Military Officers: Forces in Iraq
Are Inadequate (By Vernon Loeb, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49010-2003Mar29.html
Citing Iraq, N. Korea Signals Hard Line on Weapons Issues (Post, March
30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49387-2003Mar29.html
Worldwide Protests Continue (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49057-2003Mar29.html
2 Americans Killed in Ambush in Afghanistan: Attack Could Signal
Resurgence of Violence Against U.S. (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49007-2003Mar29.html
In Shiite Slums, Focus Is on Survival, Not Revolt (Post, March 30,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48861-2003Mar29.html
Channel-Surfing Carnage of War, Saudis' Anger At U.S. Grows: With
Protests Prohibited, Emotions Flare in Private (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49353-2003Mar29.html
U.S. Mounts House-to-House Sweeps: To Wary Marines, Innocent-Looking
Home Can Harbor Big Threat (By Jonathan Finer, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48331-2003Mar29.html
Standoff at Basra Hints at Tough Time in Baghdad: Allies Have Yet To
Face Iraq's Most Elite Troops (By Keith B. Richburg, Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47596-2003Mar29.html
Tactics Turn Unconventional: Commanders Draw Lessons of Belfast in
Countering Attacks (By Peter Baker, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49388-2003Mar29.html
For 82nd, A Skirmish Over Major Supply Route: Airborne Troops Clash
With Militia Fighters (By Monte Reel, Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49383-2003Mar29.html
101st Airborne Tightens Noose on Najaf (By Rick Atkinson, Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49314-2003Mar29.html
U.S. Military Officials Defend War Plans
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51872-2003Mar30.html
Unconvential tactics used by Iraqi fighters spur questions about U.S.
war plans
A Model of Working Together
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52939-2003Mar30.html
Marines, Iraqi villagers strike a deal where both sides benefit.
Explosions Rock Kabul
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52731-2003Mar30.html
A rocket hit the headquarters of international peacekeepers in Afghan
capital.
U.S. Halts Tomahawks Over Saudi Arabia
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48852-2003Mar29.html
The United States stopped launching Tomahawk cruise missile over parts
of Saudi Arabia after the kingdom complained that some of the weapons
landed in the vast desert country, the U.S. Central Command said
Saturday.
Arab Press Predicting Bloodbath: Columnists Note Lack of Quick Victory
(Post, March 29, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44600-2003Mar28.html
Robert Fisk: In Baghdad, blood and bandages for the innocent
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=392161
The piece of metal is only a foot high, but the numbers on it hold the
clue to the latest atrocity
'Why give out food and then bomb us?'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=392150
Viewed from the northern edge of Zubayr, the bone-dry flatlands of the
Mesopotamian plain are ablaze with Allah's wrath. Salah Mehdi, 35,
watched the inferno burning in the nearby city of Basra. Close by,
another sign of what Iraqis describe as "Qiyamat", the Muslim Day of
Reckoning. The skies are marked by the thick, black smoke from burning
oil wells.
Cook: 'Pull out of bloody, unjust war'
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=392172
'There will be a legacy of hatred for the West if the Iraqis continue
to suffer from the war we started'
Lutz C Kleveman: The new 'Great Game' being played out over oil
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=392380
31 March 2003
Iraq has become the linchpin in a US strategy to secure cheap oil
while breaking Opec, the Arab-dominated oil cartel
Anti-war demonstrators halt rush-hour traffic in Washington as Arab
protests continue
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=391822
29 March 2003
Anti-war demonstrators blocked roads near the White House and a bridge
leading into Washington yesterday in the kind of protest seen almost
daily across the US but which receives little coverage in the media.
War in Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=392179
30 March 2003
Today's links in full
War in Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=392377
31 March 2003
Today's links in full
Chicken Hawks
http://tinyurl.com/8gsu
http://tinyurl.com/8gsv
http://tinyurl.com/8gsw
maff
Blair, the war criminal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,922541,00.html
Tam Dalyell: Tony Blair should be arrested for war crimes because he
has pursued a war against Iraq without UN authorisation.
Kosovo for the Kurds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,922543,00.html
Timothy Garton Ash: Which peoples should govern themselves? Our
answers are as confused as ever.
They are fighting for their independence, not Saddam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,922665,00.html
Seumas Milne: Resistance to the US-British occupation will not end
with this regime.
Aggression
http://tinyurl.com/8983
http://tinyurl.com/8987
http://tinyurl.com/898a
Aggressive
http://tinyurl.com/898c
http://tinyurl.com/898g
http://tinyurl.com/898h
McCarthy's ghost
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,922542,00.html
Gary Younge: Democracy is under threat in the United States; anyone
who objects to the conflict in Iraq is not allowed to say so.
McCarthyism
http://tinyurl.com/898s
http://tinyurl.com/898t
http://tinyurl.com/898v
Joseph McCarthy
http://tinyurl.com/898w
http://tinyurl.com/898y
http://tinyurl.com/8990
Just for the record
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,922704,00.html
Davie McKie: "And what will history say?" someone asks General
Burgoyne in George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple. "History,
sir," he replies, "will tell lies as usual."
We are all Iraqis now
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,922612,00.html
The unexpectedly stiff resistance mounted by Iraqi troops has rolled
back decades of Arab humiliation, says distinguished Egyptian
journalist Hani Shukrallah.
Atheist*
http://tinyurl.com/8995
http://tinyurl.com/8998
http://tinyurl.com/899d
'Democracy is a lofty dream'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
The US must change its ways if reconstruction is to be a success.
The war for oil
http://www.bbc.co.uk/business/programmes/moneyprogramme/current.shtml
Tony Blair and George W Bush claim the current Iraqi crisis has
nothing to do with oil. The Money Programme examines to what extent
oil has motivated the war in Iraq.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,922598,00.html
Simply the Bess
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,922590,00.html
Elizabeth I is the best monarch England has had, says Lucy Moore. But
her passion and strength has not always been appreciated.
An ocean apart
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,922530,00.html
"If Europe and the US split apart, the loser is not going to be
Britain. We will retain our position in Europe and our strong position
with the US. The loser will be the wider world." Mr Blair (Report,
March 26) must mean Europe ...
Independent voices stifled by the broadcasters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,922528,00.html
I flicked through the TV channels here in the UAE yesterday morning
and Iraq TV was no longer there, with its patriotic songs and angry
street demonstrations (War in the Gulf, March 26).
Labour optimists - and pessimists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,922527,00.html
Letters: Achieving democratic socialism through the Labour party is
about as likely as the Iraqi army defeating the US.
Disbelief and Dixie Chicks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,922529,00.html
I read Charles Krauthammer's open letter to George Bush in disbelief
(Comment, March 26). I was convinced it was satirical until I read its
provenance.
Beyond words
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,922522,00.html
Blair's influence is on the line today.
Flaws in the fortress
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,922523,00.html
Asylum plan breaches basic rights.
Break the waves
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,922524,00.html
Stop the global menace of spam.
Protesters demand that BAT quit Burma
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,922679,00.html
Fifty Kenneth Clarkes gathered in London yesterday to demand that
British American Tobacco close the factory it jointly owns with the
military regime in Burma.
No rush to UN-led regime
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,922664,00.html
Tony Blair says talk of handing over power in postwar Iraq is
premature.
Coughs and Stam'rs help Blair say it clearly, again and again
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,921994,00.html
The history of modern warfare can be summarised as a reversal of two
numbers. In the second world war the aim was to kill as many people as
you could with as few as possible watching what you were doing.
British troops face hit and run raids in Basra
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,922753,00.html
British troops were entrenched outside Basra last night still unable
to secure Iraq's southern city despite aerial bombing and heavy
artillery fire directed at forces loyal to Saddam Hussein.
Defence chiefs demand al-Jazeera stops screening film of dead soldiers
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,922756,00.html
British defence officials last night asked the Arab broadcaster
al-Jazeera to stop screening footage of two dead British soldiers and
two alleged coalition prisoners of war.
Hoon silent on market bombing
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,922404,00.html
The defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, today refused to confirm that
coalition forces had been responsible for bombing a market in Baghdad.
EU lifts Turkey's hopes
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,9061,922749,00.html
Turkey's hopes of joining the EU were improved yesterday by the
European commission setting aside its concern about its 'recent
behaviour' and recommending that its EU aid should be doubled.
Wayward bombs bring marketplace carnage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922721,00.html
The bearded militiaman knelt in the rain and used his gun to shift the
earth of the bomb crater.
Battle as Iraqis break out of Basra
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922720,00.html
British artillery and jets launched a fierce attack last night on a
convoy of up to 120 Iraqi tanks and armoured personnel carriers seen
pouring out of the city of Basra towards the Faw peninsula at the
southern tip of the country.
US confusion over blame for raid
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922722,00.html
US military officials last night appeared to be in a state of
confusion about whether coalition forces were responsible for the bomb
attack on a Baghdad market that killed 14 people.
'Kill box' policy reflects intensified onslaught
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922713,00.html
Policy switch hampered by bad weather.
As eyes of the world focus on Iraq, the rest of the world's hot spots
get hotter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922611,00.html
Indian-Pakistani relations deteriorated to a dangerous level yesterday
after New Delhi blamed Islamabad for a massacre in Kashmir earlier
this week. Early yesterday India test-fired a nuclear-capable missile
and, a few hours later, Pakistan followed suit.
New 'flu' claims 34 lives in China
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922566,00.html
China dramatically raised the death toll from the new Asian virus
yesterday, admitting that it had killed 34 people there so far,
including three in Beijing.
Gay couple test Texas sodomy law in supreme court
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922565,00.html
A significant case for sexual rights went to the US supreme court
yesterday, where lawyers for two Texans arrested in their bedroom
asked the court to overturn their convictions for sodomy under a state
law against homosexuality.
Fujimori put on most wanted list
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922578,00.html
Interpol put the disgraced former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori
on its most wanted list yesterday, issuing a "red notice" calling for
his arrest and extradition to answer murder and kidnapping charges in
Peru.
US confusion over targets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922840,00.html
US military officials last night admitted that one of their missiles
might have gone astray and hit the market in northern Baghdad where 14
people were killed, but gave conflicting accounts over whether they
had targeted the district.
US troops in running battles with guerrillas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922714,00.html
Advance on Baghdad Several hundred Iraqis reported killed while
attacking armoured columns
The casualties
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922715,00.html
· British
Iraqi movements spark fears of counter attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922831,00.html
Pentagon plays down threat
Ambush backfires on Iraq's reluctant conscripts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922711,00.html
The dead officer lay face down in a ditch, his hair capped with a
shell of pale mud and his fingers stretched out as if the last thing
he had done was to stroke the clay. His trousers were covered in blood
and he wore a green ribbed tank top, like the jumpers the British army
used to wear.
Attack on television station condemned
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922824,00.html
Questions were being raised last night about the legality of the
bombing of Iraqi television's main station in Baghdad, an attack that
appears to have been triggered by Washington's determination to pull
the plugs on a vital propaganda weapon of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Iran rallies militia for border show of force
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922712,00.html
Thousands of members of an Iranian militia have held a rally on their
country's border with Iraq in what appears to have been a
muscle-flexing gesture.
Troop setbacks hold up aid
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922672,00.html
Aid agencies said yesterday that the first trickle of aid had arrived
in war ravaged Iraq, but warned that a few tonnes of supplies were not
enough to combat the country's looming humanitarian disaster.
Jubilation turns to hate as aid arrives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922671,00.html
The young man wearing the brown shawl summed it up succinctly: "We
want you to go back home. We do not want your American and British
aid," he said, his eyes flashing with anger.
Saddam's chief executioner
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922606,00.html
Whenever Saddam Hussein finds himself in a crisis, there is usually
one man he turns to - General Ali Hassan al-Majid. Yesterday there
were reports that Gen Majid, Saddam's cousin and close aide, had
brutally suppressed an uprising in Basra.
Rush for Baghdad held up as militia resistance forces change of
tactics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922608,00.html
US and British commanders have changed their tactics on the ground in
Iraq to tackle paramilitaries across the south before the assault on
Baghdad, senior military sources said yesterday.
Television agendas shape images of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922609,00.html
US focuses on patriotism, Arabs see horrors, British have eyes on west
and Iraq favours Saddam
Bush came to rally the troops, but they ended up rallying him
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922650,00.html
President Bush yesterday launched a new political strategy to go
alongside the military plan. It involves denouncing the enemy's
leadership for atrocities, proclaiming the certainty of victory - and
preparing Americans for the possibility of a long haul. This
three-pronged attack may do duty for the duration of hostilities.
The first casualty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922622,00.html
A look at the way the war is being spun and reported
War? What war? Poor and illiterate family finds soldiers at the door
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922624,00.html
Peasants scrape out meagre but squalid living
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922842,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
Iraqi PoW held by Desert Rats says he is British
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922830,00.html
The British army is investigating a claim that a Manchester man has
been captured fighting with Iraqi forces near Basra.
Vegans 'put child's life at risk'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922557,00.html
A couple who fed their premature daughter a strict vegetarian,
dairy-free diet are on trial in New York, accused of endangering her
life. The case is seen as a test case for parents who put their
children on non-conventional diets.
Burmese detentions 'absurd'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922584,00.html
A UN human rights envoy accused the Burmese military junta yesterday
of making "absurd" excuses to detain more than 1,200 political
opponents.
Al-Qaida suspect's guilty plea
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922637,00.html
A third Yemeni American arrested last year in a suburb of Buffalo, New
York, has pleaded guilty to assisting al-Qaida. He has agreed to give
evidence against three other Yemeni Americans.
Drug dealers on strike in 'free city'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,922643,00.html
Drug dealers in Copenhagen's hippy colony, Christiana, went on strike
yesterday to protest against proposals to bulldoze the alternative
"free city".
Cult church censured on drug ads
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,922770,00.html
A Church of Scientology advert claiming that its programmes had
"salvaged" 250,000 people from drug abuse has been censured by the
Advertising Standards Authority as unproved, following a complaint by
the Church of England.
A blue light for change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,922356,00.html
David Bradley reports on how the structure of a butterfly's wing could
lead to the self-cleaning car.
Nature's stopwatch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,922357,00.html
The slow decay of the lead in our bones has presented forensic science
with a breakthrough, writes Matthew Genge.
Spatial relations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,922353,00.html
The science of morphing has created a resurgence of geometry-led
architecture, writes Peter Forbes.
Science update
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,922354,00.html
Astronaut speaks at last | How to deck an ant (briefly) | How to pack
in the wolves
Get caught mapping
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,922337,00.html
The net has long been a global conversation. Now it's bringing local
communities together too, reports Jim McClellan.
Giving it to you straight
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,922346,00.html
With its combination of intelligence gathering and live pictures, the
net has come of age as a news source, argues Ben Hammersley.
The route to root
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,922349,00.html
Linux now claims to be consumer-friendly. But is it ready for
laypeople? Karlin Lillington finds out the hard way
Robert Fisk: 'It was an outrage, an obscenity'
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391165
It was an outrage, an obscenity. The severed hand on the metal door,
the swamp of blood and mud across the road, the human brains inside a
garage, the incinerated, skeletal remains of an Iraqi mother and her
three small children in their still-smouldering car.
How long will our interest last when the soldiers go?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/natasha_walter/story.jsp?story=391123
27 March 2003
Some optimistic commentators are now saying that the protesters may
not have stopped the war, but they are having an influence on the way
it is being waged.
The mounting list of casualties in this conflict is a salutary
corrective to the modern view of war
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=391125
27 March 2003
At least 14 dead and 30 injured: this was the toll from two missiles
that struck a market in a residential area of northern Baghdad
yesterday, two American missiles gone astray.
Arab disunity
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=390820
26 March 2003
If the Arab world has so singularly failed to get its voice across in
this crisis, it has only itself to blame.
Christopher Bellamy: After seven days of warfare, Baghdad is 'centre
of gravity'
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391158
27 March 2003
With the deep-water port of Umm Qasr secured at last and British
troops moving into the outskirts of Basra, the decisive point of the
war yesterday was still the approach to Baghdad, which for Allied
strategic planners is the Iraqi "centre of gravity".
William Shawcross: Why does anyone think the UN wants to rebuild and
run Iraq?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391126
27 March 2003
Tony Blair wants the UN to play a central role in post-war Iraq.
Robert Fisk: In the long hours of darkness, Baghdad shakes to the
constant low rumble of B-52s
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=390867
26 March 2003
All night, you could hear the carpet-bombing by the B-52s.
Lies, damn lies and military briefings in Doha
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/donald_macintyre/story.jsp?story=391122
Nobody tells the truth in war. But the difference between democracies
and dictatorships should be that the former tell more than the latter.
Bush fiddles with economy while Baghdad burns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch/story/0,12498,922216,00.html
March 26: Could a faltering dollar and global rebellion against its
values presage the decline of the American empire, asks Mark Tran.
Trade-off
http://www.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch/story/0,12498,920952,00.html
March 24: Mark Milner looks at trade implications of the growing rift
between France and the US.
America's $400bn war bill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch/story/0,12498,918085,00.html
March 20: Cost of war will come as nasty surprise for US taxpayers,
writes Randeep Ramesh.
Evidence of earliest human burial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2885663.stm
Scientists claim they have found the oldest evidence of human
creativity: a 350,000-year-old pink stone axe.
Is hydrogen the fuel of the future?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2880975.stm
Hydrogen is the new buzz word as oil companies and car makers back the
view that it will be the successor to oil in the coming decades.
Anti-war hacking rises sharply
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2888589.stm
More than 20,000 websites have been hacked since the war on Iraq began
according to one security firm.
Neanderthals 'had hands like ours'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2884801.stm
The popular image of Neanderthals as clumsy, backward creatures is
dealt another blow.
Police DNA powers 'to be extended'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2890047.stm
Police will be able to take fingerprints and DNA from anyone they
arrest, whether they are charged or not, under new UK Government
plans.
Scientists urge rethink on war
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2844983.stm
An urgent appeal to everyone in the Iraq war to think again has been
launched by 38 leading scientists.
Alternative water future outlined
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2882349.stm
The world's water resources must become a common global good under a
new international system anchored in a constitutional right to water
for all, an alternative water forum resolved here at the weekend.
House of Saud's war nightmare
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/from_our_own_correspondent/2873993.stm
Saudi Arabia is deeply concerned about the coalition's push into Iraq.
The presence of US bases in the country not only makes it a potential
target for the Iraqis but also infuriates many in this overwhelmingly
Muslim nation.
Black Americans sceptical about war
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2890757.stm
The thumping bass of the hip hop clubs of Atlanta's Buckhead district
is a world away from the thudding explosions of the war in Iraq.
Two views: Wolfowitz and Sabri
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2883971.stm
As the war in Iraq develops, top officials in the US and Iraq tell the
BBC their views on the latest high-profile developments: the loss of
life, the Arab League's endorsement of the war as a "violation".
Arab media go to war
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2889441.stm
Alongside the military campaign in Iraq, a battle is being waged in
the Arab media to be the first to bring the most dramatic pictures to
people's television screens.
Thai Muslims protest at US war
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2872667.stm
Muslims in southern Thailand have started boycotting US-products and
goods in protest against the US-led attack on Iraq.
Australia divided over war in Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2887895.stm
The Australian community is still sharply divided over the war in
Iraq.
The War Room
http://www.msnbc.com/news/889577.asp
It was a bold move: speed the battle plan with a risky strike. But
Team Bush had a man on the inside. Behind the ‘target of opportunity,'
and what itmeans for the road to Baghdad
‘I Was Sure I Was Dead'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/889555.asp
What happens when you get too far ahead of a U.S. convoy
Live From Baghdad
http://www.msnbc.com/news/889550.asp
As the Iraqi regime frays around her, a NEWSWEEK correspondent copes
withnervous editors, a bureaucrat with no fingernails and a massive
bombing campaign
W's Comfort Zone
http://www.msnbc.com/news/889525.asp
Happy to have the messy diplomacy behind him, Bush settles into the
cadences of commander in chief
A Father's Words on Going to War
http://www.msnbc.com/news/889541.asp
The 41st president talks about his history with Saddam, what it feels
like to send troops into combat, Bush II's diplomacy and those
troublesome French
Bombing Then Building
http://www.msnbc.com/news/889543.asp
Even as ordnance exploded on Iraq, debate raged over who will manage
the reconstruction
‘We Will Incur Another Loss'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/889264.asp
The Iraq war began without U.S. military access via Turkey. But Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insists his country is part of the
American coalition
Prizes for Bad Diplomacy
http://www.msnbc.com/news/889546.asp
An American occupation of Iraq, no matter how just, could come under
fire from Iraqis or Arabs as being a new colonialism
Iraq's Most Wanted
http://www.msnbc.com/news/889586.asp
They're called the Dirty Nine. All are members of Saddam's murderers'
club marked for certain prosecution if they survive the war for
Baghdad
The 12 Year Itch
http://www.msnbc.com/news/889490.asp
Yes, the son is determined to finish the father's business. But the
story is more complicated than that. The long path to a second gulf
war against Saddam-and the men and ideas that helped to pave the way
The Arrogant Empire
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885222.asp
America's unprecedented power scares the world, and the Bush
administration has only made it worse. How we got here-and what we can
do
Blair Sweats It Out
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885968.asp
Bush may have angered much of the world, and even his most stalwart
ally faces a revolt within his own political party
Powell In the Bunker
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885957.asp
The diplomatic fight is almost finished. But the blame game has just
begun
The War at Home
http://www.msnbc.com/news/889478.asp
The conflict in Iraq has had a contradictory effect on Europe's 15
million Muslims. It has made many feel more a part of the European
mainstream, even as it has radicalized others
Productivity's False Facade
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885455.asp
It's tempting to believe that rising efficiency will rescue the
economy. But the surge reflects more bad news, such as mass layoffs,
than good
The Unmighty Dollar
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885956.asp
A costly war could drive more foreign investors away from the United
States, hurting living standards and our influence abroad
Babylonian Booty
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885467.asp
Ancient Mesopotamia, modern Iraq: once again, bombing and looting
threaten the cradle of civilization
George F. Will: The Hour of Air Power
http://www.msnbc.com/news/889500.asp
By itself it won in-over-Kosovo, but it will never completely supplant
ground forces. As has been said, no one surrenders to an airplane
‘Don't Die For a Doomed Regime'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/886458.asp
U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz spells out his vision for
a postwar Iraq-and calls on its people to help liberate their country
A Rare Opportunity
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885915.asp
Mexico and Chile are now key swing votes in the U.N. Their actions
could change the shape of Latin American diplomacy
Manila's Twin Nightmare
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885899.asp
Political and religious extremists may be joining forces
A Pact with the Devil
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885896.asp
Serbia loses more than a leader. Its very future as a nation is at
stake. Will democrats rule-or gangsters?
The Road to Capital
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885945.asp
Is Africa's socialist Big Man changing his mind?
With Friends Like These
http://www.msnbc.com/news/891245.asp
Saudis providing top-flight defense lawyers for their detained
nationals in crackdown on suspected terrorists. ‘It's outrageous,
really,' says one senior law enforcement official. Plus, U.S. Treasury
searches for Saddam's laundered money
Remember Diplomacy?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/890754.asp
Tony Blair will meet with President Bush later this week with postwar
Iraq at the top of the agenda
Don't Betray the Family
http://www.msnbc.com/news/888673.asp
The Bush clan doesn't like to be crossed, just ask Saddam-or Tom
Daschle for that matter. But will there be a price to be paid for
making it all so personal?
Gone With the Wind
http://www.msnbc.com/news/888276.asp
Americans around the world are right to think that this war with Iraq
may change their world forever
Gulf War II
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030331/
Roadblocks on the Way to Baghdad
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,436977,00.html
Days of Our Lives: Time celebrates its 80th anniversary with a special
look at 80 days that changed the world
http://www.time.com/time/80days/
Saddam Prays for a Quagmire
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,436543,00.html
Making his last stand, Saddam Hussein prepares for the Battle of
Baghdad
Blinded by the night lights
http://tinyurl.com/89e9
(3/25/2003)
EXUMA, Bahamas -- In the year 1750, a baby boy was born in Gambia in
West Africa. On the eighth day after the birth, as was the custom, the
village paused from its normal routines to celebrate, with feasting,
music and prayer, the naming of the child -- Kunta. Kunta Kinte.
maff
Bombs and biscuits
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,926004,00.html
Madeleine Bunting: Every Iraqi child is now an unwitting participant
in this obscene war. And every one of us is morally implicated.
Read the small print: the US wants to privatise Iraq's oil
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,926043,00.html
Jonathan Steele: No one here in Damascus believes this is a
humanitarian war.
How many bodybags can we take?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,926005,00.html
Peter Preston: In this media age, politicians set the acceptability
threshold too low.
Those who talk crude, think crude
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,926036,00.html
Roy Hattersley: A good politican has grace. Bush and Rumsfeld have
none at all.
Inside Europe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,926069,00.html
Ian Black, analysis: Given responses during the first week of
hostilities, the US defence secretary might need to rethink his now
infamous 'old Europe' jibe, which imperiously divided the continent
into pro- and anti-American camps.
Written in the genes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,926038,00.html
Johnjoe McFadden: The study of DNA allows us to unravel history, but
it also tells us that we can forge our own future.
Childish thongs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,926003,00.html
Libby Brooks: A tabloid campaign has seen off a range of sexy
underwear for kids. Is this a hollow victory?
What drives me? Money
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,926098,00.html
Monday interview: David Starkey's acerbic tongue enabled him to scare
off bullies as a child and savage an archdeacon on The Moral Maze. But
most of all, says the sharpest of TV historians, it has made his
fortune.
John Sutherland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,926093,00.html
Rachel Corrie died under a bulldozer for her beliefs and now her
reputation is being blogged to death.
Rachel Corrie put a local face on faraway suffering
http://tinyurl.com/8hxf
and thread
'Blair provided perspective'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
The US press were more positive than the papers at home.
Mourning yesterday's victims but not preparing for today
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
If there was one constant refrain in the months before the Iraq war
began it was the charge that Saddam Hussein had gassed his own people.
Oldest mummies discovered
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,926212,00.html
Egyptian archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of human
mummification.
New lease of life for Michelangelo's secret drawings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,925016,00.html
Experts in Florence are restoring drawings Michelangelo doodled on the
walls of a cell-like room in which the artist hid for six weeks while
the Medici family wanted him dead.
Why it's not in our name
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,926044,00.html
The Not In Our Name statement of conscience was first published in the
Guardian.
Regime change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,926045,00.html
We are an international group of Asia scholars, meeting this past week
in New York. We wish to assert our opposition to the US-UK invasion of
Iraq.
Shocking images distort the reality
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,926046,00.html
While it is important to show some of the disturbing images of war
(Letters, March 28), it is equally important not to confuse the most
horrific images with what is the "true" sight of war.
No going back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,926055,00.html
British troops cannot be pulled out now.
Paying for the war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,926056,00.html
President Bush's sums do not add up.
Brown calls for free trade with US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,926127,00.html
Gordon Brown will today try to take the sting out of a row over higher
employment costs with a call for stronger transatlantic trade ties.
Analyse this: corporate culture is in a midlife crisis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,925958,00.html
Larry Elliott: It is said to be the most flexible system ever devised,
but capitalism is stuck in the Ford age.
Republican's bill seeks to impose US mobiles on Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,925967,00.html
First it was renaming french fries "freedom fries", now US politicians
want a new Iraqi mobile network to benefit American telecoms firms
more than their European rivals.
Calls for ceasefire dismissed
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,926388,00.html
11.15am: Lib Dem leader joins defence minister in rejecting withdrawal
calls.
Cook in clumsy retreat over call to withdraw troops
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,926185,00.html
Robin Cook surprised his new allies on the anti-war left last night by
backtracking from his demand that British troops be brought home from
Iraq "before more of them are killed".
Cook warns of 'legacy of hatred'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,925997,00.html
The first British casualties of the war in Iraq were brought home on
Saturday, and pictures of their flag-draped coffins featured on the
front pages of most of yesterday's papers. Inside, however, the focus
was on the coalition forces' difficult march to Baghdad, and on
accusations made by the Labour party chairman, John Reid, that the
BBC's war coverage is biased in favour of Saddam Hussein.
Intelligence leaks fuel media war
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/story/0,12123,926009,00.html
Downing Street leaks intelligence reports against Saddam Hussein.
Search for smoking gun draws a blank
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,926188,00.html
US and Britain's case for war undermined by special forces' failure to
find illegal arms at 10 suspected sites.
Blair told US must give aid role to UN
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,926028,00.html
Tony Blair will today be warned by MPs that a postwar Iraq run by the
US military could result in a backlash around the world.
The Sunday columnists
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,926114,00.html
"How strange it is to be called a bleeding-heart liberal after all
these years of being sneered at as a crazed rightwing monster," mused
Peter Hitchens on reactions to his new, anti-war stance.
War tactics split is denied by US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926218,00.html
America's military and civilian war leaders made an aggressive effort
to present a united front yesterday, amid claims that US troops are
beginning an enforced pause of days or weeks before advancing on
Baghdad.
Speaking a different language - but we've got the Phrasealator
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926223,00.html
The equipment necessary to talk to Iraqis, understand their problems
and respond to their needs seems to have been left on the quayside in
California.
'I never want to hear that sound again'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926167,00.html
Yesterday as General Richard Myers apologised for the three deaths
caused by the US, the first full account emerged of the tragic
incident in which a A-10 tankbuster fired on two British armoured
vehicles.
Knives come out for Rumsfeld as the generals fight back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926158,00.html
Analysis: Interfering style blamed for army setbacks.
Troops change tactics after suicide attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926143,00.html
Soldiers told to be more wary of civilians.
Tribal chiefs vow to fight to the death for Saddam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926149,00.html
The tribal chieftain in the fawn cloak was decades past his prime, but
his fighting spirit was undiminished by age.
Israeli cabinet in tussle over policing of Sabbath work
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925931,00.html
Ariel Sharon's shaky coalition government appeared to have survived
its first crisis yesterday after ultra-orthodox parties refused to
attend a cabinet meeting in protest at a de facto lifting of the ban
on working on the Sabbath.
Milosevic wife flees to Russia as police examine links to
ex-president's murder
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925932,00.html
Mira Markovic has absconded to Russia and is likely to face an
international arrest warrant in connection with political murders
ordered by her husband Slobodan Milosevic's regime.
At a glance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926170,00.html
At the front
Search for smoking gun draws a blank
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926171,00.html
US and Britain's case for war undermined by special forces' failure to
find illegal arms at 10 suspected sites
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926168,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
Damascus furious over accusations it is secretly supplying Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926157,00.html
Iraq neighbour fears it could be next target
Tehran claims it is staying out of the war but suspicions remain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926159,00.html
Reports of dissident Iraqi troops crossing border in south
Dilemmas and difficulties facing coalition forces
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926160,00.html
Reinforcements and equipment
Villagers find liberation a mixed blessing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926139,00.html
Missiles drive out Islamists but hit homes
Air strikes target Republican Guards
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926140,00.html
Round-the-clock air strikes hammered Baghdad again yesterday as the US
sought to break the Special Republican Guard units protecting the
city.
15 injured as truck runs into US soldiers at base
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926141,00.html
A pick-up truck ploughed into a group of US soldiers near a military
base in Kuwait yesterday, adding further to security fears in the Gulf
state that serves as the main staging post for the invasion of Iraq.
Commandos launch battle for Basra
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926217,00.html
Suburb seized in largest single British assault
In brief: War in the Gulf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926177,00.html
Journalists held in Baghdad
Suicide bomb a 'gift to Iraq'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,925933,00.html
A suicide bomber in the Israeli coastal town of Netanya injured 58
people yesterday when he blew himself up among a group of off-duty
soldiers as a "gift" to the people of Iraq.
Spread sparks panic in Hong Kong flats
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926000,00.html
Hong Kong reported a sharp rise in pneumonia virus cases yesterday,
more than half of them in a single block of flats, while Singapore and
Thailand stepped up curbs on air travellers.
New peace initiative in Philippines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926001,00.html
Government negotiators and Muslim separatist guerrillas in the
Philippines said yesterday they had agreed to work towards resuming
stalled peace talks and halting fighting which has raged in recent
weeks.
EU force takes over peace role
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926206,00.html
The European Union launches its first military operation today, but
union officials fear the groundbreaking, if modest, venture may draw
scant attention because of the Iraq war.
Power line explosions hit Georgia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926213,00.html
A series of explosions at a remote power station cut off electricity
to most of Georgia yesterday, another sign of the unrest and decay
blighting the former Soviet republic.
Journalist found dead in Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,926172,00.html
Gaby Rado, an award-winning foreign affairs correspondent with Channel
4 News, has been found dead outside a hotel in northern Iraq.
Three British soldiers sent home after protesting at civilian deaths
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,925984,00.html
Three British soldiers in Iraq have been ordered home after objecting
to the conduct of the war. It is understood they have been sent home
for protesting that the war is killing innocent civilians.
City dilemma over Saddam's £2m mosque
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,926130,00.html
In the latest stop on its week-long journey around Britain, the
Guardian visits Birmingham to gauge public opinion on the conflict in
Iraq.
Chapman brothers 'rectify' Disasters of War
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,925935,00.html
Art's enfants terribles pay tribute to Goya
'You know less than when you arrived'
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,925900,00.html
The generals are saying nothing and, unless you're a big hitter from
US TV, you have little chance of asking a question anyway. No wonder
despairing journalists cooped up in the press centre believe the war
is passing them by. Michael Wolff on how the military is
outmanoeuvring the media
What can you show?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,925904,00.html
As debate continues over which war footage is too gruesome for
television, three TV news bosses reveal their rules.
Follow my leader?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,925902,00.html
The Mirror is passionately opposed to the war in Iraq - yet half its
readers are in favour. Roy Greenslade on a new poll that may make
editors think again.
Why I quit the Sun
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,925903,00.html
Last week, Katy Weitz resigned as a feature writer on the Sun because
of the strength and tone of its support for the war in the Gulf. Here
she sets out her motives.
Weapons of misinformation
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,925908,00.html
War - what is it good for? Whipping up old paranoias, argues Diane
Taylor.
The untouchables
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,925909,00.html
Al-Jazeera's coverage of the Iraqi war has angered coalition leaders,
but they can't force it off air. Alex Wade explains.
The blogs of war
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,925921,00.html
For every story that comes out of the war in Iraq, there are hundreds
of news services and weblogs putting a different spin on it. Emily
Bell asks: how can we find out what really happened?
Under fire: the architects of war
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=392455
As Donald Rumsfeld denied that the US command was split over strategy,
a former minister warned Tony Blair that Iraq could become another
Vietnam
Mr Bush should heed the humble words he spoke in his election campaign
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=392386
American liberals have taken to quoting George Bush in his second
debate with Al Gore in the presidential campaign three years ago. "If
we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us," he said, speaking of the
America's dealings with other countries in general. "If we're a humble
nation but strong, they'll welcome us."
Christopher Bellamy: Allies struggle in the fight to win hearts and
minds
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=392438
31 March 2003
So, we have an "operational pause" in the Iraq conflict - but the
conclusion that this war is going to last longer than many people,
including the troops committed, were led to expect, is proving hard to
resist.
Robert Fisk: Sergeant's suicidal act of war has struck fear into
Allied hearts
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=392420
31 March 2003
Sergeant Ali Jaffar Moussa Hamadi al-Nomani was the first Iraqi
combatant known to stage a suicide attack.
Rupert Cornwell: Don't mention the V-word
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=392419
31 March 2003
Washington haunted by ghost of conflict that dare not speak its name
Robert Fisk: A quiet Baghdad night of occasional air raid sirens and
mysterious explosions
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=392418
31 March 2003
On the roof of the al-Jazeera office in Baghdad, you could hear the
missile coming.
Growing resentment at British 'liberators' in Basra
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=392454
31 March 2003
Signs of resentment against British forces surrounding Basra are
bubbling to the surface as Iraq's second city seethes under bombing
and shell-fire.
Rumsfeld denies overruling military planners on strategy for war he
inspired
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=392446
31 March 2003
As the American-led campaign against Iraq seemed to stall yesterday,
Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, denied that he had repeatedly
overruled his top military advisers by ordering that the ground force
they proposed be sharply reduced.
Corporations Who Support Bush
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and thread
GOP
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Republican*
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Dixiecrat*
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Conservative*
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neo-Conservative*
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Democrat*
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Democrats
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Progressives
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Fascists/ Fundamentalists/ Imperialists vs. The World
and thread
Dumbya's fascist/ fundamentalist/ Imperialist regime
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and thread
maff
Robert Shiller on risk management for the masses
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1648873
We have the financial technology, says Robert Shiller, to cope with
growing economic risks
Mar 20th 2003
U.S. Wants Better Odds On Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55073-2003Mar30.html
The Pentagon indicated that an all-out ground offensive against
Baghdad will not take place until conditions are more favorable to
U.S. forces.
Tribe Struggles to Revive Its Language
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54559-2003Mar30.html
After a century of hostility toward tribal languages, the government
is helping to foot the bill. But the change may have come too late.
Britain Seeks Zones To Host Refugees
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55026-2003Mar30.html
The cabinet secretary said that he was pressing for regional "zones of
protection" to keep refugees from flooding into Britain and Europe in
the aftermath of the war in Iraq.
High Court: Federal Court Can Step in Redistricting Fight
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58772-2003Mar31.html
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal courts can step in and
draw legislative boundaries in some instances when state processes
fail. The decision upholds a federal court's boundaries for
Mississippi's congressional districts and is a victory for
Republicans.
'The Sky Exploded' and a 14-Year-Old Was Dead
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55252-2003Mar30.html
In the rituals of burial, the boy's families tried to escape the
questions that have enveloped so many lives in Baghdad; the residents
insisted that without a war, they would be safe.
Clashes Continue Along Supply Lines
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55185-2003Mar30.html
U.S. warplanes and missiles also bombarded Baghdad, striking a
presidential palace, an intelligence complex and a training center for
paramilitary forces.
Islamic Protesters Demand U.S. Pullout
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54979-2003Mar30.html
Tens of thousands of protesters marched on the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta
in what appeared to be Indonesia's largest anti-war demonstration yet.
Peruvian President Gets Mixed Reviews
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54822-2003Mar30.html
On a recent hazy morning in Lima's traffic-clogged industrial sector,
President Alejandro Toledo donned a hardhat as he toured a
bathroom-fixture production plant.
Voter Apathy Marks Run-Up to Argentine Elections
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54579-2003Mar30.html
With less than a month left before they go to choose a new president,
voters show only contempt and indifference toward the five
front-running presidential candidates.
U.S. Imposes Sanctions After Missile Sale
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54711-2003Mar30.html
The Bush administration will impose economic sanctions on a Pakistani
company accused of purchasing missiles from the Pyongyang government,
officials said.
Stock Prices Slide Across Asia as Pace of War Slows
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55474-2003Mar30.html
Stock markets across Asia opened lower today as traders digested the
prospect that the war in Iraq would likely drag on longer than
expected, dampening demand for the region's products in the United
States.
Scavenger Points Way to Major Weapons Find
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52618-2003Mar30.html
It was just before 8 a.m. last Friday, Zulu Time, meaning Greenwich
Mean Time, when the boys of No. 10 platoon -- "The Cutting Edge," as
they call themselves -- decided to stop their Warrior armored vehicle
for a cup of tea.
Kurds Revel in Rout of Extremist Group
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54833-2003Mar30.html
After U.S. sirstrikes help crush Ansar training camps, U.S. Special
Forces troops were firing heavy machine guns toward a handful of
holdouts in the heights.
Powell Issues Stern Warning to Syria, Iran
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55637-2003Mar30.html
In strong and accusatory language, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell
called on Syria and Iran last night to stop supporting terrorists. He
warned that Syria's leadership will be held responsible for help it
gives to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Advisers Split as War Unfolds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55177-2003Mar30.html
The first 11 days of the war have brought back with a vengeance the
deep splits that have long existed within the administration and the
Republican Party over policy toward Iraq.
Air Armada Intensifies Bombing of Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58288-2003Mar31.html
U.S. warplanes and missiles struck key installations in Baghdad and
combat forces engaged Iraqi troops in at least two sites south of the
capital.
Winning Hearts and Minds by Hiring Them
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55510-2003Mar30.html
The people of Umm Qasr are thirsty. For water, for work -- and maybe
even for friendship with the invaders.
Embedded, Not Indebted, Reporters Say
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55511-2003Mar30.html
Embedded correspondents - who have clearly braved difficult conditions
to bring viewers and readers coverage of the war - are taking flak for
overly sympathetic reporting.
Back in the Minefield
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55506-2003Mar30.html
Peter Arnett, who fought off charges of conveying Iraqi propaganda
during the first Gulf War, has handed fresh ammunition to those who
say he sympathizes with Saddam Hussein's regime
Obstinate Orthodoxy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55391-2003Mar30.html
By Fred Hiatt, Page A13
As the United States fights a war with few allies alongside it, one
version of how President Bush alienated the world has jelled into a
kind of orthodoxy. Even before beginning his Iraq diplomacy last fall,
according to this story line, Bush had doomed his chances by
arrogantly thumbing his nose at the International Criminal Court, the
Kyoto Protocol and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. If he had
maintained Clinton administration commitments to these and similar
multilateral ventures, other nations would have accepted U.S.
leadership on Iraq.
Affirmative Action: There's a Third Way
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55392-2003Mar30.html
By Richard D. Kahlenberg, Page A13
With the issue of affirmative action going before the Supreme Court
tomorrow for oral argument, the debate has come to focus almost
entirely on two different approaches: racial preference plans of the
kind used by the University of Michigan (and favored by Democrats and
most of the business and education establishment) and the "top 10
percent" plan used by the University of Texas (which is supported by
the Bush administration and a few other groups). Unfortunately, little
attention has been paid to a third alternative that has few political
patrons but is supported by two-thirds of Americans: affirmative
action for low-income students of all races.
Affirmative Action
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Diversity
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Hawks and Hornets
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55394-2003Mar30.html
By William Raspberry, Page A13
There is this interesting notion that while it is quintessentially
American to debate matters of grave importance, once the decision is
made, the debate should be over.
Social Activism For Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55393-2003Mar30.html
By Harold Meyerson, Page A13
"We have an obligation . . . to put food and medicine in places so
the Iraqi people can live a normal life," President Bush told the
nation last week.
War Games and War Reality
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55396-2003Mar30.html
Page A12
Harold Meyerson proclaimed in his March 27 op-ed column, "Smart
Bombs, Dumb War," that by going to war with Iraq the Bush
administration has treated "the U.N. Charter with the same respect
that the German Foreign Ministry accorded its pledge of nonaggression
to Belgium in 1914." He further said that the Germans at that time
were "bewildered" at British objections to their entering Belgium over
what the Germans called a "scrap of paper."
Russia's Support of Rogue Regimes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55389-2003Mar30.html
Page A12
A March 23 news story reported that Russian arms dealers have
provided electronic jamming equipment, anti-tank missiles and
night-vision goggles to the Iraqi military. The world should wake up
to the threat posed by Russia's support of rogue regimes, including
its backing of Iran's nuclear program ["Iran's Nuclear Program Speeds
Ahead," front page, March 10].
'Go-Slower' Strategy in Works
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55529-2003Mar30.html
Analysis: Planners are reaching back to an approach much like the '91
war.
Foreign Students in U.S. Wary
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55019-2003Mar30.html
Many pull back from discussing the war for fear of Americans'
reaction.
A Sea of Second-Guessing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57954-2003Mar31.html
Experts, expectations and embedding lead to the sour tone of the
coverage.
Palestinians Skeptical of U.S., British Motives in Iraq War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56939-2003Mar31.html
What do Palestinians think of the war in Iraq?
Mixed Feelings on Scaled-Back Tax Cut (By Juliet Eilperin and Helen
Dewar, Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54561-2003Mar30.html
An Emergency Kibbles and Bits Kit? (By Al Kamen, Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55386-2003Mar30.html
Many Clinton Officials Stay Close to Washington (By Jonathan D.
Salant, Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54556-2003Mar30.html
Open Access For Media Troubles Pentagon: 'Embedded' Reporters Become
Mixed Blessing (By Jonathan Weisman, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55513-2003Mar30.html
The Fallen (Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55500-2003Mar30.html
Paint for Smooth Sailing Can Stall Marine Life (By Cheryl Lyn Dybas,
Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45757-2003Mar29.html
Hong Kong Quarantines Complex To Control Spread of Epidemic (By John
Pomfret and Rick Weiss, Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54801-2003Mar30.html
Surprises Don't Alter Support in Calif. Town: Residents Behind Locals
Deployed to Persian Gulf (Post, March 31, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54983-2003Mar30.html
Second Time in Persian Gulf Fatal for Marine: Engineer's Job Was to
Secure Oil Fields (Post, March 31, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54982-2003Mar30.html
In Valley of Death, A Rush to Nourish Believers' Souls (Post, March
31, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54977-2003Mar30.html
Lunch Seals Deal With Locals (Post, March 31, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54978-2003Mar30.html
Missing Journalists' Families Ask Jackson's Help (Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55501-2003Mar30.html
38 Hurt as Suicide Bomb Rocks Netanya Again (By John Ward Anderson and
Molly Moore, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55027-2003Mar30.html
DayBook: A look at the day's major developments in the war with Iraq
(Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55553-2003Mar30.html
Slain National Guardsman Gave '110 Percent' (Post, March 31, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54560-2003Mar30.html
Airlift for Paratroops a Million-Pound Daily Deal (By Steve Vogel,
Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54976-2003Mar30.html
Iraqis Quit Some Positions in North: Moves Are in Apparent Defense of
Oil Hub (By Daniel Williams, Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53879-2003Mar30.html
Najaf Besieged In Reinvigorated Army Offensive (By Rick Atkinson, Page
A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54882-2003Mar30.html
More Firefights Outside a River City (By Monte Reel, Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53846-2003Mar30.html
Troops Take Control of Highway in Push North (By William Branigin,
Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53821-2003Mar30.html
Rocket Hits Peacekeeping HQ in Kabul (Page A05)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54290-2003Mar30.html
Taliban's Elusive Leader Issues Fresh Order to Faithful to Wage
'Jihad' (AP, March 31, 2003; 5:36 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57083-2003Mar31.html
Turkish Hijacker Taken for Psychiatric Evaluation After Arraignment
(AP, March 31, 2003; 11:52 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58955-2003Mar31.html
Former French Oil Chief Says Company Paid Millions to Political
Parties (AP, April 1, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59004-2003Mar31.html
U.S. Forces Rounding Up Civilian Suspects: Some Detainees May Be Sent
to Cuba (Post, March 31, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55178-2003Mar30.html
Two Bosian Croats Guilty of War Crimes (Reuters, April 1, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58712-2003Mar31.html
What We Learned In School Today: When Conflict Avoidance Rules the
Classroom, The Very Idea of War Gets a Failing Grade (Post, March 31,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55507-2003Mar30.html
Special Search Operations Yield No Banned Weapons (Post, March 30,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49385-2003Mar29.html
Palestinian Premier Visits Gaza in Effort to Form Cabinet (Post, March
30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49009-2003Mar29.html
Outrage Spreads in Arab World: Civilian Deaths in Baghdad Market
Called a 'Massacre' (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48367-2003Mar29.html
Rumsfeld Faulted For Troop Dilution: Military Officers: Forces in Iraq
Are Inadequate (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49010-2003Mar29.html
For 82nd, A Skirmish Over Major Supply Route: Airborne Troops Clash
With Militia Fighters (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49383-2003Mar29.html
Rift Over War Sours Bush-Putin Partnership: U.S. Officials Working for
'Damage Limitation' (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49386-2003Mar29.html
Pride, Pain Mingle in Loss: Baltimore Father Grieves for Soldier Son
Killed in Helicopter Crash in Southern Iraq (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48920-2003Mar29.html
U.S. Moves To Increase Firepower In North (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49367-2003Mar29.html
This Week in the Iraq War (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49224-2003Mar29.html
Hawks, Doves Circle Ground Zero: In 9/11 N.Y. Neighborhoods, War in
Iraq Ignites Despair, Anger, Acceptance (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49015-2003Mar29.html
Pentagon Says Some Missiles Strayed: Saudi, Turkish Routes Shut Down
(Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49022-2003Mar29.html
U.S. Hopes Aid, Selective Favors Will Help Win Political Allies (Post,
March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47985-2003Mar29.html
Medic Who Died Torn by Duty, Doubts: Navy Man Asked For Assignment In
Middle East (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49023-2003Mar29.html
Channel-Surfing Carnage of War, Saudis' Anger At U.S. Grows: With
Protests Prohibited, Emotions Flare in Private (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49353-2003Mar29.html
U.S. Hospital Showcases Treatment of Iraqi Victims (Post, March 30,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49320-2003Mar29.html
Standoff at Basra Hints at Tough Time in Baghdad: Allies Have Yet To
Face Iraq's Most Elite Troops (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47596-2003Mar29.html
POW Redux: News of Captives Brings It All Back for Gulf War Prisoners
(Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42117-2003Mar28.html
Images of Destruction Inflict Setback for U.S. Propaganda War (Post,
March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49317-2003Mar29.html
Worldwide Protests Continue (Post, March 30, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49057-2003Mar29.html
Snap Judgments
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/opinion/31SAFI.html
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Here is a baker's dozen of my snap judgments about this war.
Who Will Rescue Iraqi Civilians?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/opinion/31HERB.html
By BOB HERBERT
The military has a job to do; let it concentrate on that. Meanwhile,
the U.N. umbrella over the relief effort will be a welcome sight.
Learning Not to Love Saddam
http://tinyurl.com/8j6j
By PAUL BERMAN
A report written by Iraqi exiles recommends that Iraq undergo a
process similar to de-Nazification after the war.
How Precise Is Our Bombing?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/opinion/31MON1.html
Incessant boasting about accuracy raises expectations that every bomb
will hit its target - and outrage around the world when one doesn't.
Undercutting the 9/11 Inquiry
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/opinion/31MON2.html
The federal investigative committee created to investigate the Sept.
11 attacks seems in danger of being undermined by the White House.
Why the Supreme Court Needs to Visit Cass High School
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/opinion/31MON4.html
By ADAM COHEN
A Detroit high school's students may have the most to lose when the
Supreme Court hears cases that could end affirmative action at the
University of Michigan.
Scenes From Iraq: A Bomber, a Marine, a Girl
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/opinion/L31IRAQ.html
Dissidents in Cuba
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/opinion/L31CUBA.html
Amber Alerts Can Help
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/opinion/L31AMBE.html
Democratic Turkey
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/opinion/L31TURK.html
Unjust Executions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/opinion/L31EXEC.html
Iraqis Moving More Troops to Guard Baghdad From South
http://tinyurl.com/8j91
By JOHN BRODER
Officials believe that the Iraqi military is strengthening a division
that has been subjected to punishing air attacks since Saturday.
Pace of Coalition's War Plan Is Slowed, Not Paused
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/international/worldspecial/31STRA.html
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Resistance in the south and the limited size of the U.S. force in the
region has slowed the pace of the war plan.
Anger and Warning After Suicide Attack
http://tinyurl.com/8jbr
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
A day after four U.S. soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber in a
taxi near Najaf, all roads were closed around the town 100 miles south
of Baghdad.
Rumsfeld Defends War Planning
http://tinyurl.com/8jbs
By THOM SHANKER
The defense secretary said that he and his commanders had not
underestimated the number of ground troops needed.
Iraqi General Says 4,000 Volunteered for Suicide Attacks
http://tinyurl.com/8jbv
By JOHN F. BURNS
A military spokesman said 4,000 volunteers from 23 Arab countries
stand ready to carry out suicide attacks against U.S. forces.
Gulf War Veterans Watch and Worry
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/international/worldspecial/31VETE.html
By DANA CANEDY
For many Desert Storm veterans watching from the sidelines, the new
war has brought painful memories and conflicting feelings.
War's Uncertainties Raise Anxieties of Arab Investors
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/international/worldspecial/31ARAB.html
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
The war in Iraq has left Arab bankers and investors throughout Europe
unwilling to bet their fortunes on the future of the country.
NBC News Fires Arnett Over Iraqi TV Interview
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/international/worldspecial/31CND-ARNE.html
By JIM RUTENBERG
NBC News today fired Peter Arnett, a correspondent based in Baghdad,
who said coalition forces had "failed because of Iraqi resistance."
Allies Hunt for Clues on Al Qaeda
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/international/worldspecial/31NORT.html
By C. J. CHIVERS
The compound the U.S. called a terrorists' poison factory is no more.
All that remains are ruined buildings, a flattened fence and a
littered yard. Its inhabitants are gone.
Hussein's Fate Is Still Unknown
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/international/worldspecial/31SADD.html
By JAMES RISEN
Nearly two weeks into the war with Iraq, U.S. officials say they are
still uncertain whether Saddam Hussein is alive or dead.
Fleeing Civilians Caught in the Middle
http://tinyurl.com/8jca
By MARC SANTORA and CRAIG S. SMITH
What exactly is happening in Basra is unclear, but the reports from
those fleeing the city are troubling.
Suicide Bomb in Israel
http://tinyurl.com/8jcd
By JAMES BENNET
A Palestinian suicide bomber struck in Netanya, killing himself with a
shrapnel-packed explosive and wounding three dozen people.
Rallying Round Those the Reserves Left Behind
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/international/worldspecial/31TENN.html
By PETER T. KILBORN
Dresden, Tenn., population 2,800, is one of thousands of places that
are home to members of the Reserves and National Guard taken away for
war in Iraq.
Seattle Meters Billed as Aiding Homeless Sow Discord
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/national/31SEAT.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A makeover of one of Seattle's busiest thoroughfares is nearing
completion, and it will bring new benches, lampposts and little green
sentinels called "giving meters."
Suit Challenges Right to Report Political Slurs
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/national/31LIBE.html
By ADAM LIPTAK
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will soon make a decision on a media
libel law case that may turn out to be the most important on this
subject since 1977.
Foundations' 2002 Giving Held Steady, Report Finds
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/national/31GIVI.html
By STEPHANIE STROM
Grants from the nation's more than 62,000 foundations last year
totaled $30.3 billion, basically keeping pace with those in the
previous year.
Deployment of a Cavalry Contingent Is Speeded Up
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/international/worldspecial/31DEPL.html
By THOM SHANKER
A cavalry contingent was told to fly directly to the Persian Gulf
region, rather than sail on slow freighters, as had been planned.
Groups Fault Rule on Automatic Detention
http://tinyurl.com/8jcj
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and ADAM LIPTAK
The Bush administration's decision to detain people from Iraq and 32
other countries who are seeking political asylum in the United States
has raised concerns.
Reporters' New Battlefield Access Has Its Risks and Rewards
http://tinyurl.com/8jck
By DAVID CARR
The decision to allow journalists to accompany military units has
produced suggestions that the media have become a part of the
so-called coalition forces.
G.O.P. Moderates Show Signs of Strength
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/politics/31MODE.html
By DAVID FIRESTONE
Republican moderates on Capitol Hill are threatening to become an
impediment to the Bush administration's domestic agenda.
A Mood Last Seen When Confederate Spies Lurked
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/national/31LETT.html
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
The war in Iraq has brought back the sense of siege, as well as a
wartime buzz, to Washington.
War's Effect on Retailers Appears to Be Mixed
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/business/businessspecial/31SHOP.html
By TRACIE ROZHON
Shoppers have taken to the nation's malls in surprising numbers. The
question is whether they are buying.
War Puts Radio Giant on the Defensive
http://tinyurl.com/8jd2
By JOHN SCHWARTZ and GERALDINE FABRIKANT
Critics of Clear Channel Communications accuse the radio broadcaster
of drumming up support for the war while muzzling musicians who oppose
it.
German News Channels Come of Age
http://tinyurl.com/8jd7
By MARK LANDLER
Ratings for the country's two all-news channels skyrocketed in the
first week of the war.
Fighting Oil Fires, and Creditors
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/business/businessspecial/30BOOT.html
By J. ALEX TARQUINIO
The war in Iraq might determine the fate of a Houston company that
earned as much as $100 million putting out oil-well fires in Kuwait in
1991.
China Faces Opposition Over Buying Into Kazakh Oil Fields
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/business/worldbusiness/31CND-KAZA.html
China's bid to join in the development of rich oil and gas fields in
Kazakhstan stands a good chance of being thwarted by the existing
partners in the project, industry executives and analysts here said.
HDTV's Acceptance Picks Up Pace
http://tinyurl.com/8je4
By ERIC A. TAUB
As prices drop and networks sign on, sales are beginning to expand
beyond the cult of early adopters.
Inventor Seeks to Transform Modern Warfare
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/technology/31PATE.html
By TERESA RIODAN
James Michael O'Dwyer believes his electronic gun is the key to a
utopian warfare of the future in which human casualties are minimized.
Military Families Find Closeness Online
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/international/worldspecial/31WEB.html
By DAVID F. GALLAGHER
Many military spouses and parents are publishing journals on the Web,
forming a network that they say has
Allies' Vital Supply Line Now Stretches Into Orbit
http://tinyurl.com/8jel
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Scores of satellites are providing coalition forces in Iraq with an
invisible web of communications, guidance and reconnaissance.
Gambling Sites Adjust to Scrutiny
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/technology/31ECOM.html
By BOB TEDESCHI
As Congress seeks to put more restrictions on online gambling, site
operators have already begun to look for ways around the rules.
A Deadly Virus on Its Mind, Hong Kong Covers Its Face
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/international/asia/31INFE.html
By KEITH BRADSHER
Officials announced 60 more cases of a mysterious kind of pneumonia
known as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
Study Said to Back Guidant Artery Device
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/health/31GUID.html
By REUTERS
Researchers presented new evidence that a minimally invasive technique
might be the best way to treat high-risk patients with clogged
arteries in the neck.
Brutality Plays the Lead Role in a Home Movie
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/movies/31TAPE.html
By A. O. SCOTT
This new film from Iran intentionally captures a lurid tale of marital
and political brutality on a home-grade video camera.
A Wary but Interested Eye on the Web
http://tinyurl.com/8jff
By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL
Like a poker player tempted by the dice table, an artist who succeeds
in one medium is often drawn inexorably to try another. Strindberg
painted. Julian Schnabel directs films.
'The Songs of the Kings': No, It Didn't Launch a Thousand Ships
http://tinyurl.com/8jfn
By NEIL GORDON
In Barry Unsworth's Trojan War, the Greeks don't care about Helen;
they care about gold, copper and jade.
'Of Paradise and Power': The Divergence Thesis
http://tinyurl.com/8jfw
By SERGE SCHMEMANN
Robert Kagan's essay argues that Americans and Europeans are
fundamentally different and becoming more so.
'Being America': The Global Villain
http://tinyurl.com/8jgf
Jedediah Purdy was the wunderkind du jour a few years ago. In 1999,
when he was 24, he published ''For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and
Commitment in America Today,'' an ambitious assault on his own
generation for its narcissism and self-absorption.
'Mismatch': Women Are From Europe, Men Are From America
http://tinyurl.com/8jgx
By CAROL TAVRIS
I have only three problems with the title ''Mismatch: The Growing Gulf
Between Women and Men'': the words ''growing,'' ''mismatch'' and
''gulf.''
'The New Face of War': Information Combat
http://tinyurl.com/8jh7
By GARY J. BASS
On 9/11, phone calls in and out of Manhattan were often impossible.
This was a part of Al Qaeda's war. As Bruce Berkowitz argues in ''The
New Face of War'': ''The Information Revolution has fundamentally
changed the nature of combat. To win wars today, you must first win
the information war.'' Since the time of the ancient Persians and
Romans, armies have been basically lumbering forces. At least since
the end of World War II, and especially since the Persian Gulf war in
1991, American military success, Berkowitz argues, has rested on
superior military technology: precision-guided munitions, stealthy
planes invisible to radar, satellites, even robotics.
'A Dangerous Place': Ecological Code Red
http://tinyurl.com/8g5q
By STEVE ERICKSON
Doom has been written into the California dream from the beginning.
Don't think those of us who live here don't know the rest of you are
gleefully counting down the seconds until it all slips into the sea.
But in a way, we're counting too, either in our sleep -- to which we
banish all the other nightmares of an increasingly chaotic reality --
or in waking moments that might be another kind of unconsciousness.
The late Marc Reisner counted the seconds down in ''A Dangerous
Place,'' a short manifesto that is the last furious expression of a
barely suppressed rage most prominently seen in his 1986
conservationist classic, ''Cadillac Desert.'' Confronted by the
treachery of a ''civilization'' that goes where the earth doesn't want
it, Reisner, who died three years ago, was the earth's advocate and
chief prosecutor even as, living in the San Francisco Bay Area, he was
also civilization's unwitting collaborator.
A Woman's Work?
http://tinyurl.com/8jhu
By MARGARET TALBOT
We cling to the image of women as peacemakers - even if it no longer
really fits.
Occupation Preoccupation
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/magazine/30QUESTIONS.html
Questions for John W. Dower, the author of "Embracing Defeat: Japan in
the Wake of World War II."
The Unknown Soldier
http://tinyurl.com/8ji0
By ANTHONY SWOFFORD
More embeds among the troops doesn't mean we'll get any closer to the
grunts in war.
With God on His Side
http://tinyurl.com/8g1n
By GARRY WILLS
Throughout America's history, there has been one ally presidents have
invoked above all others.
The Sky Was Falling
http://tinyurl.com/8jib
War after war of bombings, viewed from the ground. Memoirs from Brian
Urquhart (Britain), Ward Just (Vietnam), Flora Brovina (Kosovo) and
others.
Their Day in Court
http://tinyurl.com/8jic
By SUSAN DOMINUS
At the heart of the fierce debate over what to do with Iraqi war
criminals, there lie questions about our most basic notions of
justice, jurisdiction and vengeance.
Human Shield, Running Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/magazine/30LIVES.html
By GODFREY MEYNELL as told to CRAIG TAYLOR
I went all the way to Baghdad, hoping to help, but in the end I was
too scared to stay.
On a road to nowhere
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,926407,00.html
March 31: Fawzi Ibrahim on why it was wrong to invade Iraq
Dissent grows over war strategy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/dailybriefing/story/0,12965,926333,00.html
March 31: As militants try to 'Islamise' the conflict in Iraq,
questions are being asked about how the war was planned and how it is
being fought, writes Brian Whitaker.
Iraq special
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/history/0,12792,876851,00.html
A selection of news articles, comment, analysis, pictures and
interactive guides charting a history of conflict and uncertainty.
Best journalism from elsewhere on the internet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/special/0,10627,771196,00.html
Weblog: Read our picks of the finest writing on Iraq.
David Grossman
http://tinyurl.com/8j71
http://tinyurl.com/8j7n
http://tinyurl.com/8j7h
Michael Lerner
http://tinyurl.com/8j83
http://tinyurl.com/8j88
http://tinyurl.com/8j89
Diaspora
http://tinyurl.com/8j8c
http://tinyurl.com/8j8d
http://tinyurl.com/8j8f
maff
It will end in disaster
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,926820,00.html
George Monbiot: The US and British governments have dragged us into a
mess that will last for years.
A national sullenness
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,927037,00.html
Matthew Engel: When war broke out, the mood in the country that
started it was one of delight. One newspaper issued a special edition
with the headline "The Blessing of Arms" and said: "It is a joy to be
alive. We have wished so much for this hour."
Blair has one final chance to break free of his tainted fealty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,927040,00.html
Hugo Young: US idealism of the Kennedy era has given way to rampant
imperialism.
Fresh setbacks on road to Baghdad? It's all part of the plan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,926909,00.html
Simon Hoggart: The war is going badly - quite a bit worse than they
are telling us. The cabinet heard a very gloomy briefing the other
day.
Stubbed out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,927050,00.html
Zoe Williams: New York City has banned smoking from all of its bars,
but will that make people give up their cigarettes?
Young, British and ready to fight
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,927054,00.html
Fuad Nahdi: New laws and the war have pushed our Islamist radicals
underground.
Britain - how the world sees us: part 1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,926975,00.html
The Anglo-US invasion of Iraq has changed the world's perception of
the UK. Or has it? We asked people in 21 countries - from Afghanistan
to Zimbabwe - what comes to mind when they think of Britain.
Britain - how the world sees us: part 2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,926972,00.html
The second part of our feature on people from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
- and what comes to mind when they think of Britain.
What would change my mind on Iraq?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,926724,00.html
David Aaronovitch: All week my pacific alter ego has been sitting on
my shoulder and whispering a harsh question in my ear. "Your war. How
long does it have to go on, how expensive does it have to be, how many
have to die, before you admit it's a mad failure?"
'His ambition is obscene'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
The press responds with passion to the former foreign secretary's
words.
Why 2003 is not 1991
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
Iraq's Shi'ite majority was thought so hostile to Saddam's Sunni-led
regime that they would welcome invasion. Reality is more complex
Nothing to cheer about
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,926808,00.html
The current war is heading towards an unsurpassed human disaster, both
for the so-called coalition forces and for Iraq and the Middle East
(War tactics split is denied by US, March 31).
Is it time to stop?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,926807,00.html
You are quite right to insist that there is now no possibility of the
British and US armed services pulling out of Iraq (Leader, March 31).
However, it is all the more urgent that a diplomatic solution be
sought to end this nightmare.
You couldn't make it up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,926804,00.html
So Rumsfeld is threatening Syria for supplying Iraq with night-vision
goggles (Damascus furious, March 31). After Syria, is it Iran next?
Can I be forgiven for thinking this is a war against Muslims?
It's good to talk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,926802,00.html
The US was late getting vital intelligence on a possible terrorist
attack just before 9/11 because of a shortage of appropriate language
skills.
Rumsfeld's hostage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,926867,00.html
Blair has been outmanoeuvred.
Out of this world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,926870,00.html
From Peshawar to Tunbridge Wells.
Markets take flight as Iraq digs in for long fight
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,926875,00.html
· Fears over war push up price of oil
· Chancellor seeks to talk up the economy
Seeking an audience on both sides of Atlantic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,926864,00.html
With France and America at each other's throats over Iraq, yesterday
was perhaps not the ideal moment for Gordon Brown to call for Europe
and the US to forge new institutional economic links. There were,
however, three good reasons for the chancellor to float the idea when
he did.
Blair reassures EU on US plans
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,9061,926919,00.html
Tony Blair has started the daunting task of rebuilding European
relations by briefing leaders on the outcome of his talks with
President Bush.
US draws up secret plan to impose regime on Iraq
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,927064,00.html
A disagreement has broken out at a senior level within the Bush
administration over a new government that the US is secretly planning
in Kuwait to rule Iraq in the immediate aftermath of the overthrow of
Saddam Hussein.
Slight slip in support for war
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/polls/story/0,11030,927035,00.html
Public support for war has slipped by two points over the past week.
War overshadows Scots campaign
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/scotland/story/0,9061,926716,00.html
Iraq hostilities heighten tension on hustings as opinion polls suggest
that turnout and Labour party could suffer.
Galloway accuses PM of Iraq 'lies'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,927131,00.html
George Galloway defended himself today against accusations of
treachery after he branded Tony Blair and George Bush "wolves" for
committing the "crime" of military action against Iraq.
Campbell fears tough PR battle with Arab world
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/story/0,12123,926926,00.html
The government faces a 'huge uphill battle' to win the public
relations battle in the Arab world over war in Iraq, Alastair Campbell
has admitted.
Setbacks on road to Baghdad? It's all part of the plan
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commons/comment/0,9236,926938,00.html
Simon Hoggart: The war is going badly - quite a bit worse than they
are telling us. The cabinet heard a very gloomy briefing the other
day.
US troops engage elite forces in the push north
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926990,00.html
American forces launched probing attacks on Iraqi defences guarding
the southern approaches to Baghdad yesterday in what may be the
opening shots of the assault on the capital.
Captured Iraqi militia fighters may be sent to Guantanamo Bay
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927022,00.html
Irregulars Hundreds face trip to al-Qaida suspects' camp.
British soldiers free Kenyan drivers captured, beaten and held in
school
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926981,00.html
Two Kenyan truck drivers kidnapped 10 days ago outside the town of
Zubayr in southern Iraq were rescued yesterday when British troops
burst into the school in which they were being been held.
US rushes reinforcements to crush Iraqi resistance in Nassiriya
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926974,00.html
Thousands of US troop reinforcements are being sent to overwhelm Iraqi
fighters holding on in Nassiriya, the city straddling the Euphrates
river where American supply lines are repeatedly ambushed.
Allies divided over battle for hearts and minds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926929,00.html
British military critical of US troops' heavy-handed style with
civilians.
Conflict will create 100 Bin Ladens, warns Egyptian president
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926930,00.html
Radical volunteers pouring into Iraq, claims Baghdad.
Bosnian Muslims bury victims of 1995 atrocity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926730,00.html
Relatives of 8,000 Muslim men and boys slaughtered in Bosnia in 1995
gathered yesterday to bury the first 600 identified victims of the
Srebrenica atrocity.
China cuts oil supply to North Korea
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926729,00.html
China cut off oil supplies to North Korea for three days last month to
punish its oldest ally for the nuclear standoff with the United
States, diplomats said yesterday.
Mugabe's opposition celebrates poll wins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926726,00.html
Zimbabwe's main opposition party celebrated crucial byelection
victories in the capital yesterday, billing them as a springboard for
mass action to topple President Robert Mugabe.
Veteran reporter sacked over TV claims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927000,00.html
The veteran American war correspondent and Pulitzer prize winning
television reporter, Peter Arnett, was sacked yesterday after he told
Iraqi television that US military plans against Saddam Hussein were
failing.
Threat of suicide bombers changes the face of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927004,00.html
All the ingredients were there. For days, state media called for a
holy war in defence of the sacred soil of Iraq. For weeks, masked men,
dressed in white suits the colour of funeral shrouds with mock
explosives on their chests, marched through Baghdad in ritualistic
displays of defiance. For years, Saddam Hussein demonstrated with cash
handouts that he realised the value of suicide attacks.
Seven women and children shot dead at checkpoint
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927117,00.html
American soldiers shot dead seven women and children yesterday when
their car failed to stop at a checkpoint in southern Iraq, US military
officials said last night.
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926991,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
War in the Gulf in brief
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926940,00.html
Truck crashes into embassy
A pick-up truck smashed into the wall of the British embassy compound
in Tehran yesterday, Iran's ISNA news agency reported.
The first casualty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926941,00.html
A look at the way the war is being spun and reported
US troops accused of excess force
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926934,00.html
Correspondents in Iraq have come upon a number of incidents in which
the US military, especially the marines, have appeared to act with
excessive force. Here are some examples.
Iraqi leaders could face war crime trials over suicide attacks, rights
groups warn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926939,00.html
Rights organisations supported the US government yesterday in
condemning the use of suicide bombings as a strategy in Iraq, saying
they constituted a breach of the Geneva convention.
At a glance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926971,00.html
At the front
Marines seize strategic Basra suburb
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926973,00.html
Saddam loyalists overwhelmed as British troops undertake first urban
infantry assault and are greeted by townspeople
Wounded marine tells of mortar fire baptism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926966,00.html
Wounded US marines on their way home via a field hospital in Spain
told yesterday of the fierce opposition put up by Iraqi troops at
Nassiriya.
Crew drown as US tank topples into Euphrates
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926967,00.html
Crowd greets soldiers at time of mixed fortunes
Air war weapon stockpile runs critically low
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926959,00.html
US needs to keep up supplies to back threat of new wars
Peace movement wraps itself in the Stars and Stripes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926872,00.html
The American peace movement is making a bid to reclaim the US flag and
establish its patriotic credentials, as hostility to dissent against
military action in Iraq intensifies.
Marine who said no to killing on his conscience
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926884,00.html
The first American conscientious objector from the Iraq war will give
himself up at a marine base in California this morning. He said he
believed the war was "immoral because of the deception involved by our
leaders".
Outrage at Vatican ethics dictionary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926727,00.html
The Vatican published an ethical dictionary yesterday saying
homosexuality has "no social value", warning against concepts such as
"safe sex" and "reproductive health" and insisting that condoms don't
protect against sexually transmitted diseases.
Hundreds feared dead as landslide hits Bolivian village
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927115,00.html
Several hundred people were feared dead yesterday after a landslide
buried a remote Bolivian goldmining village.
Malawi's leader to go gracefully
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927075,00.html
Malawi's President Bakili Muluzi is to step down next year, abandoning
attempts to change the constitution to allow him to run for a third
five-year term.
Aids is God's challenge - SA minister
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927083,00.html
Aids might be an opportunity provided by God for South Africa to care
for its people, its health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, told
religious leaders yesterday in Johannesburg.
Space station in jeopardy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927089,00.html
The future of the International Space Station is in doubt due to an
American refusal to fund Russia's contribution because of Moscow's
continuing assistance to the nuclear programme of Iran, labelled by
the US as an "axis of evil" state.
Storm in a new world wine glass
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927091,00.html
The EU is risking another trade war over the way some Australian wines
are flavoured with an oaky undertone.
'Left and right took Elf cash'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927084,00.html
The former head of Elf admitted yesterday that the French oil giant
had secretly paid out millions of pounds to political parties of both
right and left in an illegal campaign to buy backing.
Civilians killed at coalition checkpoint
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926647,00.html
. Forces confront Republican Guard south of Baghdad
. Bombing raids of Baghdad 'constant'
. Four US tank crew killed
Truck explodes after crashing into British embassy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,927121,00.html
A pick-up truck carrying cans of petrol slammed into the wall of the
British embassy compound last night in the Iranian capital, Tehran,
and burst into flames, killing its driver.
'We have to blow them up'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,926962,00.html
Three days after the loss of one of their colleagues in a friendly
fire attack by two American A10 Thunderbolt aeroplanes, the Household
Cavalry regiment has begun to engage the Iraqi 6th Armoured Division.
Alarm over deaths in custody
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,927095,00.html
The system for dealing with deaths in custody in England and Wales
breaches the European convention on human rights, a study published by
the human rights group Liberty yesterday concludes.
Food combination boosts cancer fight
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,927079,00.html
Two food ingredients already recognised separately as having some
cancer prevention properties might be as much as 13 times more
powerful when put together, researchers said yesterday.
Rallying round
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,926301,00.html
Reva Klein looks at the future of citizenship education after the end
of the war.
Educating Iraq
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,926305,00.html
What kind of school and university system is Washington planning, asks
Joanna Walters.
Discrimination of female academics
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,926309,00.html
Equality will not be achieved without the right resources and laws,
says Natalie Fenton.
Robert Fisk: Iraq is littered with graves of Britons killed in another
colonial war
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=392805
01 April 2003
At dusk yesterday the ground around the Baghdad North Gate War
Cemetery shook with the vibration of the bombs.
Christopher Bellamy: Do troops kill each other by mistake because we
trained them too hard?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=392779
01 April 2003
Every fratricide - or "friendly fire" incident is tragic, but many
such incidents are ultimately explicable in the "fog of war" - this
time, the British are really outraged.
Robert Fisk: The monster of Baghdad is now the hero of Arabia
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=392756
01 April 2003
This is now a nationalist war against the most obvious kind of
imperial power
Andrew Grice: Mr Cook has laid foundations for a Labour revolt
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=392754
01 April 2003
The prospect of a long conflict alarms MPs.
The damage we are doing to our relations with the Middle East could
last a generation
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=392765
01 April 2003
In the last weeks of the United Nations' ill-starred diplomacy and the
first hours of war, one section of the globe observed an uneasy
silence.
Prisoners of War
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=392764
01 April 2003
In a war marked so far by unrestrained picturing of prisoners by both
sides and mutual accusations of brutality, the first visit by the
International Red Cross to a US-run PoW camp is a welcome sign that
America does intend to observe the Geneva Conventions in its treatment
of prisoners of war.
Even we surrender-monkeys are confused
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/terence_blacker/story.jsp?story=392761
The not-in-my-name war has turned out to be in our name after all -
and it is a discomfiting experience
maff
[...]
Giving Iraqis a Lifeline
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/01KRIS.html
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
While ideologues in Washington offer sweeping judgments about what
Iraqis want, Iraqis seem less dogmatic. They just want the U.S. to
make their lives better.
A Red-Blue Terror Alert
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/01KRUG.html
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Driven by its hostility to government spending and its exaltation of
the "heartland" over urban states, the Bush administration has
neglected homeland security.
Why Epidemics Still Surprise Us
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/01ANHO.html
By ANDY HO
The World Health Organization has been ineffective in creating a
public health policy suited for a global outbreak like the one that
began recently in Asia.
Speaking With the Enemy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/01CRON.html
By WALTER CRONKITE
Journalists might recognize a motivation in Peter Arnett's acceptance
of an interview with state-controlled Iraqi TV, but they should not
excuse it.
Friends of Affirmative Action
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/01TUE1.html
Briefs filed in two pivotal cases before the Supreme Court testify to
how central affirmative action is to preserving diversity in American
life.
The Death of Innocents
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/01TUE2.html
When Iraqi commanders send soldiers disguised as noncombatants to fire
on American troops, the real goal is to turn the Americans against
Iraqi civilians.
Avoiding Chemical Catastrophe
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/01TUE3.html
So far the Bush administration has offered no legislation to address
the vulnerability of sites with hazardous materials to terrorist
attack.
Power Games
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/01TUE4.html
Federal regulators have now provided decisive evidence of the cynical
behavior of major energy companies in California's power crisis.
On the Tactics of War, and the Searing Pain
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/L01IRAQ.html
The Use of Race in College Admissions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/L01AFFI.html
A Freeloader No More
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/L01SMOK.html
The Home Front
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/L01HERB.html
Moynihan's Apt Words
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/L01MOYN.html
Budget Shenanigans
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/opinion/L01BUDG.html
2 U.S. Columns Are Advancing on Baghdad Defenses
http://tinyurl.com/8lz3
By PATRICK E. TYLER
American forces leading the drive north to Baghdad battled their way
into a town 50 miles south of the capital.
Rumsfeld's Design for War Criticized on the Battlefield
http://tinyurl.com/8lz7
By BERNARD WEINRAUB with THOM SHANKER
Officers on the Iraqi battlefield complain that the Pentagon has not
sent enough troops to wage the war as they want to fight it.
Moving Into 'Bad Guy' Land
http://tinyurl.com/8lz8
By DEXTER FILKINS
The main column of American marines set to attack Iraq's capital raced
to within 70 miles of Baghdad with little resistance.
Speech Attributed to Hussein Calls for Holy War on U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/middleeast/01CND-SADDAM.html
By TERENCE NEILAN
In a statement attributed to Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader called
today for a holy war, or jihad, against the American-led invasion of
Iraq.
Bush Defends the Progress of the War
http://tinyurl.com/8lzd
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and DAVID E. SANGER
President Bush mounted a vigorous defense on Monday of the progress
made in the war against Iraq, seeking to rebut concerns in the
military.
Turkey Works to Allay Western Worries
http://tinyurl.com/8lzg
By FRANK BRUNI
Western diplomats and Turkish political analysts say Turkey is at
pivotal moment.
Beyond Numbers, 9/11 Panel Hears Families' Anguish
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/nyregion/01HEAR.html
By DAVID W. CHEN
After a 19-month wait, the relatives of those who died in the terror
attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, testified as the first witnesses before a
panel investigating the attacks.
Two Correspondents, One Predictable Outcome
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01WATC.html
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
The real protagonists of these latest sagas in Iraq are not Peter
Arnett or Geraldo Rivera. Responsibility lies with the news executives
who tempted fate.
Warning of Doom, Edgy Iraqi Leaders Put on Brave Front
http://tinyurl.com/8lzp
By JOHN F. BURNS
The Iraqi leadership redoubled its defiance and promised "death in the
desert" to American troops.
Scenes of the Other Iraq: Green Fields, Starry Nights, Friendly Locals
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01NORT.html
By DAVID ROHDE
Paratroopers in northern Iraq are adjusting to a climate and terrain
that are far different from what they expected.
The Test for Rumsfeld: Will Strategy Work?
http://tinyurl.com/8m00
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Critics charged that Donald H. Rumsfeld's principles of a new American
military have been applied in Iraq and found wanting.
Devastation on Road to Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01AIRB.html
By JIM DWYER
As American forces advance northward, the city of Najaf has both
symbolic and substantive value in the campaign.
Conscientious Objector Numbers Are Small but Growing
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01OBJE.html
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
A small number of military members are seeking discharges, provided
that they can prove that they developed an objection to war during
their training or service.
The Last Stop on the Journey Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01DOVE.html
By JAYSON BLAIR
It has been a tough week at Dover Air Force Base, the home to the
Defense Department's joint services morgue and mortuary.
The Copper Mine Ran Through It: Tales of a River's Rescue
http://tinyurl.com/8m0g
By JIM ROBBINS
In a state known for pristine rivers, the Clark Fork in Montana has
been poisoned by years of mining copper deposits.
Mass Layoffs Threatened for Teachers in California
http://tinyurl.com/8m0k
By DEAN E. MURPHY
With the state's budget problems, many districts fear they cannot
afford to pay those already in the classroom.
Air Force Academy's Top General Apologizes to Cadets
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/education/01ACAD.html
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
The outgoing superintendent apologized for the damage the academy had
suffered as a result of a scandal involving sexual assault of cadet
women.
Men From Texas, on Call in Kuwait, Cap Well Fires in Southern Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01OIL.html
By CHARLIE LeDUFF with ALAN FEUER
Thirteen technicians from Boots & Coots, a Texas company, have been
sent to battle the oil blazes in Iraq.
Chicago Mayor Bulldozes a Small Downtown Airport
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/national/01AIRP.html
By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN
Mayor Richard M. Daley has wanted Meigs Field transformed into a
lakeside park. Now he says that the closing of the airport is a matter
of domestic security.
Historian at Columbia Is Named Provost
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/education/01COLU.html
By KAREN W. ARENSON
Columbia University historian Alan Brinkley was named the next
provost, a post that will give him great influence in shaping the
school's future.
N.Y.U. Is Raising Fees for Its Undergraduate Students
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/education/01NYU.html
By KAREN W. ARENSON
New York University announced that it would raise the price of room,
board and tuition for by 6.3 percent next year, and raise total
financial aid by 14 percent.
War Deals Another Blow to Parts of City's Economy
http://tinyurl.com/8m2z
By JEANNE B. PINDER
New York's cabbies know it, and they will tell anyone who asks: the
war in Iraq has applied a new set of brakes to a local economy already
slowed by terrorism and the economic downturn.
Versailles Resounds Again to Hoofbeats
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/arts/01BART.html
By ALAN RIDING
At the renovated 17th-century arena at Versailles, France, spectators
will be able to view elaborate horse shows by equestrian students.
The Jewish Company Behind a German Slogan
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/arts/design/01REIC.html
By HUGH EAKIN
For decades the bronze inscription on the Reichstag, the seat of the
German Parliament here, has been an awkward reminder of this country's
troubling past. The dedication says Dem Deutschen Volke, or To the
German People, and it has often been associated with the racist
policies that led to the Holocaust.
Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Affirmative Action Case
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/politics/AP-Scotus-Affirmative-Action.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Supreme Court debated today whether colleges and universities may
legally consider race when admitting students.
House Republicans Agree on Bush War Fund Request
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/politics/AP-War-Budget.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The entire $74.7 billion the president wants would be funded, but
Congress wants to clamp down on the flexibility he sought in deciding
how to spend the money.
With Democrats Divided on War, Pelosi Faces First Test
http://tinyurl.com/8m3k
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
The issue at hand for Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House minority
leader, was a ticklish one: how to support the troops without heaping
praise on President Bush.
Powell Heads for Turkey and Europe to Mend Ties
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01POWE.html
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, seeking to ease tensions with
Turkey and the European alliance, scheduled a quick visit to Ankara
and Brussels.
A City With Clean Streets and a Low Crime Rate
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/business/01GROU.html
By BERNARD SIMON
A guide for business travelers navigating Toronto, Canada's largest
city.
India War Protests Aim at Bottlers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/business/worldbusiness/01SODA.html
By SARITHA RAI
To protest the American-led invasion of Iraq, radical groups in India
have taken to staging armed raids on Coke and Pepsi warehouses.
P.R. Firms Alter Their Message
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/business/media/01ADCO.html
By NAT IVES
Public relations professionals, confronted by the war in Iraq's
dominance of the news, are overhauling client strategies.
Hollywood Toning Down Ads and Froth During War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/business/media/01STUD.html
By LAURA M. HOLSON
Hollywood executives are revising advertising campaigns to reflect
wartime sensibilities.
Pentagon Plans to Extend Its Use of Commercial Planes for Troops
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01FLEE.html
By MICHELINE MAYNARD
The Pentagon plans to extend the mobilization of a fleet of commercial
aircraft used to transport military personnel and equipment, airline
officials said.
Bargain Hunters Push Dow Higher
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Wall-Street.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Searching for bargains after a four-day selloff, buyers returned to
Wall Street Tuesday, giving the market a lift.
S.E.C. Approves Audit Committee Reforms
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-accounting-auditing.html
By REUTERS
U.S. market regulators voted today to adopt reforms forcing corporate
audit committees to be more active in overseeing auditors accounting
methods.
Insurance Loophole Helps Rich
http://tinyurl.com/8m64
By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
A 50-year-old program created to help farmers get insurance is now
being used to get huge tax breaks for wealthy clients.
A Formidable Enemy: Dust
http://tinyurl.com/8m68
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
In an arena where a violent dust storm can stall an advance,
forecasting is an essential element of military planning.
Ideal Sensors for Terror Attack Don't Exist Yet
http://tinyurl.com/8m6h
By KENNETH CHANG
After the anthrax attacks in 2001, research has generated promising
advances but accurate detection systems remain slow, bulky and
expensive.
For Kon-Tiki Theory, Ray of Hope Is Dashed
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/science/life/01THOR.html
By NICHOLAS WADE
A team of archaeologists and geneticists have further explored the
theory that ancient Incas could have traveled to Polynesia and settled
it.
Aliens Inside Us: A (Mostly Friendly) Bacterial Nation
http://tinyurl.com/8m6l
By JAMES GORMAN
The powerful techniques of genomic research are providing new ways to
investigate the lives of the 500 to 1,000 species of microbes within
each of us.
Step by Step, Scientists Track Mystery Ailment
http://tinyurl.com/8m6p
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D.
The relentless spread of SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, in
Hong Kong and mainland China has confounded the public health system.
Doctor for Peace Gains Power for Laity
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/health/01CONV.html
By JUDY FOREMAN
The cardiologist Dr. James Edward Muller talks about founding two
social action groups and his work on heart research.
Self-Protection or Delusion? The Many Varieties of Paranoia
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/health/psychology/01BEHA.html
By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D.
Probably no psychiatric term is bandied about as loosely as paranoia.
But paranoia covers a broad terrain.
Success Stories Abound in Efforts to Prevent and Control Cancer
http://tinyurl.com/8m6w
By JANE E. BRODY
The advances in the last 50 years in understanding the causes of
cancer have turned many once fatal cancers into curable diseases.
Finding Gold in the Jumble of Dreams
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/health/psychology/01CASE.html
By ANNA FELS, M.D.
A hundred years after Freud, scientists are still unsure what dreams
are about. A psychiatrist learns they often replay the dominant
sensations of patients' lives.
Cause and Effect: Legacy of Lead at Menopause
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/health/womenshealth/01CAUS.html
By ERIC NAGOURNEY
Women in menopause are at greater risk of high blood pressure if they
have even low levels of lead in their blood.
Weather Satellites Can Be Better Used
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/science/space/01FORE.html
By WARREN E. LEARY
Weather satellites could be more effective forecasting climate change
if the agencies that run them keep up with the latest technology.
Journalists at War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A903-2003Apr1.html
Rivera, NBC Trade Shots
War Brings Somber Note to Reno
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63240-2003Mar31.html
In talking war over two days with people in Reno, the overwhelming
response is that the war has become too much to bear.
Bush Lauds Homeland Efforts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62673-2003Mar31.html
President Bush saluted the Coast Guard for its new counterterrorism
duties and burnished his own credentials on homeland security.
Hackers Plan Attacks To Protest Iraq War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63550-2003Mar31.html
Chinese hacker groups are planning attacks on U.S.- and U.K.-based Web
sites to protest the war in Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security
warned in an alert that it unintentionally posted on a government Web
site yesterday.
9/11 Survivors Give Panel a Wish List
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63266-2003Mar31.html
Survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist strikes urged the federal
panel investigating the attacks to conduct the comprehensive review
they believe is still lacking and to make recommendations that will
prevent a repeat assault.
Military Puts Its Story Online
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1741-2003Apr1.html
Unlike during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, citizens worldwide can turn
to the Web to obtain a wealth of information about the military units
currently fighting to topple Saddam Hussein's regime.
Minority Students Find Access and Isolation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62263-2003Mar31.html
In the months leading up to Tuesday's arguments at the Supreme Court,
U-Michigan students said the tensions have risen.
Holy Site Turned Into Stronghold
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61314-2003Mar31.html
The assault on Najaf is proving problematic for the Army, which finds
itself entangled in sort of urban combat that planners hoped to avoid.
Pentagon, State Spar on Postwar Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63223-2003Mar31.html
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has rejected State Department
proposals to help run postwar Iraq in what sources described as an
effort to ensure the Pentagon controls every aspect of reconstructing
Iraq.
Mubarak Warns of Rise in Militancy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63039-2003Mar31.html
Egyptian president said Monday that a protracted U.S.-led war in Iraq
will lead to a dangerous rise in Islamic militancy across the Arab
world.
Houses Buried, 4 Die In Bolivian Landslide
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63436-2003Mar31.html
A landslide struck a gold-mining town in Bolivia's tropical lowlands
early today, killing four people, injuring three others and burying
dozens of homes.
North Korea Fires Short-Range Missile
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64774-2003Apr1.html
North Korea today fired a short-range, surface-to-ship missile in what
was seen here as an attempt to keep world attention focused on
Pyongyang's demand for negotiations with the United States, according
to Japanese officials.
Afghans Hear Threat From a Distant War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63500-2003Mar31.html
Shiragha, a 20-year-old soldier in a local militia, relishes the new
freedoms the United States brought to Afghanistan along with mobile
phones, Western clothes and Pepsi. But he grinned today as he
predicted more deadly violence against Americans here because of the
war in Iraq.
A Dim View of America
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63533-2003Mar31.html
In a survey published this week, Outlook magazine found that 86
percent of Indians opposed the war and 69 percent regard President
Bush as a "warmonger."
In the North, Small Force, Big Tasks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63238-2003Mar31.html
Commanders of the 173rd Airborne Brigade scouted potential base
locations in Irbil Monday, and said moving the 2,000-man unit here
from Bashur airfield would position the force to begin hit-and-run
operations in northern Iraq.
Gates Foundation to Give $60 Million to Women's AIDS Prevention
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63488-2003Mar31.html
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $60 million yesterday
toward the development of experimental creams, often referred to as
invisible condoms, designed to prevent the transmission of the AIDS
virus among women in developing countries.
FBI Planning to Add Offices Overseas
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63425-2003Mar31.html
The FBI plans to open offices in Kabul, Afghanistan; Jakarta,
Indonesia; and eight other foreign capitals as part of a decade-long
overseas expansion that officials say is crucial to meet the global
threat of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
Wounded Marines Recall the Battle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62628-2003Mar31.html
As a lawyer in the Marine Corps, Lt. Col. John Ewers headed out on an
unusual mission in southern Iraq last week: looking for the father of
an injured Iraqi boy flown out on a helicopter for emergency treatment
the day before.
A Daring Rescue in the Heat of Battle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63511-2003Mar31.html
HINDIYAH, Iraq, March 31 -- "We've got to get her off that bridge," he
said.
Back on the Trail
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63532-2003Mar31.html
Democrat Joe Lieberman says he is aware of how the world has changed
since the last time he campaigned for president. This time around, he
is seeking a wedge of the vote whose size and makeup are unclear.
Covering the Big Guns
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63535-2003Mar31.html
The debate over the state of the war is, at bottom, a question of
perception, and it is shaped in part by four veteran television
reporters who patrol the Pentagon.
Arnett Fired; Fox's Geraldo In Hot Water
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63534-2003Mar31.html
NBC and MSNBC dumped correspondent Peter Arnett Monday, while Fox News
star Geraldo Rivera is being withdrawn from Iraq amid Pentagon charges
that he revealed sensitive information.
A Sea of Second-Guessing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57954-2003Mar31.html
"President Bush is to be commended for not micromanaging the Persian
Gulf war," says one New York Times piece. "But his passion against
interference hints that he may be overreacting to President Johnson's
management of the Vietnam War - and giving his generals too much
running room."
Saving Civilians
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63438-2003Mar31.html
Page A14
AS U.S. FORCES move into Iraqi cities and towns, a number of media
reports have depicted a wary reception from Iraqi civilians. Some
appear supportive of the allied mission to destroy the regime of
Saddam Hussein but uncertain it will succeed. Families leaving Basra
speak of a reign of terror by paramilitary forces; a remarkable number
of those interviewed by Western reporters in towns such as Safwan and
Nasiriyah tell of relatives who have been murdered by the regime. Some
have begun helping to pinpoint the militants who brutalize them while
sniping at allied troops. Yet even people in the sole town secured by
U.S. and British forces -- the port of Umm Qasr -- are hesitant to
believe that Saddam Hussein's grip really has been broken. Some say
they fear that Western forces will soon leave, as they did in 1991,
and that the dictator's security forces will be back to exact
retribution. Such sentiments may help explain why more Iraqis have not
openly welcomed allied forces or joined them in attacking the regime.
But they also suggest that the irregular resistance in southern Iraq
is both limited and isolated -- and that military commanders would be
wise to continue measures to minimize civilian casualties and
suffering in these areas.
Purse, Sword and DERF
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63441-2003Mar31.html
Page A14
HAVING WAITED until the war in Iraq started to discuss its price
tag with Congress, President Bush suddenly wants the money now, and
with as few restrictions as possible on how he may spend the $74.7
billion requested. Congress is responding speedily, and rightly so,
with House and Senate appropriations committees planning to take up
the matter today. But members of Congress, again rightly, are balking
at some of the broad authority the administration seeks in the name of
wartime flexibility.
The Franks Strategy: Fast and Flexible
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63398-2003Mar31.html
By Jim Hoagland, Page A15
In the long months of planning Operation Iraqi Freedom, Gen. Tommy
Franks had a ready answer when challenged on his unorthodox concept of
starting his attack with light, fast-moving forces and augmenting them
while the battle grew. "Speed kills -- the enemy," Franks said several
times at the secret planning sessions, a colleague recalls.
Jobs and Water, Hearts and Minds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63483-2003Mar31.html
By David Ignatius, Page A15
UMM QASR, Iraq -- The small sliver of land surrounding this port
town is what the U.S.-led coalition can claim as a "liberated zone" in
southern Iraq after 12 days of war.
Undoubtedly Dominant
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63484-2003Mar31.html
By Jim McDonough, Page A15
As the military campaign unfolds in Iraq, we are hearing much talk
of forces spread too thin, inadequate military power and insufficient
numbers of combat units at the point of decision. The image of an
under-strength coalition being slowed -- or worse -- by greater
numbers of hard-core Iraqi regular and irregular forces has become
somewhat of a popular theme. But is it correct? Most likely not, and
for reasons that lie in the very definition of combat power, which is,
after all, more than a casual term of reference.
Partisan Casualties
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63454-2003Mar31.html
By E. J. Dionne Jr., Page A15
The opposition party's politicians had a clear strategy for dealing
with the president and his war.
Democracy Delayed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63456-2003Mar31.html
By Richard Cohen, Page A15
In about a week, the Bush administration has done in Iraq what the
Johnson administration took more than a year to do in Vietnam: opened
a credibility gap. This one is about "the plan," which the Bush
administration describes as both "brilliant" and on schedule. As
anyone can see -- and as some field commanders keep saying -- it is
neither.
Friends, Neighbors . . . Allies?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63496-2003Mar31.html
Page A14
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci commented in a speech that
Americans are disappointed that their traditional ally and friend
Canada has not supported the U.S. decision to move against Iraq [In
Brief, March 26]. He also said economic consequences could ensue. His
comments have been met with outrage from those in Canada who have
abandoned the United States.
Decorations and Doubts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63494-2003Mar31.html
Page A14
To set the record straight, the French medal that World War II
veteran George Wilson returned to the French Embassy [In Brief, March
22] was not given for D-Day bravery. The Jubilee of Freedom medal was
presented to any service person involved with the Normandy campaign.
We Must Spend Our Education Dollars Wisely
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63497-2003Mar31.html
Page A14
Common sense is anything but commonplace in Washington. That's why
it was sadly familiar to read E.J. Dionne Jr.'s attack on the 21st
Century Community Learning Centers budget ["The 3 to 6 Gap," op-ed,
March 7] and David Broder's reiteration of the same arguments
["Cutbacks to Our Children," op-ed, March 23]. These illogical
opinions equated spending increases with better results and mistook
good intentions and noble bill titles for effective services.
U.S. Sorties Freely Bombing Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1884-2003Apr1.html
A statement from Hussein read on TV calls for jihad; U.S. forces
stream north for the coming battle in capital.
Hussein Still Grips Basra
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3153-2003Apr1.html
Port city residents say U.S.-led artillery barrages have had little
effect in weakening government's hold.
Attacks Targeting Iraqi Media
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62768-2003Mar31.html
U.S. and British airstrikes shift focus to hitting Baghdad
communications.
Colleges Worth Considering
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1454-2003Apr1.html
Readers recommend 100 underrated schools that deserve more attention.
Thousands at Supreme Court
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2236-2003Apr1.html
Opening of highly charged affirmative action cases prompts rally at
court.
Troops' Tactics Get Tougher
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63045-2003Mar31.html
New approach is taken because Iraqi attackers frequently look like
civilians.
Car Fired On, 10 Civilians Die
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61229-2003Mar31.html
An unidentified vehicle fails to stop at a U.S. checkpoint on a key
highway.
FDA Warns On Sales of Street Drug 'Alternatives' (Post, April 1, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63444-2003Mar31.html
Begging, Borrowing for Security: Homeland Burden Grows for
Cash-Strapped States, Cities (Post, April 1, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62682-2003Mar31.html
Putting the Choice of War in Students' Hands (Post, April 1, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63559-2003Mar31.html
Putting the Choice of War in Students' Hands (Post, April 1, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62454-2003Mar31.html
Supreme Court Upholds Mississippi Redistricting Plan: State Democratic
Leader Charges Federal Judiciary Favors GOP in Replay of 2000 Election
Ruling (Post, April 1, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62552-2003Mar31.html
Senators Fault Air Force, Seek Probe at Academy (Post, April 1, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64760-2003Apr1.html
Chicago Quietly Closes Lakefront Airport: Mayor Cites Security
Reasons, but Critics Blame Development (By Robert E. Pierre, Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63428-2003Mar31.html
Ky. Priest Pleads Guilty to Sex Abuse (Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63492-2003Mar31.html
Calif. Wins Legal Fight To Review Oil Leases: New Drilling on Coast Is
Less Likely (By William Booth, Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62684-2003Mar31.html
House Rejects Smallpox Compensation Plan: Democrats Say GOP Plan
Insufficient for First Responders to Take Inoculation Risks (By Juliet
Eilperin, Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63038-2003Mar31.html
Rights Report Cites China, Israel, Palestinians (Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63554-2003Mar31.html
President Offers Pledge To Iraqis: 'Nightmare' Will End, Bush Says (By
Mike Allen and David Von Drehle, Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63224-2003Mar31.html
Checking Identities, Waiting Eternities: For 3rd Division Troops and
Families, Casualty Reports Can Mean Agonizing Limbo (By Manuel
Roig-Franzia and Michael A. Fletcher, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63242-2003Mar31.html
The Fallen (Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63512-2003Mar31.html
Powell Making Key Trip to Turkey: U.S. Aims to Mend Relationship,
Forestall Invasion of Iraq (By Glenn Kessler, Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63005-2003Mar31.html
For Israel Lobby Group, War Is Topic A, Quietly: At Meeting,
Jerusalem's Contributions Are Highlighted (By Dana Milbank, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63578-2003Mar31.html
Homeland Security And the Bottom Line: Anti-Terror Moves Help, Hurt
Colo. Firms (By T. R. Reid, Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62613-2003Mar31.html
'02 Deficit Doesn't Show True Costs: Greenspan Says 'Accrual' Method
Offers Better Budget Snapshot (Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63417-2003Mar31.html
Army Has First Close Clashes With Republican Guard Units: Iraqi
Divisions Shifted South to Defend Capital (Post, April 1, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63172-2003Mar31.html
Respiratory Disease Spreads in Hong Kong (Post, April 1, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62881-2003Mar31.html
Secrets and Lies Become Weapons in Basra Standoff (By Peter Finn, Page
A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63167-2003Mar31.html
N. Korean Jets Keep Their Distance During U.S. Missions (By Doug
Struck, Page A16)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63364-2003Mar31.html
Everyday Life Goes on Despite Siege: Traffic at Checkpoint Is Heavy in
Both Directions (By Keith B. Richburg, Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63170-2003Mar31.html
Skirting a City Where Everyone Is Suspect: 82nd Airborne Moves
Supplies, Prisoners (By Monte Reel, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62605-2003Mar31.html
For Now, Dreams of Home Will Have to Do: Anniversary, Birthday Plans
Put on Hold (By Mary Beth Sheridan, Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63113-2003Mar31.html
Pamphlets Urge Troops To Pray for President: In Brief (Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63575-2003Mar31.html
Forces Deliver Water And Relief to Towns: Allies Hope to Prevent
Disease, Unrest (By David Finkel, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63114-2003Mar31.html
EU Peacekeepers Arrive in Macedonia (By Misha Savic, Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63442-2003Mar31.html
Army Defends Soldiers Who Killed Civilians at Checkpoint
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/middleeast/01CND-CIVIL.html
The Army today defended the American soldiers at an Iraqi checkpoint
who opened fire on a fast-moving vehicle on Monday, killing at least
seven civilians, including five children.
2 Newsday Journalists Missing Since March 24 Say They Are Safe
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01CND-REPO.html
By JACQUES STEINBERG
Two Newsday journalists who had been missing from their hotel in
Baghdad since March 24 called the newspaper early this afternoon to
say that they were safe and about to travel into Jordan from Iraq, a
spokesman for the newspaper said.
Britain Convicts 2 Algerians of Helping Finance Terrorists
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/europe/02FRAUD.html
Two illegal immigrants from Algeria were convicted today of plotting
to raise money for terror groups that British police said included Al
Qaeda.
Jordan Arrests Iraqis in Plot to Poison U.S. Troops' Water
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01CND-JORD.html
The Jordanian authorities have arrested a handful of Iraqi agents in
connection with a botched plot to poison the water supply that serves
American troops in the eastern desert near the border with Iraq,
officials here said today.
Powell Hastily Heads for Meetings With European Leaders
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01CND-POLI.html
As Secretary of State Colin L. Powell headed to Europe today for
consultations with America's erstwhile allies, he left behind a
simmering debate over the adequacy of coalition war plans and he faced
meetings with bitter European leaders who indicated they may not greet
him with open arms.
Twee Rivieren Journal: Bushmen Squeeze Money From a Humble Cactus
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/africa/01AFRI.html
The educated city people - a government minister, a chief executive
and several directors of the nation's most important scientific
organizations - traveled at sunrise to this barren region of the
Kalahari Desert to see for themselves the cactus that has been
trumpeted as a natural wonder.
Ethnic Dispute Stills Nigeria's Mighty Oil Wells
http://tinyurl.com/8mcw
Across the river from a freshly razed village, the ChevronTexaco Oil
Export Terminal sits like a ghost town at the edge of the vast Niger
Delta.
Zimbabwe Opposition's Gain Is Undercut by an Arrest
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/africa/01ZIMB.html
Opponents of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe apparently sealed
their political control over Harare in weekend parliamentary
elections, but the triumph was marred today by the arrest of an
opposition leader.
Poor Town Brazil's Chief Left Is Unchanged
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/americas/01BRAZ.html
Landslide Buries Village in Bolivia
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/americas/01BOLI.html
Negotiators Fail to Agree on Agriculture Subsidies
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/business/worldbusiness/01TRAD.html
More Countries Report Suspected Cases of Mystery Virus
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/asia/01CND-HONG.html
Conflicting Reports on North Korea Missile Test Add to Tensions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01CND-KORE.html
Rise in Mystery Virus Leads to Hong Kong Quarantine
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/health/01INFE.html
Italy Arrests Four Men Suspected of Links to Al Qaeda
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01CND-MILA.html
The NBC Correspondent: Arnett Dismissed After Remarks on Iraqi TV
http://tinyurl.com/8md8
Biological Defenses: Plan for Vaccine Compensation Is Blocked by House
Democrats
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/health/01VACC.html
Supreme Court Roundup: Justices Hear Debate on Extending a Statute of
Limitations
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/politics/01SCOTX.html
U.S. Businessman Is Accused of Oil Bribes to Kazakhstan
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/asia/01KAZA.html
Senators Call for Outside Inquiry Into Air Force Academy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/politics/01CADE.html
Russia Seeking Space Aid
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/science/space/01STAT.html
Coverage: Pentagon Says Geraldo Rivera Will Be Removed From Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/worldspecial/01MEDI.html
War Puts Radio Giant on the Defensive
http://tinyurl.com/8jd2
Clear Channel Communications has long been the company that the music
industry loves to loathe, so aggressively dominant as the nation's
biggest radio broadcaster that some critics refer to it as the
Microsoft of music. Now, though, Clear Channel finds itself fending
off a new set of accusations: that the company is using its
considerable market power to drum up support for the war in Iraq,
while muzzling musicians who oppose it.
Beijing Struggles With Caspian Oil
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/business/worldbusiness/01KAZA.html
Danielle Schafer
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Emperor George
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,927754,00.html
Jonathan Freedland: What has become of American values and idealism?
All swept away in this thoroughly un-American war
Jobs for the FDR boys
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,927753,00.html
Paul Foot: FDR are familiar initials in US politics. They used to
describe a president (Roosevelt). Now the initials stand for the
Friends of Donald Rumsfeld. If you are an FDR today you look forward
with great glee to a US victory in Iraq.
The battle for our hearts and minds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,927843,00.html
Phillip Knightley: Everything is going wrong on the coalition's
propaganda front.
My suburban Silicon Valley
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,927846,00.html
Claire Rayner: Once, the only family-friendly workplaces were the ones
women created for themselves. Not any more.
'The sooner this war ends, the better for the world'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,927756,00.html
In the first of an occasional series, British Muslims explain how they
feel about the invasion of Iraq.
Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,927712,00.html
How many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries,
have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these
words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating
that ancient civilisation.
What is she wearing?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,927715,00.html
Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke has attracted more comment on her
dress sense than her style of delivery. There could be a good reason
for that, says Gary Younge.
Behind the lines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,927713,00.html
Our sympathies to one Saddam Hussein, of Nome Norway, who after two
trying decades of sharing a name with the Iraqi leader, has had
enough.
Reith Lectures 2003: The Emerging MInd
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lecturer.shtml
Vilanyanur S Ramachandran is Director of the Centre for Brain and
Cognition and professor with the Psychology Department and the
Neurosciences Programme at the University of California, San Diego. He
is also Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,927925,00.html
Arab press revew
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
The coalition's insistence that the war in Iraq was going well met
with astonishment and anger in the Arab press.
The end of civilisation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,927788,00.html
Heritage: Iraq is one huge world heritage site, a unique storehouse of
art and archaeology. Now the war threatens to destroy it all, says
Fiachra Gibbons.
Death of liberal angst
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,927707,00.html
When is your walking mid-life crisis of a columnist David Aaronovitch
(What would change my mind about Iraq, G2, April 1) and all the other
liberal sollipsists, going to realise that this war is not about them
or their delicate consciences?
Why must war go on?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,927669,00.html
I will not be the only person astonished by your leader "No going
back" (March 31).
New Fifth Column
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,927706,00.html
Adrian Butler (The Editor, March 31) says my anti-war stance is new.
Actually, the only new thing about it is that the Guardian has just
noticed it.
Red rags
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,927667,00.html
How and when did the US acquire Guantanamo Bay and, more importantly,
when does the lease expire?
How to fight, fight and fight again
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,927699,00.html
Tony Blair is now a war criminal and many elected MPs and councillors
who have supported the war with or without conviction may find
themselves ousted at the next elections.
Wider still and wider
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,927671,00.html
American tactics are helping Saddam.
Blair: Iraq should be shaped by UN
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,927822,00.html
Tony Blair is determined to show he has not lost control of the
post-war agenda to hawks in the Bush administration.
Billionaire linked to Labour arrested in London
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,927924,00.html
France demands extradition of Iraqi friend of UK politicians
Britain and US in joint terror fight
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/attacks/story/0,1320,927796,00.html
An unprecedented level of intelligence cooperation between Britain and
America was agreed yesterday.
Blunkett warns of twin terror threat
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,927580,00.html
Britain and the US are in danger of simultaneous terrorist attacks
because of the two countries' alliance in the war against Iraq, the
home secretary, David Blunkett, warned tonight.
Denial the cure for China
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,927392,00.html
April 1: The Chinese authorities are only just learning that
withholding information about SARS is bad for its citizens, writes
John Gittings.
'War is so last century'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,927258,00.html
April 1: With a new exhibition and its war protests, LA is making a
claim to be about more than entertainment, writes Duncan Campbell.
The battle for Baghdad looms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927851,00.html
George Bush has given the green light to the American commander in the
Gulf, Tommy Franks, to launch the battle for Baghdad.
Children killed in US assault
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927852,00.html
Dozens of Iraqi villagers were killed and injured in a ferocious
American air and land assault near the Iraqi city of Babylon, hospital
officials in the town said yesterday.
To the south of the city, battle lines are drawn for the final
showdown
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927771,00.html
Civilians at risk as Saddam waits to lure US into street fighting.
'You just killed a family because you didn't fire a warning shot'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927733,00.html
Reporter witnesses slaughter of Iraqi women and children by edgy US
soldiers.
European leaders to press Powell for key UN role in rebuilding Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927765,00.html
Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, will be urged to give the UN
centre stage in the reconstruction of Iraq when he meets European
leaders for the first time since the fighting began.
Flu panic spreads across Asia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927690,00.html
Governments across Asia invoked emergency measures yesterday,
including establishing quarantine camps, to try to contain the spread
of the deadly pneumonia-like illness that has killed 63 people.
Affirmative action case splits US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927701,00.html
Protesters demonstrated outside the supreme court in Washington
yesterday, as hearings began on affirmative action which could rewrite
rules on how and whether the government can address the legacy of
racial inequality.
Cuba blames 'lenient' US for latest hijack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927696,00.html
The hijacker of a Cuban airlines flight, who claimed to have two hand
grenades on board, surrendered to officials after the plane landed in
Key West, Florida. He disembarked carrying a small child.
Missing journalists in Jordan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927767,00.html
The two journalists from Newsday, the New York newspaper, who went
missing from a Baghdad hotel a week ago are safe and well and in
Jordan, the paper said yesterday.
Doubts over Saddam's health as minister reads president's speech
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927926,00.html
Saddam Hussein told the Iraqi people last night that jihad (struggle)
was a religious duty and urged them to fight invading US and British
troops wherever they found them, in a message read out on television.
Uday's ex-double questioned
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927927,00.html
An Iraqi man who was forced to work as a body double for Saddam
Hussein's eldest son was detained at Birmingham international airport
by immigration officials yesterday.
SAS rescue claim after bungled operation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927770,00.html
An SAS operation near the town of Mosul in northern Iraq was foiled
yesterday when an armoured Land Rover and ammunition, including
anti-tank weapons, were seized, apparently after being dropped from a
Chinook helicopter.
Fighting escalates around holy city of Kerbala
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927928,00.html
A pause in the American and British advance on Baghdad appeared to be
over early this morning when US forces unleashed a fierce ground
attack on the Iraqi Republican Guard near Kerbala, in the south, in a
confrontation military officials said was "escalating" as the end of
the night approached.
Send in the bulldozers: what Israel told marines about urban battles
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927719,00.html
As troops close on Baghdad, Pentagon takes notes on house-to-house
fighting in Jenin
The aim of suicide bombers - and how to beat them
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927720,00.html
The ultimate goal of the suicide bomber is to force a reaction on the
part of the soldiers targeted by the attack, to make them see the
civilian population around them as a potential enemy, and respond
accordingly.
The first casualty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927735,00.html
A look at the way the war is being spun and reported
We don't understand Iraqis, admits US officer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927731,00.html
Regime not about to collapse, war planner concedes
US admits checks more aggressive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927732,00.html
US troops manning checkpoints have become more "aggressive" to deal
with potential suicide bombers, central command admitted yesterday.
US disputes cloud postwar plans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927738,00.html
Pentagon blocks officials from Iraq role
US closes exiles training camp after only 100 turn up
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927739,00.html
A US military programme in Hungary that was to train up to 3,000 Iraqi
exiles to take part in the war against Saddam Hussein was closed down
abruptly yesterday after dispatching less than 100 recruits to the war
zone.
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927827,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
Rows dog general waiting to take over
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927740,00.html
Bush's man to pick up pieces after war
Wariness but little hostility in heartland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927828,00.html
Just over an hour's drive from Baghdad, defenders flee from US marine
reconaissance unit in light vehicles
British troops come under missile barrage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927829,00.html
Attack is first against target inside country
Helmet off, hand outstretched, British CO tests the temperature
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927830,00.html
Market bid to win over crowd
Arab hopes rest on toppling Saddam and humbling the US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927800,00.html
The chastening of America has begun and the likely outcome of the war
is coming into view - one regime gone, in Baghdad, another humbled, in
Washington. According to those who analyse Arab policy and follow Arab
opinion from here, the hopes of Arab governments now centre on this
prospect.
US bans trade with Pakistani nuclear lab
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,927691,00.html
The United States has imposed sanctions on Pakistan's largest nuclear
installation after accusing officials of sharing the technology to
make missiles and weapons of mass destruction. Pakistan has denied the
the allegationsand described the sanctions as "unjustified".
Al-Qaida money men get 11 years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,927786,00.html
Credit card fraud raised at least £200,000 to organise terror.
A gap in the market, a garrison town and a generation divide over the
war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,927831,00.html
On our round Britain trip, in North Yorkshire we find concern over
casualties and terrorism.
Scientists step up research into bat rabies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,927785,00.html
Scientists are stepping up tests to establish whether a form of rabies
found in bats has become endemic in Britain and poses a risk to human
health.
Natural high
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,7843,927212,00.html
It's official: the great outdoors not only makes you feel better, but
measurably improves your health. John Vidal on a study that details
the physical and mental benefits of getting out there.
Final countdown for Baghdad
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=393132
American forces engaged in their first full-scale ground battle with
the Republican Guard's Medina Division south-west of Baghdad early
today
Christopher Bellamy: 'A war like none before' is turning out to be all
too familiar
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=393095
02 April 2003
"A war like none before,"
Robert Fisk: Cows and armed guards on a college campus. Where is the
truth amid all this subterfuge?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=393094
02 April 2003
Overnight, the Americans had pulverised a neo-Classical office block
next to what was – before a previous pulverisation – the Iraqi
government's Department of Air Armaments.
Jemima Khan: I am angry and ashamed to be British
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=393075
02 April 2003
As a dual national of Pakistan and Britain, it is the loss of British
credibility I find hardest to stomach
Patrick Cockburn: The lessons that Washington has still to learn
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=393072
02 April 2003
America does not understand Saddam's government, which is not a
typical military regime in which the army holds power
Civilian deaths occur in war - but that is no excuse for needless
belligerence
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=393080
02 April 2003
American and British officials were entirely right to describe the
deaths of at least eight Iraqi civilians at two US checkpoints as a
"tragedy". But – even as the first skirmishes for Baghdad begin –
these deaths, of mostly women and children, illustrate everything that
is risky, contentious and uncertain about this ill-conceived conflict.
Millionaires, money and the corruption of British politics
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=393083
02 April 2003
We should remind ourselves of a few important points about this
country: Britain is not a banana republic;Britain is not a
kleptocracy; Britain is, supposedly, a democracy.
Day 13: Deadly firefights in Iraq, political skirmishes in London -
and the bombs keep falling on Baghdad
02 April 2003
Coalition forces in Iraq have two aims.
Tension between forces over the question of heavy-handedness
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=393133
02 April 2003
Although the final victor in the Iraqi conflict may not be in doubt,
the fight for the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people is revealing
critical differences in the tactics of the main allied partners.
Allies are failing to win over Iraqi public, senior officer admits
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=393121
02 April 2003
The United States has failed to get across its "liberation" message to
Iraqi civilians, who are convinced its true motive is to exploit the
country's oil reserves, a high-ranking American officer has admitted.
Powell flies to Ankara to seek Turkish support for war effort
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=393116
02 April 2003
The American Secretary of State, Colin Powell, arrived in Turkey
yesterday to seek help for the northern front in Iraq.
War in Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=393056
02 April 2003
Links in full
A Plan Under Attack
http://www.msnbc.com/news/892871.asp
As the blame game begins, the fight in Iraq is about to get a lot
bloodier. The long and dangerous road to Baghdad—and beyond
‘Now We Have America'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/892885.asp
In Girde Drozna, Eastern Kurdistan
Talking Past Each Other
http://www.msnbc.com/news/892869.asp
Dispatch from Camp David
The Other Air Battle
http://www.msnbc.com/news/892808.asp
Al-Jazeera rules the waves-whether the Pentagon likes it or not
The Mind of the Iraqis
Torn by feelings of nationalism, honor, fear-and now blasted
bybombs-what's an Iraqi to think? A report from a city under siege
Fareed Zakaria: They Fought For Stalin, Too
http://www.msnbc.com/news/891806.asp
If most people in Britain believe Washington is attacking Iraq for its
oil, then it's surely possible that most Iraqis feel the same way
Saddam's Bunkers
Beneath the ground, a realm of catacombs and secret passages,
storehouses and hideouts
‘We Love This Country'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/892836.asp
They hate Saddam, and support the U.S. But Iraqis in America feel like
suspects in their adopted homeland
‘I Had A Terrible Feeling'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/892873.asp
Of 250,000 troops, some would inevitably be lost. But nothing can
prepare a family for the knock on the door. NEWSWEEK honors America's
bravest
Robert J. Samuelson: War Meets the Welfare State
http://www.msnbc.com/news/892688.asp
When people ask, ‘Can we afford this war?' what they really mean is
‘Can we afford this war without having to give up anything else?'
My Turn: If I Want Peace, Why Aren't I Doing More?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/892702.asp
I've got an antiwar sticker on my car, but I can't stop worrying that
someone will flatten my tires
Mail Call: In the Eyes of the Global Community
http://www.msnbc.com/news/892695.asp
Readers react strongly to our March 24 cover story
Painting Iraq as the West Bank
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,439438,00.html
Saddam hopes to win the political battle through tactics that liken
his plight to that of the Palestinians
What will it to take to win?
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030407/
Living in a Hot Zone
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501030407/story.html
Asia's killer virus has the region on edge. Jim Erickson looks at the
outbreak's medical and economic repercussions
At the United Nations of Food
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030407-438937,00.html
Singapore Chows Down on a mad fusion of Asia's most exotic flavors
Unspoiled Vietnam
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030331-436026,00.html
The Thrill of Getting There First
The Road To War
http://www.time.com/time/europe/roadtowar/
Auf Wiedersehen, It's Been Good to Know You
http://www.time.com/time/europe/eu/daily/0,13716,436088,00.html
Germans learn to live without Uncle Sam's bases
Guide to Adams' Galaxy
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901030324-433231,00.html
A new biography of cult author Douglas Adams depicts a visionary with
an improbable drive
Taking a Stand on Stage
http://www.time.com/time/europe/roadtowar/stories/0,13716,434899,00.html
Whether in classics, polemics or popular songs, this season there's no
avoiding the theater of war
Time for new clich: The sane scientist
http://tinyurl.com/8nk6
(4/1/2003)
RAYMO: My guest today is Dr. Sivana, the Mad Scientist. Sivana is not
really a mad scientist, but he plays one on TV ...
The tragedy of this unequal partnership
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,925851,00.html
Will Hutton: By opting to join the American hard Right, Tony Blair has
made the gravest mistake of his political life
Saving the West from busted bunkers
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,925546,00.html
Andrew Rawnsley: Rebuilding will be needed not only in Iraq but also
in the political arena, as Blair struggles to cope with the new world
disorder.
The testimony of the dead
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,925614,00.html
Mary Riddell:The coalition is now hellbent on victory at any cost, but
it is not a price worth paying.
Freedom for Iraq still the only aim
http://www.observer.co.uk/leaders/story/0,6903,925611,00.html
Tony Blair must push for democracy.
A port in a storm
http://www.observer.co.uk/leaders/story/0,6903,925613,00.html
Consult the good book first, Mr Hoon
'Liberation' is not freedom
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,925580,00.html
Professor Avi Shlaim argues that Iraqis mistrust the intentions of the
West, and that a history of failures supports their attitude.
US miscalculation changes Saddam from devil to hero
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,925578,00.html
Leading Arab journalist Abdel Bari Atwan says that President Bush
risks turning Saddam Hussein into a mythological figure across the
Middle East.
Please give us a fighting chance
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,925579,00.html
Iraqi dissident and writer Kanan Makiya does not believe that
'nationalism' is preventing Iraqis from greeting US and British
troops.
Guns or roses
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,925566,00.html
David Aaronovitch: Where are the flowers garlanding our army of
liberation? Why no dancing in the street?
Thank you, President Bush
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,924925,00.html
Leading Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho gives praise to President Bush
- for the wisdom of his leadership, which has united the world in
opposition.
Has Tony Blair made Britain a pariah state?
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,925518,00.html
By following his convictions, Tony Blair has damaged Britain's
reputation across the world. Mark Leonard asks if the diplomatic
damage can be repaired.
It's not a bad time to be a Middle Eastern dictator
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,925796,00.html
The increasing gap between what the west says and does is discrediting
the cause of democracy and human rights across the region, argues
Katerina Dalacoura.
'I'm fighting my own battles in the living room'
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,925538,00.html
Fareena Alam talks to British Muslim women and finds that their
reactions to the war are challenging gender stereotypes within the
Muslim community.
Anger in the Arab world
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,925886,00.html
Many commentators around the world who had opposed an attack on Iraq
were keen to point out that things didn't quite seem to be going to
plan, says Bulent Yusuf in his regular round-up of the world press.
Bloggers spearhead offscreen opposition
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925333,00.html
John Naughton: The net has given free rein to opinion not expressed in
mainstream media coverage of the Gulf conflic
Our special relationship... with Europe
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925340,00.html
William Keegan: Blair's attempts to influence the policies of Bush is
too embarrassing to talk about.
Odd bods, those Russians
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,925798,00.html
Richard Ingrams' week: After all the prewar talk about Saddam being
the same as Hitler, there has been a change. Now Saddam has been
turned into Stalin.
The reality of war
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,925590,00.html
It wasn't supposed to be like this. But Saddam learnt a bitter lesson
in 1991, and he wasn't about to repeat the same mistakes. The
Observer's investigation reveals the inside story of the first full
week of war.
It's not going quite to plan - but these things never do
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,925573,00.html
Julian Thompson explains why chaos often rules at war.
Death squads the CIA ignored
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,925696,00.html
David Rose on Saddam's Fedayeen, who accept death as part of the
mission.
Battle lines drawn ...on the PM's face
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,925588,00.html
Kamal Ahmed: While a relaxed George Bush doles out cherry pie at Camp
David, his exhausted ally is facing the flak for failure to win an
instant victory.
New York kicks butt
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,925532,00.html
From today smokers can no longer light up in the bars and cafes of the
Big Apple. How long can it be until a similar ban follows in Britain,
ask Joanna Walters in New York and Tom Reilly in London.
Small Wonders
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,925533,00.html
Nanotechnology is on the brink of revolutionising the way we live. Is
it one tiny step for mankind ... or a dangerous leap into the unknown?
Science editor Robin McKie reports.
US arms trader to run Iraq
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925309,00.html
Exclusive: Ex-general who will lead reconstruction heads firm behind
Patriot missiles.
Fury at Costain's 'bypass UN' advice
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925307,00.html
British construction giant Costain is under severe pressure to retract
comments by its chief executive urging the British government to
'bypass' United Nations efforts to reconstruct Iraq.
Man who would be 'king' of Iraq
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925325,00.html
Oliver Morgan on Jay Garner, the hawkish head of the Pentagon agency
that will be handling lucrative reconstruction deals.
Can we rebuild Iraq and keep a clear conscience?
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925326,00.html
Business Editor Frank Kane asks whether British company chiefs will be
equal to the post-war challenge.
Anglo in 'slaves' charge
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925310,00.html
Mining group Anglo American is facing a multi-billion dollar lawsuit
claiming that it profited from collaborating with apartheid-era South
Africa.
Aiming for the real targets
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925351,00.html
The new Audit Commission head says less regulation, not more, will
improve public services, writes Simon Caulkin.
Will 'stunts not grunts' blow a hole in markets?
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925314,00.html
Frank Kane: Did I say, just a couple of weeks ago, to 'buy on the
sound of gunfire'? What I meant to add, of course, was: 'Sell when the
shooting continues.'
Thornton's China station
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925352,00.html
The Goldman Sachs high-flier is giving up his job to teach Beijing
about doing business with the West. But his ambitions don't end there,
says Richard Wachman
Bring back troops before more die, urges Cook
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,925878,00.html
Robin Cook, the former Foreign Secretary, calls today for Britain to
bring its troops home from Iraq, in a devastating attack on what he
calls a 'bloody and unnecessary' war.
UK claims stray missiles may have been Iraq's
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,925643,00.html
Downing Street claimed last night that the lethal bombing of a Baghdad
market is likely to have been caused by misfired Iraqi anti-aircraft
fire.
US ready for final assault on Baghdad
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,925695,00.html
American forces have been ordered to prepare for a ferocious assault
on Baghdad to begin in the next few days, in an operation intended
rapidly to encircle the Iraqi capital and isolate and destroy the
regime of Saddam Hussein.
US Special Forces take fight to fundamentalist terror group
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,925645,00.html
A hundred American Special Forces soldiers led thousands of Kurdish
peshmerga fighters in a massive assault on positions held by hardline
Islamic militants yesterday as fighting in the north-east of Iraq
entered its second day.
Bloodied but still unbowed, Baghdad prepares to fight
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,925622,00.html
War seems to suit Baghdad, says Patrick Graham. The city is almost
unrecognisable from a week ago.
A bitter chaos as trickle of aid begins
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,925602,00.html
British troops near Basra escort convoys of food and water to help a
resentful population under the eyes of a vengeful enemy.
Hit-and-run attack on Basra
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,925601,00.html
British tanks stage a lightning raid on the heart of Iraq's second
city, whose fate could alter the course of the war.
Hometown America watches in horror
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,925583,00.html
The Pentagon told them war would be swift and painless. Now the truth
is invading their living rooms and the grim images are of people they
love.
Sidelining of Yasser Arafat raises Palestinian hopes
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,925562,00.html
Supporters of the peace process see the appointment of a Prime
Minister as the first step to more honest government and the eventual
creation of a Palestinian state.
Report slams fresh abuses in Zimbabwe
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,925560,00.html
A hard-hitting report by the Commonwealth Secretariat stating
conclusively that the Zimbabwe government has maintained
state-sponsored human rights abuses is to be delivered to all member
heads of government this week, The Observer has learned.
The horniest challenge on earth: impregnating an irate white rhino
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,925559,00.html
Short-sighted and easily annoyed, weighing up to 1.5 tons, standing
some 6ft high at the shoulder and, putting it kindly, intellectually
challenged, there can be few animals more intimidating to a
conservationist intending to perform artificial insemination.
Paris shrine of surrealism dismantled
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,925563,00.html
Despite more than 30 years of campaigning by leading European artists
and writers, the removal workers have emptied a small Paris flat which
was seen as the hallowed heart of surrealism.
Oscar winner targets Bush and bin Laden
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,925548,00.html
Fresh from his Oscar ceremony tirade against a 'fictitious President'
fighting a 'fictitious war', documentary-maker Michael Moore has said
he is setting his sights on the alleged links between former President
George Bush senior and the Saudi family of Osama bin Laden.
'I feel guilty at being outside Iraq and on the safe side'
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,925770,00.html
The Observer's panel of Iraqi exiles give their views after the first
full week of war.
Stick to warfare, we'll deliver aid
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,925576,00.html
Armies fight - and they should leave feeding those caught in the
crossfire to experienced humanitarian relief agencies.
Day the war came home
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,925683,00.html
A military band played Handel's death march yesterday as the bodies of
10 of Britain's first servicemen to die in Iraq arrived in the green
fields of Oxfordshire.
In remembrance of lives lost
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,925658,00.html
Casualties of war.
Pain of family torn apart
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,925881,00.html
Confused frontline crossfire ripped apart a family yesterday after
Iraqi soldiers appeared to force the four civilians towards US Marine
positions.
HSBC linked to Saddam bankers
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,925813,00.html
City giant faces calls to clarify nature of relationship after probe
reveals connection to blacklisted Iraqi institution.
'I thought it would be over by now'
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,925568,00.html
Each week we ask a cross-section of the British public how the war is
affecting them professionally and personally.
The man who wasn't there
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,925269,00.html
Britain's artists have always responded to war. Here, we preview the
work of the two official artists sent to record the Afghanistan war -
images that seem all the more chilling in light of the current
conflict.
Passage to Kilburn
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,925272,00.html
Film of the week: Michael Winterbottom's bleak study of asylum-seekers
has a biting topical resonance.
Spike's gotta have it - by any means necessary
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,925276,00.html
Spike Lee kicked down the door of the movie establishment to provide a
voice for black Americans. So why is the cast of his new film 25th
Hour largely white?
Before and after Sharpeville
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,925399,00.html
Harriet Lane is charmed by Frankie and Stankie, Barbara Trapido's
semi-autobiographical account of childhood in South Africa in the
Fifties
You're mostly a monkey
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,925402,00.html
Robin McKie is impressed by Nature via Nurture, Matt Ridley's eloquent
explanation of how we can be so different from other primates despite
sharing 99% of their genetic material
Fatal attraction
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,925409,00.html
There are love, death and passion in Inez, by Carlos Funtes - but it's
all atmosphere and no illumination, says Geraldine Bedell
The decline and fall of Dixie
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,925407,00.html
Peter Guttridge is moved as James Lee Burke swaps cops and robbers for
Yanks and Rebs in White Doves at Morning
Your views on the long, hard road to peace
http://www.observer.co.uk/letters/story/0,6903,925531,00.html
Mary Riddell (Comment, last week) writes: 'Such [anti-war] gloom seems
mad to those predicting how foolish the anti-war movement will look
when the Iraqi people are swiftly liberated and the loss of life is
minimal.
maff
Beneath the Surface
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10000-2003Apr2.html
Will war create long-term problems for the U.S. in the Middle East?
War Meets The Welfare State
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6415-2003Apr1.html
By Robert J. Samuelson, Page A17
The war in Iraq is, in at least one respect, rewriting history. Few
relationships are more established than the connection between war and
debt. The first organized government borrowing dates to the 12th
century, when Italian city-states (Venice, Genoa, Florence, Milan)
needed to defend themselves. Ever since, wars have generated huge
debts. Armies had to be equipped, fed, paid and moved. In World War
II, U.S. government debt rose 465 percent -- more than fivefold -- and
the increase was higher in World War I (1,980 percent) and the Civil
War (4,149 percent). It was the same everywhere. One reason Britain
triumphed in the Napoleonic wars (1800-1815), historians believe, is
that it could borrow more easily than France. The French had ruined
their credit with huge amounts of almost worthless paper money.
Rush to Judgment in the Fog of War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6417-2003Apr1.html
By George F. Will, Page A17
As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
Saddam's Greater Game
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6410-2003Apr1.html
By Gary Anderson, Page A17
Many observers of the war with Iraq are focused on the looming
battle for Baghdad in anticipation that it will be the culminating
event of the conflict, and it may in the end be so from an American
perspective. But in the view of the Iraqi leadership, it may be only
the end of a first stage in a greater Iraqi plan.
Time to Heal the Breach
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6414-2003Apr1.html
By David S. Broder, Page A17
Even as the war continues in Iraq, a broader and ultimately more
important political struggle is underway in Washington over the future
government of that country -- and of America's relations with the
world.
Fighting For a Tyrant
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6411-2003Apr1.html
By Anne Applebaum, Page A17
Although nearly 10 years have passed since the death of the North
Korean dictator Kim Il Sung -- father of the current North Korean
dictator, Kim Jong Il -- the photographs of his people in mourning are
still hard to forget. In particular, the television footage of a woman
crying in the streets of Pyongyang remains lodged in my memory. For
she was not merely crying: She was wailing, moaning, convulsing -- and
there was nothing contrived about her agony. On the contrary, the
death of the man who built concentration camps for hundreds of
thousands of her countrymen caused her to feel an emotion so powerful
that she seemed oblivious to the cameras.
Fighting a Mystery Illness
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6548-2003Apr1.html
Page A16
IF EVER THERE WAS an argument for international cooperation and
collaboration, the rapidly moving epidemic of SARS -- severe acute
respiratory syndrome -- is it. A hundred years ago this kind of
disease might well have caused a local epidemic but nothing more.
Thanks to modern ventilation systems, however, it has spread rapidly
through buildings and hospitals, affecting more than 200 people in one
Hong Kong apartment complex. Worse, thanks to airlines, the disease
has spread around the world: More than 1,800 people have now
contracted it, and more than 60 have died. Cases have been reported in
a handful of Asian countries, Australia, Belgium, Canada and the
United States. All the North American victims were people who had
recently traveled from Asia or had been in contact with such
travelers. SARS, in other words, is very much a disease linked to the
technology of this particular historical moment.
Back to Turkey
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6549-2003Apr1.html
Page A16
SECRETARY OF STATE Colin L. Powell's visit to Turkey today offers
an opportunity to begin repairing U.S. relations with an essential
Muslim ally. The Turkish parliament's refusal to allow a U.S. division
to pass through the country on the way to Iraq has complicated the
U.S. drive on Baghdad and stirred bitter feelings in Congress, where
an administration request for wartime aid for Turkey has been
challenged. But the new democratic government in Ankara is feeling the
pain as well: The loss of goodwill in Washington comes in addition to
a series of recent diplomatic and economic reverses that have placed
Turkey's strategic orientation toward the West at risk. There has been
fault on both sides, by an inexperienced new leadership in Ankara and
by a U.S. administration that allowed military logisticians to dictate
the pace of what should have been more careful prewar diplomacy. But
Turkey, unlike France, has no wish to form a bloc opposing the United
States; and both Turkey and the United States have much to gain by
restoring a close working relationship.
A Trillion and Counting
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6551-2003Apr1.html
Page A16
The word "trillion" is creeping into our national dialogue.
Richard Perle's Resignation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6557-2003Apr1.html
Page A16
The Post reported that Richard N. Perle resigned as chairman of the
Defense Policy Board after being "dogged by conflict-of-interest
allegations" and that he intends to remain a board member [news story,
March 28]. Sounds like another Harvey Pitt stealth resignation: resign
but don't go away (at least for a while). Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.)
did one of those numbers, too.
The Casualties of a Long War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6552-2003Apr1.html
Page A16
The March 30 editorial "Perseverance" failed to mention the number
of civilian deaths that would result from a prolonged war. In less
than two weeks, at least 600 Iraqi civilians have died because of the
war, according to The Post. That figure comes after the United States'
best attempts at limiting the killing of innocents.
Iraq Urges Arabs to Fight U.S., Allies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6107-2003Apr1.html
Saddam Hussein's government Tuesday urged Arabs to rise up against
pro-U.S. governments, told Iraqis they have a moral duty to defend
their country and declared themselves ready to unleash suicide attacks
against U.S. and British soldiers.
Blast Kills at Least 16, Injures 20, in Southern Philippines
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9306-2003Apr2.html
A bomb exploded Wednesday near a bustling wharf in the southern
Philippine city of Davao, killing at least 16 people and wounding 40,
officials said.
Havana Ferry Boat Hijacked; FBI Sends Negotiators
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11139-2003Apr2.html
In the second Cuban hijacking in as many days, several armed Cubans
commandeered a Havana ferry early on Wednesday and sailed out into the
Florida Straits toward the United States, U.S. authorities said.
An Affirming Action
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6542-2003Apr1.html
Lots of folks were at the Supreme Court Tuesday, with lots to say
about who gets into the University of Michigan. One group stood out as
especially curious: students from historically black colleges. - By
Natalie Hopkinson
People Breathing Uneasily in Toronto
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5915-2003Apr1.html
The deadly microbe SARS slipped into the city last month, seemingly as
benign as the common cold and now the city is scrambling to contain it
before it spreads further. - By DeNeen L. Brown
In Berlin, TV Bolsters Antiwar Sentiment
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5814-2003Apr1.html
Public attitudes against the war and the German government's
opposition to it is helped by the occasional antiwar tone of media
coverage. - By Robert J. McCartney
Syrian Diplomats Dispute Allegations Of Aiding Hussein (Post, April 2,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6507-2003Apr1.html
Jordan Arrests Iraqis in Plot to Poison Water, and Probes Others
(Post, April 2, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5481-2003Apr1.html
U.S. Planes In S. Korea Will Remain As Deterrent (Post, April 2, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6253-2003Apr1.html
From Strife-Torn South, Reports of Fear, Isolation (Post, April 2,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6106-2003Apr1.html
In Interview, Koizumi Defends Support for War (Post, April 2, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5846-2003Apr1.html
Forces Resume Baghdad Advance As Army Takes On Key Defenders: Air
Assaults Bolster Push Toward Capital (Post, April 2, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6236-2003Apr1.html
Reconstruction Planners Worry, Wait and Reevaluate (By Susan B.
Glasser and Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6098-2003Apr1.html
Army Enters Holy City: Crowds Cheer Troops Close to Shiite Shrine (By
Rick Atkinson, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4297-2003Apr1.html
New Viral Illness Hits More Nations: Death Toll Reaches 62 in 15
Countries as Scientists Try to Pinpoint Mystery Disease's Cause (By
Rob Stein, Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4106-2003Apr1.html
Israel Sets Demands For Peace Talks: Palestinians Must Act First to
Curb Attacks, U.S. Is Told (By Peter Slevin, Page A14)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6642-2003Apr1.html
Residents Say Hussein Loyalists in Full Control: Impact of British
Siege Described as Minimal (By Keith B. Richburg, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6008-2003Apr1.html
After Day of Tragedy, A Chance for Healing: Army Medics Save Lives of
Civilians (By William Branigin, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4631-2003Apr1.html
Kurds Ready, Willing, Unable to Cross Line (By Karl Vick and Daniel
Williams, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6009-2003Apr1.html
U.S. Authorizes Detention of Iraqi Civilians: Suspects to Be Treated
Similarly to POWs (By Peter Baker, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5904-2003Apr1.html
One Pilot Finds Targets, Another One Hits Them (By Lyndsey Layton,
Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5806-2003Apr1.html
Powell Tries to Keep Turks Out of N. Iraq: Secretary Ties Aid To
Cooperation (By Glenn Kessler and Philip P. Pan, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5812-2003Apr1.html
High Court Rules Against HMOs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10978-2003Apr2.html
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that states can force
HMOs to open up their doctor networks, upholding a practice used in
about half the states to give patients broader health care choices.
Missing Soldier Rescued
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6235-2003Apr1.html
Jessica Lynch, a 19-year-old private first class missing since the
ambush of an Army maintenance company 10 days ago near Nasiriyah, has
been rescued by Special Operations forces.
O'Connor Questions Foes of U-Michigan Policy: Justice Seen as Holding
Likely Swing Vote as Court Weighs Affirmative Action Cases (Post,
April 2, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6105-2003Apr1.html
Prelate Reassures Catholic Soldiers: Service in Iraq War Sanctioned
(Post, April 2, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5899-2003Apr1.html
Texas to Toss Drug Convictions Against 38 People: Prosecutor Concedes
'Travesty of Justice' (Post, April 2, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5853-2003Apr1.html
Independence Hall Is Shuttered Over Security Concerns (Post, April 2,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5772-2003Apr1.html
Cuban Hijacker Surrenders After Plane Lands in Florida (Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6505-2003Apr1.html
U.S. Says Colo. Men Trained in Terrorism: 3 Held on Immigration
Charges; Agent Links One to Pakistan Terror Camp (By T.R. Reid, Page
A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6015-2003Apr1.html
White House Request To Restrict Clinton Pardon Data Upheld (By George
Lardner Jr., Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5460-2003Apr1.html
Columbia Investigation Zeroes In on Carrier Panel (By Kathy Sawyer,
Page A08)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6658-2003Apr1.html
Edwards & Co. Reports Healthy 1st Quarter (By Thomas B. Edsall, Page
A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5491-2003Apr1.html
Agency to End Ads That Link Drugs, Terror (Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6606-2003Apr1.html
Anti-Cancer Drug Greatly Reduces Sickle Cell Mortality (By David
Brown, Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6054-2003Apr1.html
Pension Trust Fund's Operation Criticized: GAO Cites Administrative
Costs (By Leigh Strope, Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6646-2003Apr1.html
Despite Najaf Gains, U.S. Has No Plans To Secure South: Focus Remains
on Taking Baghdad (By Thomas E. Ricks, Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6126-2003Apr1.html
U.S. Air Attacks Turn More Aggressive: Risk of Civilian Casualties
Higher as Range of Targets Is Broadened, Officials Say (By Bradley
Graham, Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6597-2003Apr1.html
Sniping at the 'Plan' Strikes Some Nerves (By Vernon Loeb, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6674-2003Apr1.html
Hill Panels Approve War Funds, With Curbs: Most Restrictions Aimed at
Pentagon (By Dan Morgan and Karen DeYoung, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6639-2003Apr1.html
The Missing (Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6469-2003Apr1.html
The Fallen (Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6472-2003Apr1.html
CDC Unveils New Command Center: Emergency Operations Facility Already
in Use by SARS Researchers (By Ceci Connolly, Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5636-2003Apr1.html
Traditional Coast Guard Duties Suffer, Study Says (By Christopher Lee,
Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5637-2003Apr1.html
A Mission Travels on Its Stomach (By Al Kamen, Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6128-2003Apr1.html
U.S. Forces Poised on Baghdad's Doorstep
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10756-2003Apr2.html
Officials say one division of Republican Guard is "destroyed."
Special Ops Rescue Soldier
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9128-2003Apr2.html
Pfc. Jessica Lynch, 19, snatched from Iraqi captors in helicopter
raid.
Sensory Overload
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9959-2003Apr2.html
The most intensive war coverage in television history can be a little
much at times.
U.S. Fighting Witness Access
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6605-2003Apr1.html
Prosecutors cite national security interests in seeking to block
Moussaoui request.
Warring Tribes, Here and There
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/opinion/02DOWD.html
By MAUREEN DOWD
The troubled opening phase of the war has exacerbated territorial and
ideological fissures in the administration and Republican Party.
Come the Revolution
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Many Arabs intuit that this U.S. invasion of Iraq is something they've
never seen before - the revolutionary side of U.S. power.
Why Aren't There Enough Troops in Iraq?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/opinion/02HOAR.html
By JOSEPH P. HOAR
Risk in a military operation is not just about winning and losing, it
is also about the cost, which in this case will be measured in
American lives.
Shock and Pause
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/opinion/02MCPE.html
By MERRILL A. McPEAK
The last few conflicts should have taught us that in warfare, winning
sometimes involves looking bad for a while.
Second-Guessing the War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/opinion/02WED1.html
While the administration works to swat down complaints about military
planning, we hope there is at least as much attention being given to
what the U.S. will do after it wins.
Eavesdropping on History
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/opinion/02WED2.html
The public's access to Supreme Court proceedings should not be limited
to one big case every few years at the justices' discretion.
At a Checkpoint in Iraq, the Horror of War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/opinion/L02IRAQ.html
Was Peter Arnett Right, or Irresponsible?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/opinion/L02ARNE.html
Rising Medicare Costs
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/opinion/L02MEDD.html
The Way We Vote
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/opinion/L02PART.html
2nd Iraqi Division Has Taken a Severe Mauling, Pentagon Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02CND-IRAQ.html
By JOHN M. BRODER
Some American troops are only 30 miles or so from Baghdad, and the
Medina Division of the Republican Guard has taken a severe mauling,
the Pentagon said today.
Commandos Rescue P.O.W. and Locate Bodies
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02CND-RESC.html
By JOHN M. BRODER
American Special Operations forces rescued an Army private from
Nasiriya, Iraq, where she had been held captive since March 23, and
found the remains of 11 unidentified bodies.
Top General Denounces Internal Dissent on Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/8ow0
By THOM SHANKER and JOHN TIERNEY
Gen. Richard B. Myers, the nation's highest-ranking military officer,
said complaints about the campaign hurt U.S. troops.
Cheers and Smiles for U.S. Troops in a Captured City
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02CND-AIRB.html
By JIM DWYER
In Najaf, people rushed to greet hundreds of U.S. troops today, crying
out repeatedly, "Thank you, this is beautiful!"
Turkey Agrees to Step Up Support of U.S. in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02CND-TURK.html
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN with FRANK BRUNI
Turkey will permit the use of Turkish territory to supply food, fuel
and other necessities to U.S. forces operating in the northern Iraq.
Aching Town Rejoices When Soldier Is Found
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02FAMI.html
By DOUGLAS JEHL with MONICA DAVEY
The news that Pfc. Jessica Dawn Lynch was alive and safe sent
Palestine, a tiny community 70 miles north of Charleston, into a
frenzy.
4 Journalists Safe in Jordan After a Week in Iraqi Jail
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02JOUR.html
By IAN FISHER
Four journalists who had been missing in Iraq crossed over safely into
Jordan, saying they had been held for unknown reasons in prison.
Most Britons Back the War, but Mistrust How the U.S. Is Waging It
http://tinyurl.com/8owf
By SARAH LYALL
Britons generally support the war in Iraq, but there is a deep unease
about the way the war is being waged.
Orders in Place, Word Goes Out That 'This Is It'
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02SOLD.html
By JOHN KIFNER
The marines pushed north, preparing to launch a major attack on the
Iraqi Republican Guard.
Battle for Baghdad Begins in Area Surrounding Iraqi Capital
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02STRA.html
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Ground forces advanced into the territory that has been characterized
as the most strategically vital and treacherous of the war.
Reliving the Day a Shot Was Fired in Memphis
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/arts/02MUSE.html
By STEPHEN KINZER
The National Civil Rights Museum's new annex is the rooming house from
which Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassin fired the fatal shot.
Embedded Scribe in P.S. 48 Trenches
http://tinyurl.com/8owy
By MICHAEL WINERIP
When Jacquie Wayans, ace reporter for the Web site Insideschools.org,
rates a school, she gets down on her knees to find out what the fourth
graders are quietly discussing.
Top General Denounces Internal Dissent on Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/8ow0
By THOM SHANKER and JOHN TIERNEY
Gen. Richard B. Myers, the nation's highest-ranking military officer,
said complaints about the campaign hurt U.S. troops.
On Affirmative Action, High Court Seeks Nuance
http://tinyurl.com/8ox6
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
Opponents of affirmative action who tried to make an absolute case
against race-conscious government policies found a Supreme Court
impatient with absolutes.
Worries Over Respiratory Illness Prompt Quarantine of Jet
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/health/02INFE.html
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
An American Airlines flight from Tokyo was briefly quarantined in
California after several passengers said they were experiencing
symptoms of the respiratory disease.
Texas Court Acts to Clear 38, Almost All Black, in Drug Case
http://tinyurl.com/8oxd
By SIMON ROMERO with ADAM LIPTAK
The judge, prosecutors and defense agreed that Texas courts should
vacate the convictions, which were based solely on the testimony of
one undercover officer.
Democrats Keep Their Heads Down While Letting Generals Speak Out
http://tinyurl.com/8oxf
By CARL HULSE
The Bush administration's war policy is coming under steady criticism,
but not from Democrats in Congress, where the opposition party has
been remarkably silent.
The Chief Sends a Signal Down the Line
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02PENT.html
By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr.
The statement by General Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
that critical comments were "harmful to our troops" was heard as a
shot at dissenters in the ranks.
Ex-Generals Defend Their Blunt Comments
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02GENE.html
By JIM RUTENBERG
The retired military leaders whose blunt statements about war strategy
have rankled the Pentagon defended their right to offer those
assessments.
Powell, in Ankara, Ties Assistance for U.S. to Aid
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02POWE.html
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
The U.S. is preparing a new request for help from Turkey in sustaining
American military operations in northern Iraq.
On Affirmative Action, High Court Seeks Nuance
http://tinyurl.com/8oxo
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
By the end of two hours of arguments, it appeared to many in the
packed courtroom that affirmative action would survive its most
important test in 25 years.
Justices Rule H.M.O.'s Can Be Forced to Open Networks
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/politics/02CND-SCOT.html
By DAVID STOUT
The Supreme Court today unanimously upheld a law credited by its
supporters with giving patients a much broader choice of doctors and
hospitals from which to choose.
Panels Approve War Spending but Reject Free Rein for White House
http://tinyurl.com/8oxy
By DAVID FIRESTONE and ERIC LICHTBLAU
The entire $74.7 billion the president wanted will be provided, but
Congress wants to clamp down on the flexibility he sought in deciding
how to spend the money.
House Moves to Give Millions in Security Aid to New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/nyregion/02SECU.html
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
House Republicans moved quickly on New York's request for more aid for
antiterror measures, after a fierce lobbying campaign by New York
Republicans and Democrats.
Madonna's Second Thoughts on a Video
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/arts/music/02MADO.html
By JON PARELES
Madonna has withdrawn an antiwar video that was to promote her new
single, "American Life."
Tourists Think Twice About Travel to Europe During War
http://tinyurl.com/8oy7
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
For Europe, with its stagnant economies, tourism is crucial. Yet wars
frighten travelers. And American animosity toward France and Germany,
opponents of the war, may continue to curtail travel.
Trade Concerns as Canada Sits Out War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/business/worldbusiness/02CANA.html
By BERNARD SIMON
Though Canadian polls find that most residents support the decision to
stay out of the war, business leaders say that little good can come
from antagonizing the behemoth next door.
Stocks Rally Sharply as Optimism on War Grows
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/business/03CND-STOX.html
By KENNETH N. GILPIN
Stock prices around the world staged a sharp, broad advance today, as
the advance of U.S. troops toward Baghdad brought optimisim that the
war may be over quickly.
Manufacturing Sector Slumps as Factory Orders Fall 1.5%
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Economy.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Orders to U.S. factories dropped by 1.5 percent in February, the
biggest decline in five months.
House and Senate Panels Back $3 Billion in Aid to Airlines
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/business/02AIR.html
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
The House and Senate appropriations committees voted to give the
airline industry about $3 billion in emergency assistance.
Spies in the Skies: Both a Savior and a Disaster
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/books/02STEI.html
By JEFF STEIN
Philip Taubman's book is a history of the development of surveillance
technology in the early days of the cold war.
Protective Suits May Face Real-World Challenge
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02SUIT.html
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Experts are divided over how well the shrink-wrapped $200 suits that
troops are carrying to protect against chemical and biological weapons
will work.
Medicine for Sickle Cell Anemia Also Prolongs Life for Sickest
Patients, Study Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/health/02SICK.html
By WARREN E. LEARY
The first drug approved to reduce the frequency and intensity of
attacks of sickle cell disease prolongs life among the ailment's
sickest patients, researchers said.
Medicare Drug Benefit Plan Is Proposed by 2 Democrats
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/politics/02DRUG.html
By ROBERT PEAR
In a break with party leaders, centrist Democrats proposed that
Medicare provide drug benefits immediately to people who have low
incomes or high prescription drug expenses.
Terrorism Panel Hears Advice on Methods of Prevention
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02HEAR.html
By ROBERT F. WORTH
On the second day of hearings by a federal panel investigating the
Sept. 11 terror attacks, a structural engineer offered some
deceptively simple advice.
For a Future Soldier, Life on a Liberal Campus Can Be a Battle
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02BARR.html
By DAN BARRY
A Columbia University student says she's not "pro-war," but calls this
one just.
A P.O.W. Brings War Close to Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/nyregion/02TOWN.html
By MATTHEW PURDY
In the 10 days since he was taken prisoner in Iraq, Sgt. James Riley
has become something of a symbol in the working-class town in New
Jersey where he grew up.
Berlin's Wall Is Down, but Try to Keep Mom From Finding Out
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/movies/02SASS.html
By NORA FITZGERALD
Germans are flocking to a film about an East German who goes into a
coma and misses the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Blair Says Hussein Will Damage Shrines, Then Blame Allies
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/02CND-BRIT.html
Prime Minister Tony Blair charged today that Saddam Hussein planned to
harm Muslim shrines in Iraq and pin responsibility for the desecration
on allied troops.
Britain Convicts 2 Algerians of Helping Finance Terrorists
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/international/europe/02FRAUD.html
Two illegal immigrants from Algeria were convicted today of plotting
to raise money for terror groups that British police said included Al
Qaeda.
Iraqis Planning Protracted War
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The Iraqi defense minister suggested Tuesday night that Iraq was now
pursuing a protracted war with stepped-up guerrilla tactics that would
carry into the summer, when soaring temperatures would sap the
American will to fight.
Arab Volunteers Seek to Join Fight for Iraq
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Adil Omar Abu Shinaf, a 30-year-old Libyan in a flowing khaki robe,
strode into a battered phone booth near one of this city's main bus
terminals and dialed long distance to his family home in the coastal
hamlet of Barak.
Europe Assesses Damage to Western Relationships and Takes Steps to
Rebuild
http://tinyurl.com/8ozw
European governments, reeling from the political earthquake the war in
Iraq touched off on their own Continent, are struggling to dig out
from the rubble and rebuild relationships with the United States and
among themselves.
Greg Palast
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Naomi Klein
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George Monbiot
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Paul Krugman
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Avi Shlaim
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Amos Elon
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E. J. Dionne Jr.
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Strange path to Palestine
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,928408,00.html
Timothy Garton Ash: After this war, the history of the future will
reveal unintended consequences.
This is not terrorism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,928406,00.html
Fred Kaplan: Branding Iraqi attacks subtly suggests a 9/11 link.
The message coming from our families in Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,928414,00.html
Haifa Zangana: The last time I managed to speak to my eldest brother,
Salam, was two days before the invasion of Iraq.
Britain is up to its neck in this mire
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,928455,00.html
Jackie Ashley: We should not pretend that we can come out of the war
unsullied.
'We must continue protesting'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,928404,00.html
British Muslims from around the country explain how they feel about
the invasion of Iraq.
Regime change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,928407,00.html
A poem by Andrew Motion on Iraq.
Officer class
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,928520,00.html
Even critics of the war in Iraq have had to admit they're impressed by
the British officers fighting it. Articulate, reflective and
apparently decent, they exude authority and sang-froid. But, goodness,
aren't they posh. Blake Morrison on the curious appeal of the
'tofficers'.
Why the right schools still matter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,928518,00.html
'We have either a good surprise for you or a bad surprise...'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,928516,00.html
Photographer Molly Bingham on her seven-day ordeal in a Baghdad
prison.
Rachel Cusk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,928515,00.html
Two uncommunicating columns fill the news. Columns of tanks going one
way and of people going the other.
Is the prime minister losing his marbles?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,928321,00.html
Catherine Bennett: In a bold advance on the now familiar "inside the
mind of" format, the political commentator Matthew Parris this week
asked "whether Tony Blair may now have become, in a serious sense of
that word, unhinged".
Marathon man Alastair
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,928318,00.html
'Europe must free itself'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
What next? When the war ends, the leaders of the EU must consider its
future.
Why we must fight on
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,928274,00.html
Professor Richard Overy (Letters, April 2) says the withdrawal from
Suez in 1956 was the right thing to do. The consequences of that
withdrawal are still felt today, with men, women and children living
in fear throughout the Middle East.
Rose-tinted America
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,928273,00.html
Jonathan Freedland was right to say that American values and ideals
are being betrayed by Bush's invasion of Iraq (Emperor George, April
2).
Boiling point
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,928272,00.html
I am a liberal Muslim Arab, highly educated, well-integrated and aware
that most British people oppose the war. Yet watching the news, I feel
I have very little left before I explode.
Camp Cuba
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,928267,00.html
Re Margaret Drabble's query (Letters, April 2): Cuba's tourist shops
sell Guantanamo: The Bay of Discord.
Don't rush the push
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,928415,00.html
Patience needed in the battle for Baghdad.
UN rule or UN role?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,928313,00.html
New divisions are hard to reconcile.
Future's golden for Blair, according to Congress
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,928575,00.html
Tony Blair could be about to join the ranks of Winston Churchill,
Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II.
Illegal to hand PoWs to US
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,928386,00.html
British ministers are warning that it would be illegal for Iraqi PoWs
captured by the British to be handed over to the US.
Straw distances UK from threats against Syria, Iran
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,928353,00.html
Britain distanced itself from US sabre-rattling yesterday, insisting
it would have "nothing to do" with threats from Washington against
Iran and Syria.
The lost rebellion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,928121,00.html
April 2: Southern Iraq's Shias are being urged to rise up against
Saddam. But Dan De Luce hears how the US failed them 12 years ago.
'It will be an all-arms battle - we have overwhelming firepower'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928511,00.html
United States forces advanced to within 20 miles of Baghdad last night
after "destroying" at least one division of Iraqi Republican Guard
troops and crippling another, senior military commanders said.
Few signs of flight or fear as enemy nears the gates
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928510,00.html
Iraq redoubled its defiance of the American forces closing in on
Baghdad yesterday, with fresh predictions of victory from Saddam
Hussein and shows of strength from imported Arab fighters.
Poor pay with their lives in cratered suburbia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928496,00.html
Yesterday's strike took out two homes of an extended family of about a
dozen. Tuesday's raid destroyed the local school, and on Monday a poor
baklava seller, pitied by the entire neighbourhood, lost his wife,
mother, sister, nephew, and two sons to American missiles.
Iraqis firing from shrine, says US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928495,00.html
Iraqi forces have occupied the holiest Shia shrine in Iraq and are
using it as a defensive position to fire on American troops encircling
the city of Najaf, US central command said yesterday.
Bosnia's arms to Iraq scandal claims top political scalp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928371,00.html
Serb leader quits before Ashdown sacks him.
Sharon made safe by Belgian vote on war crime law
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928372,00.html
The attempt by Palestinians to have the Israeli prime minister, Ariel
Sharon, tried in Belgium for war crimes seems to have been finally
ruled out by a Belgian parliamentary vote to water down the
contentious legislation involved.
Australia switches on £470m spy radar
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928373,00.html
Australia's defence minister, Robert Hill, launched a £470m radar
system yesterday which will allow surveillance of neighbouring
countries.
'Terrorist' bomb kills 16 Filipinos
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928539,00.html
A bomb which exploded on a wharf in Davao on the southern Philippines
island of Mindanao killed at least 16 people and injured 44 yesterday.
Dark night cover pushed advance forward
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928493,00.html
US commanders claimed yesterday that they had always planned to renew
their advance towards Baghdad this week, to take advantage of the near
total darkness of the new moon.
Three killed as maternity hospital is hit by bombs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928494,00.html
A maternity hospital operated by the Red Crescent in Baghdad was
severely damaged yesterday when a trade centre on the opposite side of
the street was struck during bombing raids.
Baghdad expels al-Jazeera man
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928590,00.html
The Arab satellite channel al-Jazeera announced yesterday that Iraqi
officials are expelling one of its reporters from Baghdad and barring
another from reporting.
White House signals bigger role for UN in postwar government
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928591,00.html
The White House appeared to signal yesterday that it might be willing
to accept a greater role for the United Nations in the interim postwar
government of Iraq than previously indicated, including a special UN
representative with civil administration powers.
Saddam's suicidal deployment of elite troops could be gift to
coalition
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928502,00.html
The Republican Guard consists of three armoured divisions (Medina
south of Baghdad, Hammurabi in the west, and al-Nida in the
north-east). Before the war each was equipped with around 200-250 T-72
Russian tanks but possibly also scores of lesser T-62s.
No sniping, mortars, or tracer. And no sign of the dreaded Republican
Guard
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928503,00.html
The first American pontoon raft slid into the river Tigris with a
slosh and a clatter at 4.30pm yesterday, and young Iraqi men watched
from both banks, curious, timid and passive, as a grubby horde of US
marines prepared to bridge their ancient waterway.
Canal accident marks another cruel day for regiment
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928434,00.html
A helmet and headset lay thrown to the side, covered in mud and slime
from the water channel. A Scimitar armed reconnaissance vehicle sat
upturned, its tracks sticking out of the green murk, having lost its
footing as it tried to negotiate the small path leading across.
Freed journalists tell of eight-day Iraqi prison ordeal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928435,00.html
Tortures and beatings heard by four released from notorious jail after
pleas for help to Vatican and Arafat
Claims of police bribery and torture
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928436,00.html
Iraqi police chiefs routinely tortured civilians who could not afford
to pay extortionate bribes, locals in Abu al-Kacib said yesterday.
Saving Private Lynch: how special forces rescued captured colleague
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928390,00.html
Woman soldier grabbed from captivity in lightning raid on hospital
BBC film maker killed by landmine
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928391,00.html
A BBC cameraman was killed and a producer injured yesterday when they
stepped on landmines while filming near the frontline in Kurdish
northern Iraq.
US war photographer sacked for altering image of British soldier
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928392,00.html
The Los Angeles Times has sacked a battlefront photographer for
altering a photograph which showed a British soldier telling Iraqi
civilians to take cover from Iraqi fire. The photo appeared on the
front page of the newspaper on Monday.
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928393,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
'Raid and aid' tactic by British forces
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928394,00.html
Troops hand out leaflets in suburbs to reassure civilians
Pentagon plans for worst nightmare
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928363,00.html
Disastrous casualties, both civilian and military, feared in
street-by-street fight for Baghdad
On a convoy to doom, Arabs who wanted to help their Iraqi brothers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928361,00.html
A hail of US fire ended the war before it had even started for one
Palestinian in a group of volunteers
The first casualty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928481,00.html
A look at the way the war is being spun and reported
French try to repair relationship with US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928378,00.html
Politicians fear over poll showing 1 in 4 backs Saddam
Some fences mended in Powell's meeting with Turks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928360,00.html
Turkey finally agreed last night to allow the shipment of food, fuel
and medicine to American forces fighting in northern Iraq after a
damage-limitation meeting between the US secretary of state, Colin
Powell, and Turkish leaders in Ankara.
Maputo appeals for flood aid
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928540,00.html
Mozambique said yesterday it was seeking emergency aid to provide
temporary shelter for 15,000 people displaced by floods last week in
Sofala province in the centre of the country.
Spain seeks EU ban on Batasuna
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928551,00.html
The Spanish justice minister, Jose Maria Michavila, said yesterday
that the government would ask the EU to add the Basque nationalist
party Batasuna to its terrorist list.
Denktash tries a new unity tack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928553,00.html
The Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash, has offered the Greek
Cypriot government concessions in an attempt to break the deadlocked
UN talks on re-uniting the island.
Havana bay ferry seized by refugees
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928557,00.html
A group of Cubans hijacked a Havana ferry boat early yesterday and
sailed it into the straits of Florida toward the US.
Putin asked to help free aid worker
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928560,00.html
Médicins sans Frontières called on President Vladimir Putin yesterday
to intervene in the case of a kidnapped Dutch aid worker, accusing the
Kremlin of "a lack of political will" to help free him.
Ivory Coast rebels join cabinet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,928563,00.html
Rebels in the Ivory Coast said yesterday they will end their boycott
of a new government of unity, raising hopes of a peaceful resolution
to six months of fighting that has divided the world's largest cocoa
producer.
Toothmarks expose Cretaceous cannibal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,928370,00.html
Majungatholus atopus stalked the plains of Madagascar 70 million years
ago looking for its supper. When it couldn't find any titanosaur
steak, it turned to an alternative dish - members of its own species.
The nine-metre-long predator stands accused as the first known
Cretaceous cannibal.
A blue light for change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,922356,00.html
David Bradley reports on how the structure of a butterfly's wing could
lead to the self-cleaning car.
Nature's stopwatch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,922357,00.html
The slow decay of the lead in our bones has presented forensic science
with a breakthrough, writes Matthew Genge.
Spatial relations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,922353,00.html
The science of morphing has created a resurgence of geometry-led
architecture, writes Peter Forbes.
Science update
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,922354,00.html
Astronaut speaks at last | How to deck an ant (briefly) | How to pack
in the wolves
Revolution still on fast forward
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,927343,00.html
The convergence party hasn't been cancelled, only postponed, writes
Neil Blackley.
Virtual reality
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,928090,00.html
Simon Bisson looks at how virtual servers could give ageing
applications and out-of-date operating systems a new lease of life.
Links to the future
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,927436,00.html
April 1 Changing net technologies serve to keep the medium useful,
relevant and interesting, argues Steve Bowbrick.
Robert Fisk: Saddam's masters of concealment dig in, ready for battle
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=393460
03 April 2003
The road to the front in central Iraq is a place of fast-moving
vehicles, blazing Iraqi anti-aircraft guns, tanks and trucks hidden in
palm groves, a train of armoured vehicles bombed from the air and
hundreds of artillery positions dug into revetments to defend the
capital.
Robert Fisk: Wailing children, the wounded, the dead: victims of the
day cluster bombs rained on Babylon
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=393458
03 April 2003
The wounds are vicious and deep, a rash of scarlet spots on the back
and thighs or face, the shards of shrapnel from the cluster bombs
buried an inch or more in the flesh.
Christopher Bellamy: Iraqis' only hope is the urban jungle
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=393448
03 April 2003
The battle for Baghdad has not yet properly begun.
Stephen Pollard: There is a conflict in Washington too
It does not matter if the UN or the US runs post-war Iraq.
It will take more than Powell's visit to mend the fractured Turkish
alliance
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=393418
03 April 2003
The nonchalant arrogance with which the Bush administration has
treated its alliances has cost his country, and its closest friends,
dear
Would there have been this war if there was true equality for women?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/natasha_walter/story.jsp?story=393415
Even when women get to carry out orders, that doesn't mean that they
are orders women have participated in forging
War in Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=393411
03 April 2003
Today's links in full
"law of unintended consequences"
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Collateral damage
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1683253
Apr 3rd 2003 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
Gloom is settling on those who want to look beyond Iraq to repair
America's relations with the rest of the world
Punching through to Baghdad
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1682606
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Fierce attacks are launched on Republican Guard units defending
Baghdad as the coalition steps up its advance on the Iraqi capital
Those awkward hearts and minds
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1679933
Apr 1st 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The coalition leaders have so far been winning hearts and minds at
home but losing them almost everywhere else
Mending fences
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1685008
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Colin Powell's visit to Turkey has helped repair America's
relationship with a key strategic ally. But things are unlikely ever
to be the same again, and Turkey could find it has paid a high price
for its earlier intransigence
An UNconfirmed role
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1666332
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
European countries have called for a greater role for the United
Nations in Iraq once the war is over. But many in the Bush
administration want the military to run the country until it is ready
to be handed over to Iraqis
Wait and see, again
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1683172
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The European Central Bank has kept interest rates steady, preferring
to wait until the impact of the war in Iraq is clearer. This comes
despite pressure for a cut from, among others, the World Bank
Terrifying for Asia, worrying for the world
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1680078
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Life in many Asian countries has been severely disrupted by the
outbreak of a new, potentially fatal respiratory illness. With
travellers taking the disease to the West, it is now a concern for the
rest of the world too
Cracking down on the cartels
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1602123
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
After centuries of ripping off consumers, cartels are suffering a
crackdown from the world's competition authorities
At the gates of Baghdad
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1682908
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist print edition
Even a very polite victory over a reviled dictator will end up
humiliating the Arabs
Letters
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1648380
On George Bush, Brazil, racial profiling, illegal drugs
Mar 20th 2003
The other battle
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1682789
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist print edition
Relief agencies face a daunting task
Poised for growth?
http://www.economist.com/world/la/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1682760
Apr 3rd 2003 | BUENOS AIRES
From The Economist print edition
The Duhalde government has achieved more than its critics allow, but
less than it might have
The changing of the guard
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1677228
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist print edition
After 22 years, Mahathir Mohamad says he is going. His successor must
find a way to preserve his achievements but dispense with his
authoritarianism, says Christopher Lockwood
All eyes on North Korea
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1683887
Apr 3rd 2003 | TOKYO
From The Economist print edition
A satellite signal about security
No war in their name-but no jihad against the West either
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1683148
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist print edition
Most Muslims in west European countries are fiercely critical of the
war. But not so fiercely, their leaders hope and urge, as to be out of
step with other critics
Brown at the edges
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1682890
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist print edition
The chancellor has delivered stability but is now under-playing the
risks to growth
Wanted: new driver
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1682821
Apr 3rd 2003 | HARARE
From The Economist print edition
Can Robert Mugabe's regime be ousted peacefully, or will he cling on
till his country is wrecked?
Dream code
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1682086
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist print edition
Programming languages for quantum computers are now being written
Just say maybe
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1682047
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist print edition
For an example of how not to make good health policy, consider the
international debate on drugs
No text please, we're American
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1683713
Apr 3rd 2003 | SAN FRANCISCO
From The Economist print edition
Text messaging is popular in Europe and Asia, but not in America. Why?
The one where Pooh goes to Sweden
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1682750
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist print edition
Do American television channels spread cultural imperialism?
Business travaillers
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1683338
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist print edition
Death, war and pestilence. What next for corporate travel?
Views Differ on System for Tracking Students
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16229-2003Apr3.html
A top U.S. immigration official predicted that as many as 1.5 million
foreign students will be signed up by August for a new but beleaguered
tracking system, despite numerous shortcomings that have prompted a
rash of complaints.
Drug Shows Promise in Treating Alzheimer's
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15034-2003Apr2.html
The new medicine called memantine has become the first to slow the
progression of the disease among severely ill patients, and it may
even reverse some mental losses.
Democrats Seek Help for Those Hurt by Vaccine
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14736-2003Apr2.html
A key Senate committee approved a compensation package for individuals
who suffer serious complications from the smallpox vaccine, but a
series of testy exchanges illustrated the bitter partisan divide over
the issue as it heads to the Senate floor.
War Exemption Limits Terrorism Insurance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15814-2003Apr2.html
More U.S. businesses and commercial property owners have been buying
terrorism insurance since the start of the war in Iraq, insurance
companies say, but it is not clear whether any damage they suffer
would be covered, because of the "act of war" exclusion in most
insurance policies.
'She Was Fighting to the Death'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14879-2003Apr2.html
Pfc. Jessica Lynch, rescued Tuesday from an Iraqi hospital, fought
fiercely and shot several enemy soldiers after being ambushed.
WHO Tells Travelers to Avoid China
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15335-2003Apr2.html
Officials said they felt compelled to take the drastic measure because
the epidemic remains out of control and is being transmitted in ways
that have surprised and stymied scientists.
Najaf Welcome Turns Jubilant
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13955-2003Apr2.html
An enthusiastic welcome for U.S. forces in Najaf turned jubilant
today, as several thousand Iraqis applauded a U.S. patrol.
Blair's Policies Driven By International Vision
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15395-2003Apr2.html
Four years ago this month Tony Blair unveiled in a speech in Chicago
what he called his "Doctrine of the International Community."
Villagers Fight Against U.S., Afghan Forces
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14684-2003Apr2.html
Villagers responding to a call to jihad, or holy war, have joined
suspected Taliban fighters in a battle against Afghan soldiers and
U.S. Special Forces troops south of here, a spokesman said Wednesday.
In the Line of Fire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16093-2003Apr2.html
Hafez Mirazi looks a little haggard, but that's not surprising. He's
the Washington bureau chief of al-Jazeera, and he's had a tough couple
of weeks.
To Young Palestinians, Images Are Too Familiar
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16095-2003Apr2.html
The war in Iraq has become inextricably intertwined with their lives
and there are perhaps no people in the world who empathize more.
The Ups and Downs of Unembedded Reporters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16094-2003Apr2.html
These are frustrating times for the correspondents who choose not to
cover the war from within the bosom of the military.
Cable News Networks Bring in The Snipers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15822-2003Apr2.html
War has broken out between MSNBC and Fox News Channel. Fox News star
Geraldo Rivera lobbed the first grenade on Monday, when he appeared on
Fox News Channel to deny reports that the Pentagon was expelling him
from Iraq.
Capitol Site Favored for Black History Museum
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16091-2003Apr2.html
The presidential commission charged with developing a plan for a
National Museum of African American History and Culture announced
Wednesday that it favors an undeveloped site near the Capitol for the
facility.
After the War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16138-2003Apr2.html
Page A22
THE WEEKEND before the war started, President Bush signed on to a
statement with British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledging to "work in
close partnership with international institutions, including the
United Nations," in postwar Iraq and to seek a Security Council
resolution to "endorse an appropriate post-conflict administration."
Yet a secretive Pentagon-led group is already far advanced in plans to
unilaterally install a postwar regime dominated by Americans and Iraqi
exiles -- one that would effectively exclude not only the United
Nations but also European and Middle Eastern allies whose support will
be essential to stabilizing the country. Even the State Department's
nominees would be shut out by Defense Department leaders who talk of
leaping from military rule to an interim Iraqi government in 90 days
with the help of the American officials who would run Iraqi
ministries. This narrow approach could compound the diplomatic damage
of the war and expose the United States and its soldiers to large and
unnecessary risks.
Cuba's Crackdown
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16129-2003Apr2.html
Page A22
WITH EXQUISITE TIMING, the Cuban representative to the U.N.
Commission on Human Rights in Geneva this week condemned the "pious
pontificating" of Western leaders who proclaim themselves champions of
human rights. The commission, he thundered, must not allow itself to
become an "instrument of the interests of the mighty" or a tool of
American hypocrisy.
Pitfalls in Iraq for The CIA
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15805-2003Apr2.html
By Jim Hoagland, Page A23
The war in Iraq is apotheosis and pitfall for George Tenet and his
Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA's strengths in the opening phase
of the war now quickly become grave weaknesses for President Bush's
goals in the decisive stage of this campaign and in Iraq's volatile
political future.
Across the Euphrates
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15806-2003Apr2.html
By Michael Kelly, Page A23
EAST OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER, Iraq -- Near the crest of the bridge
across the Euphrates that Task Force 3-69 Armor of the 1st Brigade of
the 3rd Infantry Division seized yesterday afternoon was a body that
lay twisted from its fall. He had been an old man -- poor, not a
regular soldier -- judging from his clothes. He was lying on his back,
not far from one of several burning skeletons of the small trucks that
Saddam Hussein's willing and unwilling irregulars employed. The tanks
and Bradleys and Humvees and bulldozers and rocket launchers, and all
the rest of the massive stuff that makes up the U.S. Army on the
march, rumbled past him, pushing on.
At a Critical Juncture
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15808-2003Apr2.html
By Yuri Ushakov, Page A23
Although Moscow and Washington clearly differ on Iraq, this
disagreement would be much worse if it was allowed to become an
obstacle in our overall partnership. Russia and the United States must
continue to work together in part because the war in Iraq, whatever
its outcome, will not end the war on international terrorism. Nor will
the war end global efforts to control weapons of mass destruction, for
which our two countries bear unique responsibility as the two largest
nuclear powers. History will not forgive us if we allow our
disagreement and mutual irritation to undermine our ability to address
the profound security challenges of the 21st century.
Diversity At What Cost?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15804-2003Apr2.html
By Richard Cohen, Page A23
It turns out that the much-maligned Justice Clarence Thomas has his
uses. During oral arguments over affirmative action the other day, he
had a question for John Payton, a lawyer for the University of
Michigan who was arguing the supposed benefits of racial diversity.
What about traditionally black colleges, Thomas asked. "Wouldn't the
same argument apply to them?"
The War in the Field ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16139-2003Apr2.html
Page A22
Regarding the March 30 news story "Rumsfeld Faulted for Troop
Dilution:
... and on Television
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16141-2003Apr2.html
Page A22
The vast U.S. television industry -- with satellites, hundreds of
channels and billions of dollars -- is losing the fight to al-Jazeera,
a small start-up.
Children Left Behind
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16146-2003Apr3.html
Page A22
The only possible response to David S. Broder's March 30 op-ed
column, "A Budget of Dire Consequences," is: Where's the outrage?
Supreme Court Sides With States on HMOs: Groups Can Be Opened to All
Providers (Post, April 3, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15151-2003Apr2.html
Evidence of Dinosaur Cannibalism Found: Drought May Have Driven
Behavior (Post, April 3, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16125-2003Apr2.html
Senate Calls For Outside Review of Academy (Post, April 3, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14791-2003Apr2.html
Ruling on Endangered Species Upheld: Appeals Court Rejects Request
From California Developer (Post, April 3, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14790-2003Apr2.html
Anxiety, Prayers -- Then the Call: Hurt but Upbeat, Jessica Lynch
Phones to Put Parents, Town at Ease (Post, April 3, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15336-2003Apr2.html
Kerry Shaded By Edwards In Fundraising: Reports Fuel Reassessment (By
Thomas B. Edsall and Dan Balz, Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16090-2003Apr2.html
President Seeks To Revive Plan For Tax Cuts: Signs Suggest Bush, Hill
GOP May Accept Smaller Proposal (By Dana Milbank and Jim VandeHei,
Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15025-2003Apr2.html
Senate to Act on Faith-Based Measure: Republicans Seek Other Vehicles
for Sidelined Bush Proposals (By Helen Dewar, Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15102-2003Apr2.html
Israel True to Values, Ashcroft Says (Page A08)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16079-2003Apr2.html
Advance's Dilemma: Press On, Or Wait? (By Thomas E. Ricks and Jonathan
Weisman, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15362-2003Apr2.html
In War, Fatigue Can Be a Deadly Adversary: Over Time, Mild Sleep
Deprivation Can Sap Judgment, Morale and Performance, Experts Say (By
Shankar Vedantam, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16233-2003Apr3.html
Front-Line Reports Mostly Accurate, Media Group Finds: Embedded View
Provides 'Texture' (By Howard Kurtz, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16119-2003Apr2.html
More Funds Sought for Homeland Security: Democratic Efforts Are
Blocked on Hill (By Helen Dewar, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14842-2003Apr2.html
White House Is Revising Its War Message: Setbacks Providing Lessons
(By Mike Allen and Karen DeYoung, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14980-2003Apr2.html
Strains Seen Over Rule and Role: U.S. and Chief Ally Could Be at Odds
Over Who Leads, Who Rebuilds Postwar Iraq (By Peter Slevin, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15450-2003Apr2.html
U.S., Allies Clash Over Iraq Oil Profits
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15368-2003Apr2.html
The Defense Department is pressing ahead with plans to temporarily
manage Iraq's oil industry after the war and to use the proceeds to
rebuild the country, creating a conflict with U.S. allies in Europe
and the Middle East.
Families of Other POWs Share Joy but Not Relief (By Lee Hockstader,
Page A36)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16231-2003Apr3.html
Senate Votes To Cut Postal Pension Costs (By Christopher Lee, Page
A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16147-2003Apr3.html
Friends Till the End (By Judy Sarasohn, Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16192-2003Apr3.html
In Selling Calif. Facility, Navy May Have Base Hit: El Toro Air
Station Destined for Parkland, Development as U.S. Applies Lessons of
Past Closures (By Braden Phillips, Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16130-2003Apr2.html
Iraqis Plan for a Climactic Defense of the Capital
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15139-2003Apr2.html
With U.S. forces 30 miles from the outskirts of Baghdad -- once the
destination of invading armies of Arabs, Mongols, Ottoman Turks and
the British -- the ancient capital hardly projects the air of a
fortress.
Kurds Take Village From Iraqi Troops: U.S. Air Power Is Key In First
Such Skirmish (Post, April 3, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15318-2003Apr2.html
China's Slow Reaction to Fast-Moving Illness: Fearing Loss of Control,
Beijing Stonewalled (Post, April 3, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14967-2003Apr2.html
Bombing at Ferry Terminal in Southern Philippines Kills 16 (Post,
April 3, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14655-2003Apr2.html
Baghdad-Bound Forces Pass Outer Defenses: Marines, Army Approach City
On Two Fronts (By Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Peter Baker, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15535-2003Apr2.html
Resistance On Road Is Light: Convoy Faces Only Small Arms (By William
Branigin, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15492-2003Apr2.html
British Use Raids to Wear Down Iraqi Fighters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15273-2003Apr2.html
British soldiers ringing Basra have begun regular raids into the city,
to gather information on Iraqi fighters inside and destroy Iraqi
firing positions before withdrawing to secure areas on the outskirts.
Marines Cross Tigris River In Push Toward Baghdad: 70-Mile Trek With
Little Resistance Puts Them in Capital's 'Backyard' (By Jonathan
Finer, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15493-2003Apr2.html
Turks Allow U.S. to Ship Supplies Through Their Country
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15319-2003Apr2.html
Turkey agreed today to allow the United States to transport food, fuel
and other non-military supplies through its territory for U.S. forces
in Iraq, but Secretary of State Colin L. Powell failed to resolve the
volatile question of whether Turkish troops will enter northern Iraq.
Paratroops Move Closer To Defenders (By Steve Vogel, Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15092-2003Apr2.html
Town Shelled After 12 Years On the Edge: Iraqis Retaliate for Loss Of
Front-Line Positions (By Karl Vick, Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16120-2003Apr2.html
Causing Death and Destruction, but Never Seeing It (By Lyndsey Layton,
Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14993-2003Apr2.html
Arabs Wary of Role in a New Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16230-2003Apr3.html
CAIRO, April 2 -- Arab nations likely will avoid participation in the
postwar administration of Iraq, fearing a link to an eventual U.S.
occupation would signal their acceptance of a war broadly opposed by
their citizens, diplomats and analysts said.
Top Bosnian Official Quits Over Iraqi Arms Sales (By Aida
Cerkez-Robinson, Page A33)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14994-2003Apr2.html
Germany Stops Short of Saying 'I Told You So'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17427-2003Apr3.html
The German government believes that the troubles encountered in the
first two weeks of the Iraq war vindicate its opposition to the
conflict and justify further resistance to unilateral U.S. policies
even at the cost of a long friendship with the United States,
according to government sources and political analysts.
For Firefighters, Smoke of Battle Mostly Cleared: Despite Predictions,
Few Blazes or Bombs Found in Southern Oil Fields (By Susan B. Glasser,
Page A34)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15118-2003Apr2.html
Plant Seized in Key City Along U.S. Supply Line (By Monte Reel, Page
A35)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15939-2003Apr2.html
Journalists Describe Captivity in Iraq (By Shafika Mattar, Page C09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16149-2003Apr3.html
Cuban Dissident Trials Begin in Havana
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19686-2003Apr3.html
Cuba pressed forward with its harshest crackdown on dissent in years,
holding the first trials Thursday for dissidents rounded up across the
island and reportedly seeking life sentences for at least 12 of them.
Mugging the Needy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/03HERB.html
By BOB HERBERT
The Bush administration's budget policies will take a toll on the
poor, the young, and others in need of support from their government.
On Rewarding Friends
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/03SAFI.html
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Memories and public sentiment among peoples are what cement strategic
and economic alliances.
The Best Way Into Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/03HENK.html
By YAGIL HENKIN
American commanders would do well to take a close look at the
hard-learned lessons of Israel's experience with urban combat.
The Budget Fight Is Now
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/03THU1.html
The nation needs every principled politician available to rally
against President Bush's disastrous budget plan.
From the House, a Pulse
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/03THU2.html
America now needs extraordinary protection, and people are relying on
the federal government to provide it.
War News Gets Better
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/03THU3.html
After bitter bickering over the adequacy of the invasion force in
Iraq, there appears to be a hint of light at the end of the tunnel.
A Threatening Mystery Disease
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/03THU4.html
In Hong Kong and other affected areas, it is the war against a
mysterious respiratory illness that has people waiting nervously for
good news.
Fighting the War, While Battling the Critics
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/L03IRAQ.html
Opening Night: Bright Lights, Big Price
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/L03THEA.html
A View From Augusta
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/L03AUGU.html
North Korea Waits
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/L03KORE.html
News for Young People
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/L03MEDI.html
Health Care at Any Age
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/L03HEAL.html
Good Riddance to Tariff
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/L03STEE.html
Training Math Coaches
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/opinion/L03SCHO.html
Attack From 2 Sides Shatters the Iraqi Republican Guard
http://tinyurl.com/8rpx
By PATRICK E. TYLER
But despite concerted allied efforts, it appeared possible that Iraq
was collapsing its most powerful defenses into Baghdad.
Goal of U.S.: Avoid a Siege
http://tinyurl.com/8rq7
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
One of the most important moves so far in the war was the American
effort to stop the Republican Guard from entering Baghdad.
Troops Close on Baghdad After Rapid Dash With Little Fight
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/worldspecial/03CND-MARINE.html
By DEXTER FILKINS
Iraqi tanks came under withering fire as American marines chased away
a Republican Guard division as part of a multi-pronged assault.
Rescue in Iraq and a 'Big Stir' in West Virginia
http://tinyurl.com/8rqb
By DOUGLAS JEHL and JAYSON BLAIR
Pfc. Jessica Lynch's friends and relatives never imagined that her
travels would include days of captivity in Iraq, followed by a daring
rescue.
Rumsfeld Says Forces Are Nearing Downtown Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/worldspecial/03CND-PENT.html
By JOEL BRINKLEY
Coalition forces are meeting little resistance, but Pentagon officials
warn that the most dangerous fighting could lie ahead.
Iraq Shows Casualties in Hospital
http://tinyurl.com/8rqf
By TYLER HICKS with JOHN F. BURNS
Iraqi officials took reporters to a hospital to show them scores of
civilian casualties they claimed were the results of American
indiscriminate bombing.
U.S. and Europe Agree on U.N. Role in Iraq, but Split on Scope
http://tinyurl.com/8rqj
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said that at least initially, the
United States and Britain have "to play the leading role" in postwar
Iraq.
Access for Media Brings Chorus of Criticism and Queries on War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/worldspecial/03TORI.html
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
Victoria Clarke, the Pentagon spokeswoman, has a penchant for working
with clients in tricky situations.
Battle for Baghdad Like War Plan
http://tinyurl.com/8rqv
By ERIC SCHMITT with BERNARD WEINRAUB
America's plan will be to isolate and methodically eliminate the Iraqi
resistance that remains, officials said.
Exuberant Crowd's Most Urgent Request: Water
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/worldspecial/03AIRB.html
By JIM DWYER
The 101st Airborne Division marched into Najaf to find a thirsty
population.
Troops Close on Baghdad After Rapid Dash With Little Fight
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/worldspecial/03CND-MARINE.html
By DEXTER FILKINS
Iraqi tanks came under withering fire as American marines chased away
a Republican Guard division as part of a multi-pronged assault.
Bush Praises Troops During Visit to Marine Base
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/worldspecial/03CND-PREXY.html
By DAVID STOUT
With reports from Iraq of battles near the capital, the president
lauded the achievements of American and British forces today.
China Takes Issue With Health Group's Travel Warning
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/asia/03CND-HONG.html
By THOMAS CRAMPTON
International Herald Tribune
As more suspected cases of a deadly respiratory disease were reported
around the world today, China and the World Health Organization traded
barbs today.
2 Sides on War Are Entrenched in Spokane, but Cracks Show
http://tinyurl.com/8rrb
By DEAN E. MURPHY
As the public debate about the administration's war strategy
intensifies, many people in this Washington city of 200,000 people
near the Idaho border are digging in their heels.
Thin Work Force of North Dakota Gets Thinner as Residents Go to War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/worldspecial/03DAKO.html
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
To help ease the strain, the state government is considering a
campaign to encourage people to take on additional part-time jobs and
to get retirees back to the workplace.
Flu Shot Cuts Hospital Stay in Heart Cases and Strokes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/health/03FLU.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Flu shots may do more for the elderly than fend off the flu, new
research shows. They may also protect against heart disease and
stroke.
States Can Force H.M.O.'s to Accept Any Qualified Doctor
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/politics/03SCOT.html
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
The Supreme Court upheld a law that allows states to require managed
health care plans to accept any qualified doctor who wants to
participate, giving consumers more choice.
China Admission Raises Number of Reported Cases of Mystery Illness
http://tinyurl.com/8rrn
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. and LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
The number of reported cases of SARS, a mysterious respiratory
illness, jumped on Wednesday as China admitted that it had more of
them than it had said before.
2 Hijackers Seize Havana Ferry and Sail for Florida
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/national/03FERR.html
By DANA CANEDY with DAVID GONZALEZ
Two armed men commandeered a ferry in Havana and headed for Florida,
the second time in two days that Cuban hijackers have taken hostages
while trying to flee Cuba.
Amid Balking in Congress, Bush Will Fight for Smaller Tax Cut
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/politics/03BUSH.html
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
While President Bush may not be able to persuade Congress to pass his
entire $726 billion tax cut package, administration officials said he
would fight for as large a plan as possible.
Senators See War Bill as Way to Push Pet Projects
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/worldspecial/03COST.html
By DAVID FIRESTONE
As the Senate began debating the bill to pay for the conflict in Iraq,
lawmakers were unable to resist trying to attach pet projects.
Compensation Plan for Smallpox Program Advances in Senate
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/worldspecial/03SMAL.html
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
A Senate committee approved a measure to compensate workers disabled
or killed by smallpox vaccination shots.
With $7 Million in Donations, Kerry Trails Democratic Rival
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/politics/campaigns/03MONE.html
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts has raised $7 million for his
campaign so far this year, falling short of the $7.4 million raised by
Senator John Edwards of North Carolina.
What Will Be the Model for Peace in Postwar Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/8rsb
By ALAN B. KRUEGER
Will the consequences of the war in Iraq resemble the tragedy of
Germany after World War I or the success of Germany after World War
II?
Sour Mood Pervades the Economic Front
http://tinyurl.com/8rsg
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
While American optimism about the war in Iraq rose sharply Wednesday,
American spirits about the economy are still being battered.
Oil Prices Off on War News and Increase in U.S. Supply
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/business/worldbusiness/03OIL.html
By NEELA BANERJEE
The price of oil has fallen nearly 8 percent in the last two days
alone. But oil traders warned of volatility in the coming weeks.
Battle Rages Between Fox News and MSNBC
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/business/media/03FOX.html
By JIM RUTENBERG
The battlefield between the Fox News Channel and MSNBC has spilled
over from news coverage to advertising and promotions.
Claims for Jobless Benefits Are Highest Since April 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Economy.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
New applications for unemployment benefits jumped by a seasonally
adjusted 38,000 to 445,000 for the week ending March 29.
Stocks Near Unchanged Mark as Investors Focus on War
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-markets-stocks.html
By REUTERS
Investors took a respite after a buying spree, their mood dampened by
weak economic data, but their focus still on the war.
Virus Spreads Havoc on Businesses
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/business/03IMPA.html
By KEITH BRADSHER
A highly contagious respiratory disease that began in China is forcing
a wide range of industries to adjust their operations.
65 and Just Itching for a Little Convergence
http://tinyurl.com/8rt3
By KEN BELSON
Nobuyuki Idei, the chairman of Sony, is an undaunted preacher for
convergence in music, movies, games and communications in all forms.
More Than Just a Game, but How Close to Reality?
http://tinyurl.com/8rt9
By AMY HARMON
As video war games gain popularity throughout the armed forces, some
military trainers worry that the more the games seem like war, the
more war may start to seem like a game.
That Championship Season, in Code
http://tinyurl.com/8rte
By KATIE HAFNER
Computer programming is now a team sport. At a recent contest,
American college students found some stiff competition from abroad.
In Search of a Family Home on the Road
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/technology/circuits/03shop.html
By MICHELLE SLATALLA
A journey through the Web sites that speed the search for
family-friendly hotels.
India's Big Dig: Will It Settle or Inflame a Controversy?
http://tinyurl.com/8rtt
By AMY WALDMAN
Archaeologists are hoping to restore India's interfaith harmony by
finding proof, or disproof, that a Hindu temple once stood at Ayodhya.
The Spirit Triumphs in a South African Prison
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By BRUCE WEBER
Beneath its gripping polemics, Athol Fugard's extraordinary
political-prison drama is the story of a unique friendship.
McLuhan's Messages, Echoing in Iraq Coverage
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By SARAH BOXER
The war in Iraq - particularly the television coverage of the war -
brings out something fresh and bright in Marshall McLuhan, the media
prophet of the 1960's.
Russian Muslims Split on a Call for Holy War Against U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/worldspecial/03CND-RUSSIA.html
The two top leaders of Russia's estimated 14 million Muslims split
today over the question of whether to proclaim a jihad against the
United States in retaliation against the invasion of Iraq.
Arab TV Curtails Coverage After Move by Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/international/worldspecial/03JAZE.html
By JIM RUTENBERG
Al Jazeera, the most-watched Arab language news network in the Middle
East, said yesterday that the Iraqis had barred its two correspondents
in Baghdad from reporting. It said that it would respond by suspending
coverage of all of its correspondents accredited by Iraq.
Yearlong Decline in Dollar Is Little Help on Trade Gap
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/business/03DOLL.html
By DANIEL ALTMAN
For many economists, the dollar's jagged yearlong slide is just a side
effect of an inevitable contraction in the nation's huge trade
deficit. But current economic and political conditions are making the
process more perilous than it might otherwise have been.
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Unhappy endings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,929253,00.html
Polly Toynbee: The Downing Street dream factory paints a hopeful
postwar future. But everyone else sees potential disaster.
Privatise this war!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,929326,00.html
John O'Farrell: The following article is reprinted from the journal of
the Washington Freedom Association.
The rottenness of the Iraqi regime will hasten its end
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,929310,00.html
Martin Woollacott: Iraq's soldiers are voting with their feet and
Baghdad will fall quickly.
False witness
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,929259,00.html
David Leigh: Disinformation has a well-documented history as a
military tactic. All that is needed is a believable lie and a
collusive media.
Walking With Cavemen
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'No way to make this look good'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Whatever America's intentions, it is sending the wrong message.
Iraqis must run Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,929273,00.html
Christian Aid shares the concerns of MPs that the UN is being
sidelined by the US in a post-conflict Iraq (Blair told US must give
aid role to UN, March 31).
Going and staying
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,929272,00.html
I wrote to this page saying that I believe David Treisman only counts
people who resign from the Labour party by writing a formal letter,
when he claims that more people are joining than leaving (Letters,
March 27).
What is it good for?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,929413,00.html
Conflict throws up strange bedfellows. Tony Harrison deplores it with
all the invective he can summon (Iraquatrains, G2, April 1); Andrew
Motion with studied comment (Regime change, April 3).
No threat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,929414,00.html
President Mubarak's claim (War in the Gulf, April 1) that the war will
produce "100 new Bin Ladens" is the reverse of the truth.
Up in smoke
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,929268,00.html
Philip Morris's parent company, Altria, says it may have to file for
bankruptcy if it is required to lodge a $10bn bond to appeal against a
ruling that it was guilty of deception (Fag end for Marlboro maker,
April 1).
BNP can be beaten
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,929267,00.html
As the Guardian covered the British National party's plans for May's
council elections (BNP in big poll drive for wider support, April 2),
the Coalition Against Racism - Unite to Stop the BNP campaign was
holding two cross-party press conferences.
Embassy ways
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,929274,00.html
The US needs envoys with flair and care.
War fears raise rate cut hopes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,929388,00.html
War jitters sent Britain's crucial service sector skidding into
reverse last month, raising City expectations of a cut in interest
rates to prevent a sharp downturn in the economy.
Blair 'prevented war after 9/11'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,929463,00.html
Tony Blair has frequently played a pivotal role in the infighting in
the US administration over Iraq, according to the recently retired
British ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer.
Blunkett attacks media reports
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/story/0,12123,929330,00.html
Home secretary says reporters give 'moral equivalence' to Iraqi
regime.
British use of cluster bombs condemned
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,929368,00.html
British and American forces were accused yesterday of breaking
international rules of war after admitting that they were using
cluster bombs against targets in Iraq.
Britain clamps down on imports
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/economics/story/0,11268,929217,00.html
The government has tightened the screws on Israel's illegal West Bank
settlements by warning British food importers that they will now pay
taxes on goods which are not genuinely Israeli.
Nuclear clean-up
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,9061,929231,00.html
The government is to set up an account to fund the estimated £48bn
cost of cleaning up Britain's nuclear legacy, Brian Wilson, the energy
minister, announced yesterday.
Bluster bomb lands in media bunker
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,9321,929353,00.html
Simon Hoggart: Backbenchers and ministers of all parties put their
differences aside yesterday, and focused on a common enemy - the
press.
Diary
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/diary/story/0,9176,929380,00.html
Matthew Norman: We become increasingly concerned about a possible
ramification of the war.
Lights go out in Baghdad as US sends in special forces
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929424,00.html
· Battle for airport
· '80 dead' in village
In an instant we were plunged into endless night
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929423,00.html
There was no audible explosion, no discernible change in the early
evening bombardments, but in an instant, an entire city of 5 million
people was plunged into an awful, endless night.
All is ominously quiet on the western front
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929363,00.html
With attention focused on the armoured push from the south, special
forces in the desert may be planning a surprise attack.
Ayatollah tells Shias to stop fighting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929407,00.html
The US-led force received a boost yesterday when the leading Shia
Muslim cleric in Iraq called on Iraqis not to resist the Americans and
British.
Six killed in Israeli raids on West Bank
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929192,00.html
Israeli forces have killed six Palestinians, including a 14-year-old,
and detained more than 1,000 boys and men in two days of raids on the
occupied territories.
Spanish city hopes to make matadors hang up their hats
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929193,00.html
Campaigners yesterday declared their intention to turn Barcelona into
the first bullfight-free city in Spain by the end of next year,
claiming that nearly two-thirds of people in the country's second
largest city backed them.
Asia UN agrees to help with Korea crisis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929277,00.html
Nuclear war is unavoidable if the US increases its aggressive attitude
towards North Korea, the communist party daily, Rodong Shinmun,
declared yesterday.
New Delhi jammed by motorcades
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929284,00.html
Residents of New Delhi are growing increasingly angry at being late
for work and missing appointments because roads are blocked for
motorcades of government officials.
Desert Rats 'plant a toe' 4 miles from Basra city centre
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929364,00.html
British troops made their deepest incursion into Basra yesterday,
"poking a toe" within four miles of the centre.
Six dead as Black Hawk goes down
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929365,00.html
At least six US soldiers were reported to have been killed when a
Black Hawk UH-60 helicopter crashed near the city of Kerbala, south of
Baghdad. Military officials at central command in Qatar said they
believed "no hostile fire" was involved.
Patriot in new 'friendly fire' incident
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929457,00.html
Military officials last night said they suspected that an American
Patriot missile shot down a US Navy F-18 Hornet jet over Iraq.
'Oh, there's a civilian in the way. He's using these people as
shields'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929476,00.html
The battle for Baghdad last night reached the city's international
airport after US forces struggled along a six-mile, single-lane road
on the capital's southern outskirts with Iraqi fighters firing from
all sides.
As the marines race past, the scars of war are left behind in one
small town
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929361,00.html
As thousands of Iraqis in cars, coaches and trucks take the road out,
troops speed past in a race for the capital
Saddam's latest failure to appear on TV raises speculation about his
death
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929362,00.html
Speculation continued last night about whether Saddam Hussein is dead
after he failed to appear on Iraqi television for the second day
running, amid reports that members of his family had already fled to
Syria.
Advancing troops must watch their backs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929355,00.html
The US accounts of recent battles report the destruction of more than
two divisions of the Republican Guard. The puzzle is that these
reports do not speak of hundreds of enemy vehicles, nor do they
mention taking thousands of prisoners. Rather they speak of dozens of
vehicles and hundreds of prisoners.
Unravelling the mysteries of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929356,00.html
Where have the guards gone and will Saddam use chemical weapons?
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929360,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
Tempted generals weigh up risks of lightning tank strike on capital
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929346,00.html
Highways offer chance of quick victory, but troops could be entering
hornet's nest
Bringing aid and the Bible, the man who called Islam wicked
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929338,00.html
Bringing aid and the Bible, the man who called Islam wicked
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929338,00.html
Evangelists Fears that US Christians will inflame situation
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Iraqis ban al-Jazeera reporters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929339,00.html
The Arabic satellite television service al-Jazeera yesterday announced
that its reporters would stop covering the war inside
government-controlled Iraq in protest at the ban imposed on two of its
reporters.
Luxury of a wash after hardship and loss on the front line
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929345,00.html
They call it Slipper City but the camp we have retired to is far more
basic than you might imagine.
Life as lived by Chemical Ali
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929371,00.html
Regime Man who gassed the Kurds flaunted his wealth among the poorest
The first casualty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929379,00.html
A look at the way the war is being spun and reported
Hawkish lawyer to oversee Iraqi ministries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929347,00.html
The Pentagon selects group to take power
Powell offers role to UN - on his terms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929348,00.html
First step to healing divisions over post-war Iraq
Fear that 'sleepers' will destabilise new regime
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929349,00.html
Senior military officials have for the first time warned that Iraqi
militia fighters may survive the war to emerge as "sleepers" who
destabilise the postwar regime.
Boy wizard in court win
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929220,00.html
The author JK Rowling won a court ruling yesterday to block the Dutch
translation of a Russian novel about a girl wizard called Tanya
Grotter after arguing that it copied one of her Harry Potter
bestsellers.
Call for tribunal on Chechnya
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929469,00.html
The council of Europe has demanded that a Hague-style war crimes
tribunal must be set up by the UN to prosecute key Russian and Chechen
leaders as war criminals responsible for systematic murders and
disappearances in Chechnya.
Strikes strangle France
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,929472,00.html
Rail and air traffic in France ground to a halt yesterday, most
schools were shut and postal deliveries were halted as public-sector
workers staged nationwide demonstrations against government plans to
reform the state pension system.
Chirac apologises for graves graffiti
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,929467,00.html
President Jacques Chirac last night apologised to the Queen for the
desecration of a British war cemetery in northern France.
'If we'd had this reporting in the second world war, we'd have lost'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,929350,00.html
In the final part of our round Britain trip, the people of Lockerbie
reveal their fears
Cover story: The producer from hell
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,929181,00.html
The North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has a passion for cinema. But he
could never find a director to realise his vision. So he kidnapped one
from the South, jailed him and fed him grass, then forced him to shoot
a socialist Godzilla. Now, for the first time, Shin Sang-ok tells the
full story of his bizarre dealings with - and eventual flight from -
the world's most dangerous dictator. By John Gorenfeld.
Christopher Bellamy: These weapons may win the war, but leave a deadly
legacy
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=393728
04 April 2003
British forces in Iraq have used cluster bombs against some Iraqi
targets, Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, acknowledged yesterday.
Hugh McManners: Saddam's position weakened by his troops' failure to
blow bridges
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=393725
04 April 2003
If Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard are intent on defending
Baghdad, they would have ensured the destruction of the vital bridges
across which the US Army must cross.
Robert Fisk: The ministry of mendacity strikes again
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=393723
04 April 2003
Poor old Geoff Hoon.
Norman Davies: The lessons of history as we approach Baghdad
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=393709
04 April 2003
Anyone seeking a precedent for the battle of Baghdad should examine
the Warsaw uprising in 1944 rather than Stalingrad
Warsaw uprising
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Creating Peace: How?
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Chancellor faces war's wild card
http://www.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch/story/0,12498,927463,00.html
April 1: War could damage economy and Gordon Brown's reputation,
writes Mark Tran.
Keep taking the tablets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch/story/0,12498,927161,00.html
April 1: Best way of tackling deflation is to avoid it in the first
place, says Victor Keegan.
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German unions lose the plot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch/story/0,12498,926375,00.html
March 31: Germans now see powerful unions as obstacle to change,
writes David Gow.
The cold calculation of war
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1683923
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist print edition
What war and its aftermath may mean for Iraq's creditors
Economic and financial indicators
http://www.economist.com/markets/indicators/index.cfm?page=Economic%20and%20Financial
Apr 3rd 2003
Emerging-market indicators
http://www.economist.com/markets/indicators/index.cfm?page=Emerging%20Market
Apr 3rd 2003
Genetically modified food
http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1683068
Apr 3rd 2003
The Economist commodity index
http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1683052
Apr 3rd 2003
Cities gain bohemian boom
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Gun, Germs and Stall?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/opinion/04KRUG.html
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The war has monopolized everyone's attention, but what seems to be
even more fatal to an ailing economy is a crippling virus.
Iraq's Not Vietnam
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/opinion/04KRIS.html
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
The paramount question is not whether we will win this war, but
whether we can persuade ordinary Iraqis to accept our victory.
The War Americans Don't See
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/opinion/04KHOU.html
By RAMI G. KHOURI
The Arab press, while predominantly in opposition to the allied attack
on Iraq, is neither monolithic nor uniformly anti-American.
On the Outskirts of Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/opinion/04FRI1.html
The way toward the outskirts of Baghdad proved easier than expected,
raising hopes that the endgame in the Iraqi conflict may be close at
hand.
The More Things Change
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/opinion/04FRI2.html
The wielding of influence is Washington's most lucrative occupation -
a life-support system for the many capital politicians who never go
home after their incumbency ends.
Too Costly an Appeal
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/opinion/04FRI3.html
Whatever the merits of the underlying decision, it is absurd to
require someone - even a cigarette manufacturer - to put up $12
billion to file an appeal.
To Imagine Iraq After Saddam Hussein, You Must Think Like an Iraqi
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By ETHAN BRONNER
The language of Iraqi politics has been so degraded that it provides
no framework for opposition, let alone an alternative regime.
Out of Iraq: The Rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/opinion/L04IRAQ.html
Israel and Settlements
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/opinion/L04ISRA.html
Obstacles for All Races
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/opinion/L04AFFI.html
U.S. Forces at Edge of a Blacked-Out Baghdad
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By PATRICK E. TYLER
The assault on the Saddam International Airport placed American troops
about 10 miles from the heart of Baghdad.
Freed Soldier Undergoes Several Operations in Germany
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/05CND-LYNCH.html
By MARK LANDLER
Pfc. Jessica Lynch is undergoing a battery of operations at a military
hospital here to treat wounds that include a fractured right arm, two
broken legs and a spinal injury.
Marines Met Little Resistance From Republican Guard
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04CND-MARI.html
By DEXTER FILKINS
American marines advanced to the Baghdad city limits today, meeting
scant resistance, and stopped at the brink of entry, awaiting orders.
Both the New and Routinely Old Shape Daily Life in Baghdad
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By JOHN F. BURNS
Life under the bombing has continued to roll forward with an everyday
nonchalance that is almost as startling as the allied bombing.
Bush Offers Optimism to Cheering Marines
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By DAVID E. SANGER and ERIC SCHMITT
President Bush told 12,000 cheering marines on Thursday that the "vise
is closing" on Saddam Hussein.
Wartime Grief at Wal-Mart
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By CONSTANCE L. HAYS
The war in Iraq is being especially felt at Wal-Mart stores near U.S.
military bases.
France, Russia and Germany Want Role in Rebuilding Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04CND-FRANCE.html
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
The foreign ministers of the three countries called for the United
Nations to be given an immediate role in dealing with an "emergency
humanitarian situation" in Iraq.
Arab Media Portray War as Killing Field
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By SUSAN SACHS
Many Arabs believe that the war in Iraq is part of a brutal assault by
America and its allies on the world's Arab community.
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At Airport, Bombs Provide the Only Light
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By STEVEN LEE MYERS
American forces occupied parts of Baghdad's airport and cut off the
city from the south and southwest.
A Tightening of the Noose
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By MICHAEL R. GORDON
The U.S. strategy at this point is to maintain the military momentum
and the psychological pressure on Saddam Hussein.
Reporting War Under Eyes of Iraqi 'Minders'
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04MEDI.html
By JIM RUTENBERG
Western reporters in the Iraqi capital are engaged in an increasingly
delicate dance: Trying to portray events and sentiments accurately
without running afoul of the government.
Terrorism Task Force Detains an American Without Charges
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04DETA.html
By TIMOTHY EGAN
The 38-year-old software engineer and American citizen who was from
the West Bank and grew up in Kuwait has been held in a federal prison
for two weeks.
Freed Soldier Is in Better Condition Than First Thought
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04LYNC.html
By JAYSON BLAIR
The father of Pfc. Jessica Lynch said that his daughter, who was
rescued this week after nine days in Iraqi custody, had not suffered
gunshot or stabbing wounds.
A New Push to Grant Gun Industry Immunity From Suits
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By JOHN TIERNEY
The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill giving gun manufacturers
and dealers immunity against many suits, including ones already in
court.
North Utah Faces Influx of Racists
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/national/04RACI.html
By NICK MADIGAN
Law enforcement officials in towns in northern Utah say they are
grappling with a marked increase in crimes committed by ex-convicts
who joined white supremacist gangs in jail.
Critics Attack State Leaflet on AIDS Help and Religion
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/national/04AIDS.html
By DANA CANEDY
The Florida Department of Health AIDS brochure includes biblical
references and tells people to "answer Jesus' call" by reaching out to
people with H.I.V. and AIDS.
First Woman Is Appointed as Dean of Harvard Law School
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/education/04HARV.html
By SAM DILLON
The new dean, Elena Kagan, is a former White House aide to President
Bill Clinton and onetime clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the
Supreme Court.
House and Senate Approve Bush's Wartime Spending Request
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04COST.html
By DAVID FIRESTONE
Congress approved a nearly $80 billion bill to cover the costs of the
war in Iraq, which included aid to allies and money for domestic
security.
Investigation on Identities of 9 Bodies Has Begun
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04CASU.html
By THOM SHANKER with SIMON ROMERO
American military officials in Iraq have ordered that nine sets of
remains found during the rescue mission of Pfc. Jessica Lynch be
shipped to the United States for examination.
Lawmakers Are Assessing War Support Among Voters
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04DIST.html
By ROBIN TONER
Rarely are members of Congress more acutely attuned to the mood back
home than at times of war.
Terrorism Task Force Detains an American Without Charges
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04DETA.html
By TIMOTHY EGAN
The 38-year-old software engineer and American citizen who was from
the West Bank and grew up in Kuwait has been held in a federal prison
for two weeks.
American Companies and Anti-American Fervor
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By STUART ELLIOTT
Brands born in the United States are being equated with imperialism.
Advertisers are adjusting their strategies.
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Europe Aid to Airlines Unlikely
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/business/worldbusiness/04FLY.html
By CHRISTINE WHITEHOUSE
European Airlines, suffering from the travel slump brought on by war,
are looking to governments for help. They are not getting it.
Akamai Cancels a Contract for Arabic Network's Site
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/technology/04WEB.html
By WARREN ST. JOHN
Akamai Technologies abruptly canceled a contract to provide Web
hosting for the English-language Web site of the Arabic news network
Al Jazeera.
More Wireless Internet Access Set for Lower Manhattan Parks
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/nyregion/04WIRE.html
By EDWARD WYATT
A downtown business improvement district is planning to establish free
high-speed wireless Internet access in six parks and public spaces in
Lower Manhattan next month.
Latin Sweatshops Pressed by U.S. Campus Power
http://tinyurl.com/8ubv
By DAVID GONZALEZ
A coalition of students, labor activists and American brands are
working to improve conditions in factories that make clothing
emblazoned with university names.
A Space Reborn, With a Show That's Never Finished
http://tinyurl.com/8uc1
By ROBERTA SMITH
The result of the Biennial is quintessential alternative-space art:
politically skeptical and user-friendly, but sparked with promise.
Images of Innocence
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/arts/design/04JOHN.html
By KEN JOHNSON
After graduating from high school in 1969, Wendy Ewald took a job
teaching photography to children on an Indian reservation in eastern
Canada. Intent on a career in photography and inspired by Walker
Evans's photographs of Depression-era farmers, she imagined producing
her own documentation of life on the reservation. But the photographs
her young students took with cameras donated by the Polaroid
Foundation changed everything.
Imperial China Woven Into Art
http://tinyurl.com/8uc9
By WENDY MOONAN
"China was once known as `the land of rites,' " said Linda
Wrigglesworth, a London dealer in antique Chinese, Tibetan and Korean
textiles who exhibited at last weekend's International Asian Art Fair
in New York. "The formation of Chinese civilization was synonymous
with the establishment of its ritual system and religions, an
establishment continuously illustrated through dress."
War Support Solid, Optimism Grows
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26523-2003Apr4.html
A growing majority of Americans now believe the war in Iraq is going
well for U.S. and British forces, as recent gains on the battlefield
have eased public concerns that the war will be long and costly, while
President Bush's popularity continues to rise.
Congress Approves War, Anti-Terror Funds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24755-2003Apr4.html
The House and Senate Thursday night overwhelmingly approved measures
to provide nearly $80 billion to finance the war in Iraq, strengthen
defenses against terrorism at home and help financially troubled
airlines.
High Court Approves Execution in Juvenile Case
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25622-2003Apr4.html
The Supreme Court overturned a stay yesterday and allowed Oklahoma to
move ahead with the execution of a man who killed two people when he
was 17, an unusual step for justices who have been bitterly divided on
capital punishment for people who commit crimes as juveniles.
Blackout Increases Foreboding
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22950-2003Apr3.html
Electricity was cut Thursday in Baghdad, enveloping the city in
darkness for the first time since the concussions of U.S. bombing
began.
Syrian-U.S. Ties Complicated by Iraq War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24075-2003Apr3.html
The roads that lead from Syria to Baghdad and northern Iraq have now
become major routes for hundreds of men wanting to become martyrs
fighting against the invading.
War Pushes Pakistanis to Religious Parties
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23254-2003Apr3.html
Analysts detect growing sympathy among Pakistanis for the religious
parties, whose clerical leadership has condemned the war as an attack
on all Muslims.
Cuban Ferry Hijacking Ends With Hostages Unhurt
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28322-2003Apr4.html
Armed men who hijacked a Cuban ferry with 50 people on board have
surrendered without a shot fired and with no injuries, the Cuban
government said Friday.
A Different Wavelength
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24365-2003Apr3.html
The most listened-to radio personality in Mexico, Gutierrez Vivo is
acutely tuned to public opinion. And he knows for sure that Mexicans
hate the war in Iraq.
U.N. Deadline On Oil Issue To Be May 12
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24398-2003Apr3.html
The United States and the rest of the U.N. Security Council face a
deadline next month for resolving how the sale of oil in postwar Iraq
should be managed if the U.S.-led war succeeds and a new Iraqi
government replaces that of Saddam Hussein.
Troops Attempt To Spook Enemy Into Surrender
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24399-2003Apr3.html
In the pitch black, a disembodied voice boomed Arabic words across a
wasteland on the edge of the besieged city in southern Iraq early this
morning.
British Troops' Dual Role: Soldiers and Relief Workers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24402-2003Apr3.html
At the temporary headquarters of the British First Fusiliers Y
Company, on the site of a former Baath Party compound, soldiers
uncoiled rolls of barbed wire atop a perimeter wall, an added layer of
defense against potential intruders in this southern Iraqi village.
Made for the Movies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24361-2003Apr3.html
Jessica Lynch was barely in the air on her way to Ramstein Air Base
after her rescue when Tinseltown producers started buzzing about her
story's possibilities for a television movie.
The Press Gets Pumped
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19046-2003Apr3.html
Boy, one little POW rescue can sure change the tone of the press
coverage.
House Without Mercy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24132-2003Apr3.html
Page A20
THE AMBER ALERT bill began in the Senate as a modest effort to
encourage a nationwide alert system for missing children. Now the
House has tacked on a number of extraneous amendments, and one of
those, sponsored by Florida Republican Tom Feeney, is particularly
ill-advised. The measure would radically restrict federal judges'
discretion in sentencing. The amendment would affect all sentencing,
not just the kidnapping and abuse cases the bill is meant to address.
It should be removed in conference.
House Without Mercy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24132-2003Apr3.html
Page A20
THE AMBER ALERT bill began in the Senate as a modest effort to
encourage a nationwide alert system for missing children. Now the
House has tacked on a number of extraneous amendments, and one of
those, sponsored by Florida Republican Tom Feeney, is particularly
ill-advised. The measure would radically restrict federal judges'
discretion in sentencing. The amendment would affect all sentencing,
not just the kidnapping and abuse cases the bill is meant to address.
It should be removed in conference.
Gas Guzzlers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24153-2003Apr3.html
Page A20
AREASONABLE ARGUMENT can be made, in theory, for subsidizing the
construction of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska to the lower 48
states. Natural gas is a clean form of energy; most of the newer power
plants rely on it; much of the natural gas in Alaska cannot be used
because of the difficulty of transport; more use of natural gas would
diminish U.S. dependence on imported oil. The rationale is so clear
it's no wonder many in Congress and outside are pushing to include
pipeline subsidies in the energy legislation now wending its way
through the House and the Senate.
No Embeds at the Court
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24152-2003Apr3.html
Page A20
THE MILITARY is bringing reporters -- with television cameras --
along on combat operations, but the Supreme Court remains off-limits.
This week the justices considered the fate of affirmative action in
universities, and they made what they must deem a major concession to
the public's interest in this enormously important case: The court
released an audiotape of the oral arguments shortly after they took
place. The two-hour session was then broadcast on C-SPAN (with
accompanying photographs of the justices and counsel) and remains just
a few mouse clicks away for those who want to listen. Usually the
court does not make such tapes public for months and waits weeks to
put transcripts on the Internet -- transcripts that even then do not
identify which justices asked which questions. The result is that
citizens not present for arguments can't know precisely what happened.
While press coverage of the Supreme Court often is excellent, it is
not a substitute for watching -- or at least listening to -- an
argument.
Wrong Answer to al-Jazeera
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24175-2003Apr3.html
By Robert Satloff, Page A21
To combat what is widely viewed as the slanted news coverage of
Arab satellite stations, the White House and Congress are joining
forces to spend tens -- perhaps hundreds -- of millions of dollars to
launch an official Arabic-language U.S. government competitor.
Unfortunately, it has a chance of turning out to be one of this
country's most ill-conceived and wasteful experiments ever in public
diplomacy.
Plan B -- for Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24173-2003Apr3.html
By Charles Krauthammer, Page A21
The first gulf war took six weeks. Afghanistan took nine. Kosovo,
11. We are now just past two weeks in the second gulf war. It's time
for a bit of perspective. This campaign has already been honored with
a "quagmire" piece by the New York Times' Johnny Apple, seer and
author of a similar and justly famous quagmire piece on Afghanistan
published just days before the fall of Mazar-e Sharif and the swift
collapse of the Taliban.
Humpty on the House Floor
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24169-2003Apr3.html
By E. J. Dionne Jr., Page A21
A strange thing happened in the House of Representatives on April
Fools' Day. Republicans repudiated their own budget. But in the fog of
war, the news was lost entirely.
Bombs Bring Only Pain and Terror
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24170-2003Apr3.html
By Joanne Grady Huskey, Page A21
I am horrified as I read in the newspapers about the Iraqi families
who have been bombed in their homes by the United States and who are
reeling from the shock. I am immediately thrust back to the moment in
1998 in Nairobi, Kenya, when I was in the basement of the U.S. Embassy
with my two small children and we were bombed by al Qaeda cohorts of
Osama bin Laden.
The Battle Over Postwar Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24171-2003Apr3.html
By David Ignatius, Page A21
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Even as U.S.-led troops tighten the noose
around Baghdad, a bitter diplomatic battle is taking shape over
American plans for administering postwar Iraq.
Death, Diplomacy and Dressing for the Desert
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24096-2003Apr3.html
Page A20
The April 1 front-page story regarding the 10 Iraqi women and
children killed at a U.S. checkpoint was a painful reminder to
Americans that war is about death, destruction and sometimes bad
judgment.
Landlord to the Administration (By Al Kamen, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24262-2003Apr3.html
Lawmaker Urges 'Fast Track' Reform: Davis Wants to Give President More
Power to Reorganize Government (By Christopher Lee, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24297-2003Apr3.html
FBI Picks Another Outsider for Key Post: NSA Official Will Oversee
Intelligence (By Dan Eggen, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23513-2003Apr3.html
Town Where Bombs Are Born: Oklahoma Plant Makes Most Munitions Being
Dropped on Iraq (By Lois Romano, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24401-2003Apr3.html
The Fallen (Page A34)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24400-2003Apr3.html
Patriot System Likely Downed U.S. Navy Jet (By Bradley Graham, Page
A34)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23963-2003Apr3.html
Bush Upbeat on War Progress in Visit With Marines (By Mike Allen, Page
A34)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23964-2003Apr3.html
DAYBOOK A look at the day's major developments in the war with Iraq
(Page A36)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24240-2003Apr3.html
State Enters Fray on Access to Priests' Files: California Freezes
Clock for Statute of Limitations in Child Sexual Abuse Cases (Post,
April 4, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24224-2003Apr3.html
Historic Phila. Sites to Reopen With Tighter Security (Post, April 4,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23454-2003Apr3.html
Guilty Plea Paves Way for Testimony in Terrorism Case (Post, April 4,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23453-2003Apr3.html
Powell Urges 'Leading Role' for U.S. After War: Foreign Ministers Fail
to Reach Consensus on U.N. Involvement in Rebuilding Iraq (Post, April
4, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23892-2003Apr3.html
Iraq Costs Will Overwhelm U.S., U.N. Official Says (Post, April 4,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23917-2003Apr3.html
Battling for Hearts and Minds: Capital's Mood, Defenses Guide Closing
Moves (By Vernon Loeb and Thomas E. Ricks, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22966-2003Apr3.html
Rise in Cancer Projected: Many Cases Can Be Averted, WHO Report Adds
(By Patricia Reaney, Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23464-2003Apr3.html
House Struggles to Find Its Place on Hill: Feeling Ignored, Members
Say Most High-Profile Issues Are Decided in Senate (By Juliet
Eilperin, Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24067-2003Apr3.html
FEC Rethinking Party Convention Financing Rules (Page A08)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23251-2003Apr3.html
Kerry Angers GOP in Calling For 'Regime Change' in U.S. (By Dan Balz,
Page A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23490-2003Apr3.html
Judges Struggle on Campaign Finance: Lower Court Delays Imperil Plan
for Supreme Court Ruling by 2004 Elections (By Neely Tucker, Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23700-2003Apr3.html
For Asian Americans, Virus Fears Take a Toll: Lives, Business Affected
in Calif. (By Rene Sanchez and Kimberly Edds, Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24288-2003Apr3.html
Bush Meets Resistance on Mideast Plan: Key Hill Allies Call for
Greater Commitment to Israel's Concerns About Road Map (By Jim
VandeHei, Page A18)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24354-2003Apr3.html
Role for Exile Leaders Urged: Rumsfeld Proposes Interim Authority In
Southern Iraq (By Karen DeYoung, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24990-2003Apr4.html
'Rolling' Victory Key to U.S. Endgame: Controlling Territory, Halting
Resistance Are Aims; Surrender Not Expected (By Peter Slevin and
Bradley Graham, Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23898-2003Apr3.html
Status of Leaders In Iraq Uncertain, U.S. Officials Say: Whereabouts
of Hussein, Sons in Question As Targeting of Key Officials Continues
(By Dana Priest and Walter Pincus, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24073-2003Apr3.html
Kurdish Farmers Head Home As Iraqis Abandon Villages: Hussein's Forces
Retreat, Leaving 'Arabized' Settlements Exposed (Post, April 4, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22720-2003Apr3.html
In Port Town, One Small, Wet Step Toward Rebuilding: Water for
Hospital Becomes U.S. Priority (Post, April 4, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23726-2003Apr3.html
From London to Iraq: Peacekeeping Lessons Learned the Hard Way (Post,
April 4, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23555-2003Apr3.html
U.S. Aircraft Force Taliban To Abandon Afgan Hideout: Rebels
Reorganizing In Southern Mountains (Post, April 4, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23253-2003Apr3.html
Iraqi Man Risked All to Help Free American Soldier (Post, April 4,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23979-2003Apr3.html
China Says Disease Is in Check: Health Minister Encourages Tourism
Despite WHO Advisory (Post, April 4, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23255-2003Apr3.html
China Urges N. Korea Dialogue: Beijing Sees Risk of Losing Influence
in Area Vital to Security (Post, April 4, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23256-2003Apr3.html
U.S. Takes Battle to Baghdad Airport: Force Builds Along City's
Southern Rim (By Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Peter Baker, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24011-2003Apr3.html
Troops Court Skeptics in Holy City With Small, Choreographed Steps (By
Rick Atkinson, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22585-2003Apr3.html
Israelis Round Up 1,000-Plus at Camp: Military Arrests 13 in Tulkarm
Sweep (By Molly Moore and John Ward Anderson, Page A18)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23257-2003Apr3.html
For Marines, A Fight With A Foe That Never Arrived: 'Heavy Engagement'
Becomes No Engagement (By Jonathan Finer, Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22041-2003Apr3.html
3rd Infantry Encounters Little Resistance: 'We're Just Rolling In,'
Says Lieutenant, as Division Pours Across Euphrates River (By William
Branigin, Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24395-2003Apr3.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22666-2003Apr3.html
Iraq May Try Defensive Use of Chemicals, Experts Warn
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04WEAP.html
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
As coalition forces push toward Baghdad, they are preparing for
possible attacks by chemical weapons, which Saddam Hussein's forces
are known to have used in the past. But experts say the ways his and
other armies have dispersed chemical weapons - bombs, rockets and
artillery shells directed at troops — are not the only means to deploy
them.
Groups Critical of Islam Are Waiting to Aid Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04MISS.html
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Two evangelical Christian organizations whose leaders have outspokenly
denounced the Islamic faith are among the aid groups waiting at Iraq's
borders to take humanitarian relief — and a Gospel message - to a
nation whose people are predominantly Muslim.
News Groups Want Terror Case Documents
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04SECR.html
By PHILIP SHENON
WASHINGTON, April 3 - Several of the nation's largest news
organizations demanded access today to a variety of secret court
documents filed in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person
charged in an American court with involvement in the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks.
Senator Kerry Angers G.O.P.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04KERR.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON, April 3 - Senator John Kerry, a Democratic presidential
candidate, suggested in a speech on Wednesday that "we need a regime
change in the United States" as well as in Iraq, drawing angry
responses from Republican leaders.
Images of Victory Overshadow Doses of Realism
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/international/worldspecial/04WATC.html
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Either victory was at hand, or television had rewound news coverage
back to the first, optimistic days of the war.
Gephardt Trails 2 in Raising Money
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/politics/campaigns/04MONE.html
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
WASHINGTON, April 3 - Representative Richard A. Gephardt, one of the
Democratic Party's most visible leaders during the past decade,
reported today that he raised $3.6 million this year for his
presidential campaign, or only half as much as two of his rivals for
the nomination.
States See Raising Beer Taxes as Way to Ease Tight Budgets
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/national/04BEER.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA, April 3 - With cash tight and bills looming, legislators
in 19 states are either considering raising beer taxes or have already
done so.
Economy Lost 108,000 Jobs, Raising Worries of Recession
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/business/04CND-ECON.html
By DAVID LEONHARDT
The unemployment rate remained at 5.8 percent last month, but U.S.
payrolls fell by 108,000 jobs, raising concerns that the U.S. is
closer to slipping into a recession.
Stocks Near Unchanged Mark in Early Trading
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-markets-stocks.html
By REUTERS
Investors saw lackluster U.S. employment data but remained focused on
fresh advances by U.S.-led troops near Baghdad.
Tax Shelter Draws Attention
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/business/04INSU.html
By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
Members of Congress are looking into the tiny, tax-exempt insurance
companies that have shielded millions of dollars from taxes.
Will S.E.C. Allow Shareholder Democracy?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/business/04NORR.html
By FLOYD NORRIS
In shareholder elections at too many large corporations, voters are
presented with only one slate of candidates and told that votes
against that slate will not matter.
Export Apple of China's Eye Is, er, Apples
http://tinyurl.com/8uhf
By DAVID BARBOZA
XIAN, China - This is where much of America's apple juice now comes
from - the outskirts of historic Xian, where the orchards stretch for
miles and miles. Apples are so plentiful here that they are often left
to rot in the fields. They are scattered on the ground in old farming
villages and pitched against walls by playful little boys like red and
gold baseballs.
High Tension, Nonchalance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23885-2003Apr3.html
Terror warnings, growing indifference mark life in Washington during
war.
British Take On Basra Militia
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28459-2003Apr4.html
A midday shantytown raid inflicts heavy casualties on Iraqi
militiamen.
War Affecting Jobless Rate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26775-2003Apr4.html
U.S. payrolls drop by a worse-than- expected 108,000 in March.
Analysts say the war has dampened hiring.
Atlantic Monthly Editor Killed in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27396-2003Apr4.html
Michael Kelly Was a Columnist for The Washington Post
A Country of Fear
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2003-04-02.htm
Iraq will be better off after the war. But will America? By Jack
Beatty.
Like Father, Unlike Son
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/bushhw.htm
Articles from the 1980s and 1990s offer a look back at George Bush the
elder, who was a dramatically different leader from his strong-willed
son.
Stephen Schwartz: The Real Islam
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2003-03-20.htm
In The Two Faces of Islam Stephen Schwartz argues that in order to
appreciate the pluralist, tolerant side of Islam, we must confront its
ugly, extremist side.
In the Name of God
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2003-03-05.htm
Bush's rhetoric suggests that he feels God has chosen him to lead the
U.S. against "Evil." Is that why Bush is dragging us into an
unprovoked war? By Jack Beatty.
Richard Brookhiser:
What Makes W. Tick?
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2003-03-11.htm
The historian and journalist Richard Brookhiser weighs in on George W.
Bush-his management style, his mean streak, his religiosity, and his
recovery from alcoholism.
Cooked Books
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/corpcorrupt.htm
How should we crack down on corporate corruption? Articles from the
early twentieth century to the 1990s have considered the question from
a variety of viewpoints.
The Korean Quagmire
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/korea.htm
Articles from the 1950s to the present offer perspective on America's
role in the long history of tension between North and South Korea.
David Frum: The Real George Bush
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2003-02-12.htm
David Frum, a former presidential speechwriter and the author of The
Right Man, gives an inside look at the character of George W. Bush.
The Road Better Not Taken
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2003-02-05.htm
A war against Iraq could be the most catastrophic blunder in U.S.
history. By Jack Beatty.
Daniel Goldhagen:
The Guilt of the Church
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2003-01-31.htm
Daniel Goldhagen, the author of A Moral Reckoning, calls upon the
Catholic Church to face its legacy of anti-Semitism and its role in
the Holocaust.
The State of the Union Address
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/01/sotu-address.htm
Annotated by James Fallows, with additional commentary from the
authors of "The Real State of the Union" and supporting material from
The Atlantic's archive.
Media: The Fog of Journalism
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/powers2003-04-01.htm
On television, there's just too much news to absorb. That's why
newspapers are still important. By William Powers.
Political Pulse: This Is Bush's War
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/schneider2003-04-01.htm
The Vietnam War was years old before U.S. public opinion became this
partisan. By William Schneider.
Social Studies: It's Time to Break Up the College Color Cartel
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/rauch2003-04-01.htm
Congress should permit race-based preferences in private universities
while banning them in public ones. By Jonathan Rauch.
Wealth of Nations: Yes, The U.N. Can Serve the Greater Good, or
Undermine It
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/crook2003-03-26.htm
The U.N.'s response to the Iraq crisis has shown that it is not
remotely up to the job of defeating terrorism and the states that
support it. By Clive Crook.
Legal Affairs: This War May Be Legal, But Arrogant Diplomacy Could
Kill Us
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/taylor2003-03-26.htm
The administration's problem is its perceived indifference to the need
for legal justification and to world opinion. By Stuart Taylor Jr.
Political Pulse: War Has Its Reasons
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/schneider2003-03-26.htm
There's evidence Bush's team was contemplating war with Iraq even
before 9/11. By William Schneider.
Media: Darkness and Light
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/powers2003-03-26.htm
Embedded journalists are giving the Iraq story a visceral immediacy
that's been lacking from coverage of recent wars. By William Powers.
How Could Vietnam Happen?-An Autopsy (April 1968)
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/68apr/vietnam.htm
"Crucial throughout the process of Vietnam decision-making was a
conviction among many policy-makers: that Vietnam posed a fundamental
test of America's national will." In 1968 James C. Thomson Jr.
dissected the forces that shaped U.S. policy in Vietnam.
A Tale of Two Colonies
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/04/kaplan.htm
A report on two countries-Yemen and Eritrea-central to the war on
terrorism. By Robert Kaplan.
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Hearts, minds and bodybags
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,930084,00.html
James Fox: Iraq can't be a Vietnam, pundits insist. Those who were
there know better
You don't need to believe in God to learn from religion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,930241,00.html
The common messages of Christianity, Judaism and Islam are too
valuable to be ignored.
Myth of a troubled nation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,930240,00.html
Germany's great literary epic still speaks to us across the centuries.
Lunching to victory
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,930238,00.html
Editors Charles Moore and Piers Morgan exchange emails as their papers
go to war.
Smallweed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,930093,00.html
Smallweed: Reporting the release of the journalist Matt McAllester
from an Iraqi prison, a correspondent wrote this week: "Unshaven,
rib-thin, and wearing a crumpled Thomas Pink shirt, he slowly detailed
the conditions inside Abu Ghraib."
'Laws for a uniquely brutal battle'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Baghdad: Will it be a new Stalingrad? Or Grozny? Or Manila? Or Warsaw?
In harmony
Daniel Barenboim is an Israeli and a world-famous conductor, Edward
Said a Palestinian, renowned advocate of his people and a professor of
literature. They tell Suzie Mackenzie about their unlikely friendship
and their shared passion - music
Daniel Barenboim
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Edward Said
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My name is America
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,928833,00.html
Her name gives rise to endless jokes, confusions and wrong-headed
assumptions about her politics; but for all that America Vera-Zavala,
a European born of Latin American parents, is not budging. Not for her
Angelica, Amelia or even Amy...
Why Bush is just a bolshevik
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,928911,00.html
Alexander Chancellor: I have rather unpleasant memories of Daniel
Cohn-Bendit, the anarchist leader of the 1968 student revolt in Paris.
Security services face biggest test
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
Breakthrough now needed from agents, but regime has always been a
difficult target
Explosive news
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,930217,00.html
I am a liberal, well-educated, British Christian. If it is any comfort
to Rim Turkmani (Letters, April 3), I am also ready to explode as I
watch the news.
Ban cluster bombs now
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,930128,00.html
Aside from the immediate devastation, every cluster bomb dropped
leaves the Iraqi people with a lethal legacy (British use of cluster
bombs condemned, April 4). Over 24 million bomblets were dropped on
Iraq in the 1991 Gulf war - one for every Iraqi citizen.
Cluster bombs
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Full of Life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,930122,00.html
Three cheers for Matt Ridley and your new Life section (We've never
had it so good - and it's all thanks to science, April 3).
Matt Ridley
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Beyond Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,930135,00.html
Iraq cannot be allowed to fall apart.
US ignores losses on jobs front
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,930230,00.html
Baghdad fever gripped the markets yesterday as investors shrugged off
another set of grisly US job figures to focus on the American forces'
advance on Iraq's capital.
Bush-Blair talks on peace issues
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,930151,00.html
President George Bush and Tony Blair are to hold an ambitious
emergency summit in Belfast next week to address three different world
conflicts.
Blair leaflet pledges early self-rule
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,930120,00.html
Tony Blair is to deploy his persuasive powers in Iraq with hundreds of
thousands of leaflets promising in Arabic that the country will be
given self government.
Amid the casualties and chaos, a sudden appearance by Saddam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930301,00.html
Sixteen days after the start of the aerial bombardments by a distant
American enemy, the ground war arrived in Baghdad in brutal close-up
yesterday.
US troops threatened with 'unconventional attack'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930302,00.html
Saddam Hussein's government yesterday threatened to strike back with
"a non-conventional act" against US forces ringing Baghdad but
insisted it would involve a suicide attack rather than chemical or
biological weapons.
The mood changes as the marine invasion gains momentum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930296,00.html
For years, the story of the Republican Guard has been told as an epic
in waiting, the story of an elite, well-equipped, motivated force,
loyal to Saddam Hussein, outgunned by the US, no doubt, but ready to
force America to fight and slog and shed blood if it tried to take
Baghdad.
Fog of war shrouds the facts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930262,00.html
Claims and counter-claims as off-the-record briefings add to
confusion.
Farmers plunder wealth of regime's remains
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930258,00.html
Lieutenant Colonel Alistaire Deas put his hands on his hips and
surveyed the damage around him. "Well, it is not vandalism per se," he
said in his Scottish accent, with just a hint of disapproval. "It is
more like creative recycling."
A bad week to fight positive discrimination affirmative action case
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930153,00.html
Iraq factor adds weight to military leaders' argument for ethnically
selective admission to universities.
Trial of 80 Cuban dissidents tied to US interference
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930149,00.html
The deteriorating relations between Cuba and the US worsened yesterday
as Havana began trying about 80 dissidents for subversion and treason.
News roundup
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930154,00.html
Europe Allergies double in EU children | Even voting gets real in
reality show | India poised for mission to moon | Call me comrade, or
else | Burundian ex-leader freed
But is it really him?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930303,00.html
Iraqi television last night showed Saddam Hussein - or possibly a
lookalike - on an impromptu walkabout in a suburb of Baghdad.
Civilians flee as fighting spreads
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930298,00.html
Hundreds of Iraqi civilians living in villages near the airport piled
their possessions in trucks and cars at first light and fled into the
capital 12 miles down the six-lane Matar Saddam al-Durwall Road.
Car bomb kills three US soldiers and two Iraqis at checkpoint
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930299,00.html
Three American special forces soldiers and two Iraqis were killed
yesterday when a car bomb exploded at a checkpoint in central Iraq.
US troops flown in to captured Baghdad airport
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930300,00.html
Airborne division's arrival adds to pressure on encircled capital
Marine colonel relieved of his battle command
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930322,00.html
A senior American marine officer fighting in southern Iraq was
relieved of his command yesterday.
Saddam exhorts Baghdad to resist and put invaders 'in the fire of
hell'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930295,00.html
Iraqi television last night showed pictures of Saddam Hussein
apparently going for a walkabout in a residential area of Baghdad,
being kissed and cheered by astonished passers-by.
Five killed by car bomb at US checkpoint
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930323,00.html
The Arabic TV station al-Jazeera broadcast videos of two Iraqi women
vowing to carry out suicide attacks yesterday after three American
special forces soldiers and two Iraqis were killed when a car bomb
exploded at a checkpoint in central Iraq.
Marine officer relieved of his command
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930297,00.html
A senior American marine officer fighting in southern Iraq was
yesterday relieved of his command.
Iraqi lawyer risked life to help rescue of PoW Jessica Lynch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930263,00.html
An Iraqi lawyer risked his life to help the American PoW Jessica Lynch
escape from a hospital in Nassiriya after seeing a guard slap her in
the face, it emerged yesterday
At a glance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930265,00.html
At the front
Iraqis face water crisis in battle zone
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930112,00.html
Army humanitarian effort falls short as aid groups express fears of
cholera outbreak
Ready for battle with paperclips and string
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930261,00.html
The army phrase is "improvise, adapt and overcome" and here in the
Iraqi desert, the soldiers of the Household Cavalry have found
themselves doing just that.
White House hunts western oil chiefs to advise Iraqis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930257,00.html
Plans for British and US executives to advise industry likely to meet
resistance from critics of Bush administration
Eight militiamen killed in battle for Basra
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930259,00.html
Day-long encounter as coalition forces close in on Iraq's second city
News in brief
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930139,00.html
Two held over British deaths
Anti-war ministers insist on UN role to build peace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930164,00.html
The foreign ministers of France, Germany and Russia, the leading
international opponents of the war in Iraq, yesterday insisted that
the United Nations must have a central role in rebuilding the country
at the end of the conflict.
US journalist killed in accident
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930294,00.html
Michael Kelly, a columnist for the Washington Post, was killed in Iraq
on Thursday in an accident involving a Humvee military vehicle, the
paper said. He is the first American journalist to die in the war.
Pressure on king to denounce invasion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930256,00.html
Jordan's leader falls short of direct criticism of US
American public stands firm behind the war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930180,00.html
Despite the growing number of US military casualties, American public
opinion seems to be resolute: the vast majority of the population
believes that the war, though it may take months, is worth fighting.
And they insist their views would not change even in the face of more
coalition deaths - up to a point.
Bush's undiplomatic posting draws scorn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930253,00.html
So what role has William S Farish, the man dubbed the 'invisible
ambassador' played in the conflict? Well, none really
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930255,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
Broadway lullaby has a British accent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930246,00.html
New York's theatreland comes to resemble the West End on tour
Russian PM enmeshed in fish scam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930157,00.html
The Russian judicial authorities said yesterday that they wanted to
question the prime minister, Mikhail Kasyanov, in connection with a
wide-ranging investigation into corruption in the fishing industry.
Quarantined Singaporeans urged to multiply
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,930178,00.html
Singaporeans forced to stay home during the outbreak of the mystery
illness that has now killed 82 people worldwide should use the time to
shore up the country's falling birthrate, a sex therapist said
yesterday.
Rock art clue to nomad ancestors of Egyptian pyramid builders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,930105,00.html
Rock art etched on cliff walls in the eastern Sahara more than 6,000
years ago could spell out the answer to one of archaeology's great
puzzles - where the ancient Egyptians came from.
Spirit of the age
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,929528,00.html
A passionate polemicist and radical Romantic, William Hazlitt was the
most brilliant essayist of his day. But since his death 170 years ago,
he has been largely forgotten. Now, as a monument to Hazlitt is
unveiled in Soho, Tom Paulin welcomes a revival of interest in a
timeless critic of pomp and power
Passion and pessimism
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,929598,00.html
Zygmunt Bauman has known the terror of war and the trauma of exile.
These experiences have made him a champion of the underdog and a
caustic critic of the status quo. Yet for all his international
popularity - he is one of Europe's most influential sociologists - he
remains a loner and a maverick
A lesson in humility
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,929533,00.html
Prompted by a teatime epiphany, Ian Jack seeks out the legacy of 'the
cradle of civilisation'
The emperor's home truths
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,929541,00.html
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius provide a peculiarly chilly kind of
comfort. Blake Morrison enjoys a new translation
Echoes from Chechen guerrillas
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,929552,00.html
Nicholas Lezard is struck by the uncanny resonances which Leo
Tolstoy's Hadji Murat has with current affairs
Balancing act
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,929596,00.html
Continuing our series on political theatre, Gary Mitchell asks why
plays about Ulster Protestants are so often accused of bias
Cry havoc
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,929590,00.html
Shakespeare saw Henry V's brutal strike against the French as a battle
of good against evil, of 'plain shock' and 'awe'. His vision, says
Gary Taylor, has coloured our notion of war ever since
A world of their own
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,929576,00.html
From Dickens and Kipling to De Beauvoir and Koestler, Simon Schama
continues his two-part survey of European attitudes to America
Plotting the past
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,929551,00.html
Intrigue, invasion and that red-hot poker... Jonathan Sumption
untangles the curious politics of 14th-century Britain in Paul
Doherty's Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II and Ian
Mortimer's The Greatest Traitor
Gold leaf
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,929542,00.html
Polly Pattullo applauds the panache of Henry Hobhouse's Seeds of
Wealth, the story of plants that changed the course of history, but
finds Iris and Alan MacFarlane's tea biography Green Gold a bit too
cosy
'Poor Mohammed's Daughter'
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394139
05 April 2003
Mohammed's fillings, buccal and occlusal
Christopher Bellamy: Black propaganda serves to obscure the reality of
battle
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394132
05 April 2003
So, Saddam Hussein international airport, renamed Baghdad airport, has
been "secured", although the Iraqis have threatened a "martyrdom
operation" to kill all the US troops who seized it.
Patrick Nicholson: The cans and buckets are empty and people are
desperate
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394123
05 April 2003
I have recently returned from Angola where I witnessed haunting scenes
of poverty but I never expected to see the same levels of misery in
Iraq, a country floating on oil.
Faith & Reason: Morale can go down as well as up - and just as well
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394097
05 April 2003
We do not need to keep our spirits up in war.
War in Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=394095
05 April 2003
Full links to today's stories
Jay Garner: The US general waiting to replace Saddam
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=394118
General Jay Garner, being a military man, will have had his bag packed
for some time now. Any day now he'll be stuffing in his toothbrush and
heading for Baghdad. Garner, according to the media, has various
titles-in-waiting. Before too long he will be - as your preference
dictates - King, Regent, Viceroy, Pro-consul or President-designate of
Iraq.
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Rumsfeld and the Generals
http://tinyurl.com/8w27
By BILL KELLER
In this week's mini-mutiny of the generals against Donald Rumsfeld, it
was awfully tempting to side with the generals.
When a Dash Becomes a Siege
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/opinion/05PATT.html
By ROBERT PATTON
Much of what we've seen of Gen. Tommy Franks's battle plan calls to
mind Gen. George S. Patton's favorite battlefield dictums.
The World's Other Tyrants, Still at Work
By ARYEH NEIER
With international attention focused on Iraq, despots are seizing the
opportunity to get rid of their opposition - real or imagined.
The Fragility of Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/opinion/05SAT1.html
The good news about the looming humanitarian crisis in Iraq is that it
is not yet a crisis. Still, the situation is extremely fragile.
Betraying the World's Poor
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/opinion/05SAT3.html
Europe and the United States must recover lost momentum in "the
development round." It could go a long way toward fighting global
terror.
Michael Kelly
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/opinion/05SAT4.html
Michael Kelly's intrepid reportage helped define the coverage of the
first war with Iraq. Now the second has claimed his life.
Fight Bribery Abroad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/opinion/05SAT5.html
By bringing indictments in the Kazakhstan affair, the United States
will encourage others to follow.
Two Battles: For Baghdad, and for the Future
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/opinion/L05IRAQ.html
Of Westerns, Cowboys and the Use of Force
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/opinion/L05FALU.html
NATO's Long View
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/opinion/L05NATO.html
Our Failure in Haiti
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/opinion/L05HAIT.html
Military Readiness
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/opinion/L05INHO.html
The Beauty Within
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/opinion/L05DISF.html
Tracking New Diseases
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/opinion/L05EPID.html
Augusta and New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/opinion/L05AUGU.html
Substantial Forces Enter Capital
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By REUTERS
U.S. forces thrust into the heart of Baghdad today as the war moved
into a decisive new phase.
New Dangers in Final Push
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By MICHAEL R. GORDON
American commanders are already developing several different
strategies for fighting in the streets of Baghdad.
For Weary U.S. Troops, the End Is Still Elusive
http://tinyurl.com/8w35
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
The capture of Iraq's principal international airport left many
American soldiers with a sense that the end was not yet in sight.
Iraqi TV Presents a Relaxed Hussein
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By JOHN F. BURNS
With American troops moving cautiously toward placing the city under
siege, Iraqi television showed a film of a man it said was Saddam
Hussein.
Dash to Baghdad Leaves Debate in Dust
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/worldspecial/05ASSE.html
By R. W. APPLE Jr.
The invasion of Iraq has accelerated with stunning speed in less than
a week, taking some of the political heat off President Bush.
Professors Protest as Students Debate
http://tinyurl.com/8w3f
By KATE ZERNIKE
Professors shaped by Vietnam protests and a more conservative student
body traumatized by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, do not always see
eye-to-eye on the war.
The American Portrayal of a War of Liberation Is Faltering Across the
Arab World
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/worldspecial/05PROP.html
By ELIZABETH BECKER
To win over the Islamic world in the war of public relations, the Bush
administration's message masters devised a theme. The Arab world,
however, isn't buying.
American Journalist and Soldier Killed in Crash Outside Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/worldspecial/05JOUR.html
By JANE PERLEZ
Michael Kelly, the editor at large of The Atlantic Monthly and a
columnist for The Washington Post, was killed in Iraq on Thursday.
10 Americans and 400 Kurds, With Help From U.S. Bombs, Stave Off
Iraqis for Now
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/worldspecial/05NORT.html
By DAVID ROHDE
An American Special Operations team, its Kurdish allies and dozens of
American warplanes attacked as many as 2,000 Iraqi soldiers on Friday.
Ambush Was an Episode in a Drawn-Out Battle
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By TODD S. PURDUM
The battle for Nasiriya has amounted to a microcosm of the war so far,
with scattered skirmishing still going on.
Raid Kills Hundreds of Iraqis and One G.I., U.S. Officials Say
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By PATRICK E. TYLER
An armored force wheeled into Baghdad today, taking the city's
defenders by surprise and starting a firefight along boulevards.
News Analysis: When to Say War Is Won?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/international/worldspecial/06ASSE.html
By R. W. APPLE Jr.
It is not just a matter of driving Saddam & Company from their
offices, palaces and hideouts.
Barrage of Fire, Trail of Death
http://tinyurl.com/8w3v
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
On the Iraqi side, it must have seemed like the beginning of the
invasion of Baghdad itself.
Defiant Iraqis Say U.S. Advance Has Been Broken
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/international/worldspecial/06BAGH.html
By JOHN F. BURNS
Senior Iraqi officials said today that Iraqi soldiers and suicide
bombers had broken the American advance into isolated pockets that
were surrendering.
Military Analysis: Raid Aims to Confuse Iraqis
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By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Today's raid was just the first of a series of armored thrusts by
light infantry that are intended to keep the Iraqi military confused
and off balance.
Italian Leader Faces Dissent Over Control Of the Media
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/international/europe/06ITAL.html
The lower house of Parliament passed a fiercely contested bill this
week that opposition critics say is intended to expand the business
interests of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
The Rural Opposition: Protesting Where Everybody Knows Your Name
http://tinyurl.com/8w48
By JODI WILGOREN
It is one thing to speak up against the war in a large crowd in a big
city and quite another to do it a small town where people do not pass
each other without waving.
Fearing Daily for the Safety of Relatives in Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/worldspecial/05HOME.html
By NICK MADIGAN
Iraqis in the United States can watch the effort to topple Saddam
Hussein on television but are unable to telephone their relatives and
friends in Iraq to make sure they are safe.
Legislators in Georgia Act on Change to State Flag
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/national/05FLAG.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Georgia lawmakers took the first step toward approving a new state
flag, one based on the Confederacy's Stars and Bars.
Bush and Blair Will Meet in Belfast Early Next Week
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/worldspecial/05CAPI.html
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
President Bush will meet with the British prime minister, Tony Blair,
to discuss the war in Iraq and the peace efforts in Northern Ireland
and in the Middle East.
Gifts and Offers for Book Deals Arrive at Rescued Private's House
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/worldspecial/05LYNC.html
By JAYSON BLAIR with MARK LANDLER
As Pfc. Jessica Lynch had more surgery at an American military
hospital in Germany, the gifts, care packages and book deal offers
began arriving at her home in Appalachia.
Soldier Accused of 2 Murders
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/worldspecial/05GREN.html
By NEIL A. LEWIS
Military officials said that the suspect in a grenade attack that
killed two American officers in Kuwait had been charged with murder.
Michael Kelly, 46, Editor and Columnist, Dies in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/obituaries/05KELL.html
By DAVID CARR
Michael Kelly, editor at large for The Atlantic Monthly and a
syndicated columnist for The Washington Post, was killed in a vehicle
accident south of Baghdad.
A Pagan View of Waging War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/national/05BELI.html
By PETER STEINFELS
History's pagans might have approved of President Bush's Iraq policy,
an author suggests.
Representatives Disagree on War, but Share Pain of Its Consequences
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/national/05FRES.html
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
For a pair of freshman representatives the war offers a painful shared
experience of a "pivotal time," even if they differ in their opinions
on the conflict.
Pushing an Agenda, Far From Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/8w4h
By ADAM NAGOURNEY with RICHARD W. STEVENSON
Karl Rove, the influential White House adviser, is working hard to
shape perceptions of President Bush as a wartime leader in preparation
for his re-election campaign.
U.S. Use of Tear Gas Could Violate Treaty, Critics Say
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/worldspecial/05GAS.html
By NICHOLAS WADE with ERIC SCHMITT
President Bush has authorized American military forces to use tear gas
in Iraq, a development that could be seen as a breach of the Chemical
Weapons Convention.
Judge Critical of Secrecy in Terror Case Prosecution
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/worldspecial/05TRIA.html
By PHILIP SHENON
A federal trial judge said she was skeptical that the government could
prosecute Zacarias Moussaoui "under the shroud of secrecy under which
it seeks to proceed."
In Their Hummers, Right Beside Uncle Sam
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/business/05AUTO.html
By DANNY HAKIM
While the Humvees are lined up in the desert, their cousins, the
Hummers, continue to be Detroit's hottest seller.
108,000 U.S. Jobs Lost in March
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By DAVID LEONHARDT
The job market continued to deteriorate in March as the economy lost
108,000 jobs, the government reported.
Pension Shift at Northwest
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By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
Northwest Airlines is seeking permission to shore up its pension funds
with the stock of a subsidiary airline, more stock than the law
generally allows.
Illness Hurting Asian Hotel Industry
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By KEITH BRADSHER
The hotel and airline industries in Asia are suffering from outbreaks
of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
Earnings Warnings Cause Slump in Technology Shares
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/business/05STOX.html
By REUTERS
Blue chips scraped out modest gains as United States-led forces closed
in on Baghdad, but technology stocks slumped under the weight of
earnings warnings from companies.
Visions and Revisions of Child-Raising Experts
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By PATRICIA COHEN
With all the books about how Americans should raise a baby, it was
inevitable that scholars would eventually turn to the question of why
Americans are so obsessed with the subject.
Antiwar Marchers Invoke Ideas of King 35 Years After His Death
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/worldspecial/05MOCK.html
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
A protest presented as a funeral procession for the "dead and not yet
dead" in Iraq drew heavily on the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. for inspiration.
Liberators and Enemies Can Look a Lot Alike
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By FELICIA R. LEE
Historians discuss why citizens often don't embrace outsiders who say
they have come to liberate them from oppressive regimes.
How Books Have Shaped U.S. Policy
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By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
President Bush has never been known as a bookworm. Yet books have
played a significant role in shaping his administration's thinking
about foreign policy and the war against Iraq.
Looking for Roots of War and Terror
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By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
In his new book, Paul Berman suggests the intellectual and political
roots of Islamic terror lie in the West.
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'The Crisis of Islam': Faith and Terrorism in the Muslim World
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By KENNETH M. POLLACK
Bernard Lewis, a distinguished scholar, examines the hearts, minds and
pockets of some very angry nations.
Bernard Lewis
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Ground War: Doing More With Less
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32232-2003Apr4.html
By Michael Vickers, Page B01
The war with Iraq is not without its ironies. One is that U.S.
ground forces are playing a central role in the campaign and have
advanced at unprecedented rates -- a feat that stands in stark
contrast to the sideline role played by land power in our two previous
wars. Yet active Army generals, on background, and retired ones, on
the record, have taken the secretary of defense to task for supposedly
limiting the size of the ground component during Operation Iraqi
Freedom's early phases.
Air War: Striking In Ways We Haven't Seen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32230-2003Apr4.html
By Stephen Budiansky, Page B01
The first thing to understand about the air campaign in Iraq is
that what we see on television is but a small fraction of it. And the
fraction we do see is doubly misleading: Images of spectacular
explosions in downtown Baghdad play into deep-seated preconceptions,
myths and even cultural beliefs about air power. But such images do
not reflect the true character, tactics or purpose of air operations
in modern conflict.
The British Traded Rights for Security, Too
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32233-2003Apr4.html
By Laura K. Donohue, Page B01
Imagine a scenario in which terrorists begin attacking urban
centers. The government responds with widespread detention; extended
powers of arrest, search and seizure; increased surveillance
capabilities; and the creation of a special court to try terrorist
suspects. Before long it is sanctioning inhumane treatment of
prisoners and the use of military force.
Rules: Between Guerrilla Warfare and War Crimes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32234-2003Apr4.html
By Diane F. Orentlicher and Robert Kogod Goldman, Page B02
Americans were understandably shaken by the two suicide car
bombings last week that killed seven U.S. soldiers. Both attacks
involved deception: Friday's bombing, at a military checkpoint 130
miles northwest of Baghdad, reportedly involved a woman crying in
distress to lure soldiers; the earlier attack near Najaf was
apparently carried out by a noncommissioned Iraqi army officer posing
as a taxi driver. These attacks should not surprise us: The annals of
modern warfare are filled with examples of regular and irregular
forces who rely on stealth and civilian disguise to counter the
superior force of an invading or occupying power.
Jihad: How Many 'Volunteers' Are Coming?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32235-2003Apr4.html
Page B02
Fast-moving events, especially during wartime when information can
be difficult to confirm, often generate startling claims or stories
that garner immediate attention but then are pushed aside by other
major developments. As the war in Iraq progresses, Outlook's Zeroing
In will focus on some of these initial claims or stories, and what has
happened since.
Troop Strength: There's a History to This Controversy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32236-2003Apr4.html
By David S. Holland, Page B03
One of the biggest skirmishes of the current war has been between
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and critics who say he failed to
initially commit enough ground forces to the war against Saddam
Hussein. Technology has changed how wars are planned and fought, but
history suggests that there is no magic formula to determine how many
troops the United States needs to prevail in battle.
That Fake New Zing In Their Swing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32240-2003Apr4.html
By Steve Twomey, Page B04
With the annual Masters golf tournament commencing on Thursday,
here's a teaser for the brain: Name the greater force for change at
the hushed and hallowed Augusta National Golf Club, the only venue for
the hushed and hallowed Masters since its birth in 1934.
Saving For College? It Will Cost You
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32244-2003Apr4.html
By Henry J. Aaron and Melissa A. Cox, Page B05
The congressional tax package enacted in 2001 greatly enlarged the
amount that people can deposit in tax sheltered accounts to cover
higher education expenses. At the same time, however, it expanded
opportunities for financial advisers to collect big fees from gullible
savers.
It's a Paired, Paired, Paired, Paired World
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32246-2003Apr4.html
By Paul Jamieson, Page B05
Watch your mailboxes, ThirtySingles, they're coming: the intricate
calligraphy, the delicate tissue paper, the sheer gravitas of the
cream-colored envelopes that make them instantly stand out in the pile
of bills and catalogues. Maybe there's one waiting for you right now,
demanding an RSVP. Fish or chicken? Flying or driving? With guest . .
. or without?
Is Op-Ed 'Op' Enough?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32105-2003Apr4.html
By Michael Getler, Page B06
With the war in Iraq in full swing, this column constitutes a bit
of old, prewar business.
Homeland Worriers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32132-2003Apr4.html
By George F. Will, Page B07
Asked why al Qaeda might have been trying to kill him in 1999 -- he
abandoned his house for a month and acquired Secret Service protection
based on an alert from Yasser Arafat -- Richard Clarke, who The Post
says "coordinated U.S. efforts to hunt and kill al Qaeda's senior
leaders" years before 9/11, simply says: "We were killing them. Fair
enough."
Winning the Peace
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32106-2003Apr4.html
By Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Chuck Hagel, Page B07
The war in Iraq is still on, but it's not too early to think about
what the United States should do to win the peace that will follow.
There may be difficult days ahead, but we are confident in the
rightness of our cause, the skill of our soldiers and the certainty of
our victory.
Stripped of Spiritual Comfort
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32110-2003Apr4.html
By Frank Schaeffer, Page B07
A few weeks ago my wife, Genie, and I got the news that our Marine
son, John, would shortly be deployed to the Middle East. He is gone to
war now. We have been dreading this moment. We don't dare go for a
walk. What if he should call? I wake with a sickening jolt each dawn.
Genie is quieter than usual. I snap at her over small things. The
ground feels brittle under my feet. My one comfort has been prayer and
church. Now I'm feeling forlorn even about going to church.
Russia's Politics of Anti-Americanism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32108-2003Apr4.html
By Masha Lipman, Page B07
MOSCOW -- Just after the beginning of the war in Iraq, President
Vladimir Putin made an extremely tough statement condemning the
U.S.-led operation. There's no reason to believe it was because the
Russian president opposes the idea of using military force, bombing
cities or inflicting civilian casualties: His three-year experience
with the Chechen war has shown otherwise. Nor does it appear likely he
has changed the generally pro-American course he opted for after 9/11.
Integration and economic cooperation with the United States (as well
as with other developed countries) still remain critical for Russia.
Diversity on Campus, And in the Newsroom
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32107-2003Apr4.html
By David S. Broder, Page B07
The numbers were unprecedented.
Before last week's Supreme Court hearing on the University of
Michigan's affirmative action admissions policy, about 300
organizations, including five dozen major corporations, many unions,
other universities and student groups, asked the court not...
The Adams Morgan Arms Race
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24166-2003Apr3.html
Homegrown terrorism is plaguing my neighborhood.
Page B08
With the weapons inspectors sidelined in Iraq, I'd like to request
that a few of them be deployed to Adams Morgan.
AIPAC: A Question Of Wartime Influence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32104-2003Apr4.html
Page B06
The April 1 news story "For Israel Lobby Group, War Is Topic A,
Quietly," about the recent convention of the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, reported that half of the Senate and a third of the
House were present. It also said that AIPAC seeks to avoid public
scrutiny and that the White House insisted that national security
adviser Condoleezza Rice's address to 2,000 members of the
organization be off the record.
AIPAC
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A Star Among Soldiers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24115-2003Apr3.html
Page B06
The wonderful story of the rescue of Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch [front
page, April 2] may have another interesting twist. If accounts of her
resistance during her capture are accurate, she could be awarded a
Silver Star for her bravery in combat.
Free for All
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32067-2003Apr4.html
Solidarity and Solace for Army Wives
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32070-2003Apr4.html
Success, Ex Post Facto
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32068-2003Apr4.html
Tragically Selective
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32065-2003Apr4.html
Building a Better Student Body
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32066-2003Apr4.html
Disturbing Images From Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32069-2003Apr4.html
Remembering Michael Kelly
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32098-2003Apr4.html
Diplomacy, Democracy and Alliances
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32097-2003Apr4.html
Journalist Gave His Life To the Iraq Wars
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31453-2003Apr4.html
A million stories could be told about Michael Kelly, the stunningly
gifted journalist killed Thursday in Iraq at the age of 46.
On TV, War Without Pictures
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27096-2003Apr4.html
It was one heck of a dramatic tank ride.
U.S. Forces Enter the Heart of Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33016-2003Apr5.html
An Army column of Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles made the
first major U.S. incursion into Baghdad this morning, driving through
the middle of the city to demonstrate that the capital is no longer
firmly under President Saddam Hussein's control.
U.S. Military to Impose Cordon on Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31833-2003Apr4.html
The U.S. military plans to establish a loose "cordon" around Baghdad
and begin leafletting and broadcasts.
British Raid Militia Positions In Basra
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31688-2003Apr4.html
British troops in tanks and armored vehicles staged a raid against
Iraqi militiamen near Basra on Friday.
82nd Airborne Division Seizes Parts of City Along Supply Route
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33458-2003Apr5.html
Marching across a bridge spanning the Euphrates River just before dawn
Friday, troops with the 82nd Airborne Division seized control of key
sections in this city of 140,000, meeting only sporadic resistance as
they fanned out and cleared areas believed to house Iraqi fighters.
Soldier Faces Murder Counts in Grenade Attack
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31417-2003Apr4.html
A soldier from the 101st Airborne Division has been charged with
murder in a grenade attack on officers' tents in Kuwait that killed
two.
War in North Iraq Waged With Passion, Shrugs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31565-2003Apr4.html
Gen. Sarbaz Barbani, a Kurdish militia commander, looked at the zigzag
line of 25 men heading away from the front and became enraged.
Bush, Blair To Meet in N. Ireland Next Week
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31544-2003Apr4.html
President Bush will visit Northern Ireland on Monday to review
progress in the Iraq conflict with his wartime ally Tony Blair and to
help give a final push to restoring the peace process in the British
province, officials said Friday.
Until Hussein Is Gone, Ambivalence About U.S. Rules
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31687-2003Apr4.html
Hana Asadi heard the war from her bathroom. She spent a week of
sleepless nights there, convinced that the bathtub was the safest
place for her four children. Outside, British troops battled Iraqi
paramilitary forces for control of her city. Seven days ago, a
firefight sent dozens of bullets and shells flying into her house.
Europeans Urge Key Role for U.N.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32191-2003Apr4.html
PARIS, April 4 -- The three leading European opponents of the war in
Iraq increased pressure today on the Bush administration to allow the
United Nations to take a "central role" in the long-term political and
economic reconstruction of the country.
Official Says China Erred on Outbreak
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31065-2003Apr4.html
A top Chinese health official apologized Friday for failing to inform
the public about a sometimes fatal respiratory illness that has
infected more than 2,000 people worldwide.
Pakistani Muslims Protest War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31491-2003Apr4.html
Tens of thousands of Pakistani Muslims, most of them supporters of a
major Islamic political coalition, rallied in the central Pakistani
city of Multan today to protest the U.S.-led war on Iraq.
Canada Moves To Dispel Fears Over New Illness
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31222-2003Apr4.html
Canada sought to reassure citizens that Toronto is not a dangerous
place, though the number of cases of the disease continues to rise.
Peru's Trial of Century So Far a Soap Opera
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31063-2003Apr4.html
What became clear during the first public trials of Vladimiro
Montesinos is that, despite all the money he allegedly looted from the
Peruvian treasury during his decade at the right hand of
then-President Alberto Fujimori, he did not invest a penny of it on a
fashion consultant.
In Rare Move, Marines Relieve Key Commander
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31340-2003Apr4.html
The Marine Corps relieved one of its top commanders in Iraq on Friday,
an extremely unusual action, especially for a unit in combat.
SARS Added to U.S. List
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31424-2003Apr4.html
Bush gave officials standby power to quarantine anyone suspected of
being infected with a new disease that is spreading worldwide.
U.S. Secrecy Criticized By Moussaoui Judge
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31698-2003Apr4.html
A federal judge Friday openly questioned the government's ability to
prosecute Zacarias Moussaoui at a public trial.
Banned Iraqi Weapons Might Be Hard to Find
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31589-2003Apr4.html
U.S. forces in Iraq Friday found sites and substances they described
as suspected components of a forbidden Iraqi weapons program. But the
discoveries that U.S. troops displayed, and the manner in which they
were described at a Central Command briefing, struck experts in and
out of government as ambiguous.
Ingredients for Unusual Trial: A Triangle and Toxic Ricin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31061-2003Apr4.html
"Hi, honey!" Carol Olsen called to her husband one morning this week
as marshals led him into a federal courtroom.
Russia Says Spending On Space Will Rise: Threat to Close Station
Dropped (Post, April 5, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31697-2003Apr4.html
Hundreds Mourn Baltimore Marine: Early Victim of War in Iraq
Remembered as 'One of Our Very Best' (Post, April 5, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31715-2003Apr4.html
Mistaken Bombing Suspected in Soldier's Death: Two Other Members of
Unit Killed; Pentagon Reports Total of 4 More Deaths (Post, April 5,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31790-2003Apr4.html
Young Montanan Recalls Iraqi Rocket Attack That Sent Him Home:
Rejecting Hero Label, Injured Sergeant Says, 'It's a Job We Do' (Post,
April 5, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31714-2003Apr4.html
Engineer Held as Part of Portland Probe: U.S. Citizen Is Confined
Without Charges as 'Material Witness,' Sources Say (Post, April 5,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31489-2003Apr4.html
High Court Prepares for Anti-Terrorism Cases: Justice Breyer Foresees
Difficulty Balancing Public Protection, Civil Liberties (Post, April
5, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31461-2003Apr4.html
For Bush, Time to Mend Economy Is Running Out (By Dana Milbank, Page
A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31614-2003Apr4.html
8 Hurricanes Are Forecast In Atlantic This Season (Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31062-2003Apr4.html
Senator: ANWR Plan Won't Make Bill: Domenici Says One More Run at
Alaska Drilling Will Fail (By H. Josef Hebert, Page A07)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31696-2003Apr4.html
Top Police Officials Cleared: Evidence in San Francisco Conspiracy
Case Called Insufficient (Page A07)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33441-2003Apr5.html
Deal Reached on Georgia Flag: Bill Calls for 2004 Referendum on New
Design (Page A08)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31221-2003Apr4.html
Verdict Upheld for Mastermind Of 1993 Trade Center Bombing (Page A08)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32222-2003Apr4.html
Senate Repeals Exemption for 'Organic' Chicken (Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32221-2003Apr4.html
Poll: More Say War Justified Without Finding Weapons (By Richard Morin
and Claudia Deane, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31223-2003Apr4.html
Pentagon Identifies 8 Soldiers Killed in Ambush (By Daniel LeDuc, Page
A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33434-2003Apr5.html
U.S. Won't Install Iraqi Expatriates: Inclusive Interim Authority Is
Pledged (By Peter Slevin, Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32303-2003Apr4.html
Reversal Sought On Funds For Iraq: Bush Wants Pentagon To Manage
Rebuilding (By Mike Allen, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32251-2003Apr4.html
The Fallen (Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31791-2003Apr4.html
DAYBOOK A look at the day's major developments in the war with Iraq.
(Page A32)
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Hussein Appears on Iraqi Satellite TV: Taped Speech Best Proof Yet
That Iraqi Leader Is Alive, U.S. Intelligence Officials Say (Post,
April 5, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31866-2003Apr4.html
Postwar Plan Worries Legal Community: Iraqi Lawyers, Judges Object to
Interim Authority, Propose Rules for Elections (Post, April 5, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31468-2003Apr4.html
Troops Probe Countryside In Kurd Zone: Reconnaissance Squads Search
for Iraqi Positions (Post, April 5, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31467-2003Apr4.html
Britain Offers Plan for U.N.'s Postwar Role (Post, April 5, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31343-2003Apr4.html
European Journalists' Tart Queries Reflect Powell's Tough Task (Post,
April 5, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31342-2003Apr4.html
Thousands Abandon Homes, Hope (By Anthony Shadid, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31003-2003Apr4.html
U.S. Forces Probing Inside Baghdad: Marines, Army, Special Forces Form
Ring Around Iraqi Capital (By Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Peter Baker,
Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31895-2003Apr4.html
Hostages Aboard Cuban Ferry Freed in Raid (By Anita Snow, Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31064-2003Apr4.html
Post Columnist Dies in Wreck Near Baghdad: Michael Kelly Is First U.S.
Journalist Killed (By Howard Kurtz, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31526-2003Apr4.html
Troops Uncover Vials of Powder: Army Investigates Cache Including
Unknown Substance, Chemical Warfare Manuals (By William Branigin, Page
A20)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30074-2003Apr4.html
Less Threat, More Heat: Suits Off (Page A20)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31428-2003Apr4.html
Back in the Fight, but More Cautiously (By Mary Beth Sheridan, Page
A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31067-2003Apr4.html
Britain Moves to Deport Radical Cleric
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/europe/05CND-BRIT.html
Britain moved today to deport Abu Hamza al-Masri, the country's most
outspoken radical cleric, who until recently was the imam of a mosque
in North London widely depicted as a recruiting ground for
fundamentalist Islam and Al Qaeda.
Canadian Court Hears 2 Native Rights Cases
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Ernest Blais went goose hunting with some friends the other day in the
lake country northwest of Winnipeg, a rugged land rich in wild turkey
and grazing buffalo, just as their Métis ancestors have for centuries.
African Mission to Investigate Tensions in Zimbabwe
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/africa/05ZIMB.html
Representatives of a southern African task force are scheduled to
visit Zimbabwe next week to investigate intensifying political
tensions that threaten to push the country toward further unrest and
economic ruin.
Bush Aide Says U.S., not U.N., Will Rebuild Iraq
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President Bush's national security adviser said today that the
American-led alliance had shed "life and blood" in the Iraq war and
would reserve for itself - and not the United Nations - the lead role
in creating a new Iraqi government.
Al Jazeera Returns to Coverage From Baghdad After Shutdown
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/international/worldspecial/05MEDI.html
By JIM RUTENBERG
Al Jazeera, the most-watched Arab-language television news network,
resumed its coverage from Iraq yesterday after the Iraqis rescinded a
reporting ban on its two correspondents in Baghdad.
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Out of Ammunition, the Economy Faces a New Foe
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By ALEX BERENSON
The United States is winning the war in Iraq. But the news on the
economic home front is bad and getting worse.
Arabs Have a Litmus Test for U.S. Handling of Iraqi Oil
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/weekinreview/06BANE.html
By NEELA BANERJEE
If popular opinion in the Middle East is united on anything, it is
that oil - not terrorism, not regional stability and not any intention
to bring democracy to the Iraq - is the real reason the United States
decided to oust Saddam Hussein. In Jordan, a longtime ally of
Washington, a recent poll showed that 83 percent of people there think
that the United States wants to control Iraq's oil.
Holding Steady? It's What Americans Do.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/weekinreview/06WOLF.html
By ALAN WOLFE
BOSTON - As American troops encountered strong resistance a week ago,
critics of the war against Iraq were quick to play the expectations
card.
Is This Really an All-Volunteer Army?
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By STEVEN A. HOLMES
Is the United States military representative of American society? Some
experts say it consists of mostly working-class young people and
minorities.
Airlines Burdened on a Global Scale by War and Illness
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By EDWARD WONG
The transformation of airports into paramilitary zones and disease
control centers seems to herald an apocalyptic time for the airline
industry.
SARS Is New and It Kills, but How Dangerous Is It?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/weekinreview/06GRAD.html
By now, who hasn't heard of SARS, or severe acute respiratory
syndrome?
Learning Lessons Learned by Kennedy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/weekinreview/06NAFT.html
By TIMOTHY J. NAFTALI
Like the current administration, President John F. Kennedy learned how
difficult it is to predict when people will rise against their
oppressors.
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Justices Enter the Radio Age
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/weekinreview/06BOXA.html
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
Now that the Supreme Court is sporadically releasing audiotapes of its
oral arguments, can television be far behind? Yes.
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War-Speak Worthy of Milton and Chuck Norris
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By GEOFFREY NUNBERG
What's notable about the current war isn't the toll it's taking on
language - all wars do that - but the obsessive attention we pay to
the matter.
For Bush, Time to Mend Economy Is Running Out
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31614-2003Apr4.html
The Labor Department's report yesterday that the U.S. economy shed
108,000 jobs in March underscored an emerging threat to President
Bush's reelection prospects: He is running out of time to restore jobs
and economic growth.
Words of War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/weekinreview/06BOXB.html
By THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON - In the past seven days of war in Iraq, there was a
dramatic rescue of a female American prisoner and the forward march of
coalition forces to Baghdad. Language was on the move as well, with a
shifting set of phrases intended to capture, at least momentarily, the
flow of combat.
Goya Probably Would Not Be Amused
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/weekinreview/06RIDI.html
By ALAN RIDING
Young British artists have taken the art of scandal a step further by
altering a set of 80 prints of Goya's "Disasters of War" to create a
work they call "Insult to Injury."
Food, Too, Can Be a Weapon of the War in Iraq
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By PETER MAASS
Since the war began, Iraqi civilians have hungered for food and water.
Now a debate has begun to brew over who should control relief efforts
after the fighting ends.
The Strategists Fight a War About the War
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By NINA BERNSTEIN
In recent days, military traditionalists who emphasize the importance
of large, conventional forces have tried to associate the initial
setbacks in the Iraq war with the military innovators — those who
think the future of warfare lies with lighter, smaller, more mobile
and better-coordinated units.
Paramilitaries on the March
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/weekinreview/06DASG.html
By SANIL DASGUPTA
Paramilitary forces are linked to some of the deadliest crimes of
recent history. The ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo was largely
carried out by Serb paramilitary forces, not the regular military.
Hutu militias, known as the Interahamwe, were responsible for the 1994
genocide in Rwanda. In Indonesia, West Timorese paramilitaries and
government-organized youth squads ledthe "dirty wars" against the
separatists of East Timor.
Watch Out for Hijackers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/opinion/06FRIE.html
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
President Bush must be ready to fend off people who will try to hijack
the eventual peace in Iraq and turn it to their own ends.
Firefight at the Pentagon
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By JEAN EDWARD SMITH
What may seem on the outside an unstable and even ad hoc system of
power sharing has, without a doubt, been a key to two centuries of
military success.
Saving Private Lynch
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/opinion/06MCAL.html
By MELANI McALISTER
Pfc. Jessica Lynch's story resonates because it is the latest
iteration of a classic American war fantasy: the captivity narrative.
'The Best Possible Life'
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/opinion/06DOWD.html
By MAUREEN DOWD
Michael Kelly always seemed to be in the right place at the right time
to get the best quote and the best story, the best jobs and the best
life.
Overextended Military Reserves
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/opinion/06SUN1.html
The more the military relies on the reserves for extended periods of
service, the more problems mount.
The Growth Mirage
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/opinion/06SUN2.html
President Bush's "economic growth and job creation program" now dances
before Congress like an Orwellian mirage.
Why Justice O'Connor Could Be Affirmative Action's Savior
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/opinion/06SUN4.html
By ADAM COHEN
The argument that the Constitution requires absolute colorblindness
clearly leaves Sandra Day O'Connor cold.
Looking for Lessons in the War With Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/opinion/L06IRAQ.html
Do You Want to Smoke? Step Outside
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Nosy Employers
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U.S. Tanks Make Quick Strike Into Baghdad
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By PATRICK E. TYLER
An armored force wheeled into Baghdad, taking the city's defenders by
surprise and starting a firefight along boulevards.
Incursion Enables U.S. Forces to Test the Mettle of Their Foe
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By MICHAEL R. GORDON
The American drive through Baghdad was the first of a series intended
to confuse the Iraqi military and topple Saddam Hussein.
Barrage of Fire, Trail of Death in the Capital
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By STEVEN LEE MYERS
A three-hour raid by sixty American tanks through Baghdad was a blur
of bullets and explosions.
Defiant Iraqis Say U.S. Advance Has Been Broken
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By JOHN F. BURNS
On a day when American units probed within miles of central Baghdad,
the official Iraqi response was mocking and triumphalist.
Allies' New Test: Defining Victory
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By R. W. APPLE Jr.
As troops enter Baghdad, the relevant question seems to be how the
U.S. and its allies will know when they have won the war.
Marketers Ship a Taste of Home to Troops in a Far-Flung War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/international/worldspecial/06PROD.html
By SHERRI DAY
Intact Pop-Tarts have become a prized comfort food on the front lines.
New Signs of Terror Not Evident
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By DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN
American officials have said there has been surprisingly little
evidence of potential terrorist plots against U.S. interests since the
war in Iraq began.
New Tools Make War Images Instant but Coverage No Simpler
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By JULIE SALAMON
Technology has altered how wars are waged, the tools reporters use to
cover them and how audiences receive the news.
Urban War Begins: 'It Was Real Scary'
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By DEXTER FILKINS
For many young marines the urban warfare in the outskirts of Baghdad
was as dangerous as any combat they had undergone before.
British Forces Penetrate Basra
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By CRAIG S. SMITH
Two British battle groups began a major push into Basra today, the
largest assault yet on Iraq's second largest city in the two-week-old
war.
Forensic Experts Examine Remains Found Near Basra
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/international/worldspecial/06WEB-BODI.html
By CRAIG S. SMITH with MARC SANTORA
American forensic experts arrived today to begin sorting out the
remains of hundreds of bodies discovered on an Iraqi military base
just west of the besieged city of Basra.
Covert Units Conduct an Invisible Campaign
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By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT
More than 9,000 Special Operations forces are conducting some of the
riskiest missions of the war in Iraq.
The Loyalty Test
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By MICHAEL R. GORDON
The dispute over troop strength reflects a debate that began long
before plans were drawn up to invade Iraq.
Not Snow Nor Gloom of Night, but Other Factors Slow Troops' Mail
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By JONATHAN D. GLATER
Delivering letters is complicated by soldiers' need for supplies which
always trumps letters, photographs and care packages.
From Politics to Pies: New Life for Former Arizona Governor
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/national/06GOV.html
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
Fife Symington once considered Arizona's fiscal well-being his
proudest achievement. But these days, his professional pride relies
heavily on his signature chocolate cake.
Wait for News of Missing Soldiers Ends With Worst Fears Confirmed
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/international/worldspecial/06CASU.html
By SIMON ROMERO
The families of seven missing soldiers of the 507th Maintenance
Company and that of a missing soldier from another unit received the
worst possible news.
Health System Warily Prepares for Privacy Rules
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By ROBERT PEAR
New federal rules to protect the privacy of medical records take
effect on April 14, and the changes have touched off a quiet
revolution in the health care industry.
Pros, Cons and Don't Cares at the University of Michigan
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/education/06MICH.html
By GREG WINTER
At the focal point of the nation's fight over affirmative action,
students display a curious mixture of passion and apathy, of immersion
and disengagement.
The Iraqi Time Bomb
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By JEFF MADRICK
Mix the open-ended costs of war and reconstruction with huge tax cuts,
shrinking tax revenues and a stalled economy, and you get a budget
deficit bound to explode.
Domestic Security: The Line Starts Here
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By PHILIP SHENON
Charles E. McQueary will influence how the government will spend
billions of dollars on technology to defend America from terrorist
attacks.
Viewing the War as a Lesson to the World
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By DAVID E. SANGER
Some Bush administration officials are discussing the lessons
President Bush expects the world to take from the war in Iraq.
Statute Becomes Justice Department's Weapon of Choice
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By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Prosecutors have secured their first convictions under a 1996 law
making it criminal to offer "material support" to groups designated as
terrorist organizations.
Health System Warily Prepares for Privacy Rules
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By ROBERT PEAR
New federal rules to protect the privacy of medical records take
effect on April 14, and the changes have touched off a quiet
revolution in the health care industry.
Advisers May Get Second Chance to Fail
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/business/yourmoney/06WATC.html
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Firms are now allowed to earn fees advising a company that they may
have helped push into bankruptcy.
Again, Money Follows the Pinstripes
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By PATRICK McGEEHAN
Shareholders hoping for a revolution that would spell the end of the
imperial chief executive will have to wait at least another year.
Some Resilience in a Shaky World
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/business/06LEDE.html
By KENNETH N. GILPIN
Despite all the bad news that confronted investors in the first
quarter, the average equity mutual fund declined only modestly in
value.
Is That Your C.E.O. Cashing Out?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/business/yourmoney/06SALE.html
By DAVID LEONHARDT
Pay experts say the picture of compensation that appears in proxy
statements is often incomplete, excluding information about
executives' confidence in their companies.
Signs Are Unclear on the S.E.C.'s Path
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By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr.
The nation's lawmakers are loaded with questions about the devastation
of stock portfolios.
An Antiwar Chief (and Proud of It)
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By AMY CORTESE
Alan Kligerman, head of AkPharma Inc., has been a vocal and
unrelenting critic of President Bush and the war in Iraq.
The Importance of Staying the Course
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By MARK HULBERT
If recent research into mutual fund investment newsletters is any
guide, investors should stick to a sound long-term allocation
strategy.
'A Shortcut Through Time': Quantum Weirdness
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By JIM HOLT
George Johnson, a science writer, describes the prospects for a major
cyber-breakthrough.
Quantum
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When Banned Smoke Heads Outdoors, Pedestrians Say They See New Threat
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/nyregion/05SMOK.html
By SHAILA K. DEWAN
The ban on smoking in bars has made indoor air fairly pure, but out on
the sidewalk it is getting a little difficult to breathe.
Imams Urged to Be Alert for Suspicious Visitors
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By MICHAEL MOSS with JENNY NORDBERG
The F.B.I. and other counterterrorism authorities have pursued a
campaign to recruit Muslims as informers.
This Town vs. Gown Fight Is All About Taxes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/nyregion/06PRIN.html
By IVER PETERSON
The griping about how much or how little Princeton University pays in
fees and taxes has started early and politely.
Japanese Art and Its Korean Secret
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By HOLLAND COTTER
SINCE the 1970's, art history has been paying at least as much
attention to what makes art connective as to what makes it
individually distinctive. The basic assumption is that all art is, to
a greater or lesser degree, shaped by other art. There's no such thing
as a stand-alone aesthetic. No art is an island unto itself.
Don't Count Me In
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/magazine/06WWLN.html
By WALTER KIRN
There's no use polling for "American opinion." In this war, it doesn't
exist.
Uday's Music Man
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Questions for Ismail Hussain, Iraqi pop star and favorite musician of
Saddam's son.
Captive Audience
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By ALLAN GURGANUS
The images of American P.O.W.'s in Iraq make a Vietnam vet reconsider
what his youth meant.
The Dia Generation
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By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
The artists of the 60's and 70's are among the best America has ever
produced. Now an eccentric foundation has built a monumental home for
their work in a cracker-box factory in bucolic New York.
The Millimeter Revolution
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By ELIZABETH RUBIN
There are whispers in Washington that Iran is next in line. But
Iranian reformers like Emadeddin Baghi would rather take a go-slow
approach to democracy. They remember the last regime change.
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By DAOUD KUTTAB
The view from the other side: lots of close-ups of Iraqi casualties,
all the air time Saddam needs, rumors of an Israeli connection - and a
fight for millions of viewers.
One Last Sit-In
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By DEBORAH SONTAG
Rachel Corrie has become a martyr to some, a terrorist sympathizer to
others. But to her family, she was something else.
U.S. Warplane Bombs Convoy in Friendly Fire Incident
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A U.S. warplane bombed a convoy carrying U.S. Special Forces and
Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq today, killing several people.
In Richmond, Lincoln Statue Is Greeted by Protests
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Two ceremonies were taking place today, with purposes as different as
day and night, or North and South. One was the unveiling of a statue
of Abraham Lincoln, and the other a vigil in protest at the grave of
Jefferson Davis.
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By MONICA DAVEY
Most of them lived many miles from New York and Washington, in small
towns and strip-mall suburbs worlds away from ground zero and the
Pentagon. Still, they told their families, the terror attacks of Sept.
11 had changed them.
Chiseled From Marble, a Refuge From War News
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By TIMOTHY EGAN
SEATTLE, April 5 - In a drafty old shed by the shore of Puget Sound,
Sabah Al-Dhaher takes chisel to marble, working to spring life from
stone and at the same time escape the images of death from his
homeland, Iraq.
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By DANA CANEDY
MIAMI, April 5 - After commandos rescued Pfc. Jessica Lynch in Iraq
this week, a news anchor for the NBC affiliate here explained to
viewers how soldiers train to survive as prisoners of war.
Church Event Set for Base Stirs Concern
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By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
The Army major general who commands Fort Bragg's training center for
special operations forces has invited a group of predominantly
Southern Baptist pastors to the base this month to participate in a
military-themed motivational program for Christian evangelists.
Opinions on the Iraq War From Newspapers Around the World
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By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The war in Iraq continued to dominate the attention of newspaper
editorialists around the world, as the following excerpts of
commentary from the past week demonstrates. And opinion is as divided
as ever.
N.Y.S.E. Abandons Gag Plan
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By ALEX BERENSON
The New York Stock Exchange backed away from a plan yesterday to stop
Wall Street analysts from talking to newspapers, television networks
or other media outlets that do not disclose the analysts' potential
conflicts of interest in their reports.
Shrinking Salaries Hit Home in Argentina
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/business/yourmoney/06LATA.html
By TONY SMITH
WHILE numbers in the United States show that hard times have not been
hard of late on the pay of the nation's chief executives, that is not
the case in crisis-ridden Argentina.
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For Iraq: Déją Vu All Over Again
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This isn't the first time a Western superpower has invaded Iraq,
promising to free the country from tyrannical rule and bring
democratic government -- all while nursing its own strategic
interests.
Good Friends & Soldiers
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The joy surrounding the rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch was dampened
Saturday by confirmation of the death of her roommate Pfc. Lori
Piestewa, the first U.S. servicewoman killed in the war.
Product Protesters Face Tough Going
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With customers holding disparate opinions about the war, global firms
are downplaying disagreeable associations in the markets they serve.
A Muslim World Torn
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For Muslims throughout the world, the war in Iraq has set off a wave
of anger, sadness and frustration.
U.S. Troops Kill More Than 2,000 Iraqis in 'Show of Force'
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After the U.S. military opened the battle for Baghdad by dispatching
armored vehicles through the capital's southwestern quadrant, military
officials said today that thousands of Iraqis had been killed in the
operation.
Plan for Iraq's Future Is Challenged
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The U.S. is facing criticism and the rejection of significant parts of
its plan for rebuilding the nation and establishing a new Iraqi
government.
Rights Groups Fault Indonesian Tribunal
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- On a recent day in a weathered courthouse in
Jakarta sat defendant Tono Suratman, an army brigadier general accused
of failing to prevent two massacres in East Timor during its bloody
breakaway from Indonesia in 1999.
Risking Death, a Northern Town's Baathists Turn Guns on Iraqis
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DUBARDAN, Iraq, April 5 -- Warplanes had pounded Iraqi army trenches
on all sides of this hamlet on the road to Mosul. Iraqis were carrying
bodies south. It was decision time for Abdul Karim Kasem, truck driver
and Baath Party official.
Bush Quietly Confident on War
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President Bush delivered a forecast for the war's course as his aides
laid plans for convincing Iraqis and skeptical overseas audiences that
the U.S. will be a benevolent force in the aftermath.
No Blinking, No Looking Back
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The war in Iraq must feel familiar to Bush, and not just because he is
overseeing a campaign against his father's nemesis, Saddam Hussein.
The war is a classic George W. Bush operation.
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HAD IT been possible to know on March 20 that in just 17 days, U.S.
forces would have captured Baghdad's international airport, destroyed
most of the Republican Guard and secured Iraq's vital oil
infrastructure, all at a cost of fewer than 75 American lives, most
people in this country would have been elated at the prospect of
seemingly overwhelming military success. There was indeed reason for
satisfaction and relief yesterday, and many people felt it -- but
there have been several swings in the national mood in the past couple
of weeks, and more may yet come. That's been due partly to the effects
of saturation television coverage of the war; partly to Iraqi
resistance that has come in unexpected intensity and in unexpected
places; partly to the always painful losses among innocent civilians;
and partly to warnings from officers in the field that the war may
prove harder than expected, and stretch over months rather than weeks.
That could still prove true: It remains to be seen how much fighting
will be needed to overcome Saddam Hussein's remaining defenders in
Baghdad and elsewhere in the country. For now, it appears the United
States and its allies have a good chance of concluding the war in a
way that will make vital postwar tasks easier, ranging from
stabilizing Iraq under a representative government to mending
relations among the Western allies.
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LAST MONTH'S Supreme Court decision in the case of Norfolk &
Western Railway Co. v. Ayers didn't attract much attention. This is
hardly a surprise, as the question the justices tangled over is
technical: whether asbestos victims suffering from a disease called
asbestosis can recover damages for their fear that they will later
develop a horrible cancer as well. Yet the obscurity of the case masks
the important statement that the justices made, even as they divided
by an ideologically eclectic 5 to 4 vote over the merits of the case.
For all nine justices, in different ways, once again emphasized the
severity of the asbestos litigation crisis and the urgent need for
congressional action.
Three Strikes
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CAN YOU TRUST eyewitness testimony? Consider the case of Army Sgt.
Dennis Maher. Mr. Maher was convicted in 1984 of two rapes and an
attempted rape. The evidence against him consisted largely of
testimony from the three victims, who were attacked in separate
incidents and who each positively identified him as their assailant.
Last week Mr. Maher walked free after serving 19 years of a life
sentence in a Massachusetts prison. DNA evidence had positively
cleared him of the two rapes, and while the attempted rape case had
left no physical evidence to test, prosecutors said they no longer
believed he had committed that crime either. Three victims, in short,
all named the same man -- and they were all wrong.
'A Little Bit of Color'
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A Boston-based software developer has launched a unique campaign to
expand the social scene for black professionals in this city with a
tumultuous history of race relations.
Unmasking SARS
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As the number of persons afflicted with severe acute respiratory
syndrome continues to rise, scientists are racing to confirm the link
between the deadly lung disease and a virus similar to those
associated with the common cold.
Pain and Suffering
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Victims of international terrorism are discovering that despite their
shared loss and overwhelming public support, they are on their own
when the TV cameras are shut down and the klieg lights are switched
off.
War Highlights Rifts Among Democrats
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The war has divided and silenced the Democrats, leaving their
presidential candidates contending with a resurgent antiwar
constituency that could drive the party farther to the left.
Judge: Should Moussaoui Case Proceed?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29902-2003Apr4.html
A trial judge Friday questioned whether the government could proceed
with the public trial of accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui because
prosecutors are operating in a "shroud of secrecy."
Guilty Plea Paves Way for Testimony in Terrorism Case
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23453-2003Apr3.html
A government witness in the case of an alleged "sleeper" terrorist
cell pleaded guilty to 10 federal charges of fraud and misuse of a
visa, clearing the way for him to testify.
Six More Moons of Jupiter Discovered
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36954-2003Apr5.html
Six more moons have been found orbiting Jupiter, pushing to 58 the
total number of known natural satellites of the solar system's largest
planet.
Winning the Peace
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By Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Chuck Hagel, Page B07
The war in Iraq is still on, but it's not too early to think about
what the United States should do to win the peace that will follow.
There may be difficult days ahead, but we are confident in the
rightness of our cause, the skill of our soldiers and the certainty of
our victory.
Stripped of Spiritual Comfort
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By Frank Schaeffer, Page B07
A few weeks ago my wife, Genie, and I got the news that our Marine
son, John, would shortly be deployed to the Middle East. He is gone to
war now. We have been dreading this moment. We don't dare go for a
walk. What if he should call? I wake with a sickening jolt each dawn.
Genie is quieter than usual. I snap at her over small things. The
ground feels brittle under my feet. My one comfort has been prayer and
church. Now I'm feeling forlorn even about going to church.
Diversity on Campus, And in the Newsroom
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32107-2003Apr4.html
By David S. Broder, Page B07
The numbers were unprecedented.
Before last week's Supreme Court hearing on the University of
Michigan's affirmative action admissions policy, about 300
organizations, including five dozen major corporations, many unions,
other universities and student groups, asked the court not...
Russia's Politics of Anti-Americanism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32108-2003Apr4.html
By Masha Lipman, Page B07
MOSCOW -- As the war in Iraq was beginning, Russian President
Vladimir Putin sharply condemned the U.S.-led operation as
unwarranted, unjustifiable and a bad mistake. He warned against the
"rule of the fist" and strongly criticized violations of the principle
of state sovereignty.
Homeland Worriers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32132-2003Apr4.html
By George F. Will, Page B07
Asked why al Qaeda might have been trying to kill him in 1999 -- he
abandoned his house for a month and acquired Secret Service protection
based on an alert from Yasser Arafat -- Richard Clarke, who The Post
says "coordinated U.S. efforts to hunt and kill al Qaeda's senior
leaders" years before 9/11, simply says: "We were killing them. Fair
enough."
Old-Style Battles Are Giving Way to 'Checkpoint War' (Post, April 6,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37656-2003Apr5.html
Intense, Coordinated Air War Backs Baghdad Campaign (Post, April 6,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37418-2003Apr5.html
In Bid to Shape a Postwar Iraq, U.S. Goes by the Schoolbook (Post,
April 6, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37420-2003Apr5.html
Iowa Sued on Behalf of 5 Orphans Taught to Stutter: Research at U-Iowa
in 1939 Subjected Children to Negative Speech Therapy (Post, April 6,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36780-2003Apr5.html
Somber Epilogue to Daring Rescue: Army Releases Names of Eight
Soldiers Who Died in Ambush (By Lee Hockstader, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37660-2003Apr5.html
Entrepreneur Is at Lagerheads With Utah on Taxes (Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37923-2003Apr5.html
No Etouffee for You, Monsieur President! (Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37922-2003Apr5.html
The Talk Shows (Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37870-2003Apr5.html
For Miller's Ga. Senate Seat, Waiting for a Field to Sprout (By Brian
Faler, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37869-2003Apr5.html
Minority Groups Mobilize on Pollution: Alabama Town's Battle for PCB
Cleanup Reflects Fight Against 'Environmental Racism' (By Dave Bryan,
Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36906-2003Apr5.html
Storm Leaves Many Across Upstate N.Y. Without Power (Page A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37845-2003Apr5.html
LAST WEEK IN THE IRAQ WAR (Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37834-2003Apr5.html
The Fallen (Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37976-2003Apr5.html
The Missing (Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37977-2003Apr5.html
DAYBOOK : A look at the day's major developments in the war with Iraq
(Page A34)
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Friendly Fire Deaths Reported in Northern Iraq (Reuters, April 6,
2003; 11:00 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39294-2003Apr6.html
Explosives Found Outside Lebanon McDonald's (Reuters, April 6, 2003;
11:09 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40804-2003Apr6.html
Marines Warily Hunt Unseen Enemy (Post, April 6, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37720-2003Apr5.html
British Advance Into Basra in Bid to Control City (Post, April 6,
2003; 11:03 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39501-2003Apr6.html
Overnight, A Capital Transformed: Guards, Irregulars Take Up Positions
(Post, April 6, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37691-2003Apr5.html
Fear Rules Around Basra: British Troops Detain 14 Baath, Militia
Leaders (Post, April 6, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37643-2003Apr5.html
After First Skirting Karbala, Army Now Aims to Take It (Post, April 6,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37649-2003Apr5.html
In Kurdish Villages, Life Is Near Normal: Fighters Hold Back, Watch
War on TV (Post, April 6, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37650-2003Apr5.html
Authorities Take Subtle Steps to Block Way to Jihad (Post, April 6,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37651-2003Apr5.html
War Boosts the Shipment of Aid, Not Fighters, to Iraq (Post, April 6,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37652-2003Apr5.html
U.S. Troops Open Battle for Baghdad: Tanks Move Through City In a Show
Of Force (By Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Alan Sipress, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37722-2003Apr5.html
Cuban Dissidents Reel Under 'Wave of Repression': Activists Say
Crackdown Is Worst in Decades (By Kevin Sullivan, Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37433-2003Apr5.html
Straining for the Real Message In North Korean Broadcasts: Monitors
Weigh Pyongyang's Rhetoric to 'Filter Out the Facts' (By Doug Struck,
Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37436-2003Apr5.html
Medical Experts Advise Vatican on Pedophilia (By Philip Pullella, Page
A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37437-2003Apr5.html
British Discover Warehouse Full of Human Remains (Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37966-2003Apr5.html
On a Busy Night, Beds Fill Up With U.S. Soldiers, Iraqi POWs and
Civilians (By At a MASH Unit Near Baghdad, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37442-2003Apr5.html
Radical Islam Placed Under Tight Control (By Glenn Frankel, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37653-2003Apr5.html
Command Details Events Leading to Rescue of Lynch: Dramatic Exchange
at Hospital Recounted (By Alan Sipress, Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37654-2003Apr5.html
'Friendly Fire' Kills 18 Kurds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41945-2003Apr6.html
Brother and son of local Kurdish leader wounded by U.S. bombs.
Guerrilla War vs. War Crimes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32234-2003Apr4.html
Civilian disguises a common tactic, but can be against rules of war.
Ground War: Doing More With Less
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32232-2003Apr4.html
The war with Iraq is not without its ironies. One is that U.S. ground
forces are playing a central role in the campaign and have advanced at
unprecedented rates -- a feat that stands in stark contrast to the
sideline role played by land power in our two previous wars. Yet
active Army generals, on background, and retired ones, on the record,
have taken the secretary of defense to task for supposedly limiting
the size of the ground component during Operation Iraqi Freedom's
early phases.
'On the Natural History of Destruction': Cordoning Off the Past
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By DAPHNE MERKIN
A posthumous collection by W. G. Sebald includes a controversial essay
on Germany's postwar evasion of its own suffering.
'The Number': Fuzzy Math on Wall Street
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/books/review/06WALKERT.html
By ROB WALKER
It was a time of pennies. If you paid attention to the movements of
stock prices during the last chapter of the 1990's bull market, and
its bleak aftermath, then you know what I mean: if a company announced
that its quarterly earnings per share were just one penny better than
expected, its stock would soar. Those who came in one penny below
expectations saw their stocks take a beating. Could a single cent
really matter so much?
'The Spirit of Early Christian Thought': Seeing the Voice of the Lord
http://tinyurl.com/8xx7
By G.W. BOWERSOCK
I once heard the eminent German classicist Eduard Fraenkel declare
that the greatest masters of Latin prose were Cicero, Petronius and
Tertullian. These three people would probably have had little to say
to one another, and yet they shared a common classical culture. The
last of them was the first great expositor of Christianity in Latin, a
Father of the Church, with visible roots in the oratory of Cicero if
not in the racy novel of Petronius.
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'Hermit in Paris': Things He Left Behind
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By RICHARD EDER
In Italy's family of cities, industrial Turin is the responsible,
hard-working brother, with none of the widely varying dazzlements of
Florence, Venice, Rome, Naples or even Milan, but, at most, the
quality of being gravely and quietly agreeable. Yet this city of wide
straight avenues and rectangular blocks was the chosen home of several
of the country's finest writers: Primo Levi, Cesare Pavese and, for
much of his life and most curiously, the artificer of lightness and
curved space, Italo Calvino. ''Turin is a city which entices a writer
towards vigor, linearity, style,'' he wrote. ''It encourages logic,
and through logic it opens the way towards madness.''
'Enough': The Dangers of Genetic Technologies
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By NATALIE ANGIER
This spring is the 50th anniversary of the report by James Watson and
Francis Crick on the double-helical structure of DNA, and I'm sorry,
but for all the hushed reverence in both the popular and scientific
press, I can't bring myself to genuflect. Maybe it's because the
dreamy twitterings about the molecule of life haven't been able to
compete with the mighty mongerings of war, or maybe it's because I
don't think genes, in and of themselves, are particularly fascinating
or profound. I don't think they hold the master key to who we are,
either as individuals or as a species. Yes, of course they're
important, but only when taken together with the context in which they
are expressed; the give-and-take, shout-and-response that occurs among
genes and cells and bodies and a wide welter of signals from the
outside world, during fetal development, in infancy, in adolescence,
in adulthood, yea, till death do us fall apart.
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The limits of generosity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,931146,00.html
Gary Younge: Toussaint L'Overture fought slavery to enjoy freedom; 200
years after his death his legacy
feels as relevant as ever.
Toussaint L'Overture
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Please, just tell us what's going on
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,931148,00.html
Peter Preston: Too few war reporters are simply bearing witness to
events in Iraq.
Egg poachers at large
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,931147,00.html
Rose George: It's spring - so dozens of men are off to steal from the
nests of Britain's rarest birds.
To Europe, via Baghdad, and reading the wrong map
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,931219,00.html
John Stevens: Blair underestimates the scale of both US ambition and
European defiance.
My views are those of millions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,931218,00.html
George Galloway: I am not a traitor and I will not be gagged over this
war
It's OK to be anti
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,931083,00.html
When Robin Cook called for British troops to be recalled from Iraq he
was vilified for being unpatriotic but, says Linda Colley, there's a
long tradition of criticising a war once our troops are fighting.
Message in a movie
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,931326,00.html
Will Michael Winterbottom's acclaimed film In This World change
anyone's mind about asylum? To find out we sent three leading critics
of Britain's immigration policy to see it.
John Sutherland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,931084,00.html
There is really on one source of reliable information on this war -
and it's coming from Russian spies.
'The endgame has begun'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Does the coalition move into Baghdad presage an imminent victory?
Liberating the Iraqis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,931151,00.html
Sky News showed disturbing pictures on Saturday of British soldiers
smashing their way into a Basra family home, pointing their guns at a
woman and manhandling, hooding and manacling a number of young men,
one of whom, in close-up, was shown quivering with terror.
No need to be ashamed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,931152,00.html
I am fed up with letters whining on about being ashamed to be British
(Letters, 3 and 5).
Marathon man
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,931153,00.html
Perhaps Alastair Campbell's months of training for the London Marathon
in aid of Leukaemia Research (Catherine Bennett, G2, April 3) could
have been better spent persuading Bush and Blair to stop dropping
bombs.
Rebuilding our European identity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,931154,00.html
Europe has gone a long way down the road of "growing together" over
the past 50 years. The road ahead is not less daunting.
The flickering flame
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,931054,00.html
Blair-Bush talks are a small sign of hope.
Cluster's last stand
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,931055,00.html
Now is the time to ban these bombs.
Geneva is hit by US war on terrorism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,931247,00.html
In the view of one cynical observer, it was America's war on terror
that launched the Doha round of trade talks.
Summit pressure on Bush over UN
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,931254,00.html
Tony Blair will today urge George Bush to internationalise the
reconstruction of postwar Iraq, and is expecting a series of
conferences to phase in a democratic Iraqi government.
Anti-war MPs face loss of whip
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,931233,00.html
MPs urge action against George Galloway and Tam Dalyell.
Yemen seeks to extradite Hamza
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,931332,00.html
Government attempts to strip the radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza of
British citizenship took a new twist yesterday when it emerged that
Yemen had requested his extradition on terrorism-related charges.
Scared to death
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,931440,00.html
April 7: So far, more than six Canadians have died from Sars. And with
so little known about the virus, it is hard to reassure the public,
writes Anne McIlroy.
They had cannon, rockets and faith. But next time the US tanks come it
won't be enough
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931225,00.html
All signs pointed to an epic confrontation about to unfold: the
constant low bass of American artillery in the darkness, the muffled
shouts of Iraqi soldiers on night watch.
British tanks force way into Basra and destroy Ba'ath party HQ
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931226,00.html
Forces loyal to Saddam Hussein appeared last night to have lost
control of much of Basra, after columns of British troops poured into
Iraq's second city, destroying its Ba'ath party headquarters.
We will take Baghdad one chunk at a time, says US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931197,00.html
American troops fan out around capital city, but the fighting is still
far from over
Hawk says US will run Iraq for over six months
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931334,00.html
Iraq may have to remain under the control of the American military for
more than six months before the US is ready to hand over control to
the Iraqis, the American deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz said
yesterday.
Iraqi exiles in America outnumbered by Arab anti-war protesters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931111,00.html
Tensions rise in divided suburb of US city which houses hundreds of
thousands of Arabic speakers.
Jews settle in Palestinian Jerusalem
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931129,00.html
Ariel Sharon has brushed aside an appeal by the White House to stop an
unprecedented move by Jewish settlers into a Palestinian district of
Jersualem which his critics say will further hinder a political
settlement.
Jailed colleagues refuse to testify against Barghouti
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931128,00.html
The murder trial of a prominent Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti,
opened yesterday with prosecution witnesses refusing to testify and
defence lawyers only grudgingly representing their client.
France sets up Muslim council
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931252,00.html
French Islamic leaders voted yesterday to elect the members of a new
national council aimed at giving the faith's diverse factions a
unified voice and represent their views to government.
Opposition leader secretly flown to Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931203,00.html
The controversial leader of one of Iraq's main opposition groups,
Ahmad Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), has been
secretly flown by the US military to southern Iraq.
Hunt still on for Chemical Ali after British attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931204,00.html
The fate of one of the most notorious figures in Saddam Hussein's
regime was uncertain last night as British forces searched the home of
Ali Hassan al-Majid, the Iraqi general known as Chemical Ali.
'I saw the bomb come down beside me... it took the legs off our
translator'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931333,00.html
John Simpson filed this report for the BBC website
After the long standoff, the heat and dust of battle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931199,00.html
It was a battle that was fought amid blinding gusts of dust over a
nondescript complex of buildings which had been taken over by Ba'ath
party loyalists armed with rocket-propelled grenades. Basra's college
of literature, located 5km into the city, has held the British forces
at bay for the best part of two weeks.
Russian diplomatic convoy attacked
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931200,00.html
A convoy of Russian diplomats was attacked yesterday en route to Syria
from their embassy in Baghdad, wounding at least four officials and
journalists.
18 die as US plane bombs Kurdish convoy in worst 'friendly fire'
incident
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931201,00.html
US military authorities were last night struggling to explain the
worst "friendly fire" incident so far in the war in Iraq, after an
American warplane bombed a Kurdish convoy travelling with US special
forces, killing at least 18 people.
Shock tactic aimed at hastening end
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931198,00.html
Psychological mission of tank raid on capital
Iran lays claim to find of 200 bodies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931191,00.html
Corpses 'are from 1980s war with Iraq'
Defiant misinformation minister still fighting on media frontline
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931192,00.html
Combative stand and colourful turns of phrase at daily briefings have
made Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf an unlikely star
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931193,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
Blood clot kills NBC's star correspondent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931102,00.html
A star of the American media died yesterday while covering the war in
Iraq. The NBC TV correspondent David Bloom suffered a blood clot while
travelling with US infantry outside Baghdad. His death appeared to
have no direct connection to combat.
Fresh US force will blaze a trail to Saddam's town
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931104,00.html
Most advanced division deployed for first time since Vietnam in Tikrit
assault
America's digital division - the biggest advance in warfare since the
tank
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931105,00.html
The arrival of the US army 4th Infantry Division, nicknamed the
"digital division", could herald the first battlefield test of digital
warfare.
Streets littered with Iraqi corpses as troops close in on the centre
of Kerbala
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931106,00.html
American ground forces closed in on the centre of the Shia holy city
of Kerbala yesterday, sending tanks through the streets and directing
artillery fire on to sniper positions. Smoke canisters screened
infantry advances.
A brew brings coalition forces closer together
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931109,00.html
The boiling vessel is ubiquitous in the British army. It's a handy
little device that runs off the battery of armoured vehicles and
provides countless cups of tea and coffee and heats up boil-in-the-bag
meals. Out of all the equipment the British have, this is probably the
one piece that has impressed the Americans the most. And it is the one
that has brought them closer to their allies in this war.
How Jessica's war brought the reality home to US public
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931110,00.html
It has been called Bush's war, Rumsfeld's war and Tommy Franks's war.
But, for a while in recent days, the war belonged to a 19-year-old
called Jessica Lynch, from West Virginia. Jessica's war began when a
joint team of army rangers, special forces, navy seals and marines
snatched her from a hospital in Nassiriya where she was being held
after being caught in an ambush with other members of a maintenance
unit that lost its way in the first days of the war. It continued even
when the American advance on Baghdad resumed last week, her rescue
amazingly persisting at the top of the television bulletins.
Convicted Cuban 'spies' to tell US appeal court they were framed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931130,00.html
Five Cuban men convicted in Miami of spying claim that they were
framed to appease the Cuban American exile community there because
they had infiltrated anti-Castro terrorist groups in Florida.
Russian killer snared after reign of terror
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931131,00.html
A Russian criminal begins a life sentence of hard labour this week for
a decade of terror in which he tortured and killed, burying 15 victims
under concrete.
1,000 killed in Congo, says UN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931216,00.html
At least 966 people were killed in dawn attacks on more than a dozen
villages in north-eastern Congo last week, UN investigators said
yesterday.
Top Spanish spies face jail terms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931217,00.html
Two former heads of Spain's national intelligence service have been
given three-year jail terms for illegally spying on a Basque
separatist party.
UN to indict Milosevic's henchmen
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931260,00.html
Two of Slobodan Milosevic's secret service chiefs arrested on
suspicion of involvement in the killing of Serbia's prime minister
could be extradited to the UN war crimes tribunal, a top Belgrade
official said yesterday.
North Korea to put faith in deterrence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931306,00.html
North Korea appeared to abandon diplomatic negotiation as a means of
settling its nuclear dispute with the US yesterday, with a warning
that only "tremendous military deterrence" could prevent Pyongyang
suffering the same fate as Baghdad.
Wipe out warning on great apes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,931075,00.html
West Africa's gorillas and chimpanzees could soon be on the brink of
extinction because of hunters and an epidemic of Ebola virus.
Long aim for gene study
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,931037,00.html
The world's biggest nature and nurture project expects to begin
looking for 500,000 middle-aged people to volunteer a DNA sample and
confidential health information in 18 months time.
Friend or foe?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,930987,00.html
There are two types of journalist covering the front-line war - the
"embeds", on official placements with military units, and the
"unilaterals", who have to take huge risks in an effort to gain an
objective view of the conflict. We asked one of each to tell their
story.
Furl that flag
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,930988,00.html
Best not to plug your Americanness in any ad campaigns, advises Tim
Dowling.
Bush is right: this is not a clash of civilisations
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/yasmin_alibhai_brown/story.jsp?story=394697
This simplistic explanation reduces cultures to stereotypes and
disables anti-war resistance
Francis Fukuyama: The future ain't what it used to be
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=394779
In 1993, Francis Fukuyama said that history had ended. But a lot has
happened since ? September 11, the Balkan wars... So where does that
leave his famous theory? And what does he now think tomorrow holds for
the human race?
Our war leaders need to agree on how to keep France out of the Middle
East
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/bruce_anderson/story.jsp?story=394693
Many Europeans will be far less interested in peace than in punishing
the Americans and the British for their successes in Iraq
Strategic analysis: There is a point in every war when the tide turns
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394698
07 April 2003
When the majority of the guys on the other side decide, 'This isn't
worth it,' you've won
John Nichol: Human element means 'friendly-fire' casualties cannot be
eliminated
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394706
07 April 2003
The myth of "precision-guided weapons" has been exploding alongside
the weapons themselves.
Military analysis: Whatever the conspiracy theories, the
'softly-softly' plan seems to have worked
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394705
07 April 2003
In a superbly choreographed move, British ground forces supported by
US Cobra helicopters yesterday stormed into the centre of Basra,
Iraq's second city.
Robert Fisk in Baghdad: The twisted language of war that is used to
justify the unjustifiable
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394704
07 April 2003
Why do we aid and abet the lies and propaganda of this filthy war? How
come, for example, it's now BBC "style" to describe the Anglo-American
invaders as the "coalition". This is a lie.
The Battle of Baghdad
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394486
06 April 2003
'Ever so slowly, the suburbs were turned into battlefields'
Scarlett Thomas: The tiny voice at your ear that says 'Don't buy that,
buy this!'
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394419
06 April 2003
It probably won't come as much of a surprise to parents that three- to
five-year-olds wield so much power over the family purse that they now
have their very own demographic group: "Tinies".
Stan Hey: One Wayne Rooney, there's only one Wayne Rooney ...
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394417
06 April 2003
There we all were, depressed by war, anxious about the Budget,
terrified by international viruses and wondering how long it would be
before some good news came along.
Dilip Hiro: The West will have to reap the whirlwind sown by Bush and
Blair
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394412
06 April 2003
At first sight, Saddam Hussein's call on Tuesday to Iraqis to wage a
jihad against the Anglo-American invaders seems odd.
Rachel Cusk: Isn't it odd the sun's out, darling
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394407
06 April 2003
Philip Larkin said that there were two ways to approach the question
of mortality: one was to make your days always different; the other
was to make them always the same.
John Pilger: We see too much. We know too much. That's our best
defence
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394406
06 April 2003
We now glimpse the forbidden truths of the invasion of Iraq.
Brandon Robshaw: Teenagers are already Doing It. It isn't helpful to
stop them reading about it
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394405
06 April 2003
Calls to ban explicit teen novels are misguided
Captain Moonlight: Times like these call for the calming reassurance
that a column like this can provide
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394403
06 April 2003
Steady!
Today's links in full
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A Global Catalog of Wrongs
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/opinion/07MON1.html
The State Department's annual report of human rights violations around
the world looks at friend and foe alike with candid scrutiny.
An Ominous Attack on Judges
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/opinion/07MON3.html
House Republicans, aided by the Bush Justice Department, are trying to
severely curtail federal judges' discretion in sentencing.
The Senate Rebels
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/opinion/07COLL.html
By STANLEY E. COLLENDER
The administration now knows it cannot count on its majority in
Congress to vote in lock step with the White House.
A Strange but Familiar War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/opinion/07VERN.html
By ALEX VERNON
Although I am a Gulf war veteran, I realize that whatever I say about
these soldiers' experience is pretense: I can never truly know this
war.
Workers Who Feel Discarded
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/opinion/07HERB.html
By BOB HERBERT
There does not seem to be much awareness in the Bush administration of
those who are discouraged and have stopped looking for work.
A Fly on the Wall
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/opinion/07SAFI.html
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
What Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush are likely to say at
Monday's Belfast summit.
Showdown in Baghdad: Is the Finale Near?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/opinion/L07IRAQ.html
Rallies and Radio
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/opinion/L07RADI.html
The My Lai Massacre
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/opinion/L07MYLA.html
Win, Then Democratize
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/opinion/L07GERM.html
Gay Rights in Mideast
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/opinion/L07CAIR.html
A Bad Asylum Policy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/opinion/L07ASYL.html
Changes in Medicine
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/opinion/L07MEDI.html
U.S. Seizes Palace and Says It Intends to Remain in Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/worldspecial/07CND-MILI.html
By JANE PERLEZ
American forces took control of a major presidential palace on the
banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad early this morning.
U.S. Finds Drums That May Contain Chemical Arms
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/worldspecial/07CND-CHEM.html
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
U.S. soldiers in the Karbala area have found oil drums that, according
to early inconclusive evidence, contain nerve gas and mustard gas.
British Assault Captures Half of City in South
http://tinyurl.com/9066
By CRAIG S. SMITH
Two British battle groups pushed into Basra on Sunday, taking at least
half of the city in a storm of artillery shells and tank fire.
Sound of Guns Heralds Ground War in Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/906g
By JOHN F. BURNS
A new cacophony of battle signaled the shift to the decisive phase of
America's war to topple Saddam Hussein.
Rule by Allies May Pass 6 Months, Wolfowitz Asserts
http://tinyurl.com/906n
By TODD S. PURDUM
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz said that ceding power to
an Iraqi-led civilian authority would take some time.
For One Pastor, the War Hits Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/worldspecial/07CLEV.html
By JAYSON BLAIR
The Rev. Tandy Sloan has presided over many a funeral and memorial
service in Cleveland. But on Sunday, he wondered why his only child
had to die in Iraq.
Anti-Americanism in Greece Is Reinvigorated by War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/worldspecial/07GREE.html
By ANTHEE CARASSAVA
Few European nations have had testier relations with the United States
over the years than Greece.
David Bloom, 39, Dies in Iraq; Reporter Was With Troops
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/obituaries/07BLOO.html
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
David Bloom, the co-anchor of the weekend edition of NBC's "Today"
show, collapsed Sunday and died while covering the war in Iraq for the
network.
Basra Offers a Lesson on Taking Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/worldspecial/07STRA.html
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Allied commanders say that the capture of Basra has paved the way for
Iraqis to rebel against Saddam Hussein.
18 Die as U.S. Airstrike Mistakenly Hits Kurdish Force
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/worldspecial/07FRIE.html
By DAVID ROHDE
An American airstrike mistakenly hit a convoy of American and Kurdish
soldiers, killing 18 Kurds and wounding more than 45 others.
Fear Reigns as Dangerous Mystery Illness Spreads
http://tinyurl.com/907a
By DENISE GRADY
Scientists say a Chinese businessman appears to have had the earliest
known case of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Texans Take Satisfaction in Bringing Back an Island
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/national/07GALV.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A speck of land in Galveston Bay has re-emerged as a product of a
50-year plan to deal with the excavation from an expansion of a ship
channel.
This French New Wave Finds Few U.S. Fans
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/national/07SURF.html
By CHRIS DIXON
Extreme big-wave surfing generally happens in Hawaii and California.
So jaws dropped last month when a contest received a late challenge
from France.
Relatives Remember Last Phone Calls From Their Marines
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/worldspecial/07CASU.html
By STEPHANIE STROM
The families of Marines who died in the war consider themselves
fortunate that they were able to speak with them one last time.
Prison Rates Among Blacks Reach a Peak, Report Finds
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/national/07PRIS.html
By FOX BUTTERFIELD
An estimated 12 percent of African-American men ages 20 to 34 are in
jail or prison, according to a report released by the Justice
Department.
Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/national/07LIBR.html
By DEAN E. MURPHY
The move to quickly shred discarded paperwork is part of a campaign by
libraries in Santa Cruz, Calif., to demonstrate their opposition to
the Patriot Act.
The Spam That Isn't via E-Mail
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/national/07HONO.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The first Waikiki Spam Jam in Hawaii is a three-day festival designed
to draw local residents and their wallets by honoring the state's
favorite comfort food.
Ubiquitous Messenger Drives Home U.S. Policy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/worldspecial/07STAN.html
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
On American television Sunday morning, the usually reticent deputy
secretary of defense, Paul D. Wolfowitz, held court on the talk shows.
Another President Bush Watches on the Sidelines
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/national/07LETT.html
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
The first President Bush rarely speaks publicly about what he thinks
of his son's war, but that has not stopped people from talking about
his influence.
Bush Visit Seen as Hopeful Sign for Ulster Impasse
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/europe/07ULST.html
By WARREN HOGE
President Bush's visit to Northern Ireland on Monday comes at a
critical moment for the province's peace plan.
Mr. Murdoch's War
http://tinyurl.com/908b
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Rupert Murdoch's stridently hawkish political views make his voice
among the loudest in the international debate over the war with Iraq.
Stocks Rise Sharply as Optimism on War Grows
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/business/07CND-STOX.html
By ERIC PFANNER
International Herald Tribune
As U.S. troops stormed into Baghdad, investors hoped for a swift
conclusion to the war and an easing of the uncertainty that has
stifled business activity.
Silicon Valley Hikes Wireless Frontier
http://tinyurl.com/9091
By STEVE LOHR
As wireless telephony and computing combine, the center of gravity in
digital technology is clearly shifting.
Businesses Plan for the Unexpected
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/technology/07NECO.html
By STEVE LOHR
As global events become more uncertain and tumultuous, Global Business
Network, a consulting firm, is helping executives prepare for various
challenging situations.
Cablevision Is Said to Drop Out of Bidding for DirecTV
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/business/media/07CABL.html
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Cablevision has apparently abandoned its plan to bid for Hughes
Electronics and its DirecTV satellite television operation.
Inventors Improve Alert System
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/technology/07PATE.html
By SABRA CHARTRAND
Two inventors have won a patent for a way to make the nation's
Emergency Alert System operate more efficiently.
Ad Forecaster Is More Optimistic
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/business/media/07ADCO.html
By STUART ELLIOTT
A leading media services agency is increasing its estimate for
advertising spending this year.
Travel Fears Cause Some to Commute Online
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/technology/07TELE.html
By JONATHAN D. GLATER
Many businesses are reducing travel in favor of virtual meetings
because of the war in Iraq and concerns over the disease known as
severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Digital Links Are Giving Old Weapons New Power
http://tinyurl.com/909g
By DOUGLAS JEHL
New networks that now link aircraft cockpits, command posts and tank
crews have allowed each to see far beyond their own fields of vision.
Yahoo Plans Improvements in Effort to Regain Lost Ground
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/technology/07YAHO.html
By SAUL HANSELL
Yahoo is introducing a series of improvements to its Web search
service meant to reclaim territory it ceded to Google.
Gorillas and Chimps in Peril, Report Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/science/07APE.html
By JAMES GORMAN
Gorillas and chimpanzees are facing such severe threats from hunting
and the Ebola virus that they should be declared "critically
endangered," researchers say.
China's Workers Risk Limbs in Export Drive
http://tinyurl.com/909x
By JOSEPH KAHN
Yongkang, which means "eternal health" in Chinese, is the
dismemberment capital of China.
Vitamin D Is Urged for Breast-Fed Babies
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/health/07BREA.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The American Academy of Pediatrics says that infants who are
breast-fed exclusively should receive vitamin D supplements to a
bone-weakening disease.
A Single Alphabet Bridges Children's Two Cultures
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/worldspecial/07KIDS.html
By COREY KILGANNON
Ten students from Queens, N.Y., participated in an art exhibit, "The
Arabic Alphabet," which presents 28 Arabic words that are not
terror-related.
Benefactor Wants Colleges to Deliver a Stronger Civics Lesson
http://tinyurl.com/90aa
By KAREN W. ARENSON
Millionaire Eugene Lang wants to build political and civic engagement
among young people in America, and he is convinced that the solution
lies in higher education.
Pros, Cons and Don't Cares at the University of Michigan
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/education/06MICH.html
By GREG WINTER
At the focal point of the nation's fight over affirmative action,
students display a curious mixture of passion and apathy, of immersion
and disengagement.
Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Cross Burning
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48690-2003Apr7.html
The Supreme Court upheld a state ban on cross burning, ruling Monday
the history of racial intimidation attached to it outweighs the free
speech protection of Ku Klux Klansmen or others who might use it.
Court Overturns State Farm Damages Award
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48827-2003Apr7.html
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that punitive damages must be
reasonable and proportionate to the harm suffered, overturning a $145
million award against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. for
mishandling a claim and handing a victory to businesses.
U.S. Says Iraqi Exile Group Will Be New Army
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42859-2003Apr6.html
The U.S. has begun airlifting members of an Iraqi exile group into
southern Iraq, vanguard elements of what a top U.S. officer said would
form the basis of a new Iraqi army.
Remains Appear to Be From 1980s War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43098-2003Apr6.html
An investigator said that those examined so far "seemed to be
consistent with combat deaths, not a war crime," and that about 85
percent of them are those of Iraqis and the rest are Iranians.
Trial of Palestinian Leader Opens
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47572-2003Apr7.html
Trial of Palestinian uprising leader opens, his alleged deputies
refuse to testify
Troops, Tanks Attack Central Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44658-2003Apr7.html
U.S. forces fought their way into Baghdad this morning, reaching the
center of the city and attacking at least two presidential palaces and
several Iraqi government buildings.
Nearly 1,000 People Killed in Attacks in Congo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42877-2003Apr6.html
Almost 1,000 people were killed last week in attacks by armed
militants on villages in northeastern Congo, a U.N. spokesman said
today.
Africa's Apes Are Imperiled, Researchers Warn
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33512-2003Apr5.html
Africa's gorillas and chimpanzees are dying off at a startling rate
despite their protected status, survey data show.
Honduran Prison Riot Displays Central American Gangs' Brutality
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45961-2003Apr7.html
They have a fanatical devotion to their cause and they dream of
bringing their violence to America's streets.
U.N. Role in Postwar Iraq Debated
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43192-2003Apr6.html
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been working with European
allies to develop a stronger postwar role for the U.N. than the U.S.
appears willing to consider.
Russian Embassy Convoy Hit While Leaving Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43297-2003Apr6.html
Five Russian Embassy employees evacuating Baghdad Sunday were injured
when their convoy was caught in a firefight between U.S. and Iraqi
troops, witnesses said.
British Forces Enter Basra
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43254-2003Apr6.html
Ending a two-week standoff, British troops moved into Basra, meeting
only scattered resistance from Iraqi fighters and escaping the combat
they had been eager to avoid.
Wolfowitz's Vision May Be Realized
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43339-2003Apr6.html
Getting rid of Saddam Hussein was only part of the deputy defense
secretary's vision. With U.S. forces in Baghdad, a more controversial
challenge now awaits: creating a democratic Iraq that will serve as an
inspiration to its neighbors.
Karbala 'Like a Carnival' As Troops Take Control
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43375-2003Apr6.html
KARBALA, Iraq, April 6 -- U.S. Army troops took control of this city
revered by Shiite Muslims today, and once again drew cheers and
thumbs-up accolades from thousands of smiling residents.
Residents Deride Food Aid as Insufficient
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43831-2003Apr6.html
SAMAWAH, Iraq, April 6 -- Two U.S. Army trucks full of prepackaged
meals pulled up to a mud brick village south of this southern city
today to find curious eyes peering out of glassless windows.
Embolism Kills Bloom
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43246-2003Apr6.html
David Bloom, the NBC correspondent who captivated the country by
narrating the war in Iraq from a refurbished tank he helped design,
died there Sunday. - By Howard Kurtz
Howard Kurtz
http://tinyurl.com/90ca
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The Flipper Force
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43565-2003Apr6.html
A little-known U.S. Navy program made a big splash last week with news
that combat-trained dolphins were the latest recruits deployed to the
war with Iraq. - By Don Oldenburg
The Print Brigade Writes Its Own Story Rep
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43114-2003Apr6.html
Reporters without camera crews, it turns out, can sometimes get closer
to the action, or coax more revealing admissions from soldiers, and
tell the tale through evocative writing. - By Howard Kurtz
In Japan, a Veteran Sees History Repeat
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43830-2003Apr6.html
The memories of Soichiro Inukai, a veteran of Japan's last, epic war,
are a starting marker for the range of ambivalence with which modern
Japan now greets news of the Iraqi war. - By Doug Struck
Living in Fear
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43670-2003Apr6.html
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THE AIR IN Washington yesterday was cool and fresh, the breeze
sufficient to rustle but not disturb the blossoms that suddenly are
everywhere, the sunshine glorious in its pre-summer pastels. The air
in Baghdad was hot and acrid, tinged as it has been for days with
black smoke. Even as life here proceeded to the normal rhythms of a
spring Sunday -- church, bagels, the first youth baseball games of the
season -- it was impossible to enjoy one without thinking of the
other. Families are streaming north from the Iraqi capital in fear of
the fighting that lies ahead, while wounded American fighters are
flown south. Back home we watch and pray for Iraqis and Americans
alike; this is a war that has generated no hatred of the enemy,
because we think even of most Iraqi troops as innocent victims of the
evil regime that oppresses its population.
Safeguarding Chemical Plants
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43671-2003Apr6.html
Page A14
ON THE MORNING of Sept. 12, 2001, the management of the Blue Plains
water treatment plant at the southern tip of Washington made a
decision. In the past, the plant had treated sewage with gaseous
chlorine, a chemical that, if leaked, could have enveloped the entire
city in a poisonous cloud. Although the plant had safety procedures,
its managers figured it could not withstand a terrorist attack, and
they substituted another chemical. The change cost money, both to the
plant and, marginally, to customers in the Washington area, who now
pay as much as 50 cents more annually for sewage treatment. It may
also have created some new, albeit lesser, safety hazards. Still, the
costs, given the risks, seem bearable. So shouldn't the same kind of
decision be made elsewhere?
Of Sea Lampreys and Saddam
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43672-2003Apr6.html
Page A14
WE'VE BEEN DOING a little reading about sea lampreys lately, and we
can reliably share this assessment: nasty creatures. Primitive,
eel-shaped fish that "feed by attaching on other fish with their
suctorial mouths and extracting blood and other body fluids,"
according to one account. Each sea lamprey, during the course of its
12- to 20-month adult life, can kill 40 pounds of fish. Sea lampreys
invaded the Great Lakes over the last century and devastated the
native population of lake trout and other fish. Scientists have been
working to beat them back ever since.
Winning The Other War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43663-2003Apr6.html
By Mahmood Karzai, Hamed Wardak and Jack Kemp, Page A15
Among the accomplishments of the partnership between Afghanistan
and the United States are the liberation of Afghanistan's people from
a tyrannical regime, the fading of old political resentments among
different factions, the opening of schools and universities, the
emancipation of Afghan women and the influx of capital to Afghanistan.
Which Road Map?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43666-2003Apr6.html
By Jackson Diehl, Page A15
The shared hope of Israeli and Palestinian moderates has been that
the Iraq war would finally propel their peoples back to the peace
process they abandoned two years ago. The destruction of Saddam
Hussein's regime, they imagine, could demoralize Palestinian
extremists and help empower a new pro-peace cabinet under Prime
Minister Abu Mazin. Meanwhile President Bush would fulfill his prewar
commitment to Tony Blair by finally putting political muscle behind
his own "vision" for a Palestinian state -- even if that meant a clash
with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Worshiping Mike
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43664-2003Apr6.html
By Hanna Rosin, Page A15
People who knew Mike Kelly only from his column must have assumed
certain things about him: that he could be jagged, choleric, a crank
-- that if he was wickedly funny it was usually at someone else's
expense. I once ran into a White House official who wanted to take
Mike to lunch but he was terrified, certain he'd end up pinned to the
wall like the senator in that famous series of pictures with LBJ.
The Reasonableness Test
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43667-2003Apr6.html
By William Raspberry, Page A15
You might define an optimist as an affirmative-action supporter who
hopes the Supreme Court now weighing the University of Michigan
admissions case won't screw it up too badly. Unlike their conservative
opponents, who can smell total victory, the proponents are banking on
a ruling that leaves some wiggle room for the consideration of race.
Judging the Value of Race-Conscious Policies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43675-2003Apr6.html
Page A14
Richard D. Kahlenberg ["Affirmative Action: There's a Third Way,"
op-ed, March 31] argues that economic affirmative action is less
controversial, fairer and potentially more effective than race-based
programs. That may be, but we have not yet reached the degree of
racial diversity in the upper echelon of most professions that would
warrant abandoning some form of race-based affirmative action.
Regime Change at Home
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Page A14
Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) is right that we need a "regime
change" in this country [news story, April 4].
Mending Fences After the War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43673-2003Apr6.html
Page A14
The heroic act of a single man can symbolically redeem all the evil
done by a corrupt nation. We shouldn't waste this opportunity:
A Tale of Two Journalists
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47195-2003Apr7.html
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 7, 2003; 9:19 AM
They were so different in many ways.
For Immigrants, a Special Sacrifice: War Takes Toll on Foreign-Born in
Armed Forces (Post, April 7, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43106-2003Apr6.html
Wary of Higher Taxes, Officials Boost Fees: Tactic Hurts Poor and
Working Class, Critics Say (Post, April 7, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43103-2003Apr6.html
Pfc. Lynch Gets Visit From Family: Freed POW Listed In Stable
Condition (Post, April 7, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43258-2003Apr6.html
Number Imprisoned Exceeds 2 Million, Justice Dept. Says (Post, April
7, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42707-2003Apr6.html
GOP Leaders Pondering a Smaller Tax Cut (By Jim VandeHei, Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42882-2003Apr6.html
Confusion on Cue (By Al Kamen, Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43669-2003Apr6.html
Muslims Protest Bush Nominee: Groups Say Peace Institute Choice Sends
'Wrong Message' (By Alan Cooperman, Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42881-2003Apr6.html
Accident Reminds Some of 1991 War: U.S. Vowed Then to Reduce Friendly
Fire (By Jonathan Weisman, Page A18)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43442-2003Apr6.html
For Soldier, A Replaying Nightmare: Staff Sergeant Was Injured In
Ambush of Army's 507th (By Dave Sheinin, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43405-2003Apr6.html
DAYBOOK A look at the day's major developments in the war with Iraq.
(Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43782-2003Apr6.html
Iowa Democrats Grill Sen. Edwards: War Takes Back Seat to Domestic
Policy in Forum for Presidential Hopeful (By Dan Balz, Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43777-2003Apr6.html
Vitamins Urged for Breast-Fed Babies: Pediatricians Recommend 'D'
Supplements to Prevent Rickets (Page A05)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43837-2003Apr6.html
Youth Project on Ten Commandments Is Low on Cash (Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43055-2003Apr6.html
U.S.-Kurdish Convoy Hit by Mistaken Airstrike (Post, April 7, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43188-2003Apr6.html
Marines Find Chemical Suits, Labs at Atomic Energy Site: Further
Analysis of Complex Sought (Post, April 7, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43259-2003Apr6.html
At Airport, Probe Leads Army to a Secret Room (Post, April 7, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43187-2003Apr6.html
For Infantrymen, Hardships Are Many And Nothing Is Easy (Post, April
7, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42941-2003Apr6.html
China Says Finn Died of SARS: U.N. Official Is First Foreigner to
Succumb to Disease (Post, April 7, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42876-2003Apr6.html
Troops, Tanks Attack Central Baghdad: Morning Raid Hits Palaces, Other
Targets (By Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Peter Baker, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43492-2003Apr6.html
Confusion in a City Sealed Off From the World (By Anthony Shadid, Page
A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43504-2003Apr6.html
Troops Find a Different Foe Than Expected: Wounded U.S. Soldiers
Describe the Difficulties of Fighting Irregulars (By Mary Beth
Sheridan, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43348-2003Apr6.html
Militants From North Returning to Surrender: Ousted Muslim Fighters
Had Fled to Iran (By Karl Vick, Page A20)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43357-2003Apr6.html
U.S. Ground Forces Hit Iraqi Positions in North (By Steve Vogel, Page
A20)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43824-2003Apr6.html
U.S. Forces Seize Hussein Palaces
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47552-2003Apr7.html
As troops push further into Baghdad, Iraqi missile hits U.S. tactical
center killing two soldiers, two journalists.
Summit to Focus on Postwar
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49336-2003Apr7.html
Bush, Blair to discuss rebuilding Iraq at Belfast meeting
Carving Up the Oil Industry Pie
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43261-2003Apr6.html
Exiled Iraqis Seek Input in Decision on Sector's Postwar Management
Iraqi oil
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Bush Aide Meets With Putin in Mission to Repair Ties
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/worldspecial/07CND-MOSC.html
President Bush's national security adviser met with President Vladimir
V. Putin and his top aides here today in what a senior American
diplomat later called a mission to repair relations badly bruised by
divisions over the war in Iraq.
North Korea Cancels Talks With the South
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/asia/07CND-KORE.html
North Korea canceled ministerial-level talks today with South Korea on
a day of mounting tension about the implications of the fast-moving
war in Iraq and a debate that opens Wednesday at the United Nations on
the Korean nuclear crisis.
Army, in Raid, Strikes at Center of Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/90g2
By PATRICK E. TYLER with STEVEN LEE MYERS
The Army's Third Infantry Division conducted a raid into the center of
Baghdad this morning, with an armored force from the Second Brigade
surrounding the main presidential compound, the Rashid Hotel and the
information ministry near the Tigris River, American officers said.
It's Too Soon to Tell, but Expect the Final Tab to Be High
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/worldspecial/07COST.html
By DAVID FIRESTONE
The price of war is usually measured in blood, but the number of
dollars required can also be staggering. Though it is too early to
know how expensive the war in Iraq will ultimately be, members of
Congress paid a first installment this week that gives a glimpse of
the high costs - and the possible trade-offs - yet to come.
OPEC Plans Emergency Meeting to Discuss Pricing
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-OPEC-Meeting.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oil ministers at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
have agreed to meet April 24 to discuss ways to avert a possible price
crash.
Internet Has Impact on Home Sales
http://tinyurl.com/90gj
By BOB TEDESCHI
AS home sales around the nation hit the peak selling season this
spring, Internet real estate sites are starting to show promise as
important tools for house shoppers.
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Chemical hypocrites
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,931873,00.html
George Monbiot: As it struggles to justify its invasion, the US is
getting ready to use banned weapons in Iraq.
'Nuanced' is for losers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,931871,00.html
Mathew Engel: Well, I don't care about that video: I still think
Saddam is dead.
The two horrible flaws in Blair's Panglossian vision
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,932027,00.html
Hugo Young: He is gripped by optimism and moral conviction - but he
has no leverage.
A very material girl
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,932024,00.html
Zoe Williams: Madonna's attempt to appropriate Che Guevara to flog her
latest single is truly beyond parody.
A mother's worst nightmare
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,931909,00.html
It's not easy telling the loved ones of a soldier that he isn't coming
home. Emma Brockes meets the officers who have to deliver the saddest
news.
Friend and foe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,931914,00.html
The latest 'friendly fire' incident in Iraq was the worst so far,
killing at least 18 people. Anthony Swofford, a US veteran of the
first Gulf war, recalls what it is like to be attacked by your own
side.
'Tony Blair deserves rewards'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Bush's arrival in Belfast brings the chance of settlements on many
fronts.
Pressure for Palestine
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,931841,00.html
If Tony Blair is truly committed to ending double standards in
Palestine, then he should back the UN road map, not the hypothetical
document on the agenda in Belfast (Leaders, April 7).
Dissension in the ranks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,931843,00.html
Labour supporters from this area are appalled by the reported comments
of Labour MP George Galloway (My views are those of millions, April
7).
'Tis but a scratch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,931844,00.html
The surreal daily comedy of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf (Defiant
misinformation minister still fighting on, April 7) recalls John
Cleese as the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail,
stridently claiming victory as his limbs are lopped off.
I saw the injuries to Iraqi civilians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,931845,00.html
I have just returned from Baghdad, where I spent six-and-a-half weeks
as a human rights observer.
War vets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,931849,00.html
In 1939 as a 14-year-old school kid I had a gas mask - we all had gas
masks - and I knew exactly how to deport myself in an emergency such
as an air raid.
Liberators and the law
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,931850,00.html
The ongoing discussion concerning the treatment of prisoners of war
(Letters, April 7) seems to ignore the equally important, if not more
so, obligations the US and UK have under the fourth Geneva convention.
They think it's all over
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,931838,00.html
But victory is a step-by-step process.
Wisdom of restraint
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,931839,00.html
Blair is right to avoid vindictiveness.
Markets rejoice at news from Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,932032,00.html
Gloomy economic data ignored as traders seize on progress in the war
to push up equities.
Short fears World Bank and IMF will be frozen out of Iraq role
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,932028,00.html
Britain is warning America that a go-it-alone approach to
reconstructing Iraq risks spreading the paralysis at the UN to the
World Bank and IMF.
IMF
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World Bank
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Iraq war dents advertising growth forecast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,931898,00.html
The British media sector will stay in recession this year but the
recovery in the US market will remain on track if there is a swift
resolution to the Iraq conflict, according to a report published
yesterday.
TV advertising
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,931892,00.html
The TV advertising market is weathering the uncertainty triggered by
the war in Iraq, but there is still concern about the months ahead.
Peace on the agenda
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,932098,00.html
Tony Blair last night appealed to George Bush to combine America's
quest for its own security with the wider needs of international
justice.
Blair welcomes Bush to Baghfast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0,7371,337484,00.html
Cartoon: Steve Bell's view of the US president's arrival in Northern
Ireland.
Success spurs support for war
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,932091,00.html
Poll: Pace of military success fuels further surge in support for the
war.
Loyalists round on Galloway
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,932235,00.html
10.30am: Anti-war MP attacked for threat to stand against Labour if
deselected.
Galloway may stand as independent
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,931656,00.html
Anti-war MP George Galloway warned today that if he is "sacked" from
the Labour party he will run for parliament as an independent, on a
"platform of real Labour values".
Blair's strategy to keep Europe united
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/euro/story/0,9061,931885,00.html
Tony Blair is attempting to agree a strategy with Gordon Brown to
ensure that Britain's European partners will remain confident that he
is committed to joining the single currency.
UK to appoint deputy for interim authority
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,932010,00.html
Britain is planning to appoint a senior army officer to act as deputy
to the former US general appointed by the Pentagon to head an interim
authority to control Iraq after the war.
Asylum seekers 'not given help to go home'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,931906,00.html
Report into conditions at immigration reception and removal centres
shows scared inmates receiving poor data on progress of their cases.
Damage control
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,931709,00.html
April 7: Anti-war sentiment in Spain is peaking and Jose Maria Aznar
will hope his reputation has not suffered too badly, writes Giles
Tremlett.
Park strife
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,931712,00.html
April 7: The dream of home ownership for all is being dashed for many
Australians with the closure of caravan parks, writes David Fickling.
Know thine enemies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,932226,00.html
April 8: The American media seems to think the US is at war with
France as well as Iraq, writes Duncan Campbell.
All in the timing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch/story/0,12498,931511,00.html
April 7: Wim Duisenberg gained a victory over his doubters with the
announcement of his retirement date, says Mark Milner.
At ease in Saddam's palace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932085,00.html
· Dramatic tank raid into Baghdad
· US troops hold their ground
· Republican Guard 'smashed'
Coalition gains foothold in heart of Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932087,00.html
US troops had established a foothold in central Baghdad last night,
after a foray by an armoured column met only light resistance and took
control of a presidential palace on the banks of the river Tigris.
Blair tells Bush: take rest of world into account
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932076,00.html
Tony Blair last night appealed to George Bush to combine America's
quest for its own security with the wider needs of international
justice.
'This is not the face of a peacekeeper'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932073,00.html
The Cuban was the driver, the least painted-up of the Combined
Anti-Armour Team Humvee that carried his name. Every other US marine
in the car had coated his face in black and green warpaint in
preparation for yesterday's entry into Baghdad.
US troops put the squeeze on Baghdad regime
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932055,00.html
The decision to send American troops and tanks into Baghdad and keep
them there marks the latest turn of the screw in a carefully
calibrated attempt to crack the Iraqi capital by striking at its fault
lines.
Into Basra - and the mood changes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931967,00.html
Paras mobbed by cheerful crowds as troops wonder at lack of resistance
from Fedayeen.
Lack of fresh water threatens hospitals swamped by casualties
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931965,00.html
Precarious situation in cities makes deliveries difficult.
Celebrating freedom in a spree of looting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931963,00.html
Almost apologetically, people are seizing the things they have been
deprived of for so long.
Only dust and doves in this stunning testimony to Saddam's
extravagance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931964,00.html
Gold taps, ballrooms and marble pillars - but no sign of life.
Town celebrates death of Ali
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931976,00.html
'Extremely happy' survivors picnic around the graves of their dead.
Coalition plans meeting of leaders from all sides on future of Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931981,00.html
Coalition central command is planning a meeting of Iraqi opposition
figures, exiles, and religious and clan leaders that will "brainstorm"
the future of the country, the Guardian has learned.
Exiled Shia leader plans to return
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931980,00.html
The leader of Iraq's main Shia opposition group said yesterday that he
plans to return to his homeland after 23 years in exile.
Saddam should be executed, say exiles
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931984,00.html
US likely to fall out with Britain and UK over death penalty if Iraqi
leaders are captured.
Special forces intelligence and use of informers crucial to tactics in
Basra
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931987,00.html
Intelligence gleaned from eavesdropping, special forces, and informers
- hooded to protect their identity - played a crucial role in enabling
British troops to enter Basra virtually unopposed, Whitehall sources
said yesterday.
UK to appoint deputy for interim authority
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931986,00.html
Britain is planning to appoint a senior army officer to act as deputy
to the former US general appointed by the Pentagon to head an interim
authority to control Iraq after the war.
'Baghdad is safe, the infidels are committing suicide'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931995,00.html
It is bound to go down as one of the great moments in PR history. With
US tanks rolling into Baghdad and the sound of artillery fire
reverberating around the city, Iraq's ever jovial information minister
popped up yesterday to declare that the "infidels" were facing
"slaughter".
Four die as Iraqi rocket hits command post
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931996,00.html
Iraqi fighters yesterday demonstrated their continued ability to
inflict serious damage on advancing American forces by mounting a
devastating rocket attack from behind coalition lines on a US brigade
headquarters south of Baghdad.
Kurds call in air strikes to press northern front
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931994,00.html
Coalition warplanes struck Iraqi positions in northern Iraq yesterday
and pounded military targets on southern routes to the capital,
according to witnesses and US officials.
Accusations fly over lack of action on friendly fire deaths
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931957,00.html
Recriminations began to echo through Washington and Whitehall
yesterday after the sight of the BBC correspondent John Simpson
escaping the worst friendly fire disaster of the Iraq war focused
attention on one of the oldest and most covered-up hazards of warfare.
Missile cache could contain nerve gas, claims military
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931959,00.html
US forces reported yesterday that they may have found weapons of mass
destruction at a camp near Hindiyah in central Iraq.
Finally, British troops begin to feel like an army of liberation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931971,00.html
The British soldiers pulled down the picture of Saddam Hussein from
the memorial building in the centre of town and the locals trampled
all over it
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931968,00.html
Decoding the military jargon.
Forty injured as police fire rubber bullets at peace protesters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932143,00.html
Police opened fire with rubber bullets yesterday on anti-war
demonstrators in Oakland, California, in what was the first such
action during the current round of anti-war protests. Organisers said
that around 40 protesters were injured, one seriously.
Conflict in Congo has killed 4.7m, charity says
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931997,00.html
Starvation and disease multiply toll from fighting.
29 tourists vanish in Sahara
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932004,00.html
At least 29 foreign tourists have vanished in the Sahara in little
more than six weeks, the German police say.
At a glance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931973,00.html
At the front ...
Fischer rejects talks venue
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932116,00.html
The German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, provoked a new row about
the status of Jerusalem yesterday when he refused to attend a meeting
at the Israeli justice ministry because it is in the occupied east of
the city.
Sars death toll reaches 100
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932114,00.html
Deaths worldwide from severe acute respiratory syndrome - Sars -
reached at least 100 yesterday, as China revealed that fatalities
there had been much more widespread than previously reported.
Siberian school fire kills 23
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932110,00.html
Twenty-two students and their teacher were burned to death yesterday
in their old wooden school building in the Siberian republic of
Yakutia.
Surrealist's belongings sold
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932111,00.html
Writers, artists and librarians protested outside a Paris saleroom
yesterday when auctioneers began a week-long disposal of the contents
of André Breton's Pigalle flat, where the Surrealist manifesto was
drawn up in 1924.
Muslim voices
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,931735,00.html
How are teachers handling the war? Does the stance of Muslim and
mainstream schools differ, asks Phil Revell
Quota, un-quota
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,9959,931613,00.html
As the government here wrestles with the issue of positive
discrimination in university admissions, a court case that could have
drastic consequences is dividing America. Joel Budd reports
Robert Fisk: It seemed as if Baghdad would fall within hours. But the
day was characterised by crazed normality, high farce and death
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=395123
It started with a series of massive vibrations, a great "stomping"
sound that shook my room. "Stomp, stomp, stomp," it went. I lay in bed
trying to fathom the cause. It was like the moment in Jurassic Park
when the tourists first hear footfalls of the dinosaur, an ever
increasing, ever more frightening thunder of a regular, monstrous
heartbeat.
It is still possible to hate the war, but to give thanks for regime
change
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/deborah_orr/story.jsp?story=395078
Even now, as the troops move softly into Baghdad, the humanitarian
cost of this invasion remains incalculable
Christopher Bellamy: Why there are some deadly drawbacks to smashing
the enemy's command
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=395113
08 April 2003
Wars are won by shattering the morale, cohesion and military command
and control of the opposition; by physically smashing them, terrifying
them or simply making the command structure incapable of passing
orders down.
Patrick Cockburn: Victory is in sight, but so many enemies remain
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=395074
08 April 2003
Iraqis are exhausted by years of war and deprivation, and the US must
ensure they face a brighter future.
Mark Mazower: Forcing change through war rarely works
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=395073
08 April 2003
The Bush administration has it all planned out.
The Media Column: 'Remember the local staff who make war reporting
possible'
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=395012
08 April 2003
This column is for the unsung heroes of war journalism: the local
drivers, fixers and translators who make it possible for
correspondents from Western news organisations to gain access and
understanding they could not otherwise obtain.
George Galloway: Labour maverick who's a target for Blairites and 'The
Sun'
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=394696
'I believe the entire city of Baghdad will become a firestorm and the
Iraqis will fight to the end and then beyond the end' says the MP for
Glasgow Kelvin
Morgan's dilemma
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=395004
The 'Daily Mirror' stayed anti-war. Its readers didn't. The editor,
Piers Morgan, tells Ian Burrell how the paper has softened its line -
but kept its integrity
Today's war links in full
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=395126
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The Last Refuge
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08KRUG.html
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Self-styled patriots are trying to impose constraints on political
speech, accusing anyone who criticizes the president of undermining
the war effort.
The Ring of Truth?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08KRIS.html
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
President Bush's campaign to sell U.S. policy to a skeptical Muslim
world is as high-tech as an Abrams tank, but not, unfortunately, as
effective.
No Peace Without Surrender
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08STAN.html
By ELIZABETH STANLEY-MITCHELL
Conspicuously absent from discourse about the war has been any
discussion about who will be capitulating to the United States.
Saddam Hussein as Surrogate Dictator
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08ZHA.html
By JIANYING ZHA
Many Chinese, who see in Saddam Hussein the kind of despot they know
too well, resolutely support the war in Iraq.
Is Fear Spreading Faster Than SARS?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08BOWR.html
By PHILIP BOWRING
Intense news coverage has made the recent outbreak of SARS, or severe
acute respiratory syndrome, seem more dramatic than it really is.
After the War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08TUE1.html
Winning the peace, and turning Iraq from tyranny to democracy, may be
more difficult than waging the war.
A Decision on Cross-Burning
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08TUE2.html
In upholding a ban on cross-burning but warning states against
trampling on political speech, the Supreme Court made a balanced
decision.
Congress's Pet Arsenal
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08TUE3.html
A disastrous bill expected this week on the House floor would give gun
makers and dealers protection from liability suits.
Spring Snow
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/08TUE4.html
Winter has never seemed quite so reluctant to retreat for good.
A Generation Gap Over the War?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/L08PROT.html
Rebuilding Iraq: Don't Go It Alone
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/L08IRAQ.html
Hummer Owners and Sunshine Patriots
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/L08HUMM.html
Michael Kelly's Career
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/L08PERE.html
The Selfless Founders
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/L08BUDG.html
Charges Against Unions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/L08UNIO.html
A Marine's Story
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/L08VETE.html
The Confederate Flag
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/L08FLAG.html
Endangered Teachers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/opinion/L08TEAC.html
Two Iraqi Ministries Are Afire After U.S. Warplanes Strike
http://tinyurl.com/935j
By JOHN F. BURNS with JANE PERLEZ
Raging battles lasted all morning and left the Americans in firm
control of an area encompassing the principal seats of governmental
power.
Capital Has Look of a Battlefield
http://tinyurl.com/935n
By JOHN F. BURNS
Iraqi special forces and militiamen took up positions on the streets
and on bridges after a raid by the American Third Infantry Division.
Bush Sees Limited Role for U.N. in Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/935t
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
President Bush described that role as largely humanitarian and
advisory rather than one central to overseeing the country.
River Is Crossed After a Day of Fierce Fighting
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08BRID.html
By DEXTER FILKINS
Thousands of American marines poured into the Iraqi capital after
capturing a bridge in a daylong firefight.
Family Says Lynch in Good Spirits After Ordeal
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08CND-LYNCH.html
By MARK LANDLER
Despite having been through 10 hours of surgery over two days, Private
Lynch appeared buoyant and surprisingly strong, her family said at a
news conference today.
While Mourning Dead, Public Seems to Tolerate War's Toll
http://tinyurl.com/936d
By JODI WILGOREN with ADAM NAGOURNEY
Most Americans interviewed Monday said the casualties had not eroded
their support for the war, as long as success was in sight.
Egyptian Intellectual Speaks Of the Arab World's Despair
http://tinyurl.com/936l
By SUSAN SACHS
There are signs of distress seizing the Arab elite, those preaching
moderation in the face of rising Islamic radicalism.
At Least 3 Journalists Die in Blast at Baghdad Hotel
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08CND-CAMERAMAN.html
By JANE PERLEZ
A reporter for Al Jazeera was killed during an air raid in Baghdad
when the station's office was hit by two air to surface missiles,
officials at Al Jazeera headquarters said.
Two Iraqi Ministries Are Afire After U.S. Warplanes Strike
http://tinyurl.com/935j
By JOHN F. BURNS with JANE PERLEZ
Raging battles lasted all morning and left the Americans in firm
control of an area encompassing the principal seats of governmental
power.
Capital Has Look of a Battlefield
http://tinyurl.com/935n
By JOHN F. BURNS
Iraqi special forces and militiamen took up positions on the streets
and on bridges after a raid by the American Third Infantry Division.
American Soldiers Find Drums Possibly Storing Chemical Agents
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08CHEM.html
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
American soldiers near Karbala found canisters that, according to
tests, contain nerve agents and mustard gas.
Respiratory Disease Is Found to Be Spreading
http://tinyurl.com/9377
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
World Health Organization officials said they suffered serious
setbacks on Monday as clusters of new cases of SARS appeared in
several countries.
In the 24/7 TV War, Reporters Are Making Their Marks
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08WATC.html
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
War coverage can be especially rewarding for two kinds of television
reporters, pretty young women - like Lara Logan of CBS - and graying
anchors.
Study Finds Charter Schools Lack Experienced Teachers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/education/08CHAR.html
By SARA RIMER
A new study has found that charter schools, an alternative to
low-performing public schools, rely heavily on young, uncredentialed
teachers.
University Purchases Reporters' Notes on Watergate
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/education/08WATE.html
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
The Washington Post reporters who first uncovered the Watergate
scandal have sold their Watergate notes and other papers to the
University of Texas for $5 million.
While Mourning Dead, Public Seems to Tolerate War's Toll
http://tinyurl.com/936d
By JODI WILGOREN with ADAM NAGOURNEY
Most Americans interviewed Monday said the casualties had not eroded
their support for the war, as long as success was in sight.
States Can Outlaw Burning of Crosses, Justices Rule
http://tinyurl.com/938n
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
The Supreme Court ruled that states may make it a crime to burn a
cross with a purpose to intimidate, as long as the act was intended as
a threat.
Usually Resilient United Way Now Predicts a Leaner Year
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/national/08UNIT.html
By STEPHANIE STROM
United Way's 2002-03 campaign is shaping up to be one of the worst
fund-raising periods in three decades for the organization.
There's Work to Be Done Before Declaring Victory, Rumsfeld Cautions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08PENT.html
By ERIC SCHMITT
The defense secretary said that declaring victory in Iraq would come
"later rather than sooner."
Tribunals Nearly Ready for Afghanistan Prisoners
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08TRIB.html
By NEIL A. LEWIS
After nearly 18 months of planning, the Pentagon is at last ready to
put in place its system of military tribunals to try people captured
in the war in Afghanistan.
Bush's Next Role: Mediator in Disputes Over Running Postwar Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08ASSE.html
By DAVID E. SANGER
President Bush is moving to end arguments between the U.S. and Europe
and between his own State and Defense Departments.
War Tests a German Niche Industry
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/business/worldbusiness/08CHEM.html
By MARK LANDLER
Many German companies have profited handsomely from the American-led
war on Iraq. But Blücher G.m.b.H. has done especially well.
As Prices Fall For Crude Oil, OPEC Leader Calls for Talks
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/business/08PLAC.html
By NEELA BANERJEE
OPEC's president called for a special meeting later this month to
discuss the recent slide in oil prices.
Frontier of Military Technology Is the Size of a Molecule
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/technology/08NANO.html
By BARNABY J. FEDER
Nanoscale materials and components have already found their way into
communications systems and weapons being used in the war in Iraq.
Holocaust Survivors' Insurance Ordeal
http://tinyurl.com/939i
By JOSEPH B. TREASTER
Generali, one of the world's largest insurance companies, is being
sued by Holocaust survivors who say the company failed to honor
victims' policies.
The Wisconsin of China: Got Milk, but Hold the Cheese
http://tinyurl.com/939p
By DAVID BARBOZA
China's growing appetite for milk and other dairy products has helped
create a "dairy belt" in the north of the country.
Stocks Flat as Wall Street Weighs War Developments
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Wall-Street.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wall Street remained relatively unchanged Tuesday after a wave of
earnings warnings offset investor optimism about a quick end to the
war.
New Fusion Method Offers Hope of New Energy Source
http://tinyurl.com/93a0
By KENNETH CHANG
Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have reported that they
achieved thermonuclear fusion, in essence detonating a tiny hydrogen
bomb.
Player in Cellular Phone Market in Europe Predicts Consolidation
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/business/worldbusiness/08PHON.html
By ERIC SYLVERS
Marco De Benedetti, chief of Telecom Italia Mobile, says that the
European mobile phone market is about to be transformed.
Heart of Japanese Animation Beats in a Robot Boy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/asia/07JAPA.html
By JAMES BROOKE
Astro Boy's official birthday marks the coming of age of Japan's
animation industry.
Digital Links Are Giving Old Weapons New Power
http://tinyurl.com/909g
By DOUGLAS JEHL
New networks that now link aircraft cockpits, command posts and tank
crews have allowed each to see far beyond their own fields of vision.
The Cosmos Gets Another Set of Eyes
http://tinyurl.com/93ak
By WARREN E. LEARY
NASA is preparing to launch the last of its "Great Observatories," the
suite of space telescopes proposed in the 1970's.
Texans Call In a Monster Fish to Tame a Monster Weed
http://tinyurl.com/93ay
By CAROL KAESUK YOON
The 1,600 grass carp released into Lake Austin in February could
become an even bigger environmental problem than the one they were
supposed to solve.
They Can Run but They Can't Fly
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/science/life/08ELEP.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The question of whether elephants run has been a biomechanical puzzle.
Disease's Pioneer Is Mourned as a Victim
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/science/sciencespecial/08PROF.html
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
When the microbe that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome is
finally isolated, some people will want to name it with a Latin
variation on Carlo Urbani.
Trauma Medicine: Stepchild No More
http://tinyurl.com/93bo
By GINA KOLATA
Despite huge advances in medicine and technology, trauma care has, in
many ways, been stuck in the past century.
Promising Results Are Seen in Small Parkinson's Trial
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/health/08PARK.html
By NICHOLAS WADE
A new approach to Parkinson's disease depends on a human hormone
produced by the glial cells, numerous small cells that serve the
brain's neurons.
To Contain Ailment, a Test Heads the Wish List
http://tinyurl.com/93bu
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D.
In controlling an epidemic of any new infectious disease, finding a
diagnostic test is of paramount importance.
Treatments: Asthma and Esophagus, at Peace
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/health/08TREA.html
By JOHN O'NEIL
Children with chronic asthma and gastric reflux were able to cut their
use of asthma medicine in half after their digestive problems were
treated aggressively.
When a Patient Is Lost in the Translation
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/health/08CASE.html
By ERIN N. MARCUS, M.D.
A recent study in the journal Pediatrics says that translation errors
between doctors and patients are common and can be dangerous.
Late Childbearing Intensifies Problem of Premature Births
http://tinyurl.com/93c8
By JANE E. BRODY
Despite advances in reproductive medicine, the old problem of
premature birth has remained essentially unsolved.
Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Each Win Three Pulitzer Prizes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/nyregion/08PULI.html
By JACQUES STEINBERG
The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post each won three Pulitzer
Prizes, as the terrorist attacks that dominated last year's
competition yielded to more disparate subjects.
Better Schools Through Better Teaching? How Novel
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/nyregion/08PROF.html
By ROBIN FINN
Anna Switzer is the excessively caffeinated and preternaturally
motivated principal of City Hall Academy, the much-critiqued
multimillion-dollar educational innovation.
Günter Grass Worries About the Effects of War, Then and Now
http://tinyurl.com/93d2
By ALAN RIDING
Breaking a taboo, Günter Grass's latest novel implicitly concludes
that it's time to acknowledge that some Germans were also victims of
World War II.
Music Before Politics for French Sister Act
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/arts/music/08NUBI.html
By LOLA OGUNNAIKE
Les Nubians, emissaries of France's blossoming Afropean music scene,
are finding a receptive audience in America.
U.S. Armor Reaches Heart of Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52421-2003Apr7.html
Battling through Iraqi resistance, U.S. troops pushed into the heart
of Baghdad with tanks and armored personnel carriers Monday, seizing
two of President Saddam Hussein's palaces.
U.S. General to Help Team Set Up Ministry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52532-2003Apr7.html
A Pentagon-appointed former U.S. general Monday prepared to establish
administrative authority over parts of Iraq.
State Bans on Cross Burning Upheld
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52312-2003Apr7.html
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states can ban cross burnings
that are intended to intimidate onlookers and that such laws do not
violate the First Amendment because of the long history of cross
burning as a "particularly virulent form of intimidation."
Rice, Putin Seek to Mend Fences
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52119-2003Apr7.html
Condoleezza Rice met with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday,
saying the Bush administration wants to repair relations with Russia.
Bouncing Banteng Born To Iowa Cow
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52285-2003Apr7.html
Scientists have for the first time created a healthy clone of an
endangered species, offering powerful evidence that cloning technology
can play a role in preserving and even reconstituting threatened and
endangered species.
U.S. Wants Iraqi System To Prosecute Past Abuses
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52387-2003Apr7.html
A new Iraqi government should be responsible for prosecuting Saddam
Hussein and any surviving aides for past war crimes and human rights
abuses, Bush administration officials said Monday.
U.S., Iraqi Forces Trade Heavy Gunfire in Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54318-2003Apr8.html
U.S. and Iraqi forces traded heavy gunfire today in central Baghdad as
officials in Washington expressed hope that an airstrike in the Iraqi
capital Monday afternoon may have killed President Saddam Hussein.
Israeli Warplane Strikes Gaza City Target
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57180-2003Apr8.html
An Israeli warplane fired a missile at a car in Gaza City after
sundown Tuesday, killing at least three people, witnesses said, in the
first Israeli airstrike in Palestinian territory since the war in Iraq
began.
Hospitals Overwhelmed By Living and Dead
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52058-2003Apr7.html
Baghdad hospitals are straining under the burden of those Iraqis
injured in the unrelenting U.S.-led bombing campaign
A Wary Worldview
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52873-2003Apr7.html
Indonesians evince a deep skepticism these days toward the U.S.
government and, by extension, Western media. - By Ellen Nakashima
Pakistan's Modern Feudal Lords
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52556-2003Apr7.html
Pakistan's feudal class is a diminished but not yet dying breed that
still wields strong influence over the society and politics of this
youthful, impoverished nation of 142 million.
Bush, Blair Say Hussein Regime Is Collapsing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54629-2003Apr8.html
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that Saddan Hussein's
regime is collapsing under the weight of allied attacks in Iraq and
that "the power of Saddam is ending."
In France, Muslims Look To New Body For Change
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52117-2003Apr7.html
POISSY, France -- Some dressed in dark suits and others in robes,
Muslim men lined up to vote Sunday in the first election of an
official council to represent their community in France.
For Some, Syria Looms as Next Goal
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52483-2003Apr7.html
Conservatives within the Bush administration would like to see a
change of government in Syria but want it to happen through peaceful
means.
In Pursuit of Answers, and Loot, in Basra
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52059-2003Apr7.html
The day after Baath Party leaders fled the city in the face of a
British advance, many Basra residents pursued a looting frenzy.
Once a Marine
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52872-2003Apr7.html
A confluence of a powerful story, admiring reviews, and events forcing
the nation's attention back to soldiers and Saddam has made Anthony
Swofford's first book an immediate bestseller. - By Paula Span
Caro's LBJ Biography Among Arts Pulitzers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52874-2003Apr7.html
The Pulitzer Prize board bestowed upon bulldog historian Robert A.
Caro its 2003 biography award for "Master of the Senate: The Years of
Lyndon Johnson." - By Linton Weeks
Watergate Papers Sold
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52875-2003Apr7.html
In one of the largest such purchases in American history, the
University of Texas at Austin has bought the Watergate papers for $5
million. - By Lee Hockstader
All War Out?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52870-2003Apr7.html
Yearning to immerse your ravaged brain in something utterly mindless?
Fortunately, the American magazine industry has provided for all your
stupidity needs. - By Peter Carlson
A Partnership for Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52718-2003Apr7.html
Page A32
WITH U.S. FORCES camped in the center of Baghdad last night, it
appeared that Saddam Hussein's tyranny over Iraq had been all but
broken. Yet the United States and its allies still lack a workable
plan for what will replace it. As President Bush traveled to Northern
Ireland to discuss postwar strategy with British Prime Minister Tony
Blair, U.S. commanders were preparing to launch a temporary
administration made up mostly of U.S. officials and diplomats, with
the announced aim of maintaining basic services and delivering
humanitarian aid. The allies agree that at some point much of that
administration will be turned over to Iraqis, and that eventually an
interim Iraqi authority will be created. But there is no consensus on
what will likely be the central postwar problem: how to conduct a
transition that is accepted as legitimate by most Iraqis and makes
possible a sharing of the burden of reconstruction among the United
States and other nations.
No Surrender
Page A32
IT IS NOT by accident that Prime Minister Tony Blair and President
George Bush are meeting this week in Belfast: It seems that those who
were planning the trip deemed Belfast the most secure city in Britain.
In large part, this is because anti-American demonstrations would be a
lot bigger in London. But it also reflects the fact that Belfast is
genuinely a much safer place than it has been in several decades.
While he's there, the president can, and should, try to help keep it
that way.
Cross Burning in Court
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52720-2003Apr7.html
Page A32
VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL Jerry W. Kilgore was quick to declare
victory yesterday when the Supreme Court handed down its decision
concerning the commonwealth's legal ban on cross burning. "A great day
for Virginia," he called it -- which is strange, considering that the
court actually threw out the law as the Virginia courts interpreted it
and invalidated a conviction obtained under it. Mr. Kilgore was not
alone in his confusion; news stories also declared that the court had
upheld the ban. And, to be sure, the distinction the court has drawn
is subtle. But it is also useful. For the court yesterday managed to
uphold the authority of a state to ban a particularly ugly type of
intimidation while insisting at the same time that laws doing so be
drawn carefully so as not to criminalize speech. Its opinion,
therefore, looks rather different from the victory Mr. Kilgore sought.
Messy Democracy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52725-2003Apr7.html
By Thomas Carothers, Page A33
President Bush and his advisers say they want democracy in Iraq.
They also want a pro-Western Iraqi government, one that will be
responsive to U.S. political, security and economic interests. What if
those two goals turn out not to be compatible in the near term?
Hollywood's Darling, Liberals' Blind Spot
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52726-2003Apr7.html
By Richard Cohen, Page A33
If the valiant Michael Kelly had not been killed in Iraq, he surely
would have returned to whacking liberals and liberalism in his
newspaper column. I would have read these columns -- it was hard not
to read Kelly -- with some irritation but often with chagrin as well.
When he said -- and I paraphrase him here -- that at the heart of
American liberalism was a deep and inexplicable hole, I knew he was
often right. Had he lived, he might have turned his attention to Cuba.
Preemptive Peace
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52729-2003Apr7.html
By Harold Meyerson, Page A33
From the folks who brought us preemptive war, here comes preemptive
peace.
The Day After
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52728-2003Apr7.html
By David Ignatius, Page A33
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- I went to visit a Saudi friend here the
other day. He had just returned from prayers at his local mosque, and
his mood was one of sadness, almost despair.
Foreseeing The Hindsight
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52727-2003Apr7.html
By E.J. Dionne Jr., Page A33
Wars always produce recriminations. Like a war itself,
recriminations are designed to shape the political future. What
follows is a brief guide to the coming finger-pointing on Iraq.
Striving for Fair and Honest Elections
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52683-2003Apr7.html
Page A32
Count me among the paranoid who believe that computer voting
systems can fail to provide the electorate with accurate results ["New
Voting Systems Assailed," news story, March 28]. And count me among
those who want their computerized vote documented by a small paper
receipt dropped into a ballot box. Those paper receipts could then be
used for spot-checking accuracy of results.
Tough Tactics and Winning the Peace
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52682-2003Apr7.html
Page A32
It is painfully fitting that U.S. forces in Iraq are "drawing on
lessons from the British experience in Northern Ireland and the
American experience in Vietnam" ["U.S. Troops Told to Use Tougher
Tactics," front page, April 1]. I only wish that our national leaders
would do the same.
Schoolchildren Left Behind
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52722-2003Apr7.html
Page A32
The administration's justification for slashing spending for
after-school programs, as outlined by Education Secretary Roderick R.
Paige [letters, April 1], was inconsistent with the concept of "No
Child Left Behind."
Urban Combat Takes Root
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56335-2003Apr8.html
On a battlefield of buildings and bridges, U.S. is conducting Baghdad
raids from several directions.
'An Intense Day in Baghdad'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/msnbc/ms040803-8v.htm
The Post's Anthony Shadid describes the scene in the Iraqi capital.
The Endless Debate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55380-2003Apr8.html
The war is providing an echo chamber for 40 years of debates.
Recycling the Past as Playbook (By Dana Milbank, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51911-2003Apr7.html
Irked Drug Industry May Pull Tank Funds (By Richard Morin and Claudia
Deane, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51909-2003Apr7.html
VA's New Anti-Terror Research Labs Halted: Hill Authorized Centers,
but Not Funding (By David Brown, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51666-2003Apr7.html
DAYBOOK : A look at the day's major developments in the war with Iraq.
(Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52865-2003Apr7.html
The Fallen (Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52783-2003Apr7.html
Police Clash With Protesters at Oakland Port (By Martha Mendoza, Page
A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51908-2003Apr7.html
Post, L.A. Times Each Win Three Pulitzer Prizes (Post, April 8, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52284-2003Apr7.html
Mob Boss Admits Insanity Was a Ruse: Gigante Fooled Doctors for
Decades in Order to Avoid Prosecution (Post, April 8, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51971-2003Apr7.html
Concerns Grow About Controlling Lung Disease: Over 2,600 SARS Cases
Suspected Worldwide (By Rob Stein, Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52048-2003Apr7.html
War Funding Bill's Extra Riders: Special-Interest Provisions
Complicate House-Senate Talks (By Dan Morgan, Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52862-2003Apr7.html
Ex-Lawmaker Denies Charges On Fundraising (Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52823-2003Apr7.html
Iran Stands Trial in 1983 Suicide Bombing in Beirut (By Neely Tucker,
Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51992-2003Apr7.html
Bush Seeks Voluntary Chemical Plant Security Steps: Criticized as
Vulnerable to Terrorism, Industry Fighting Democratic Proposal for
Mandatory Measures (By John Mintz, Page A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51903-2003Apr7.html
Student Killed in La. School Shooting (Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52751-2003Apr7.html
In Snowy Big Apple, A Last Winter Punch: Storm Closes Schools and
Stadiums (By Christine Haughney, Page A14)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52789-2003Apr7.html
Hussein May Have Been Hit in Strike: U.S. Officials Are 'Hopeful'
Leader Died in Attack (By Dana Priest and Thomas E. Ricks, Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52476-2003Apr7.html
U.S. Losses Light as Iraqi Toll Surges in Baghdad Fighting: U.N. Group
Warns of Long-Term Effects on Civilian Populace (By Vernon Loeb and
Jonathan Weisman, Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52531-2003Apr7.html
Fate of 'Chemical Ali' Remains in Question: Officials Wonder if Top
Aide to Hussein Is Dead (Post, April 8, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52106-2003Apr7.html
Army Says Drums Could Contain Chemical Agents (Post, April 8, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52107-2003Apr7.html
Troops Pause After Battle in 'Hell on Earth' (By Jonathan Finer, Page
A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51580-2003Apr7.html
Inside University Gates, the Burning and the Bodies (By David Finkel,
Page A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52281-2003Apr7.html
Exile-Led Militia Has Low Numbers, High Hopes: Ill-Equipped Group Seen
as Unprepared (By Karl Vick, Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52283-2003Apr7.html
Reinforcements Arrive in North (Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53946-2003Apr8.html
Bush, Blair Seek Accord on Postwar Iraq: Focus at Belfast Summit Is on
Reconstruction and Forming an Elected Government (By Karen DeYoung and
Glenn Frankel, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52120-2003Apr7.html
At Intersection, Army's Mission Turns to Chaos (By William Branigin,
Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51476-2003Apr7.html
War In Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/iraq/
Marines Ponder Reports of Iraqis' Premature Surrender
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/09SOLDIE.html
By MICHAEL WILSON
If enemy troops decided to give up, but there was no opposing force to
surrender to, did it really happen?
Grim Scene for G.I.'s Raiding Iraqi Base
http://tinyurl.com/93hc
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
It took an anti-tank missile to blow a hole through the
steel-reinforced wall surrounding the Special Republican Guard's
headquarters at the foot of this hill overlooking the capital.
Iraq War Sets Bad Precedent, Mbeki Warns
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08MBEK.html
By GINGER THOMPSON
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa today issued his most stinging
evaluation of the war against Iraq, saying that the United States and
Britain had unevenly applied standards of democracy, and warning
Africans that they could be the next victims of what he depicted as
international bullying.
Cuban Dissidents Get Prison Terms as Long as 27 Years
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/americas/08CUBA.html
By DAVID GONZALEZ
Cuban courts today began handing out prison terms of up to 27 years to
dozens of dissidents, including journalists and librarians, who had
been advocating democratic reforms, according to human rights groups
and news reports from Havana.
War and a Slowdown Empty Caribbean Beaches
http://tinyurl.com/93hr
By DAVID GONZALEZ
Just when tourists were finally beginning to think it was safe to
travel, a slowing economy and nervousness over flying during the Iraq
war are threatening to stop the slow recovery from the post-Sept. 11
slump that hit the Caribbean islands.
Thais Seek Safety in Masks and Faith
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/science/sciencespecial/08THAI.html
By SETH MYDANS
Movie theaters are spraying their seats. Massage parlors are screening
their customers. A hospital is refusing to treat people with colds. A
French warship arriving from Singapore has been turned away.
Bush to Help Ulster Take 'Final Steps' to Peace
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/europe/08CND-ULST.html
By WARREN HOGE
President Bush today gave the Northern Ireland peace process a boost
at a timely moment in the province's struggle to achieve longterm
stability, pledging to help local leaders take "the final steps
towards a lasting peace."
Rice Meets Putin in Effort to Repair War-Strained Relations
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08MOSC.html
By MICHAEL WINES
President Bush's national security adviser met with President Vladimir
V. Putin and his top aides here today in what a senior American
diplomat later called a mission to repair relations badly bruised by
divisions over the war in Iraq.
Oakland Police Fire Nonlethal Rounds to Disperse Protest
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08OAKL.html
By DEAN E. MURPHY
The Oakland police fired an assortment of crowd-control ammunition
today to disperse antiwar protesters outside two shipping companies at
the Port of Oakland.
U.S. Blasts Compound in Effort to Kill Hussein
http://tinyurl.com/93i9
By DAVID E. SANGER and ERIC SCHMITT
An Air Force bomber dropped four 2,000-pound bombs on a Baghdad
neighborhood this afternoon in an attempt to kill Saddam Hussein and
his sons, military and Bush administration officials said tonight.
As Tactics Change and Battle Lines Blur, Risk of Being Killed by Own
Side Increases
http://tinyurl.com/93ie
By THOM SHANKER
When an allied convoy came under fire from American warplanes in
northern Iraq on Sunday, killing 19 Kurdish fighters and wounding
three Army Special Forces soldiers, the precision ordnance fell
exactly where it was aimed, Pentagon officials said today.
Iraqi Leaders Said to Use Civilian Areas in Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08INTE.html
By DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN
Iraq's senior political leaders have made no effort to flee Baghdad,
but some appear to be frantically shifting operations to civilian
buildings in residential neighborhoods to avoid American ground and
air assaults, intelligence officials said today.
Administration Delays Pension Rule
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/business/08PENS.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Bush administration said today that it would scrap - for now - a
proposed rule meant to ensure that highly paid workers are not unduly
favored when companies switch to a new type of retirement plan.
Oil Wealth Helps Russia Navigate World Debt Markets
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/business/worldbusiness/08RUBL.html
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
With the profits from high oil prices lifting Russia up to stardom
among emerging markets, Russian companies are hurrying to capitalize
by tapping the international markets for financing.
Facing new questions about transplants
http://tinyurl.com/93j5
(4/8/2003)
In a recent story in the New York Times Magazine, author Charles
Siebert recounts his interview with Dr. Peter Butler, a British
plastic surgeon who is prepared to supervise the first transplant of a
human face. That's right, a human face.
The Grunt's War
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896312.asp
As the generals debated strategy, the pogues and dogfaces were
grinding it out in the desert.Taking Baghdad airport, and other tales
of the Third Infantry Division's ‘Charlie Rock' Company.
A City on the Brink
http://www.msnbc.com/news/895734.asp
Lights go out, tanks roll in, bombs fall and a simple barber dreams of
having a bigger shop. The view from inside the siege
Alter: The Real Echoes From Vietnam
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896155.asp
The military comparisons to Vietnam are glib. But some political
lessons remain relevant, especially those about the limits of power
‘Committed To the Cause'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896273.asp
Portraits of eight American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice
The Rage Next Time
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896248.asp
While Americans see victories in Iraq, Arabs and Muslims see mostly
victims
The Uncredible Hulk
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896257.asp
The first casualty of war is truth, it's said. Not since Vietnam has
American credibility been so low. Can it regain the world's trust?
Now, the Palestine Question
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896193.asp
The next row in Europe will be over a Middle East peace. This time
Britain may not side with America
The Gathering Storm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896256.asp
Many Arabs and Muslims view the U.S. invasion of Iraq as a
provocation, not a liberation. Will the war spark more hatred?
Buying American
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896272.asp
European foes of the war worry that they may be squeezed out of the
rebuilding
An Asian Contagion
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896192.asp
SARS has infected Asian economies and may yet spread to fragile world
markets
A Harrowing Brazilian Bus Ride
http://www.msnbc.com/news/895529.asp
A documentary takes another look at life in Rio's favelas
The Fat Lady Is Singing
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896188.asp
Beijing opera seeks to reinvent itself in order to survive
The Last Word: Bill Maher
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896130.asp
TV's King of Controversy
Letter From America: Frying the French
http://www.msnbc.com/news/895517.asp
Do menu changes reflect patriotism?
‘A Matter of Hygiene'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896184.asp
Are more epidemics on the way? If so, we would have only ourselves to
blame
Health: Shining A Light On Pain
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896284.asp
Therapeutic LEDs use light to penetrate deep into tissues and boost
the body's own natural healing processes
Technology: Travel Tips
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896282.asp
Tools that can help you stay out of harms way
Safety: Bunker Down
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896283.asp
Brits can now buy a completely bombproof house
Jane Bryant Quinn: Coping in a War Economy
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896215.asp
Don't chase war rallies. This stock market is strictly for
professional traders with itchy fingers and confident five-minute
options
Halliburton Out of the Running
http://www.msnbc.com/news/892259.asp
The construction firm once run by Dick Cheney won't get a big Iraq
contract
Michigan's Day in Court
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896093.asp
In arguments over affirmative action in admissions, the justices
seemed to favor a less than drastic overhaul of the law
Solving the Mystery
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896148.asp
Scores have died, and science still can't answer the basic questions:
How do you get the virus? How do you identify it? And how do you treat
it?
George F. Will: Measured Audacity
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896143.asp
Unconditional surrender is a more problematic war aim than it was in
1945, when achieved by indiscriminant destruction
My Turn: We Won't Let This War Pull Us Apart
http://www.msnbc.com/news/895508.asp
I try to understand my kids' opposing points of view, even when they
can't do that for each other
Mail Call: The Dawning of Operation Iraqi Freedom
http://www.msnbc.com/news/896095.asp
Readers react strongly to the start of the war
Saddam's Last Stand
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030414/
Reality Bites
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030414-441239,00.html
China's documentary filmmakers reveal the uncensored-and
"unpatriotic"-truth
A War Over the Peace
http://www.time.com/time/europe/eu/daily/0,13716,438945,00.html
The U.S. and Europe are already squabbling over who'll run post-war
Iraq
Clash of the Administration Titans
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030414/ndod.html
Old rivals Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld square off in a new battle
over how to rebuild a post-Saddam Iraq
Window On Their World
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901030331-435935,00.html
It's a docudrama, but in a good way: In This World, goes to desperate
lengths to show the desperate lengths to which asylum seekers go to
find a better life
maff
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Force is not enough
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,932679,00.html
Jonathan Freedland: George Bush praised the Belfast peace process
yesterday, even as he tramples on its lessons across the globe.
Death to the hedgehogs!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,932680,00.html
David Munk: I'm probably an averagely committed veggie. But now I'm
pretty certain the hedgehogs have got to die.
Mr Speaker, I commend to you a Budget that delivers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,932672,00.html
A sneak preview of today's speech (but Gordon may not stick to the
script).
'It feels like 1967 all over again'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,932673,00.html
Jonathan Steele: For Arabs, a sense of humiliation is added to decades
of frustration.
The ruin of Russia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,932674,00.html
Joseph Stiglitz: No rewriting of history can change the fact that
neo-liberal reform produced undiluted economic decline
The bloodletter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,932585,00.html
He thinks it's OK as long as it's over quickly. She is filled with
fury and despair. The war in Iraq comes between one couple in a new
short story by Helen Simpson.
Where did they find this man?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,932587,00.html
Geoff Hoon's wooden, gaffe-prone performance means that his part in
Saddam's probable downfall will not trouble the historians.
Baghdad Lullaby
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,932588,00.html
A poem by Tony Harrison.
Just popping out, darling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,932589,00.html
Why are men hardwired to tell porkies to their partners, wonders Jim
White.
So what is racism - and what isn't?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,932590,00.html
Rod Liddle: The modern notion of racism has become so devalued, so
ubiquitous and broad in its ambit, that much of what, reflexively, we
call racism today is simply rudeness.
'The allies have won'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Events show the doubters were wrong and Rumsfeld was right.
It's not over yet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
Reports of victory may be premature. The British and American forces
could still face protracted and bloody resistance - and worse
Media in the front line
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,932526,00.html
I do not like al-Jazeera's methods of reporting the war (War in the
Gulf, April 8). It is insufficiently questioning of Saddam's
officials, nor is it sufficiently investigative to uncover the truth
when it comes to that regime's claims.
New icon of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,932527,00.html
Your front-page photograph by John Moore (April 8) is an extraordinary
homage, inadvertent or not, to Anton von Werner's famous 1894 painting
of a scene from the Franco-Prussian war, A Billet outside Paris.
Democratic credentials
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,932528,00.html
James Woolsey (Comment, April 8) says, "In 1917, there were about 10
functioning democracies in the world" including "a couple of countries
in northern Europe".
Civilians and unconventional weapons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,932530,00.html
George Monbiot's equation of riot control weapons with VX gas is
breathtaking. There's all the difference in the world between using
gas to try to limit fatalities and gassing civilians (Chemical
hypocrites, April 8).
Freedoms and formats
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,932532,00.html
I was greatly concerned by the tone of the letter from David Lyle of
the Format Recognition and Protection Association (April 5).
Not invisible
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,932533,00.html
Your profile of the US ambassador in London, William Farish, is unfair
(Bush's undiplomatic posting draws scorn, April 5).
The UN's leading role
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,932523,00.html
Bush has moved - but not far enough.
Iraqi billionaire's passport suspended
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,932689,00.html
The passport of a London-based Iraqi billionaire with past links to
Saddam Hussein's regime was confiscated yesterday.
Lukoil puts west on notice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,932552,00.html
Firm vows fight if its Iraqi interests are threatened
Bush pledges 'vital role' for UN
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,932676,00.html
PM urges end to diplomatic wrangling.
'A picture of killing inflicted on a sprawling city - and it grew more
unbearable by the minute'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932728,00.html
Suzanne Goldenberg: Death's embrace gave the bodies intimacies they
never knew in life. Strangers, bloodied and blackened, wrapped their
arms around others, hugging them close.
Saddam survived attack on building say British intelligence sources
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932727,00.html
Saddam Hussein survived an attack on a building in Baghdad in which he
was reported to have been meeting his sons Uday and Qusay on Monday
afternoon, British intelligence sources said last night.
Second city airport falls to forces sweeping aside Iraqi resistance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932669,00.html
American forces seized a second airport inside Baghdad yesterday and
fought back an Iraqi counterattack as they tightened their control of
the capital.
2pm: Saddam is spotted. 2.48pm: pilots get their orders. 3pm: 60ft
crater at target
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932658,00.html
How technology helped pinpoint Iraqi leader
Block by block, marines clear the city
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932652,00.html
James Meek sees the US marines pursue an elusive foe in the streets of
Baghdad.
Baghdad hospitals pushed to the limit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932651,00.html
Supply of drugs and water run low
Three die in attacks on media bases
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932649,00.html
Journalists 'target' as hotel and Al-Jazeera bombed.
Arab world riven by fury and despair
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932647,00.html
Sense of humiliation matched by thoughts of revenge.
War unlikely to end with defining moment
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932648,00.html
Pentagon talks of 'rolling victory' amid fears of continued resistance
after regime collapses.
Pandemonium at the hotel reporters called home
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932650,00.html
Al-Jazeera correspondent Tareq Ayoub was broadcasting live to the
satellite station's 7am news bulletin yesterday when US aircraft fired
two missiles at the bureau building, killing him and injuring a
colleague. Two Iraqi staff are missing.
Fury at US as attacks kill three journalists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932800,00.html
Al-Jazeera quits Iraq as Americans accused over deaths
Aid that comes too little, too late
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932645,00.html
Early yesterday morning, a little after daybreak in the newly
liberated city of Basra, Mohammed Hussain, 49, opened the door to his
apartment. As his wife and children sat chatting in the kitchenette,
Mr Hussain, a taxi driver, threw open bare cupboard after bare
cupboard. "I have nothing," he said. "Saddam and the war took
everything."
Iraq's elite may go north for last stand
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932646,00.html
Special Republican Guard based in Saddam's hometown
New Iraq will have to rely on old regime
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932642,00.html
American and British forces are poised to launch a process of
"deba'athising" Iraq - seeking out and vetting thousands of people
associated with the worst excesses of the regime, but retaining those
whose skills are needed to keep the country running in the post-Saddam
era.
'I've got this brother-in-law. He speaks good English and might be
able to help ... '
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932671,00.html
Call it the problem of the driver's brother-in-law. Speaking hardly a
word of Arabic or Kurdish, a middle-aged American arrives in Kirkuk or
Basra, or at the doors of a ministry in Baghdad, with a skeleton US
staff, a couple of Iraqi advisers and a mission to govern.
Tribal leader to help curb looting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932643,00.html
British troops in Basra were yesterday promised help from a local
tribal leader as they prepared to switch their role from a combat
force to establishing law and order, a vital task in the weeks ahead.
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932644,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
Banter and intimacy in the heat of battle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932519,00.html
Much of what I see of Iraq is through a little window, about 6in x
3in, from the back door of a Spartan armoured reconnaissance vehicle.
Right now I can glimpse the heads of more than 100 men and boys as
they form a convoy, but for weeks it has been a view only of clouds of
dust kicked up by the vehicle.
Eleven dead British servicemen brought home
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932520,00.html
The bodies of 11 British servicemen who died in the conflict arrived
home yesterday on a C-17 transporter plane which touched down at RAF
Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
Israel plays down president's push for 'road map' to end conflict
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932509,00.html
Arafat clashes with Palestinian PM over cabinet
'UN is crucial to rebuilding of Iraq'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932510,00.html
Extracts from the Blair-Bush statement on Iraq issued after the summit
Search for French politicians who shared oil firm slush fund
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932636,00.html
Attempts are being made to track down French presidential candidates
who profited from millions of pounds worth of secret election funds
from the former state-owned Elf oil company, whose former senior
managers are on trial for corruption.
Woodward and Bernstein sell Watergate notes for $5m
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932639,00.html
The two journalists who broke the Watergate scandal have sold their
notebooks and papers related to the story for $5m (£3.2m). But the
identity of Deep Throat, their anonymous source, will remain secret
until his death.
40 million starving 'as world watches Iraq'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932775,00.html
UN agency accuses west of pledging to feed victims of Gulf war while
concern for plight of hungry Africans fades
Victimised gay couple contest refugee refusal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932638,00.html
Australian court hears appeal by Bangladeshis
Baghdad's nerve centre under fire
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,932431,00.html
· Two die as journalists' hotel shelled
· Saddam fate uncertain
· Bush: UN role is vital
DNA pioneer urges gene free-for-all
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,932537,00.html
Governments, popes and presidents should not try to control the use of
genetic knowledge, the man who began the DNA revolution said
yesterday.
Today's links in full
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=395421
What will Blair do if the hawks in Washington set their sights on
Syria?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/johann_hari/story.jsp?story=395356
His problem is that while he agrees with their foreign policy goal, he
does not agree with their route to it
Afghanistan was not a triumph, but a warning
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/philip_hensher/story.jsp?story=395358
The US has exercised imperial power with no intention of accepting
imperial responsibiities
Iraq could prove a model of economic success
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/hamish_mcrae/story.jsp?story=395350
Unlike Saudi Arabia, Iraq can feed itself - the 'fertile cresecent' of
the Tigris and Euphrates was the cradle of our own civilisation.
Robert Fisk: The dogs were yelping. They knew bombs were on the way
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=395416
Day 20 of America's war for the "liberation" of Iraq was another day
of fire, pain and death. It started with an attack by two A-10 jets
that danced in the air like acrobats, tipping on one wing, sliding
down the sky to turn on another, and spraying burning phosphorus to
mislead heat-seeking missiles before turning their cannons on a
government ministry and plastering it with depleted uranium shells.
The day ended in blood-streaked hospital corridors and with three
foreign correspondents dead and five wounded.
Robert Fisk: Is there some element in the US military that wants to
take out journalists?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=395412
First the Americans killed the correspondent of al-Jazeera yesterday
and wounded his cameraman. Then, within four hours, they attacked the
Reuters television bureau in Baghdad, killing one of its cameramen and
a cameraman for Spain's Tele 5 channel and wounding four other members
of the Reuters staff.
David McKittrick: A warm welcome that would spook Franklin
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=395404
09 April 2003
Colin Powell, Jack Straw and Condoleezza Rice sat in a row against the
wall of the Throne Room at Hillsborough Castle, waiting with the media
for the arrival of the President and the PM.
Christopher Bellamy: Generals, take note: peace-keeping requires more
courage than war
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=395406
09 April 2003
If the US forces in Baghdad want to reassure the Iraqis that Saddam
and his apparatus of terror are removed, and to secure the city, they
will have to get out of their armoured vehicles. And out of their
aeroplanes and helicopters. And get on their feet, on the ground. Get
their flak jackets and helmets off. Get into cellars and up stairways.
And be polite. And get brave. Like the British.
The conflict on camera: The photographs that have defined the war in
Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=395327
It has been documented like no war before, with TV crews and
journalists following almost every sniper shot and wayward missile
strike, from Kuwait to Baghdad. But when this Gulf War is recalled in
years to come, it will perhaps be photographs that provide the most
powerful record of all. Thomas Sutcliffe appraises the dark art of war
photography, alongside some of the most arresting and memorable images
so far, chosen by picture editors from Britain's national newspapers
A morally hollow victory
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,930728,00.html
Mary Riddell: No amount of PR will disguise the fact that this war is
an outrage against humanity.
A time for friends
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,930623,00.html
Nick Cohen: Betrayed by the West, slaughtered by Saddam ... now let
the oppressed Kurds find a home at last
No regime change at Number 10
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,930579,00.html
Andrew Rawnsley: When the war in Iraq is over, don't expect peace to
break out between the Prime Minister and his enemies at home.
Peace will bring new challenges
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,930717,00.html
After Saddam must come democracy.
A fearful war to remember
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,930592,00.html
Neal Ascherson: We stand on the brink of a century of violence unless
we heed the lessons of this conflict.
Media goes over the top with a torrent of hate mail
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,930632,00.html
Peter Preston: Which Fleet Street editor is 'the toast of the
cheese-eating surrender monkeys at the Groucho Club'? And which
ex-editor delivers 'tedious and bitter rants' while wearing
'embarrassing toupees'?
Actually, darling, the shock and awe has rather worn off
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,930716,00.html
Euan Ferguson's dispatch home, in spring 2025, with British forces
just outside Basra.
Dispatch from an armchair correspondent
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,930918,00.html
David Beresford wonders whether this war isn't a little one-sided for
the television viewer.
The arms lessons that we never learn
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,930978,00.html
As questions are raised over British military equipment being sold to
Syria, Richard Bingley of Campaign Against the Arms Trade asks why the
lessons of the arms to Iraq affair seem so difficult to grasp.
How far have we really come on race?
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,930553,00.html
Race relations are no longer a black and white issue, says Fareena
Alam.
Bush's southern flank
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,930935,00.html
The leaders of Spain, Portugal and Italy are backing the United States
over Iraq despite growing popular assent. Will their gamble pay off?
'I have never prayed in my life. Now I do'
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,930967,00.html
The Iraqi exiles: Unable to contact relatives in Iraq, our panel are
becoming increasingly anxious about the looming battle for Baghdad and
about whether the promises made to Iraqis about their country after
Saddam will be kept.
Gordon can't command these heights
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,930418,00.html
William Keegan: Gordon Brown has surprised people with his desire to
double aid to the Third World.
The human face of TV war
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,930401,00.html
Untransmitted footage reveals the fluctuating emotions of troops on
the Iraqi front line, writes ITN's Richard Wild.
What don't readers want? Find out - and get rid of it
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,930403,00.html
Peter Preston: Spring is sprucing-up time for editors. But this year
the garbage sacks are rather fuller than usual.
A propagandist speaks
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,930928,00.html
Alistair Campbell complains about hacks being duped. That's rich, says
Richard Ingrams.
The deadly choice now facing Badhdad
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,930698,00.html
American troops on the very edge of the Iraqi capital now face a
terrible decision. They can stage an all-out attack and risk killing
thousands of innocent civilians or lay siege to the city, jeopardising
the coalition's hopes to minimise casualties as shortages threaten to
create a humanitarian crisis. Peter Beaumont reporting from Amman and
Patrick Graham in Baghdad
America's forces patrol the world
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,930697,00.html
Thomas Withington: America's near-triumph in Iraq has been achieved
with astonishing speed. But the likelihood is that US troops will be
in Iraq for months, even years, to come.
How Private Jessica became America's icon
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,930588,00.html
The teenage soldier's dramatic rescue provided a tale of redemption
that has transformed the national mood.
Secret war on invisible guerillas
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,930589,00.html
Paul Harris: Far from the front lines, mind games and ambushes are
flushing out the hit-and-run militia from their hiding places.
The fight yet to come
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,930591,00.html
Another struggle is gripping Washington - the one that will shape the
future of Iraq. Bush's inner circle is fighting to gain his ear, and
the result of this contest will have an impact even greater than that
of the war.
If Baghdad doesn't fall, it will crumble
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,930696,00.html
What next in Baghdad? At least one American armoured wedge has
penetrated the city. There may be more. There is a report of a US tank
commander being killed. They are following an American doctrine:
reconnaissance by strong armoured units. It is possible that the 101st
Airborne Division is being brought to Baghdad airport to follow up.
The 'Centcom' command centre at Qatar is playing this very close to
the chest. They are relaxed about finding Saddam and are heading for
centres of power.
Nation-building - post-Cold War
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,930590,00.html
The messy legacy of conflict
Race to beat the bug
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,930573,00.html
In a high-security London laboratory, scientists work around the clock
to understand the killer Sars virus. Half a world away in a Singapore
hospital, the victims fight for their lives. Jo Revill and John
Aglionby report.
The plagues upon us
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,930575,00.html
A brief guide to the pandemics that have threatened mankind through
history.
Chasing riches in the ruins
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,930391,00.html
UK firms are not deterred by talk of 'ambulance-chasing' in seeking
Iraqi contracts, reports Oliver Morgan.
Iraq bidder's apartheid past
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,930343,00.html
Fluor Corporation, the US building firm tipped to land a massive
reconstruction deal in postwar Iraq, is facing a multibillion-dollar
lawsuit claiming that it exploited and brutalised black workers in
apartheid-era South Africa.
Cronies set to make a killing
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,930390,00.html
Oliver Morgan and Ed Vulliamy on the chequered past of US firms in the
frame.
Bechtel
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Kellogg Brown & Root
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BP's Russian partner in 'mafia' claims
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,930352,00.html
BPs partner in its $6.75 billion (£4.3bn) Russian oil venture is
facing claims of extortion and racketeering in a United States court.
The human face of TV war
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,930401,00.html
Untransmitted footage reveals the fluctuating emotions of troops on
the Iraqi front line, writes ITN's Richard Wild.
Sky wins battle for rolling news audience
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,930400,00.html
The satellite network's lead has been fuelled by a new appetite for
24-hour news among British viewers, reports Jamie Doward.
Rupert Murdoch
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A brand new kind of advert
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,930423,00.html
Kids are king and schoolyards the new marketplace, writes Simon
Caulkin.
Cloud over deals of Wild East pioneer
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,930582,00.html
The Reuben brothers made their fortune in post-Soviet Russia. But a
lawsuit could overshadow plans to invest in the UK, writes Conal Walsh
Expand the South and demolish the North?
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,930448,00.html
The Government has got it wrong, says Faisal Islam. Here he puts
foward his 10-point plan to reshape the UK.
Building cities fit for twenty-first century Britain
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,930450,00.html
The Government may want an urban renaissance but middle-class families
are heading for the hills, scared off by crime, drugs gangs and poor
schools.
Farce as Muslim cleric hits back
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,930854,00.html
Attempts to strip the Muslim radical Abu Hamza of his British
citizenship descended into farce last night, when it was revealed that
he had no other nationality as originally thought.
Cannabis 'link to schizophrenia rise'
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,930585,00.html
Softer drugs law blamed for risk of mental illness as users aim to get
heavily 'stoned'.
A very Roman lesson for today
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,930622,00.html
Henry Porter: Pro- and anti-war passions have been aroused over Iraq.
It was much the same 2,000 years ago.
Why I fear Blunkett's rap at my door
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,930745,00.html
Bill Morris: As someone who holds dual citizenship, I now wait in fear
for the knock on my door by someone with the necessary piece of paper
signed by David, removing me from Britain.
Baghdad on brink
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930922,00.html
Patrick Graham in Baghdad reports on a city preparing to fight.
Fighting erupts as US troops roar into Saddam's capital
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930805,00.html
American troops entered Baghdad for the first time yesterday in a
symbolic move designed to show Iraqi forces that opposition to the
coalition's superior firepower was futile.
US begins the process of 'regime change'
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930794,00.html
The US is ready to install the first leg of an interim government for
the new Iraq as early as Tuesday, even while fighting still rages in
Baghdad, officials said yesterday.
Bible brigade is ready to roll
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930793,00.html
President Bush is under pressure to clarify his position on the role
evangelical Christian aid groups are set to play in post-war Iraq.
British say that killer Ali may be dead
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930850,00.html
British military commanders said yesterday that 'Chemical Ali' may
have been killed by an air and artillery strike.
One boy's war... bathed in blood of his family
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930797,00.html
The human cost: His father. His mother. Two sisters. A brother. And an
uncle. All dead. That was the price of war for 15-year-old Omar when
the vehicle he was riding in failed to stop at a US checkpoint five
miles from Baghdad. Even the Marines were weeping in sympathy.
Something terrible happened here. Something murderous
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930584,00.html
Paul Harris on Saddam's death camp. The coffins are laid out in neat
rows in an abandoned warehouse. In each is a crumpled bag of bones,
old and dusty but still recognisably human.
Saddam appears on TV - but is he for real?
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930944,00.html
Iraqi domestic television showed footage last night of President
Saddam Hussein in a meeting yesterday with his two sons, top aides and
military commanders.
Kurds fight to win back their lands
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930691,00.html
Jason Burke: The peshmerga are caught in a scrappy, vicious and
chaotic war, far away from the much publicised dash across the desert
in the south.
What is happening? The key questions
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930692,00.html
Everything you need to know about what's happening on the ground.
North Korea and the US 'on a slide towards conflict'
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930570,00.html
War in North Korea is now almost inevitable because of the country's
diplomatic stalemate with America, a senior UN official claims.
French march ditched as riots feared
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930804,00.html
Organisers called off an anti-war demonstration in Paris yesterday
after fears that increasing anti-Americanism and anti-semitism could
fuel violence among the Muslim community and anti-war activists.
'Tortoise' rocket will open planets' secrets
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930735,00.html
Mankind is reaching out to the Moon again - on a rocket with less
thrust than a puff of breath. So feeble is the engine of Europe's
Smart-1 probe, it will take more than a year to reach the Moon. Apollo
astronauts took three days to blast to the lunar surface.
Aznar counts cost of war as voters rebel
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930571,00.html
Petrol bombs were hurled at offices of Spain's ruling Popular Party
(PP) last week, fuelling fears that the simmering rage over Madrid's
whole-hearted support for the war in Iraq will flare into widespread
violence.
Tasmania's ancient forest in danger
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930569,00.html
Deep in the forest, from the vantage point of a rickety bridge
spanning a lazy river black with tannin, some of the vegetation is as
it would have appeared 60 million years ago.
Europe's cash and carry sex slaves
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930609,00.html
Gaby Rado, who died last week after falling from the roof of his hotel
in northern Iraq, wrote this report for The Observer before he left
for the Gulf. He had been in Romania investigating the plight of young
sex workers.
Italian men embrace feminine side
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930572,00.html
Over the centuries, sculptors have used the white marble from quarries
around the medieval Tuscan town of Pietrasanta to cut the
muscle-rippling male figures that grace squares and fountains across
Italy.
British lab on brink of virus breakthrough
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,930702,00.html
Scientists studying the lethal Sars bug which has struck thousands
worldwide believe they are on the brink of a breakthrough in creating
a test for the disease.
Something terrible happened here. Something murderous
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,930584,00.html
The coffins are laid out in neat rows in an abandoned warehouse. In
each is a crumpled bag of bones, old and dusty but still recognisably
human.
Ministers face probe on UK arms for Syria
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,930851,00.html
Britain has exported toxic acid to Syria which could be used to
manufacture chemical weapons and has also supplied military optical
equipment that could give troops the ability to fight at night, the
Observer can reveal.
How tragedy, trial and error brought us all together
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,930435,00.html
Trevor Phillips: A decade ago a young student was left to die on a
south London street. It led to a wave of revulsion and a
soul-searching debate about Britain and racism. Today we are a nation
that thrives on diversity - but what are the dangers for the next
generation?
How using the rod can save the child
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,930635,00.html
Angling is helping hundreds of young people reject truancy and crime
in a scheme poised to go nationwide
Race in Britain: How is it for you?
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,930434,00.html
Does racism still run rife in the Britain? We asked some Black and
Asian Britains what they thought.
Between two worlds
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,930437,00.html
Britain has one of the fastest-growing mixed-race populations - but
many people are still hostile towards interracial couples. We asked
some of them how their lives have been affected.
Different strokes
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,930441,00.html
The arts rarely appeal to a truly diverse audience. Are tastes in
multicultural Britain so far apart or is it the same old problem of
'us' and 'them'?
Weatherfield goes to war
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Harriet Lane: Soapland is usually the last place to hear about big
world events - but will Iraq get them talking?
Privates on parade
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,930492,00.html
Television: Operation Saving Private Jessica Lynch was the high point
of last week's war-lite footage. Shame about the cluster bombs...
Chinese takeaway
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,930446,00.html
The suffering amid the beauty of modern Tibet is vividly told, and its
complexities expertly explained by Patrick French in Tibet, Tibet
The stuff of life
http://www.observer.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,929863,00.html
It is exactly 50 years since the maverick researchers James Watson and
Francis Crick unravelled the structure of DNA. But solving the mystery
of our existence didn't bring Watson the instant fame, money or women
he'd always hoped for. Now 75, he tells Tim Adams why practical jokes
and being politically incorrect are what life - and science - is all
about
Letters to the Editor
http://www.observer.co.uk/letters/story/0,6903,930786,00.html
Patrick Graham's gripping report of Baghdad under the bombing (News,
last week) reminded me of reports I read of London during the Blitz.
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Dances With Wolfowitz
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/opinion/09DOWD.html
By MAUREEN DOWD
The end of Operation Iraqi Freedom should not mark the beginning of
Operation Eternal War.
Hold Your Applause
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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
America broke Iraq. Now America owns Iraq and the primary
responsibility for normalizing it.
No New Tax Cuts
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By BOB KERREY, SAM NUNN, PETER G. PETERSON, ROBERT E. RUBIN, WARREN B.
RUDMAN and PAUL A. VOLCKER
In these troubled times, Congress must exercise restraint on revenues
and spending to prevent fiscal policy from spiraling out of control.
Sharing, Alaska-Style
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By STEVEN C. CLEMONS
For guidance on how to handle Iraq's oil after the war, America might
look to its experiences in Alaska in the 1970's.
In Search of Horror Weapons
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For any findings of unconventional weapons to be credible in the
battle for global opinion, neutral analysts will be needed.
Two Million Inmates, and Counting
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A sensible solution to the high incarceration rate would be to
reconsider tough mandatory sentencing laws.
Stifling Dissent in Havana
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With the world's attention focused on the fighting in Iraq, Fidel
Castro is victimizing principled democratic activists in Cuba.
Bombing Baghdad: The Target Is Hussein
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And the True Expert on Children Is ...
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Men, Women and the Protest at Augusta
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A War Reporter First
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A Healthy Fear of SARS
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Overextended Military
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At Odds Over Cyprus
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Cheney Sees Evidence That Hussein's Regime Has Collapsed
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By JOHN M. BRODER
As the statue of Saddam Hussein was being pulled down, the vice
president said he saw "evidence of the collapse of any central regime
authority."
Residents Blare Horns, Dance and Empty Government Offices
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By DEXTER FILKINS with JANE PERLEZ
Suddenly sensing that Saddam Hussein's regime was crumbling, residents
celebrated the arrival of United States forces.
Military Analysis: Push to Finish the Job
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By MICHAEL R. GORDON
In an audacious move, the U.S. is mounting a three-pronged assault on
Baghdad to try to force a quick end to the war.
Some Iraqis Are Grateful, But Still Wary of U.S. Plans
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By DEXTER FILKINS
Many Iraqis say they are worried that America will see in their
gratitude a blank check to remake their country.
Bush's War Message: Strong and Clear
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By R. W. APPLE Jr.
At his news conference with Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday,
President Bush was self-assured, blunt and aggressive.
Bush Sees Aid Role of U.N. as Limited in Rebuilding Iraq
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By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
President Bush pledged to grant the U.N. a "vital role," but defined
that principally as providing food, medicine and aid.
Despite Grim Finding, P.O.W. Families Try to Hold on to Hope
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By SIMON ROMERO
Reports that marines who were securing a military prison in Baghdad
had found American soldiers' bloody uniforms, but no bodies, shook
relatives of missing soldiers.
Deaths of Journalists Bring Accusations and Concerns
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By JACQUES STEINBERG and JIM RUTENBERG
The deaths of three journalists in American air or artillery attacks
in Baghdad prompted accusations that the U.S. was targeting
journalists.
Battalion Stages Assault On Iraqi Hilltop Position and Guard's Complex
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By STEVEN LEE MYERS
For many of the soldiers involved, clearing out the Special Republican
Guard's headquarters on Tuesday was their first battle of the war.
Five Ways to Take a City
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By MICHAEL R. GORDON
The British attack on Basra, the second-largest city in Iraq, provides
an instructive lesson in how to conduct urban warfare.
Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial/09TERR.html
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans are working on
making permanent the antiterrorism powers granted to federal agents
after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Terror Defense Lawyers Say Jailers Held Them for 2 Hours
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By BENJAMIN WEISER
Lawyers for a Staten Island man detained in a terrorism case were kept
in a locked cell for nearly two hours, despite their requests to
leave.
U.S. May Need to Pay to Install Antimissile Devices on Airliners
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By PHILIP SHENON
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said that the threat of missile
attacks on airliners was so serious that the government might have to
pay for the installation of antimissile devices.
Plea by Man Who Met bin Laden
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By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A man who said he had two one-on-one meetings with Osama bin Laden a
few months before the Sept. 11 terror attacks pleaded guilty today to
aiding Al Qaeda.
Citizen Corps? Hang on, New York
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By DAN BARRY
New York has a fledgling terrorism-fighting Citizen Corps Council
somewhere, but at last count it had few ordinary citizens and a lot of
bureaucrats.
New Signs of Terror Not Evident
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By DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN
American officials have said there has been surprisingly little
evidence of potential terrorist plots against U.S. interests since the
war in Iraq began.
Parents Say Private Lynch Looks Stronger Than Expected
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial/09LYNC.html
By MARK LANDLER
Gregory Lynch Sr. said his daughter appeared surprisingly strong,
despite having undergone 10 hours of surgery.
Trial Begins in Bias Suit by Deaf U.P.S. Workers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/national/09DEAF.html
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Lawyers for 900 deaf workers at United Parcel Service argued that the
company had limited the workers to bottom-rung positions.
Partial Verdicts in Miami in Police Corruption Trial
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/national/09COPS.html
By DANA CANEDY
Jurors in the federal corruption trial of 11 former Miami police
officers said that they had reached verdicts on charges against seven
defendants.
Men and Music of Another Time and Another War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/national/09BAND.html
By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN
Black musicians who played jazz at naval bases during World War II
have been credited by historians with helping to dissolve the walls of
racial exclusion in the Navy.
Deadline Set for Testimony
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A federal judge in Oregon has given prosecutors until April 25 to take
testimony from an Arab-American software engineer who has been
detained since March 20.
When the Learning Is the Hands-On Kind
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/national/09EDUC.html
By MICHAEL WINERIP
Although some students do better in vocational schools, state and
local governments are cutting support for them.
Senate Approves Bill Giving New Tax Breaks for Donations
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The legislation grants new tax breaks for charitable donations after
abandoning more ambitious efforts pushed by President Bush to boost
religious groups.
Spokesman Molded by Urban Warfare
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By DOUGLAS JEHL
Peter Pace, the four-star Marine general who has emerged as an
unflappable public face for the military in Iraq, got his baptism in
combat in the tangled warrens of Hue, Vietnam.
Senate Rolls a Pork Barrel Into War Bill
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial/09COST.html
By DAVID FIRESTONE
In their haste to pass the war bill, many senators never realized last
week that they were also voting to send $10 million to a research
station at the South Pole.
Two Democrats Call for Scrutiny of Bidding to Reconstruct Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial/09POST.html
By ELIZABETH BECKER
The senior lawmakers asked that special attention be paid to contracts
given to a subsidiary of Halliburton, the company once headed by Vice
President Dick Cheney.
Who'll Control Iraq's Oil?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial/09OIL.html
By FELICITY BARRINGER and NEELA BANERJEE
As allied armies capture Iraq's centers of power, the market is
anticipating a swift resumption of oil shipments. But diplomats and
experts are more cautious.
Philippines Likely to Supply Many Workers Rebuilding Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/business/worldbusiness/09PHIL.html
By WAYNE ARNOLD
Of all the companies and countries clamoring for a piece of Iraq's
reconstruction, one is virtually certain to be invited: the
Philippines.
Gas Prices Expected to Keep Falling
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/business/09GAS.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Energy Department said lower oil prices and optimism about the war
in Iraq will mean gasoline prices will slide to a national average of
$1.56 a gallon this summer.
Is There Life After Silicon Valley's Fast Lane?
http://tinyurl.com/95wc
By JOHN MARKOFF
As Gordon Moore's famous law of chip innovation seems to be coming to
an end, Silicon Valley's true believers are having second thoughts.
San Diego's Growing Biotech Colony
http://tinyurl.com/95wf
By MORRIS NEWMAN
IDEC Pharmaceuticals is building an $85 million headquarters in San
Diego, which is home to 300 biotechnology companies.
Stocks Slip After Morning Gains
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Wall-Street.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wall Street pulled back today after investor elation about a quick end
to the war with Iraq shifted to concerns about corporate profits.
G.M. Set to Sell Hughes Unit to News Corp.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/business/09BIRD.html
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
The board of General Motors is planning to approve a deal worth about
$7 billion that would give control of the DirecTV satellite operation
to the News Corporation.
A U.S. Push on Accounting Fraud
http://tinyurl.com/95wp
By ALEX BERENSON
Nine months after President Bush named a federal task force,
prosecutors are preparing a wave of indictments for accounting and
securities fraud.
Two Start-Ups Aim to Take on Cisco and Juniper
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/technology/09ROUT.html
By MATT RICHTEL
Two Silicon Valley start-up companies will unveil new products that
will make it less expensive for Internet and phone carriers to route
their data traffic.
SARS Roils Computer Industry
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/science/sciencespecial/09TECH.html
By KEITH BRADSHER
The panic in East Asia over severe acute respiratory syndrome could
soon disrupt computer production.
2 Companies Said to Agree to Settle Suits on Emissions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/politics/09ENVI.html
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
Alcoa and Archer Daniels Midland agreed to settle air pollution
complaints by upgrading smelters and other factories at a cost the
government estimated at $700 million.
War and Illness Cloud Prospects for Study Abroad
http://tinyurl.com/95xf
By TAMAR LEWIN
With terror alerts, the war in Iraq, and now the outbreak of severe
acute respiratory syndrome, study abroad has become a far more jittery
proposition.
Speechwriter With a Second Act for a Play About Titans
http://tinyurl.com/95xp
By WARREN HOGE
"The Hinge of the World," a play by Richard N. Goodwin, a former
presidential speechwriter, debuted with some excitement in Guilford,
England.
Tapping Cuban Roots for American Drama
http://tinyurl.com/95xx
By BRUCE WEBER
"Anna in the Tropics" by the Cuban playwright Nilo Cruz won the
Pulitzer Prize, chosen over more celebrated works by far more
celebrated playwrights.
Hussein's Baghdad Falls as Tanks Roll Through City
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63054-2003Apr9.html
U.S. tanks rolled unmolested into the center of Baghdad today as the
U.S. military declared an end to Saddam Hussein's control of the
capital city, stopping just short of declaring victory in the campaign
to oust the Iraqi president and destroy his regime.
11 Afghan Civilians Die in Bombing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60981-2003Apr9.html
A bomb dropped by an American warplane pursuing suspected attackers
landed on a home in eastern Afghanistan, killing 11 Afghan civilians,
the U.S. military said Wednesday.
Israel Kills Hamas Figure, 5 Others in Gaza
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57180-2003Apr8.html
Israeli helicopters fired missiles into a car driving along a street
in central Gaza City Tuesday, killing at least six Palestinians and
wounding 48 in an attack aimed at a local militant leader, according
to Palestinian witnesses.
U.S. Defends Risks of Aggressive Tactics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59764-2003Apr8.html
The aggressive movements of U.S. tanks and other armored vehicles into
downtown Baghdad reflect mounting intelligence from U.S. Special
Forces operating in the city that the Iraqi government is teetering,
defense officials say.
Turk General Faces Tough Choice in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59162-2003Apr8.html
Turkey considers Kurdish control of the Iraqi oil fields a security
threat, and if the Kurds enter either Kirkuk or Mosul, Gen. Hilmi
Ozkok will face the most important decision of his 44-year military
career.
China Blocks U.N. Statement Condemning N. Korea
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60040-2003Apr8.html
China today stalled efforts to obtain a Security Council statement
that criticizes North Korea for refusing to submit to monitoring of
its suspected nuclear weapons program by the United Nations.
In Basra, Growing Resentment, Little Aid
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57762-2003Apr8.html
The day the Iraq war began, Abid Hassan Hamoodi, 72, patriarch of one
of Basra's most prominent families, gathered everyone into the
storeroom of the nine-bedroom family home. The room turned out to be a
death trap.
U.S. Forces Tighten Grip
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56335-2003Apr8.html
After repulsing a fierce counterattack, U.S. Army forces in Baghdad
consolidated their hold on the west bank of the Tigris River Tuesday
as Marines on the other side of the capital seized a suburban air
base.
Israeli Missile Kills Seven in Gaza
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60907-2003Apr9.html
A missile fired by an Israeli aircraft blew up a car in Gaza City,
killing a top Hamas commander and six other people in an attack that
ended a lull in Israeli airstrikes since the beginning of the war in
Iraq.
U.S. May Lower Terror Threat Level
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59499-2003Apr8.html
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Tuesday that U.S. officials
are beginning to consider lowering the national terrorist threat level
from orange, or "high risk," in part because the war in Iraq has been
going well.
Gassed by Iraqi Troops, Blindsided by the INS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60181-2003Apr8.html
On March 21, Katrin Michael received a letter demanding that she
report to a deportation officer. It's the latest crisis in a life
filled with turmoil and horror. - By Peter Carlson
A Story Too Dangerous to Cover?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59702-2003Apr8.html
The journalistic body count is rising, and some news organizations are
starting to withdraw reporters from Iraq. - By Howard Kurtz
Shouting To Be Heard
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60182-2003Apr8.html
Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich believes that his message is
being drowned out. The media isn't covering him enough and has missed
the groundswell for peace -- and for his candidacy. - By Mark
Leibovich
Readers Count the Costs of Conflict
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60183-2003Apr8.html
Buenos Aires is home to a robust cafe society, a magazine stand on
virtually every downtown street corner, enough readers to support 10
daily newspapers and a local press corps that is openly scornful of
the war in Iraq. - By Jon Jeter
Seeking Her Voice
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60186-2003Apr8.html
Suspicious minds want to know: How much Presley is there in Lisa
Marie? This explains why she has waited until now to release her debut
album, "To Whom It May Concern." - By Richard Harrington
Historic Black College May Close Doors
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59382-2003Apr8.html
Morris Brown College, one of the nation's oldest historically black
colleges, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is in danger of closing after a
last-ditch effort to hold on to its accreditation failed.
Denver Men Are Ordered Released in Terror Probe
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60224-2003Apr8.html
DENVER, April 8 -- A federal judge rebuffed the government's Joint
Terrorism Task Force today and ordered the release of two Pakistanis
living in Denver whom the FBI has described as potential terrorists
eager to wage war against the United States.
Metro Fire Was Plotted, Al Qaeda Member Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59551-2003Apr8.html
Federal officials are weighing the credibility of Khalid Sheik
Mohammed's statements that his organization had plans to attack the
Metrorail system.
Facing the Warlords
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60023-2003Apr8.html
Page A20
AFGHAN MILITANTS loyal to the former Taliban government and al
Qaeda have begun their long-expected spring offensive against the
country's new regime and the U.S. forces supporting it -- and by some
measures, they are winning. In the past couple of weeks the insurgents
have staged attacks that have killed two American soldiers, a close
political ally of pro-Western President Hamid Karzai and a Red Cross
aid worker. In response, a number of international agencies have
removed their personnel from the southern city of Kandahar and the
surrounding provinces, which are the Taliban's base. The insurgents
haven't yet posed much of a military threat to the 11,000 U.S. and
allied troops still in Afghanistan, or to Mr. Karzai's administration
in Kabul. But the offensive has demonstrated that little else in
Afghanistan has been secured in the 18 months since the Taliban and
its terrorist allies were driven from power.
Legal Services Spared
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60025-2003Apr8.html
Page A20
EVERY NOW AND then, the Supreme Court confronts a thoroughly
uninteresting legal question that carries huge practical consequences.
For example, the court recently issued its decision in the case of
Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington, which asked whether a state
can seize tiny amounts of interest from money held in trust by
lawyers. At a legal level, the case involves the fine points of the
Fifth Amendment's prohibition against governmental "takings" of
private property without "just compensation." But the case was really
about whether states can continue funding legal services for the poor
with $160 million a year in interest from lawyer-held trusts. A narrow
five-member majority fortunately prevented a major source of legal
services funding from becoming a casualty of a needlessly technical
reading of the Constitution.
Playing Russian Roulette
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60000-2003Apr8.html
By Anne Applebaum, Page A21
A few days before the United States invaded Iraq, two retired
Russian generals received medals from Saddam Hussein's defense
minister. Both men had worked, in the past, at the highest levels of
the Soviet military establishment. Both were involved in the 1991 coup
attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev and the 1993 revolt against Boris
Yeltsin. One of them, Igor Maltsev, was a specialist in air defense.
The other, Vladislav Achalov, was a specialist in the use of special
forces. When asked by a Russian reporter what he had been doing in
Baghdad -- photographs of the ceremony appeared on a Russian Web site
-- Achalov refused to say. Instead, he replied cryptically that "if
they're awarding you a decoration, it must be for something."
Resisting Superpowerful Temptations
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60003-2003Apr8.html
By Robert Kagan, Page A21
Can the Bush administration follow its brilliant military campaign
in Iraq with a smart political and diplomatic campaign after the war?
It can if it avoids some dangerous temptations.
Return of an Iraqi Exile
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60002-2003Apr8.html
By Jim Hoagland, Page A21
You are hearing a lot about Ahmed Chalabi right now. Much of it is
not true. Worse, you are not hearing what you need to know about a man
who is neither an Iraqi puppet for U.S. forces nor a conniving
political fortune hunter taking the Bush administration for a ride.
Housing's Last Hurrah?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60004-2003Apr8.html
By Robert J. Samuelson, Page A21
We Americans love our homes. The richer we get, the bigger they
get. Since 1987 the average size of a new home has increased 22
percent; and of course, we stuff them with more and more conveniences.
Even the laundry room, home furnishing experts advise, should now have
a sofa, TV and DVD player. Gulp. The good thing about the housing boom
is that it has steadied an otherwise-shaky economy -- which is why
signs that it may be faltering are so troubling.
It's All About the Approach
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60028-2003Apr8.html
Page A20
Fred Hiatt's March 31 op-ed column, which purported to show the
similarities between the Bush and Clinton positions on matters such as
the Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal Court and the ABM
Treaty, inadvertently made the opposite point: that the subtle
differences between the two presidents' approaches have made a world
of difference in our diplomatic relationships.
The Road to Regime Change
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60027-2003Apr8.html
Page A20
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and national security adviser
Condoleezza Rice have assured the world that "the United States plans
to call the most important shots after [Saddam] Hussein falls" ["U.N.
Role in Postwar Government Debated," news story, April 7]. That sounds
like Iraq will be our sandbox and the French and Russians won't get to
play with our oil.
A Court of Necessity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60026-2003Apr8.html
Page A20
The Post missed the central point in its March 26 editorial
advocating abolition of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Vouchers by the Numbers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60029-2003Apr8.html
Page A20
Any debate of a federally funded school voucher program should
start with the facts. So let's be clear: Such a program will not, as
an April 1 editorial suggested, result in more District money per
pupil.
Hollywood Virtues
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60030-2003Apr8.html
Page A20
Donna Britt should not be surprised that Roman Polanski received an
Oscar and standing ovation for "The Pianist" [Style, March 28]. The
award and the audience reaction to it do not condone Mr. Polanski's
shameful actions.
White House Feels Vindicated
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64985-2003Apr9.html
Notes of caution can't hide triumphal mood as Cheney praises war plan.
Arab Media Face New Reality
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64349-2003Apr9.html
Opinion makers, with a blend of rage and realism, weigh U.S. forces'
gains.
Are We There Yet?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62801-2003Apr9.html
Is the Iraqi resistance toast, or is this thing going to keep dragging
on?
Hispanics Split Over War in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59541-2003Apr8.html
Views Diverge Between Immigrants, U.S.-Born
Shiites Return to Torture Site
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59091-2003Apr8.html
Former prisoners recount human rights abuses under Hussein in Basra.
Group Calls For Diverse Postwar Rule
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59696-2003Apr8.html
The Bush administration should recruit representatives from a wide
array of countries to help run postwar Iraq and not rule Iraq solely
with U.S. military allies, a Washington think tank asserts.
4 Miami Police Convicted in Cover-Up
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15-2003Apr9.html
A federal jury convicted four Miami police officers of corruption
Wednesday for planting a gun on an unarmed homeless man or lying about
it to protect their colleagues.
Hill Told U.S. Favors More Nonnuclear Weapons (Post, April 9, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59766-2003Apr8.html
Democrats Block Vote On Bush Court Nominee (Post, April 9, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62516-2003Apr9.html
House, Senate GOP at Odds Over Tax Cut: Supporters of Bush's $726
Billion Plan Threaten to Reject Budget Resolution (By Jim VandeHei,
Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59498-2003Apr8.html
Paige's Remarks on Religion in Schools Decried: Critics Call On
Education Secretary to Repudiate Published Statement or Resign (By
Alan Cooperman, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59692-2003Apr8.html
Terror Suspect Pleads Guilty, Admits He Met Bin Laden (Page A08)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59997-2003Apr8.html
Witness: 4 Sought to Help Terrorists (By Robert E. Pierre, Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60165-2003Apr8.html
Physician, Hospital Worker Die In Shooting (Page A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60162-2003Apr8.html
DNA Testing Of Police Urged In La. Killings (Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61282-2003Apr9.html
2 Firms Reach Settlement Over Clean Air Act (Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61352-2003Apr9.html
Editor Indicted For Identifying Milosevic Witness (Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60052-2003Apr8.html
U.S. Pupils Lead Most in Literacy Study (Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60076-2003Apr8.html
Fighting Stalls Relief Operations Crucial to Overhaul of Iraqi State
(By Peter Slevin, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59765-2003Apr8.html
'Let's Get The Job Done': B-1 Crew Recalls Raid on Hussein (By Bradley
Graham, Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60134-2003Apr8.html
'Let's Get The Job Done': B-1 Crew Recalls Raid on Hussein (By Bradley
Graham, Page A28)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59697-2003Apr8.html
Maine's Rebel With A Moderate Cause: Senator Sides With Democrats on
Tax Cut (By Juliet Eilperin, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59522-2003Apr8.html
WMD: Words of Mass Destruction (By Al Kamen, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60069-2003Apr8.html
House Backs Bill That Will Let USPS Hold Line On Stamp Prices (By
Christopher Lee, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60057-2003Apr8.html
Infantry Puts Squeeze on South's Last Contested City (Post, April 9,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58609-2003Apr8.html
3 Journalists Killed By U.S. Strikes: Military Says Forces Fired at
From Hotel, Office (Post, April 9, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59837-2003Apr8.html
In Chinese Village, Few Clues to Illness: Researchers 'Looking for
Magic Bullet' (Post, April 9, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59472-2003Apr8.html
Signs of Power Void Abound on City's Deserted Streets (By Anthony
Shadid, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59250-2003Apr8.html
Regional Terror Group Suspected in Philippine Bombing: Police Say
Indonesians Played Role in Deadly Explosion at Wharf; Two Filipinos
Are Arrested (By Froilan Gallardo and Ellen Nakashima, Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60044-2003Apr8.html
Serbian's Killing Tied To Allies of Milosevic (Page A16)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60089-2003Apr8.html
U.N. to Have 'Vital Role' in Iraq: Bush, Blair Discuss Postwar Policy
Plan (By Karen DeYoung, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54629-2003Apr8.html
Marines Battle Their Way Toward Central Baghdad: Complex Occupied
After Fierce Fight (By Jonathan Finer, Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57598-2003Apr8.html
Kurdish Forces Advance With Caution: Ethnic Tensions Between
Guerrillas, Arabs Keep Northern Front in Slow Motion (By Daniel
Williams, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58948-2003Apr8.html
Once a Place of Privilege, Palace Now Rich in Symbolism (By William
Branigin, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59824-2003Apr8.html
Arab Volunteers Draw U.S. Scrutiny: Marine Commander Outraged by
Willingness to 'Hide Behind Women' (By Peter Baker, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59685-2003Apr8.html
Bush Sees a Model for Mideast Peace: Northern Ireland Process Cited as
Example to Emulate (By Glenn Frankel, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60172-2003Apr8.html
For U.N. Humanitarian Agency, Big Worries and Major Challenges in Iraq
(By Nora Boustany, Page A33)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60143-2003Apr8.html
'Her Spirits Were High,' Ex-POW's Father Says: Family Surprised by
Lynch's Condition (By Robert J. McCartney, Page A34)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56690-2003Apr8.html
U.S. Airstrike Kills 11 Afghans
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24-2003Apr9.html
In "tragic accident," laser-guided bomb misses target, hitting a home.
The Endless War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55380-2003Apr8.html
Did the latest air strike get Saddam? Or will he pop up in another
video? Who knows? We've been through this bunker-busting battle over
his fate before.
France and Britain Urge Push for Mideast Peace
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial/09CND-EURO.html
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Even as war rages in Iraq, the foreign ministers of France and Britain
today agreed on the urgent need for a new diplomatic initiative to end
the war between Israel and the Palestinians, a view that could
pressure the Bush administration to move forward.
In Spain, Premier Is Focus of Anger at Journalist Deaths in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial/09CND-SPAIN.html
By EMMA DALY
Hundreds of Spanish journalists demonstrated today to protest the
deaths of two colleagues killed covering the assault on Baghdad and to
show opposition the Spanish government's support for the war.
A Maze of Identities for the Muslims of France
http://tinyurl.com/963h
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
To enter the Rue du Bon Pasteur in the heart of this Mediterranean
port is to leave France. Or rather, it is to leave a France still
fixed in the imagination of many, a land where French is spoken and
the traditions of a secular society are enforced.
British Shift to Stopping Crime in Basra
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial/09CND-BASR.html
By MARC SANTORA
The battle for Iraq's second-largest city is all but won, but the
fight for control is just beginning.
House Majority Leader Hints Bush Must Settle for Half of His Tax Cut
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/politics/09BUDG.html
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
With the House and Senate deadlocked over the size of tax cuts,
Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, suggested today
that President Bush and Republican leaders in Congress might have to
settle for much smaller tax cuts than they would like.
A Comment on Wellstone Creates Furor for Successor
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/national/09COLE.html
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Senator Norm Coleman, a freshman Republican from Minnesota known for
his brash style, is caught up in controversy over remarks he made
suggesting that he is a far better lawmaker than his Democratic
predecessor, Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash just 11 days
before the November election.
Cardinal Seeks Citizenship for Noncitizens in U.S. Forces
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial/09CITI.html
By BARBARA WHITAKER
Saying "there is something terribly wrong with our immigration
policies if it takes death on the battlefield to earn citizenship,"
Cardinal Roger M. Mahony has urged President Bush to award immediate
citizenship to all immigrant troops serving in the Persian Gulf.
Republicans Press for Bill to Shield Vaccine Makers From Suits
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/science/sciencespecial/09VACC.html
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
The mysterious new respiratory ailment that has terrified people
around the globe has extended its reach to the Capitol, where Senate
Republicans are using the disease to press their case that vaccine
manufacturers should be shielded from lawsuits.
HealthSouth Case Expands
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/business/09CARE.html
By REED ABELSON and MILT FREUDENHEIM
Federal officials charged a ninth former executive at HealthSouth with
participating in a multibillion-dollar accounting fraud.
Italy Expected to Join European Union Deficit Nation List
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/business/worldbusiness/09EURO.html
By PAUL MELLER
The European Commission sharply reduced its forecast for economic
growth this year and said that another of its members, Italy, may soon
break through the treaty-imposed ceiling on budget deficits.
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Iraqis have paid the blood price for a fraudulent war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,933487,00.html
Seumas Milne: The crudely colonial nature of this enterprise can no
longer be disguised.
What's to be done now?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,933483,00.html
Timothy Garton Ash: We must tackle Saddam's legacy with fair trials in
the Hague and history lessons.
Counting the dead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,933485,00.html
James Milne: Rwanda and Uganda are occupying Congo for largely bogus
reasons - yet Britain continues to back them.
Down and out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,933362,00.html
Yesterday millions of people around the world were transfixed by the
slow-motion demolition of a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.
Jonathan Glancey explains why.
What about Private Lori?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,933363,00.html
For the last week America has been gripped by the 'Saving Private
Jessica' mission. But nobody wanted to hear the sadder story of her
friend and tentmate Private Lori Piestewa, who died in combat. Gary
Younge reports from her home town of Tuba City, Arizona.
Why Saddam would feel at home in Hello!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,933368,00.html
Catherine Bennett: For once in this war, our newspapers have spoken
with the same voice. Saddam's taste in palaces is universally
considered lamentable.
Behind the lines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,933364,00.html
Emma Brockes: Spotted in the crowd around the base of Saddam's statue,
moments before it fell, a group of Iraqis calling for the removal of
another menace entirely. Written on their banner: "Human shield
wankers go home."
'A US administration will not do'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
The debate about how Iraq should be governed gets under way.
Can this man revive the flagging sex life of a country?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,933644,00.html
John Aglionby on the unusual and ever more desperate measures
Singapore is adopting to increase its birthrate.
Hard to swallow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,933620,00.html
Can aspirin really help beat breast cancer? Dr Luisa Dilner assesses a
new report.
Don't mention the 70s
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
The minister for women no longer talks about feminism (Blair hates the
f-word). Does this mean the role is now redundant?
More tears for Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,933334,00.html
This morning, I read Suzanne Goldenberg's report ('A picture of
killing inflicted on a sprawling city - and it grew more unbearable by
the minute', April 9).
The end has not begun
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,933336,00.html
Surely, it is too early to talk of the beginning of the end. Iraq is
only the first of several countries in Bush's "axis of evil", and one
of the others, North Korea, actually admits to having weapons of mass
destruction.
What about Saddam's smoking gun?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,933337,00.html
You refer (Leader, April 8) to several reports of a possible "smoking
gun" - evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed effective
weapons of mass destruction.
It's a crime
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,933338,00.html
The ability of the government to present information powerfully and
persuasively is with us every day. Why is it then that the myth of
increasing lawlessness and danger is allowed to fuel an already record
high prison population (Public blind to fall in crime, April 5)?
The solution is local
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,933339,00.html
Tony Wright correctly suggests that for new localism to work it has to
be more than a mere defence of existing models of local government
(Comment, April 8).
Finding the funds for aid
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,933335,00.html
The report of the plea by the executive director of the World Food
Programme (40 million starving 'as world watches Iraq', April 9) that
the UN-run agency is £640m short of the funds needed to meet emergency
food aid is important.
After the fall
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,933473,00.html
The collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime will send shockwaves of joy
and alarm around the world. Although the war is not yet over, the fall
of Baghdad means it is all but won.
Unquenchable flame
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,933475,00.html
Shortly before he died, William Hazlitt told friends he would like to
live long enough to see the restored Bourbons overthrown in France.
When that hope was fulfilled in 1830, Hazlitt felt a thrill that
reminded him of the storming of the Bastille in his youth.
Siberia beckons for Shell
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,933293,00.html
Is Shell about to follow arch-rival BP and make a blockbuster
investment in Russia? That was the buzz in trading rooms yesterday as
traders heard rumours that Shell is poised to make an offer for a 75%
stake in Sibneft, the Siberian oil company majority-owned by a
consortium of financial investors.
From Cape Cod there is a clear view of euro test result
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,9321,933585,00.html
While Tony Blair takes his summer holidays in the hill villages of
Tuscany or laps up the rustic charm of Gascony, Gordon Brown jets off
each August to Cape Cod. And, boy, was that obvious from yesterday's
Budget.
Straw urges central role for UN
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,933560,00.html
Diplomatic scramble begins.
After the war, the battle to keep the peace
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,933640,00.html
Britain and the US spent months planning the reconstruction of Iraq,
but first they must stop the country falling apart
The Backbencher: An early Ba'ath
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/backbencher/0,10598,513903,00.html
This week: Gordon pulls two big rabbits out of his red box while
George ponders and early Ba'ath.
Brown goes the American way
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/economics/story/0,11268,933492,00.html
Swipe at European partners · UK target is economic strength and social
justice
Chancellor plays it deadpan in face of the infidels
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/economics/comment/0,11268,933530,00.html
Marina Hyde: When Enver Hoxha delivered his new year message to the
Albanian people in 1967, he did not lack candour. 'This year will be
harder than last year,' he intoned. 'It will, however, be easier than
next year.'
Syria accused of sheltering Ba'athists
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,933638,00.html
Donald Rumsfeld yesterday accused Syria of helping senior members of
Iraq's Ba'ath regime to escape.
Jittery Turkey eyes restive province
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,933217,00.html
April 9: Ankara is increasingly nervous about Kurdish autonomy, writes
Helena Smith.
The toppling of Saddam - an end to 30 years of brutal rule
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933500,00.html
Suzanne Goldenberg, twice British journalist of the year, has spent 10
weeks reporting from Baghdad as Saddam's regime passed from defiance
to denial then to yesterday's final defeat in the city.
Rumsfeld accuses Syria of sheltering Ba'athists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933502,00.html
The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, yesterday accused Syria of
helping senior members of Iraq's Ba'ath regime to escape.
Troops try to control city left lawless
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933504,00.html
US forces were scrambling yesterday to bring order to Baghdad and fill
the vacuum left by the apparent implosion of Saddam Hussein's regime,
while continuing the battle against diehard loyalists across the
country.
A would-be Saladin who failed his nation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933506,00.html
Even by Arab standards, the cult of Saddam Hussein was obsessive.
Until yesterday, it was difficult to turn a corner in Baghdad without
coming upon a statue or poster of him.
After the war, the battle to keep the peace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933516,00.html
Britain and the US spent months planning the reconstruction of Iraq,
but first they must stop the country falling apart.
Report adds to Mugabe's isolation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933301,00.html
Commonwealth secretary general blames Zimbabwean leader for famine and
human rights abuses.
Eleven Afghans killed after American bomb misses its target
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933299,00.html
Eleven Afghan civilians were killed when an American warplane pursuing
rebel fighters mistakenly bombed a house near Afghanistan's border
with Pakistan, the US military said yesterday.
Playground bombing injures 20 Palestinians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933352,00.html
A bomb, which may have been planted by Jewish extremists, exploded in
a West Bank school playground yesterday, injuring 20 Palestinian
children.
Plundered Aboriginal remains go home to Australia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933351,00.html
The bodies of 75 Aboriginal men and women were returned to Australia
yesterday after spending decades in the collection of the Royal
College of Surgeons in London.
Two Kostunica aides held over Serbian PM's assassination
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933354,00.html
Senior security aides of Yugoslavia's former president Vojislav
Kostunica have been arrested in connection with the assassination of
the Serbian prime minister, Zoran Djindjic.
Undercover hunt for regime's top men
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933503,00.html
SAS soldiers and US special forces from the covert intelligence unit
Grey Fox were combing Baghdad for Saddam Hussein's inner circle
yesterday and finding informants willing to come forward, according to
those familiar with the operation.
Marines meet disorder as Iraqis cheer, toot, and loot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933505,00.html
The conquest of Iraq ran away from Colonel John Toolan yesterday. The
colonel, a US marine commander, hadn't done anything wrong. It was
just that the Iraqis, looting, cheering, honking up and down the
quickly congested highways of Baghdad in their sanctioned-out
jalopies, decided that they no longer believed in the invincibility of
Saddam Hussein.
VI Day barely raises froth in Washington frappucinos
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933507,00.html
Moment of Saddam's fall proves to be just another day for Americans
untouched and unmoved by events in the Gulf
Fear vanishes as Saddam's elite flees
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933508,00.html
Sight of US troops on the streets finally confirmed rumours that
Saddam's regime had collapsed
Kurd advance closes on Mosul and Kirkuk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933509,00.html
Coalition forces moved to within 10 miles of Mosul yesterday amid
signs that the Iraqi northern frontlines were starting to crumble and
that the US was preparing a ground offensive.
Tikrit blitzed to forestall last stand
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933510,00.html
US and British jets bombed sites around Tikrit yesterday as coalition
commanders stepped up preparations for a final assault on Saddam
Hussein's hometown to prevent him using it as the scene for a
desperate last stand.
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933511,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
Game is over, says Iraq's UN envoy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933627,00.html
Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammed al-Douri, became the
first representative of the Iraqi government yesterday to concede that
its forces had been defeated, declaring: "The game is over."
'We love Bush. We love Blair'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933512,00.html
Amid a cacophony of hooting, whistling and cheering, Baban Mohammad
probably best summed up the mood. "We love Bush. We love Blair. I'm
happy. Everybody in Kurdistan is happy. We love America. We love
Britain. Thank you. Thank you," he said breathlessly.
Exiles held after London embassy stormed and Saddam portraits
destroyed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933355,00.html
Iraqi exiles in London yesterday stormed the building that had in
effect been Iraq's embassy in the UK in recent years and ripped down
portraits of Saddam Hussein.
Arab fears will delay recognition
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933356,00.html
'Wait and see' for new regime
Middle East gets another view of fall of Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933357,00.html
Arab reaction TV reports focus on looting and civil disorder
British woman rebuilding life again in Basra
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,933308,00.html
Margaret Hitchcock has lived in Iraq's second city for 35 years but,
she says, despite wars and repression it is worse now than ever before
Scientist's farewell to first cloned mammal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,933257,00.html
Dolly, the world's first cloned mammal and the most famous sheep of
the 20th century, began the second phase of her unnatural existence
yesterday when her preserved remains went on display at a museum.
Exiles held after London embassy stormed and Saddam portraits
destroyed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,933435,00.html
Iraqi exiles in London yesterday stormed the building that had in
effect been Iraq's embassy in the UK in recent years and ripped down
portraits of Saddam Hussein
Double stamp duty abolished on Islamic mortgages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,933278,00.html
Rakhila Parveen, a trainee GP from Bolton, is one of many in the
Muslim community who welcomed yesterday's news that the practice of
paying double stamp duty on Islamic mortgages is to be abolished.
Payment in kind
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,932895,00.html
The founder of a new payment system aims to challenge the big players
in the global transfer of money, writes Glynn Davis
A new kind of literacy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/opinion/story/0,12981,933082,00.html
Susan Greenfield on the widening gulf between the science cognoscenti
and Everyone Else
Back to the lab
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,933100,00.html
Do schoolkids still play with mercury? Do bunsen burners still exist?
Christine Finn visits her old school to find out how science teaching
has changed in the past 30 years
Breakthrough in prime theory
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/dispatch/story/0,12978,933134,00.html
A proof about the spacing between consecutive prime numbers is being
hailed as a breakthrough in number theory.
Journey beneath Africa crater lakes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/dispatch/story/0,12978,933119,00.html
Some 30 scientists from a dozen nations are preparing to bore two
holes, each a kilometre deep and 6cm wide, in the bed of Lake
Bosumtwi, West Africa. Late next year, they hope to pull up sediments
that bear witness to the region's alternating rainy and dry seasons
over the past one million years.
The secrets of Roman water pipes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/dispatch/story/0,12978,933120,00.html
Computer modelling is lifting the lid on the secrets of Roman
hydraulic engineering. In the third century AD, Roman engineers built
a system of tunnels and tanks to bring water to the city of Aspendos,
today in Turkey.
Wool-free sheep - no added flavour
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/dispatch/story/0,12978,933107,00.html
American scientists are breeding wool-free sheep. These new "hair
sheep" are almost bald, which means that they do not need shearing, in
contrast with parasite-prone woolly sheep
Welcome to the chemistry set
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/interview/
Andrew Brown meets award-winning synthetic chemist Susan Gibson, and
finds out why Lego holds the secret to everything
After expressing their relief and celebration, Iraqis must now be
allowed to rebuild their own country
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=395654
The sooner UN approval for interim civil arrangements can be obtained,
the more likely it is that the new order will be acceptable to Iraqi
Britain must now ensure that there is no US puppet government in Iraq
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/donald_macintyre/story.jsp?story=395655
When American politicians talk, as they continually do, about Iraq run
by Iraqis, the question arises of 'whose Iraqis?'
Knock it down, then build it back up again
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/mark_steel/story.jsp?story=395657
It's like undertakers burning down a house, then squabbling about who
gets to make the coffins
The victor of the news war has been the internet
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/natasha_walter/story.jsp?story=395669
This war has brought home to so many of us that, although we live in a
world with an endless deluge of information, that doesn't necessarily
make us feel well informed. There are ever more urgent column inches
to read and harrowing images to look at, but a sense persists that
this war is being fought in places very distant from us, among people
who cannot communicate freely with us and within corridors of power
where we cannot go.
The Sketch: Impressive? They should all be in jail for crimes against
democracy
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/simon_carr/story.jsp?story=395710
What a stunning Budget; it certainly stunned us up here in the
Gallery. The most boring Budget of the Government's two terms. We took
a relentless pounding. I thought I could take any amount of tapering
benefits and tax credits and flat-rate VAT self-assessment, but
eventually, even my spirits sank like a soufflé. You just can't listen
to it. It's literally unbearable.
Robert Fisk: A day that began with shellfire ended with a
once-oppressed people walking like giants
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=395707
The Americans "liberated" Baghdad yesterday, destroyed the centre of
Saddam Hussein's quarter-century of brutal dictatorial power but
brought behind them an army of looters who unleashed upon the ancient
city a reign of pillage and anarchy. It was a day that began with
shellfire and air strikes and blood-bloated hospitals and ended with
the ritual destruction of the dictator's statues. The mobs shrieked
their delight. Men who, for 25 years, had grovellingly obeyed Saddam's
most humble secret policeman turned into giants, bellowing their
hatred of the Iraqi leader as his vast and monstrous statues thundered
to the ground.
Rupert Cornwell: At the moment of truth, the rule of a tyrant rings
hollow
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=395684
Has there been anything like it since the end of the Second World War,
when the Allies invaded and defeated Germany and Japan and imposed
entire new systems?
Christopher Bellamy: How do you restore order in a society like Iraq?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=395668
The spectacle of British soldiers bundling 'Ali Babas' into Warrior
vehicles in Basra highlights the problem: what law do you use?
Today's war links in full
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=395421
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Spoils of War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/10HERB.html
By BOB HERBERT
The war against Iraq highlights the influence of a web of individuals
inside and outside the government that operates with minimal scrutiny.
The Iraq the Arab World Saw All Along
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/10FAND.html
By MAMOUN FANDY
Dire predictions notwithstanding, Arabs did not rise up to destroy
American interests in the Middle East.
Must What Goes Up Also Come Down?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/10VOLK.html
By SOLOMON VOLKOV
Symbolic gestures such as the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue,
while immensely satisfying at the time, rarely live up to their
promise.
The Fall of Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/10THU1.html
In the absence of civil government, there is an ominous potential for
strife and bloodshed in a nation riven with ethnic divisions and
hatreds.
Covering the War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/10THU2.html
The death of an Al Jazeera journalist was a regrettable mistake and
should be acknowledged as such.
Rending Pork From the War Bill
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/10THU3.html
Dozens of nonwar special interest items have been inserted into the
emergency budget bill moving through Congress to help finance the
Iraqi war.
A Refuge of Orchids
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/10THU4.html
To step from the chill of a New York spring into the floral caucus
that is 30 Rockefeller Plaza is to remember how diverse and how
opulent life can really be.
Jubilant V-I Day
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/10SAFI.html
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
If Iraqis are able to adopt a system of free enterprise and
representative government, they will become the center of an arc of
freedom.
The Republic of Fear Comes Crashing Down
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/L10IRAQ.html
Massacres in Congo
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/L10CONG.html
J.F.K. and the Military
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/L10JFKK.html
A Right to Retaliate
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/L10INDI.html
Keep Firehouses Open
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/L10FIRE.html
The New Aeroflot
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/opinion/L10AERO.html
As Focus Shifts to Northern Iraq, U.S. Says Baghdad 'Still Ugly'
http://tinyurl.com/98k6
By STEVEN LEE MYERS with JANE PERLEZ
The White House assured Turkey today that American reinforcements will
replace Kurdish fighters from the key oil-rich city in northern Iraq.
Cheers, Tears and Looting in Capital's Streets
http://tinyurl.com/98kc
By JOHN F. BURNS
Much of Baghdad became a showcase of unbridled enthusiasm for America,
as much as it metamorphosed into a crucible of hatred for Saddam
Hussein.
Army Seeks to Demonstrate That Troops Are 'Liberators'
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10CND-FLAG.html
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
The Army barred any display of the American flag on vehicles,
buildings, statues, and command posts.
Far From the Cheering Crowds, Marines in 'Standby Mode'
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10CND-STAND.html
By MICHAEL WILSON
In the dusty backlots of the war in Iraq, Marines ask if they are in
war mode or peacekeeping mode.
A High Point in 2 Decades of U.S. Might
http://tinyurl.com/98ma
By R.W. APPLE Jr.
The collapse of government authority in Baghdad constitutes the
high-water mark for a new American determination to use the nation's
military might.
Arab World Shows a Mix of Emotions
http://tinyurl.com/98mc
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
It was a day of raw emotion across the Arab world, a historic day with
elation, sadness, disbelief, anger and shock all blending together.
Iraqis in the U.S. Celebrate Hussein's Seeming Downfall
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10DEAR.html
By DANNY HAKIM
Hundreds of Iraqis and Iraqi-Americans held a street celebration in
Dearborn, Mich., cheering the apparent fall of President Saddam
Hussein, but some Arab-Americans stayed away.
Amid the Scenes of Joy, a Sight Less Welcome
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10WATC.html
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
The image of a U.S. marine draping an American flag over the head of a
statue of Saddam Hussein presented a tableau of conquest likely to
offend the Muslim world.
U.S. Forces Take Control of Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/98nl
By PATRICK E. TYLER
Much of Baghdad tumbled into American hands as Saddam Hussein's image
was pulled down from pedestals and portraiture in the city.
In Basra, There's Weariness About the Same Old Faces
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10BASR.html
By MARC SANTORA
Allied officials have the difficult task of trying to help potential
leaders emerge from the local population.
American Forces Adapted to Friend and Foe
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10STRA.html
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
If there is a single reason for allied success, it is the flexibility
the U.S. military demonstrated in its campaign.
Bush Tunes In and Sees Iraqis in Celebrations
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10CAPI.html
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and DOUGLAS JEHL
An elated President Bush watched celebrating Iraqis drag a statue of
Saddam Hussein through the streets of Baghdad.
Daddy's Home, on TV, Direct From Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10CALI.html
By JONATHAN D. GLATER
It is hard to imagine a place where relief at the war's latest
developments is felt more keenly than in Twentynine Palms, Calif.,
home to the Marine Corps' largest base.
Shift in Bonds Has States Rethinking Tobacco Plans
http://tinyurl.com/98ol
By AL BAKER and JONATHAN FUERBRINGER
State governments are pulling back from their plans to borrow directly
against future payments of tobacco settlements to ease their expanding
financial problems.
Denver Judge Releases 2 Men Investigated for Terrorism Ties
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10DETA.html
By CHRISTOPHER DREW
A federal district judge has ordered the release of two Pakistanis
held on immigration-related charges.
3 U.S. Health Workers Said to Be Infected
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/science/10INFE.html
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Three health care workers in the United States have caught a
mysterious respiratory disease while caring for patients.
In the Den of Dissent, Mostly Satisfaction Mixed With Unease
http://tinyurl.com/98p1
By DEAN E. MURPHY
The prospect of a speedy American victory in the war with Iraq was
leading to some intense reflection in San Francisco, Calif., where
many have criticized the war in Iraq.
4 Miami Police Officers Convicted of Conspiracy in Shootings
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/national/10MIAM.html
By DANA CANEDY
A jury convicted four former Miami police officers of conspiracy
charges but returned mixed verdicts for seven other defendants in a
federal corruption trial.
In Los Angeles, It's South-Central No More
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/national/10SOUT.html
By CALVIN SIMS
South-Central Los Angeles, the neighborhood that became infamous for
riots, gang violence and poverty, is no more — at least according to
the Los Angeles City Council.
Bush's Aides Envision New Influence in Region
http://tinyurl.com/98q0
By DAVID E. SANGER and STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Some of the president's aides believe the action in Iraq will have a
"demonstration effect," exerting new pressure on Iraq's neighbors to
change for the better.
Senators Delay $80 Billion War Bill Over Special Interest Items
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10COST.html
By DAVID FIRESTONE
Talks to approve the $80 billion war bill were postponed after leading
senators refused to attend, angry that the House will not accept many
of their special interest items.
House Votes to Limit Lawsuits Against Gun Manufacturers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/politics/10GUNS.html
By JOHN TIERNEY
After a day of speeches denouncing gun violence, the House of
Representatives easily passed a bill limiting lawsuits against the
firearms industry.
Church-State Furor Engulfs Education Chief
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/education/10PAIG.html
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO
After raising a storm of criticism with remarks praising the values of
Christian schools, Education Secretary Rod Paige said that he was only
expressing a personal opinion.
War in Iraq Provides Model of New Way of Doing Battle
http://tinyurl.com/98qm
By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr. and THOM SHANKER
The tight coupling of intelligence with an increasingly agile
military, as exemplified in the march on Baghdad, will likely become
the hallmark of 21st-century warfare.
Competing for Work in Postwar Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10REBU.html
By DIANA B. HENRIQUES
The roster of U.S. companies receiving contracts for work in the Iraq
region is growing, but there has been no word yet on the biggest job.
Murdoch Adds to Empire With Control of DirecTV
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/business/media/10BIRD.html
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
The News Corporation agreed to buy control of Hughes Electronics and
its satellite operation from G.M. in a deal valued at $6.6 billion.
By Acquiring DirecTV, Murdoch Gets Upper Hand
http://tinyurl.com/98sc
Rupert Murdoch's begging days are over.
Executives See Weak U.S. Economy Over Next 6 Months
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/business/11ECON.html
By DAVID LEONHARDT
Chief executives of large companies expect the American economy to
remain weak over the next six months but to avoid a new recession,
according to a new survey.
Retailers Report Disappointing March Sales
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Retail-Sales.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Department stores struggled the most as shoppers were fixated on war
news and concerned about their jobs.
Stocks Dip on Profit Worries
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-markets-stocks.html
By REUTERS
Worries over the sluggish pace of the U.S. economic recovery and
corporate profit growth weighed on investor sentiment.
British and French to Halt Concorde Flights
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/business/worldbusiness/10CND-CONC.html
By ALAN COWELL
Concorde, the needle-nosed jet that flies across the Atlantic at
supersonic speeds, will be retired this year due to falling passenger
demand and rising maintenance costs.
Novel Ideas for a Risky World
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/business/10SCEN.html
By HAL R. VARIAN
Some risks are more manageable than others. Can we design markets to
change that?
Internet via the Power Grid: New Interest in Obvious Idea
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/technology/10POWE.html
By JOHN MARKOFF and MATT RICHTEL
The idea of sending Internet data over ordinary electric power lines
is getting sudden attention in response to several trial efforts.
It Adds Up (and Up, and Up)
http://tinyurl.com/98u4
By ROB FIXMER
Americans are spending more than ever on electronics and digital
gadgets. But how much connectedness can consumers afford?
The Web by Modem, a Bit Faster
http://tinyurl.com/98ue
By DAVID POGUE
The 56K modem has been the industry standard for six years. But if
you're willing to pay a few more dollars per month, faster access can
be yours.
Police Stop Collecting Data on Protesters' Politics
http://tinyurl.com/98vo
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
The Police Department said it would destroy the database it began
compiling a few weeks ago on the political leanings of people arrested
during antiwar protests.
A Fund-Raiser Who Bridges Racial Borders
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/nyregion/10PROF.html
By LYNDA RICHARDSON
The president of the Black Alumni of Pratt Institute quietly crosses
racial and economic borders to raise money for his alma mater.
Here's Your Vote; Liberty Can Wait
http://tinyurl.com/98w7
By ROBERT D. KAPLAN
Fareed Zakaria's book about democracy's mixed record in producing
liberty could not have been published at a more appropriate time.
Views on the News Subdued
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2700-2003Apr10.html
Many in media aren't as wowed by fall of Baghdad as media in U.S. are.
Kurdish Military Forces Capture Kirkuk
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2486-2003Apr10.html
Kurdish military forces, backed by U.S. air power, stormed into the
crucial northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk this morning and captured it
virtually without firing a shot.
Debate on Gun Rights In House Turns Racial
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1249-2003Apr9.html
A House debate over gun rights legislation erupted into a racially
charged dispute Wednesday.
Four Officers Convicted In Miami Police Scandal
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1340-2003Apr9.html
In the biggest Miami police scandal in a generation, a federal jury
convicted four officers of corruption Wednesday for planting a gun on
an unarmed homeless man or lying to cover it up.
Democrats Campaign to Be Heard
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1106-2003Apr9.html
Democratic presidential candidates condemned President Bush for
turning his back on problems at home, winning ovations from their
audiences at a time when television networks were airing scenes of
celebration in downtown Baghdad.
What Counted: People, Plan, Inept Enemy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1140-2003Apr9.html
Although Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned Wednesday that
the war in Iraq is not over, the U.S. military has already achieved
some of its major objectives in just 21 days.
Ex-FBI Agent, Longtime 'Asset' Arrested in Spy Case
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1607-2003Apr9.html
A top FBI counterintelligence agent gave a suspected Chinese spy
access to voluminous amounts of classified information during an
alleged 20-year affair between the two, according to documents
unsealed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles yesterday.
In Europe, Baghdad's Fall Greeted With Relief
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1583-2003Apr9.html
With hopes high for a quick end to the war, European leaders again
pressed their weeks-old message that the U.N. must have a major role
in the Iraq's reconstruction.
Hope and Elation in the Streets of Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A669-2003Apr9.html
As thousands of Iraqis cheered the arrival of soldiers and Marines,
many expressed doubts about U.S. motives.
Arab World Reacts to Baghdad Occupation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A829-2003Apr9.html
As the reality of Baghdad's occupation descended on the Arab world
Wednesday, there was anger, shock and frustration.
Venezuela Becomes Embroiled in Colombian War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1174-2003Apr9.html
People in northern Colombia report that Venezuelan military aircraft
bombed right-wing paramilitary positions inside Colombia, supporting
an advance by leftist rebel advance. The bombings may be Venezuela's
first military foray into Colombia's civil war.
From Russia, With Fear and Loathing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1606-2003Apr9.html
The idea that the U.S. is going to export democracy and wipe out a
threat to world peace holds no sway in Moscow. - By Sharon LaFraniere
Turk General Faces Tough Choice in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59162-2003Apr8.html
Turkey considers Kurdish control of the Iraqi oil fields a security
threat, and if the Kurds enter either Kirkuk or Mosul, Gen. Hilmi
Ozkok will face the most important decision of his 44-year military
career.
Families of POWs Hold On to Hope
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2009-2003Apr10.html
PENNSAUKEN, N.J., April 9 -- Athol and Jane Riley sat at home today,
watching the flickering images of a statue of Saddam Hussein toppling
over in Baghdad, seeing a moment of celebration for many Iraqis and of
hope for many Americans that the war may soon be ending.
Joy in Iraq Contrasts With Family's Grief
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1173-2003Apr9.html
Roxanne and Michael Kaylor couldn't bear to watch television
yesterday, with its riveting images of happy Iraqis dancing atop a
toppled statue of Saddam Hussein. That's because, thousands of miles
removed from the celebrations in Baghdad, the Clifton parents were
preparing to bury their only son.
From Baghdad, Sights And Sounds of History
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1361-2003Apr9.html
A war that has been fought on television and through television
reached its tipping point Wednesday -- or a toppling point at least. -
By Tom Shales
In Iraq, the Statue's Just the Start
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1473-2003Apr9.html
All revolutions are a mixture of joy and foreboding, but the sudden
regime change in Iraq is messier and more ambiguous than most. - By
Michael Dobbs
Hawks Hold Their Fire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1605-2003Apr9.html
After a year of domestic and international debate -- and an uncertain
few weeks on the battlefield -- Bush partisans were relishing the
televised giddiness that conveyed their vindication. - By Mark
Leibovich and Roxanne Roberts
The Shot Seen Round the World
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2616-2003Apr10.html
It was a spontaneous moment, a natural moment, a dramatic moment, but
it soon became a stage-managed moment.
Liberated Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1489-2003Apr9.html
Page A28
THE GLORIOUS IMAGES of Iraqis and U.S. Marines joining to topple a
statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad yesterday came just three weeks
after those first scenes of billowing black smoke from the war's
opening bombing -- yet for many Iraqis the celebration was long
overdue. With an explosion of pent-up emotion, people in Iraq's
capital yesterday displayed the relief and jubilation of liberation
not just from 21 days of bombing, but from decades of brutal tyranny.
Riotous men in the city center tore up posters of Saddam Hussein and
stamped their feet on the sculpted head torn from the statue; women
stood on rooftops to shower tanks with rose petals. In another
neighborhood, a group of some 100 children, clothed mostly in rags and
newly released from one of the regime's prisons, hugged and kissed the
Marines who had freed them. Not all the passion was joyful. Fierce
combat continued at Baghdad University. Some Iraqis wept bitterly at
the sight of Western troops, not from love of Saddam Hussein but from
shame and humiliation. The complex mix of reactions offered grounds
for joy and vindication among those who pressed the cause of regime
change in Iraq -- mixed with sadness for Iraqi and American sacrifices
along the way and sober reflection about the postwar challenges to
come.
Preacher Paige
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1491-2003Apr9.html
Page A28
THE LIST OF PEOPLE who ought to be insulted by Education Secretary
Roderick R. Paige's comments to the Baptist Press this week does not
end with staunch secularists. It should also include public school
teachers and students and the District's school board president, Peggy
Cooper Cafritz. Mr. Paige told the newsletter of the Southern Baptist
Convention: "All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a
school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian
community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith." Now, one
may take from this that Mr. Paige's personal preference is for
Christian schools, which is not a firing offense but is faintly
insulting given that he is the nation's lead spokesman for public
schools. Or one may see it as an encouragement to public school
teachers to mimic Christian values and teach children to have a strong
faith, which is also odd given that the Supreme Court frowns on the
practice.
Killing a Regime, Not a People
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1515-2003Apr9.html
By Charles Krauthammer, Page A29
Gulf War II, the Three Week War (or possibly Four), is a monumental
event: the first war ever aimed at destroying a totalitarian regime --
and sparing the invaded country. Surgically removing a one-party
police state while trying to leave the civilians and the
infrastructure as untouched as possible is an operation of unusual
difficulty. Yet the pictures from the opening nights of the war told
the story: plumes of smoke from precision strikes on Saddam Hussein's
instruments of power while the city lights remained on and cars
casually traversed the streets.
'Cakewalk' Revisited
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1512-2003Apr9.html
By Ken Adelman, Page A29
What a difference a week makes. The chump-to-champ cycle usually
takes longer, even in Washington.
Tipping Points
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1514-2003Apr9.html
By David Ignatius, Page A29
LONDON -- Like the giant statue of Saddam Hussein that slowly
tumbled to the ground in central Baghdad yesterday, the war in Iraq
has been determined by a series of tipping points that mean the
collapse of the regime.
A War of Images
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1513-2003Apr9.html
By Richard Cohen, Page A29
Sometimes, a picture really is worth a thousand words. The picture
I have in mind is the stirring one seen on TV when U.S. soldiers
draped an American flag over the face of Saddam Hussein's massive
statue in Baghdad's Firdaus Square. It made me feel good. But not the
crowd in Baghdad. It went sullen. When Old Glory was taken down a
moment later and an Iraqi flag was substituted for it, the crowd
erupted in cheers. This, alas, was truly reality TV.
Wishful Thinking and the Rules of Warfare
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1546-2003Apr9.html
Page A28
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz says, "I think Iraq can
be an inspiration to the Muslim world and the Arab world, that Arabs
and Muslims can create a democratic country. . . . Many people have
done it in the latter part of the 20th century. It is time for the
Arabs to do it now" [news story, April 7]. This is the kind of wishful
thinking that contributed to U.S. failures such as that in Vietnam.
Art Buchwald: Gentle Giant
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1464-2003Apr9.html
Page A28
Let me pay tribute to Art Buchwald, who says the International
Herald Tribune in Paris has canceled his column after 53 years ["He'll
Always Have Paris," Style, April 4].
Israel's Influence in America
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1544-2003Apr9.html
Page A28
In his April 5 op-ed column, "Scapegoat Syndrome," about concerns
over Jewish influence on U.S. foreign policy, Colbert I. King
dismissed out of hand the idea that Israel's interests are being
served at the expense of U.S. interests. Instead of addressing such
concerns, he resorted to name-calling and to the charge that is
supposed to shut anyone up: anti-Semitism.
Postal Service to Expand Anthrax Detection Testing (Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1486-2003Apr9.html
Law Firm, Frist Do the Tennessee Waltz (By Judy Sarasohn, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1577-2003Apr9.html
Interior, Utah Approve Pact On Control of Disputed Roads (By
Christopher Lee, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1517-2003Apr9.html
Does It All Add Up At Homeland Dept.? (By Christopher Lee, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1554-2003Apr9.html
'Good Day for the Iraqi People' Resonates Across U.S.: Some Reassured
By the Reaction in Baghdad as Allied Forces Bring Saddam Hussein's
Reign to an End (By Michael Powell, Page A40)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1612-2003Apr9.html
The Fallen (Page A42)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2010-2003Apr10.html
Administration Now Turns to Finding Prohibited Weapons: Discovery May
Soothe War's Skeptics (By Glenn Kessler and Dana Milbank, Page A36)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1324-2003Apr9.html
Cheney Praises Invasion's 'Wisdom': Appearance Is First Since War
Began (By Mike Allen, Page A37)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1580-2003Apr9.html
Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Concedes Hussein's Defeat: Some Diplomats
Believe Douri Is Seeking Political Asylum (By Colum Lynch, Page A37)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1587-2003Apr9.html
U.S. Military Spurns Postwar Police Role: Pressure Builds to Provide
Order, Protection (By Peter Slevin and Bradley Graham, Page A39)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1319-2003Apr9.html
Senate Votes to Boost Charitable Donations: Bill Passed Minus
Faith-Based Provisions (By Helen Dewar, Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1387-2003Apr9.html
Amid Elation, Tasks Remain: War Continues; Fate of Hussein, POWs
Unclear (By Karen DeYoung, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1392-2003Apr9.html
Wartime Spending Measure Stalls on Unrelated Issues (By Dan Morgan,
Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1253-2003Apr9.html
Senate Panel Drops Vaccine-Damages Bill (Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1254-2003Apr9.html
Witness Tells of Terrorism Discussions: Islamic Network Said to
Envision Major Attacks Before 9/11 (Page A16)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1527-2003Apr9.html
Yemen Holds Man Sought In FBI Probe (Page A16)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1469-2003Apr9.html
FINDINGS (Page A18)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1522-2003Apr9.html
Two Firms Settle Clean-Air Cases: Alcoa, ADM to Cut Pollution,
Retrofit School Bus Engines (Page A18)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1478-2003Apr9.html
Cloned Asian Cattle Is Put To Death Because of Size (Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1468-2003Apr9.html
U.N. Council Stalled on N. Korea: U.S., Allies Suspend Push for
Criticism of Nuclear Efforts (By Colum Lynch, Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1261-2003Apr9.html
Librarians Make Some Noise Over Patriot Act: Concerns About Privacy
Prompt Some to Warn Patrons, Destroy Records of Book and Computer Use
(By Rene Sanchez, Page A20)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1481-2003Apr9.html
Paige: No Religious Bias in Remarks (By Michael A. Fletcher, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1251-2003Apr9.html
Iraqi Leaders Are Nowhere To Be Seen: Forces May Be Protecting Figures
Near Syria Border (By Dana Priest and Walter Pincus, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1391-2003Apr9.html
GOP Leaders Strive for Unusual Deal On Budget: Tax Cut Negotiations
Would Be Postponed (By Jim VandeHei, Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1250-2003Apr9.html
Planned Shuttle Redesign Would Cover Troublesome Foam (Post, April 10,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1252-2003Apr9.html
Mobster's Brother Granted Immunity: Panel Seeks Testimony on 'Whitey'
Bulger (Post, April 10, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1244-2003Apr9.html
Philippines, U.S. Set To Revive Project (Post, April 10, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1288-2003Apr9.html
Concorde to Fly No More: BA, Air France Retire Supersonic Passenger
Jet (Reuters, April 10, 2003; 1:28 PM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3758-2003Apr10.html
A Resort Where Kids Are Always Welcome: On Bintan, the 'Lifestyle
Impotency' Cure (By Ellen Nakashima, Page C04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1576-2003Apr9.html
Where 'We've All Been Damaged,' Kurds Relish News of Baghdad's Fall
(By Karl Vick, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1179-2003Apr9.html
Army Seizes Final Government Strongholds: Commander Says End Of Combat
'Days Away' (By William Branigin, Page A34)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A522-2003Apr9.html
Marines' Orders: Ready, Set, Switch: Commanders React to the Moment
(By Peter Baker, Page A35)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1280-2003Apr9.html
Nuclear Site Safety Tightened: Radiation Detected At Iraqi Complex (By
Joby Warrick, Page A36)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1573-2003Apr9.html
Kurdish Militias Proceed Cautiously: Temptation to Seize Iraqi Cities
and Oil Fields Checked by Fears, U.S. Handlers (By Daniel Williams,
Page A38)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1586-2003Apr9.html
Far From Capital, a Fight U.S. Forces Did Not Win: Attack in North
Fails To Dislodge Artillery (By Steve Vogel, Page A38)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1550-2003Apr9.html
Celebration in the North and South: U.S. Takes Last of 3 Key Shiite
Cities; Residents Warmly Welcome Troops (By Rick Atkinson, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1232-2003Apr9.html
For Hate and Anger, a Statue of Limitations (By Philip Kennicott, Page
A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1463-2003Apr9.html
A Few Potshots, but Mostly Cheers (By Jonathan Finer, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A850-2003Apr9.html
Hussein's Baghdad Falls: U.S. Forces Move Triumphantly Through Capital
Streets, Cheered by Crowds Jubilant at End of Repressive Regime (By
Anthony Shadid, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1320-2003Apr9.html
U.S. Bomb Kills 11 Civilians in Afghanistan: Weapon Aimed at Fighters
Hits House; Military to Probe 'Tragic Accident' (By April Witt, Page
A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1095-2003Apr9.html
Doctor Says Health Ministry Lied About Disease: Chinese Military
Physician Accuses Beijing of Hiding Extent of Outbreak to Promote
Tourism (By John Pomfret, Page A26)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A671-2003Apr9.html
Crowd Kills Islamic Cleric in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10CND-SHEIKH.html
By CRAIG S. SMITH
A prominent Islamic cleric, newly returned from exile, was killed by
an angry mob here today at one of Shiite Muslims' holiest shrines.
Bush Administration Describes Secondary Role for U.N. in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10CND-POST.html
By DAVID STOUT
The Bush administration made it clearer than ever today, in sketching
its vision for a democratically run Iraq, that it sees a decidedly
secondary role for the United Nations in that country when the
shooting is over.
Turkish Leaders Sending Military Observers to Kirkuk
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10CND-TURK.html
By FRANK BRUNI
Turkish leaders said today that they were sending military observers
to monitor Kurdish forces in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, while American
officials worked to discourage Turkey from any steps more provocative
than that.
Iraq's Border With Jordan Remains Chaotic
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10CND-BORD.html
By IAN FISHER
Almost until the last minute, travelers said, the border post here
functioned with the usual combination of efficiency and graft of
Saddam Hussein's Iraq: bags were searched, bribes were solicited, then
other rules were followed to craziness, even though this post in the
deep desert was surrounded by United States special forces since the
war began.
Leading Exile Figure Draws Mixed Reviews
http://tinyurl.com/998h
By JUDITH MILLER and MICHAEL MOSS and LOWELL BERGMAN
A joyous Ahmad Chalabi held a rally yesterday in the town of Nasiriya
in southern Iraq to spread the word of the collapse of Saddam
Hussein's government, seizing the initiative as the most prominent
Iraqi exile opposition leader to return to his country so far.
Government in Guatemala Is Accused of Backing Crimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/americas/10GUAT.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An alliance of social groups has accused the Guatemalan government of
being behind a string of burglaries and attacks intended to intimidate
human rights groups in the country.
American Air Attack Mistakenly Kills 11 Afghans
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/asia/10AFGH.html
By CARLOTTA GALL
An American warplane mistakenly bombed a house in eastern Afghanistan
today, killing 11 civilians and wounding one, a United States military
spokesman said.
Security Council Averts Standoff on North Korea Nuclear Issue
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10NATI.html
By FELICITY BARRINGER
The Security Council today stepped back from a potential standoff over
North Korea's withdrawal from the treaty that prohibits it from
developing nuclear weapons, as China signaled its openness to "promote
political dialogue" and the United States eased off its pursuit of a
formal statement of condemnation.
Arab Street Shifting Its Gaze to Iraq After Hussein
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10CND-ARAB.html
By SUSAN SACHS
Arab diplomatic efforts to stabilize Iraq began in earnest today as
President Hosni Mubarak called for the speedy installation of a
transitional government to bring order to Iraqi cities.
Democrats Seek to Focus on Domestic Issues
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/politics/10DEMS.html
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Candidates in the large Democratic presidential field clashed tonight
over the justification for the war in Iraq and the role the United
States should now play in that country's reconstruction. Their debate
signaled a postwar phase of a contest that has to date been
overshadowed by the fighting in the Persian Gulf.
After Weeks of Criticism, Cheney Claims Vindication
http://tinyurl.com/9999
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON and ERIC SCHMITT
After weeks of criticism that he had underestimated the difficulty of
toppling Saddam Hussein and overpromised in suggesting that American
troops would be greeted in Iraq as liberators, Vice President Dick
Cheney spoke publicly today for the first time since the start of the
war, and in his understated way said: I told you so.
Senate Passes Version of Religion Initiative
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/politics/10FAIT.html
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
A pared version of President Bush's religion-based initiative passed
the Senate today by an overwhelming margin, but Republicans are
already using other legislation to press the White House's agenda of
expanding government grants to religious groups.
Senate Votes to Strengthen S.E.C.'s Hand
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/business/10REGS.html
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
The Senate approved legislation today that would strengthen the hand
of regulators to attack corporate wrongdoing by giving the Securities
and Exchange Commission new powers to punish wayward lawyers,
accountants and corporate officers and directors.
I.M.F. Cuts Worldwide Forecast to a 3.2% Expansion This Year
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/business/worldbusiness/10ECON.html
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
The world economy will grow 3.2 percent this year, hindered by
concerns over war and terrorism that may also limit the pace of
expansion in 2004 and beyond, the International Monetary Fund said
today.
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One McWar to go, please
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,934281,00.html
John O'Farrell: The McDonald's information minister appeared before
the world's press angrily denying that the fast food giant had finally
lost the burger war.
The left has lost the plot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,934302,00.html
John Lloyd: By defending sovereignty in the name of anti-imperialism,
opponents of war undermine their claim to champion the oppressed.
Iraq will preoccupy and pin down the US for years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,934326,00.html
Martin Woollacott: Victory in Iraq is at once a blow for freedom and a
step into an unknown world in which the extent of American power and
the wisdom with which it is used become even more critical.
This pyrrhic victory on the Tigris
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,934324,00.html
David Clark: When Henry Kissinger asked Chinese prime minister Zhou
Enlai whether he thought the French Revolution had been a success, he
replied that it was "too early to tell". What was meant half-jokingly
then is certainly true of Operation Iraqi Freedom today.
This war was not worth a child's finger
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,934300,00.html
Victory in just three weeks, relatively few western casualties and
now, at last, even dancing on the streets. So, asks Julian Barnes, did
those of us who opposed the Iraq conflict get it wrong?
Ken burns in hell - I triple guarantee you!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,934314,00.html
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf: The man who won't let the facts get in the
way of a good column.
A childhood unlocked
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,934409,00.html
In her latest book, novelist Barbara Trapido addresses her upbringing
in South Africa for the first time. But, she tells Libby Brooks, she
still feels a need to estrange herself from the story.
Behind the lines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,934301,00.html
Esther Addley: There are things that we know, a celebrated poet once
said, and things we don't know, and often we don't know how little we
really know, and how much of what we don't know we do know.
'April 9 will live in legend'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Global reaction to the dramatic events in the Iraqi capital.
Iraqi tears - and fears
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,934525,00.html
Friday April 11, 2003
As an Iraqi exile, Wednesday was the happiest day of my life. I shed
tears of joy as the statue came crashing down. The day was spent
celebrating, talking on the phone, feelings of joy, elation and
happiness never before experienced in my lifetime. Iraqis all over the
world now suddenly had hope, and were talking about something that no
one has ever dreamed would happen: "The day we go back home".
More tears for Baghdad
Thursday April 10, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,933334,00.html
The Guardian
I have shed a lot of tears over the war in the past three weeks - and
all I do is read about it. I don't even know any of those who are
suffering untold agonies in our name, as we and our US allies wage our
war of "liberation". This morning, I read Suzanne Goldenberg's report
('A picture of killing inflicted on a sprawling city - and it grew
more unbearable by the minute', April 9). I was so glad I was a reader
and not a reporter, called upon to witness these shameful atrocities.
There can be no excuse for what we are doing. No glib phrases of
"that's war" and "collateral damage". These are people we are killing
and maiming, as we smile glibly and claim to be liberating them. And
if they hate us for generations, who will be surprised?
Finding the funds for aid
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,933335,00.html
Thursday April 10, 2003
The Guardian
The report of the plea by the executive director of the World Food
Programme (40 million starving 'as world watches Iraq', April 9) that
the UN-run agency is £640m short of the funds needed to meet emergency
food aid is important.
The end has not begun
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,933336,00.html
Thursday April 10, 2003
The Guardian
Surely, it is too early to talk of the beginning of the end. Iraq is
only the first of several countries in Bush's "axis of evil", and one
of the others, North Korea, actually admits to having weapons of mass
destruction.
What about Saddam's smoking gun?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,933337,00.html
Thursday April 10, 2003
The Guardian
You refer (Leader, April 8) to several reports of a possible "smoking
gun" - evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed effective
weapons of mass destruction. This is too kind by half to Tony Blair
and the UK government.
Planet Ulster
Making fools of the optimists again.
Saving from birth
Baby bonds are a great radical idea.
Spoiling the victory
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,934444,00.html
The US is divided and unprepared.
DirecTV seals world domination
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,934404,00.html
US satellite deal heralds fight with cable firms.
Blair and Bush send TV messages
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,934289,00.html
Britain and the United States projected a post-Saddam television
service towards the homes of millions of Iraqis yesterday.
Short: coalition must stop looting
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,934678,00.html
10.30am: A "massively bigger effort" is needed to end looting and
chaos in Iraq, the international development secretary, Clare Short,
said today.
Iraqi looting hindering aid agencies
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,934237,00.html
Violent looting in Baghdad, Basra and other Iraqi cities is hampering
relief efforts, MPs were told today.
Sliding towards anarchy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934260,00.html
Iraq's slide into violent anarchy will trigger a humanitarian disaster
if US and British troops are unable to fill the power vacuum and
reassert order quickly, UN and other aid officials warned yesterday.
Sunni or Shia, fault line runs between have and have nots
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934263,00.html
The two distinct mainstream paths of Islam, Sunni and Shia, divide
Iraqi society. As Sunnis and Shias emerged into the scurrying,
burning, breaking madness of Baghdad yesterday, a city sacking itself,
the Sunni-Shia divide was meaningless.
Bodies line the route to the palace of fear
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934350,00.html
Inside the marble-floored opulence of the forbidden city ordinary
Iraqis were too frightened even to point at.
Tikrit is the target for the next big push
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934306,00.html
With the US capture of Hilla and the ancient ruins of Babylon the
coalition consolidated its hold on southern Iraq yesterday and the
military focus shifted to the north - in particular to Saddam
Hussein's hometown, Tikrit.
Leftwing Lula earns credit as his first 100 days revive economy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934358,00.html
Brazilian president extends his honeymoon period by sticking to
prudent financial and social policies.
MEPs vote against stem cell research
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934363,00.html
The use of cloned and donated human embryos for medical research risks
being outlawed in the EU after the European parliament voted against
it yesterday.
Dormitory deaths
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934451,00.html
Twenty-eight deaf schoolchildren died and more than 100 were injured
yesterday in a fire at their school in the southern Russian republic
of Dagestan.
Indonesia threatens military solution to unrest in Aceh
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934359,00.html
Indonesia threatened yesterday to resume full combat operations in the
province of Aceh, as new clashes between troops and rebels killed four
people, putting yet more strain on a shaky peace agreement.
Suicide bomber attacks US checkpoint
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934433,00.html
Conflicting reports tell of several marines killed or injured by blast
in capital, while one soldier dies in intense fighting
Spy agencies compete to find Saddam secrets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934351,00.html
US forces in Baghdad have secured the Iraqi interior ministry for the
CIA in the hope of finding documents on the ousted regime's human
rights abuses and the development of weapons of mass destruction,
according to intelligence sources.
Alarm as lawlessness goes unchecked
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934349,00.html
Britain to send just two MoD police to advise troops as UN leads
criticism of coalition over collapse of public order
Turkey told US will remove Kurd forces from city
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934286,00.html
The alarming sight of US led Kurdish fighters capturing northern
Iraq's oil-rich city of Kirkuk yesterday prompted Turkey to issue a
stern warning against the peshmerga staying there for long.
Kurdish fighters take Kirkuk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934304,00.html
It was supposed to be one of the most important missions of the war in
Iraq - securing the country's vast northern oil fields. But when we
arrived at Iraq's biggest oil well yesterday afternoon, just outside
the newly liberated city of Kirkuk, the US Special Forces were nowhere
to be seen.
At a glance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934311,00.html
At the front
Peshmerga pledge may ease Turkish fears
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934499,00.html
The Iraqi Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani said yesterday he had ordered
his peshmerga fighters to pull out of Kirkuk by today, easing Turkish
concerns about the city's future.
US moves 21,000lb superbomb to Gulf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934307,00.html
The US has moved its most powerful conventional weapon to the Gulf,
Pentagon officials said yesterday, a development apparently designed
to send a clear message to Iraqi forces dug in around Saddam Hussein's
stronghold of Tikrit that they will be obliterated if they stage a
last stand.
Charges against regime's most wanted men
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934387,00.html
Since Ali Hassan al-Majid, otherwise known as Chemical Ali, is
presumed dead, these are the 10 names likely to head the most wanted
list. They include those targeted by both the Americans and Indict, a
British organisation which has collected evidence of crimes committed
by leaders of the Iraqi regime.
Saddam and sons 'almost certainly still in Iraq'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934388,00.html
Baghdad sealed but leaders could still flee to Tikrit
Power vacuum that has taken US by surprise
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934485,00.html
Washington row over who will take reins of government
Divided Arabs contemplate their second catastrophe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934337,00.html
Analysis Neighbours despair at Saddam's lack of fight amid concern
that his overthrow signals a new order they too are powerless to
resist
Regimes who worry that they will be next
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934338,00.html
Rulers face conciliation or confrontation
US in row over nuclear project
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934345,00.html
International Atomic Energy Authority angry and worried at reported
interference by marines with stockpile of radioactive material
Break-in fear at nuclear store
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934486,00.html
UN seals broken at nuclear bomb plant: 'We are worried over what
happens if anyone has taken radioactive material'
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934371,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
France faces isolation as strains show in anti-war axis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934368,00.html
Summit Chirac under pressure at home and abroad
Town of fear
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934360,00.html
Hundreds flee
New label for the bad old 'hood
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934452,00.html
South-Central, the area of Los Angeles long associated in the public
mind with poverty, gang violence, riots and rap, is no more:
officially, at least.
Gunmen kill two Israeli soldiers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934455,00.html
Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers and injured nine others
yesterday after infiltrating an army base in the West Bank shortly
before dawn.
Police seize anti-semitic material
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934457,00.html
German police have searched the homes of more than 80 people suspected
of supporting an Islamist organisation banned this year in an effort
to halt the spread of anti-semitic and anti-Israeli propaganda.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934458,00.html
Singaporean authorities have ordered that people quarantined for the
mystery Sars virus be electronically tagged in an attempt to contain a
new cluster of cases.
Quarantine tags to curb Sars spread
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934456,00.html
Italian police have called on convents in northern Italy to help them
search for four nuns involved in a hit-and-run accident.
Nuns on the run after car crash
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934456,00.html
Italian police have called on convents in northern Italy to help them
search for four nuns involved in a hit-and-run accident.
Forgotten town back on the map
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934454,00.html
For seven years, it has been the town that bureaucracy forgot. Wiped
from government records by a clerical error, the remote Australian
township of Gununa has been invisible to Canberra since it was missed
off the 1996 census.
Le Pen loses his seat at Strasbourg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934453,00.html
The French far-right leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, lost his European
parliament seat on Tuesday when a court dismissed his challenge to a
barring order issued after he assaulted a rival politician.
Rampaging mobs ransack the city
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934266,00.html
Government buildings, foreign embassies, homes of the fallen elite and
even hospitals are stripped bare.
Shia cleric backed by Washington murdered
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934297,00.html
Saddam loyalists accused of killing at holy city shrine
US marine killed by suicide bomber
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,934273,00.html
With much of the capital still not secured, a military checkpoint is
attacked and four soldiers die in intense fighting
Viral fever
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,933802,00.html
April 10: John Aglionby visits the country with the highest
Sars-related death rate.
Rally in London to stand in silence for war dead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,934366,00.html
Anti-war protesters are to go ahead with a mass demonstration in
London this weekend despite the apparent successes of coalition forces
in Iraq.
It may be years before the US and Britain know what they have
unleashed in Iraq
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=396020
The looting and early signs of fracturing emphasise the costs and
difficulties of turning Iraq from dictatorship to democracy by force
Europe should ignore this fightback by the pro-life lobby
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=396019
It is not simply a test of the European Parliament's commitment to
devolution of power but of its seriousness in debate that it should
reject this ban
Robert Fisk: Baghdad: the day after
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396051
Arson, anarchy, fear, hatred, hysteria, looting, revenge, savagery,
suspicion and a suicide bombing
Dilip Hiro: Can Iraq be held together now Saddam is gone?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396016
For centuries, Iraq has been part of a volatile region held together
by empire. So what will happen when democracy is imposed?
The lesson of this conflict: America can be a force for good in the
world
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/johann_hari/story.jsp?story=396021
Anti-war movements must never again assume they speak for the people
who are about to be bombed
The chilling metaphor of Saddam's statue
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/deborah_orr/story.jsp?story=396022
The peace will be thrown together like a pot-luck lunch for people too
hungry to care what they're getting
The obscenity of bickering over death and torture
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/adrian_hamilton/story.jsp?story=396017
By Adrian Hamilton
11 April 2003
"Next to a battle lost," said the Duke of Wellington upon surveying
the carnage of Waterloo, "the greatest misery is a battle gained." No
such qualms from his successors this side of the Atlantic, one fears.
Today's war links in full
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=396058
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Conquest and Neglect
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11KRUG.html
By PAUL KRUGMAN
After each triumph, when it is time to take care of what's been won,
the Bush administration's attention wanders.
A World Upside Down
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11KRIS.html
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Perhaps it's churlish to say this so soon after an impressive military
victory, but we may have underestimated the risk of chaos in postwar
Iraq.
Rebuild Iraq, Disarm North Korea
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11TURN.html
By STANSFIELD TURNER
The U.S. should return responsibility for finding weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq to the U.N. That would enable America to better
address North Korea.
The News We Kept to Ourselves
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11JORD.html
By EASON JORDAN
The chief news executive at CNN saw many awful things in Iraq that
could not be reported. Now that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, the
stories can be told.
My First Day of Freedom
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11HUSS.html
By HUSSAIN ABDUL-HUSSAIN
America should not favor Iraqi opposition leaders simply because they
are allies, since that would create another unpopular regime.
The Future of Iraq's Oil
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11FRI1.html
The Bush administration's management of Iraqi oil will go a long way
toward determining Iraq's future and America's worldwide reputation.
Faith in the Public Sphere
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11FRI2.html
For Education Secretary Rod Paige to state that he personally finds
Christian schools preferable for the values they teach is an appalling
gaffe.
Braving War and SARS to Meet in Vegas
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11FRI4.html
By ANDRÉS MARTINEZ
Broadcasters convened in the desert just as they do every April,
travel-related anxieties notwithstanding.
After the Fall: From Euphoria to Misgivings
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/L11IRAQ.html
Threat of Extinction
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/L11EXTI.html
A Diverse Future
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/L11OCON.html
PCP Use in New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/L11PCPP.html
Excesses in Court
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/L11PUNI.html
Same Rules for All
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/L11TOBA.html
Truth About Vegan Diet
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/L11VEGA.html
Looting Spreads Throughout Mosul and Other Iraqi Cities
http://tinyurl.com/9bye
By DAVID ROHDE with JANE PERLEZ
American forces entered Mosul today after it fell without a fight as
the last of Saddam Hussein's loyalists vanished during the night.
Looting and a Suicide Attack in Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/9byh
By JOHN F. BURNS
It was a day of widening anarchy in Baghdad as jubilation gave way to
a spree of killing and looting.
Heavy Fighting for Desert Base at Syria Border
http://tinyurl.com/9byl
By DOUGLAS JEHL
The tenacity with which Iraqi forces in Al Qaim defended a compound
against U.S. troops made officials think it hid illicit weapons.
Far From the Battle, Marines Wait to Fight or to Go Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11SOLD.html
By MICHAEL WILSON
If Baghdad is center stage, the marines of Task Force Tarawa are on
the back lot, a couple of hundred miles from the capital.
U.S. to Recruit Iraqi Civilians to Interim Posts
http://tinyurl.com/9byr
By ERIC SCHMITT and STEVEN R. WEISMAN
The Bush administration said that it would begin a "rolling dialogue"
next week to recruit civilian leaders to help run Iraq.
Iraqis in U.S. Prepare to Return and Rebuild Homeland
http://tinyurl.com/9byu
By JODI WILGOREN with NICK MADIGAN
Scores of Iraqi exiles are making arrangements to return, with grand
hopes of building hospitals and schools, designing university
curriculums and nurturing young entrepreneurs.
News Organizations Remove Some Reporters From Units
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11JOUR.html
By BILL CARTER
With the shift of the major events of the war to Baghdad, news
organizations began removing reporters from the American military
units with which they have been traveling.
Look Who's Back: 'Boys' of Vietnam
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11OLD.html
By JAMES DAO
The MC-130 Combat Talon squadron from Duke Field, Fla., are mostly in
their 50's and are perhaps the troops most happy about recent events.
Kirkuk's Swift Collapse Leaves a City in Chaos
http://tinyurl.com/9bzj
By C. J. CHIVERS
Iraqi forces in Kirkuk gave in to a civilian uprising and lightly
equipped U.S. and Kurdish attacks.
Hunting Hussein, U.S. Attacks Mosque
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11WORS.html
By DEXTER FILKINS
Troops hunting Saddam Hussein attacked a mosque in Baghdad but seem to
have missed a chance to kill or capture Iraqi leaders.
As Kurds Move Into Kirkuk, Arabs Fear Revenge
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11CITY.html
By DAVID ROHDE
Thousands of Kurds poured into the city of Kirkuk on Thursday, and
Arab and American officials braced for revenge attacks.
The Tides of Revenge in Basra
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11BASR.html
By MARC SANTORA
Since the Baath Party was driven from power in Basra earlier this
week, many people are now looking to settle old scores.
Number of Iraqi Dead May Be Unknowable
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/international/worldspecial/10CASU.html
By JOHN M. BRODER
The effort to number the dead on the Iraqi side in the war begins with
a conundrum: who is a civilian and who is a soldier?
Allies Enter Mosul After Seeing Signs of Possible Surrender
http://tinyurl.com/9byy
By PATRICK E. TYLER
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said the coalition forces
entering Mosul were "being welcomed by the people." On Thursday,
Kirkuk fell to Kurdish fighters.
The War, Not Over, Now Seems Far Away for Some
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11ARMY.html
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
The First Brigade's task is to cement control around the airport.
Tearing Loose as a New Power Arrives at the Ruins of Babylon
http://tinyurl.com/9bza
By JIM DWYER
Atop the site of ancient Babylon on the edge of Hillal, American
soldiers walked through a palace built by Saddam Hussein.
Display of U.S. Flag Barred After Unfurling on Statue
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11FLAG.html
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
The Army barred any display of the American flag on vehicles,
buildings, statues and command posts.
Experts Study Equipment Found Buried in South
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11WEAP.html
By JUDITH MILLER
A team of military experts hunting for chemical weapons began
examining a cache of equipment that had been buried at an ammunition
plant near Karbala.
Orders in Place, Word Goes Out That 'This Is It'
By JOHN KIFNER
The marines pushed north, preparing to launch a major attack on the
Iraqi Republican Guard.
U.S.-Backed Shiite Cleric Killed at Shrine in Najaf
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11CLER.html
By CRAIG S. SMITH
A prominent Islamic cleric, newly returned from exile, was killed on
Thursday by an angry mob at one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines.
Arab World Seeks Role in Shaping Postwar Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11ARAB.html
By SUSAN SACHS
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt called for the speedy installation of
a transitional government to bring order to Iraqi cities.
In Saudi Desert, '91 Iraqi Refugees Long to Return
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11REFU.html
By SARAH KERSHAW
For 12 years, more than 5,000 Iraqi refugees have lived inside a vast
compound in Saudi Arabia. Now they are preparing to go home.
Looting at a Border Post: All That's Left Is Regret
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11BORD.html
By IAN FISHER
Graft continued at a checkpoint on Iraq's western border until U.S.
troops arrived.
What's in a Name? For a Turkish Youth, Maybe Jail
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/europe/11KURD.html
By FRANK BRUNI
For decades, Turkey's laws and its enforcers sought to stamp out
expressions of Kurdish identity, outlawing Kurdish names, Kurdish
language, Kurdish holidays.
German Police Raid an Islamic Militant Group
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/europe/11GERM.html
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
The German police raided some 80 buildings throughout the country as
part of a continuing crackdown against a miltant Islamic group that
was banned after the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S.
In Far East of Many Muslims, Press Is Anti-U.S. but Hardly Pro-Jihad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11INDO.html
By SETH MYDANS
The press in Islamic Indonesia and Malaysia has been almost uniformly
critical about the war but lacks the intensity that accompanied the
U.S. attack on Afghanistan.
Anthrax Cleanup to Close Mail Center a Year More
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/nyregion/11ANTH.html
By IVER PETERSON
The Postal Service announced that the final step in cleaning out the
anthrax that once had Trenton-area residents wearing rubber gloves to
open their letters and bills would not begin until this fall.
Details Given on Contract Halliburton Was Awarded
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/business/11REBU.html
By ELIZABETH BECKER
The Pentagon contract to fight oil well fires in Iraq was given
without competition and is worth as much as $7 billion.
No Peace Bounce for Airlines
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/business/11AIR.html
By MICHELINE MAYNARD
The nation's airlines, which blamed the war in Iraq for a plunge in
air travel, are not expecting the postwar era to be much brighter.
Shiite Protesters Storm Iraqi Embassy in Iran
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-iraq-iran-embassy.html
By REUTERS
Dozens of Shi'ite protesters stormed the Iraqi embassy in Tehran
today, tearing down pictures of Saddam Hussein and chanting "Death to
America.''
After Espionage Arrests, F.B.I. Looks Back and Wonders, 'How?'
http://tinyurl.com/9c0x
By DEAN E. MURPHY and CALVIN SIMS
Katrina Leung, who now faces allegations of passing secrets to the
government of China, understood the power of politics and of playing
both sides.
Suit Says Refusal to Fire Unattractive Woman Led to Dismissal
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/national/11HOT.html
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Throughout a four-year court battle, a former L'Oréal employee says
the company retaliated against her for refusing to fire a saleswoman
not considered attractive.
House Endorses Oil Drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/politics/11ENER.html
By CARL HULSE
House members rejected several efforts to alter a wide-ranging energy
measure that includes, among other things, a provision to open the
Arctic Refuge to drilling.
Harvard Adopts New Rules for Early-Admission Applicants
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/education/11HARV.html
By TAMAR LEWIN
The university will no longer allow applicants who file for early
admission to apply early at other colleges as well.
Bill to Create Alert System on Abduction Is Approved
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/politics/11AMBE.html
By CARL HULSE
Congress approved creation of a national kidnapping alert system as
part of a bill intended to reduce abductions and sex crimes involving
children.
More Smokers Say They Are Smoking Less
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/health/11SMOK.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A growing number of smokers are cutting back on cigarettes, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
Republicans Push $550 Billion Budget Through House
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Budget.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A budget endorsing up to $550 billion in tax cuts through 2013 passed
narrowly in the House early today, and seemed on its way to Senate
passage.
Lawmakers Questions Halliburton Contract
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-War-Halliburton-Contract.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Government work granted to a Halliburton Co.subsidiary to fight oil
well fires in Iraq could be worth as much as $7 billion over two
years, the Army Corps of Engineers has disclosed.
House Passes Energy Bill
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Energy-Bill.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The House approved sweeping incentives today, including a green light
for drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge.
Too Soon to Declare Victory in Iraq, White House Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11CND-PREXY.html
By DAVID STOUT
As fires and looting in Iraq followed the ouster of Saddam Hussein,
the White House said today that it was far too early to declare
complete victory.
For Hawks, a Day to Sit Back and Say, 'I Told You So'
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11HAWK.html
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
With Saddam Hussein deposed from Baghdad and Iraqis voicing gratitude
to intervening American troops, the earliest and fiercest advocates of
the war might be feeling smug.
For Military Intelligence, a New Favorite Commando
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11COMM.html
By THOM SHANKER
Dr. Stephen A. Cambone, the first under secretary of defense for
intelligence, has become a favorite of Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld.
On Capitol Hill, New Maneuvers Over the War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11TROO.html
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Beyond the warm words about loyalty, bravery and sacrifice, Democrats
and Republicans spent the day trying to capitalize on the fall of
Baghdad.
Confidence Rising, Consumers Begin to Spend More Money
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/business/11CND-ECON.html
By KENNETH N. GILPIN
Two reports released today showed that consumers are spending more
money than they did in the depth of winter and are also more confident
about the future.
Stocks Slide After Early Rally
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-markets-stocks.html
By REUTERS
Worries over the U.S. economy and corporate earnings took the luster
off surprisingly strong readings on retail sales and consumer
sentiment.
United Pilots and Mechanics Agree to Concessions
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-United-Airlines.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
United Airlines' bid to gain employee backing for cost cuts got a
boost today when mechanics tentatively agreed to a contract and pilots
ratified separate concessions.
A Plan to Recalculate Pensions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/business/11PENS.html
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
Corporations could find billions of dollars of pension shortfalls
eliminated under a proposal being prepared by two congressmen.
Economy May Be Better Than You Think
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/business/11NORR.html
Perhaps the economy in 2003 will turn out to be like the war in Iraq:
a slow start followed by a surge to the finish.
Gene Study Finds Cannibal Pattern
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/science/11CANN.html
By NICHOLAS WADE
Deep in the recesses of the human heart, lurking guiltily beneath the
threshold of consciousness, there may lie a depraved craving - for the
taste of human flesh.
U.S. Asks Allies to Assist in Rebuilding
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5204-2003Apr10.html
The Bush administration moved Thursday to enlist allied support for
postwar reconstruction and financing Iraq.
Spy Suspect Led an Active, Prominent Life
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5692-2003Apr10.html
Katrina Leung has long struck the pose of charming socialite and
political player.
A Hopeful but Worried Nation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5178-2003Apr10.html
An overwhelming majority of Americans predict more tough fighting
ahead in Iraq, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Syria Warned Again Not to 'Meddle' in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6173-2003Apr11.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5361-2003Apr10.html
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz issued a new warning to
Syria yesterday, telling Congress that the United States might adopt a
tougher policy toward Damascus if it continues to harbor terrorists
and provides a haven for Iraqi war criminals.
Study Shows Problems in Cloning People
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5592-2003Apr10.html
New research suggests that it may be a lot harder to clone people than
to clone other animals, an unexpected scientific twist that could
influence the escalating congressional debate over human cloning and
embryo research.
Congress Approves 'Amber Alert' System
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5176-2003Apr10.html
The House and Senate overwhelming approved legislation Thursday
establishing a nationwide, federally subsidized alert system to help
rescue abducted children and impose tougher penalties on sexual
offenders.
An Iraqi Official's Better Home and Garden
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5427-2003Apr10.html
The home of Tariq Aziz revealed a man who led a rich and varied life.
In Kirkuk, Joy, Chaos and Unity -- for Now
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5395-2003Apr10.html
Armed men in pick-ups flew a rainbow of flags to celebrate the
triumphant return of Kurds.
Mulling Action, India Equates Iraq, Pakistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5006-2003Apr10.html
Indian officials have accused Washington of failing to end Pakistan's
support for guerrillas in Kashmir and warned that India may be forced
to take limited military action against its nuclear-armed neighbor.
S. Korean Stresses Alliance, Dismisses Differences With U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5077-2003Apr10.html
South Korea's new president, Roh Moo Hyun, said Thursday he believes
North Korea is "petrified" by the American success in overthrowing
Saddam Hussein, but he disputed U.S. officials' belief that North
Korea already has a nuclear weapon.
Kurds Seize Oil Hub in North as Iraqis Flee
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5158-2003Apr10.html
Kurdish guerrilla forces moving with lightning speed poured into
Kirkuk Thursday immediately after Iraqi troops, fleeing relentless
U.S. airstrikes, abandoned the hub of Iraq's rich northern oil fields.
Bill to Fund War in Iraq Stalled on Hill
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5687-2003Apr10.html
A bill that would fund the U.S. war in Iraq remained stalled late
yesterday amid policy disagreements and a fierce lobbying battle over
an unrelated issue that has involved Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and a
cast of former members of Congress.
Worst Foot Forward: A Guide to Foreign Insults
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5449-2003Apr10.html
It is one of the strongest insults in the Arab world -- sticking the
sole of your shoe in somebody's face, in a culture where the foot is
considered the dirtiest part of the body. - By Linton Weeks
The Real Tipping Point
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6679-2003Apr11.html
Bush says it's not over.
The Arab Opportunity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5531-2003Apr10.html
Page A26
NOWHERE ARE the scenes of celebrating Iraqis prompting more shock
and awe than in the Arab Middle East -- and not just in those
countries, such as Syria, that fear being Washington's next target.
People across the region were reportedly astonished to see Iraqis
gleefully dancing on the statue head of Saddam Hussein and gratefully
shaking the hands of U.S. Marines. With good reason: For weeks the
Arab media have been telling their audiences that American forces were
encountering insuperable resistance, that Baghdad was to be another
Stalingrad, that thousands of volunteers would fight to the death for
Saddam Hussein. For years, Arab leaders have been claiming that Iraqis
were persecuted not by Saddam Hussein's brutal totalitarianism but by
the sanctions that the United States insisted on. The corrupt
state-sponsored intelligentsia in countries such as Egypt and Saudia
Arabia argued that the arriving American soldiers were
indistinguishable from the Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
So how to explain the undeniable evidence that many Iraqis regard the
U.S. troops as liberators? The Arab press and satellite channels
yesterday were awash with denials, conspiracy theories and tortured
reasoning. "The danger now is that, because the invaders offer
something better than Saddam in the short term, [Iraqis] may be left
in the dark as to those invaders' real long-term motives," opined the
Jiddah-based Arab News.
Unfit to Judge
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5533-2003Apr10.html
Page A26
PRESIDENT BUSH must have worked hard to dream up an escalation of
the judicial nomination wars as dramatic as his decision this week to
nominate Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor to the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the 11th Circuit. A protege of Alabama Republican Sen.
Jeff Sessions, Mr. Pryor is a parody of what Democrats imagine Mr.
Bush to be plotting for the federal courts. We have argued strongly in
favor of several of Mr. Bush's nominees -- and urged fair and swift
consideration of all. And we have criticized Democratic attacks on
nominees of substance and quality. But we have also urged Mr. Bush to
look for common ground on judicial nominations, to address legitimate
Democratic grievances and to seek nominees of such stature as defies
political objection. The Pryor nomination shows that Mr. Bush has
other ideas.
Where's the Outrage?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5544-2003Apr10.html
Page A26
IT WAS LESS THAN four months ago that Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott
lost his job as majority leader, and deservedly so, after praising the
segregationist presidential campaign of Strom Thurmond. Now another
lawmaker, Republican Rep. Barbara Cubin of Wyoming, has out-Lotted Mr.
Lott. Mrs. Cubin's remarks came not in a birthday tribute to a
centenarian but on the floor of the House of Representatives, in the
midst of a serious debate on a gun measure. No historical memory is
needed to adequately appreciate their bald racism. And unlike in the
case of Mr. Lott, Mrs. Cubin's remarks seem to have provoked barely a
word of protest from her Republican colleagues. For fear that some may
think they are taken out of context, we reprint the offending part
here in its entirety: "My sons are 25 and 30. They are blond-haired
and blue-eyed. One amendment today said we could not sell guns to
anybody under drug treatment. So does that mean if you go into a black
community, you cannot sell a gun to any black person, or does that
mean because my -- "
Tougher Battles Ahead
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5517-2003Apr10.html
By E. J. Dionne Jr., Page A27
For a moment, forget your feelings about George W. Bush or whether
this preemptive war on Iraq will be good for the United States in the
long run. Consider only whether the Iraqi people are better off to be
rid of Saddam Hussein. There is only one answer, and it was visible on
the joyful faces from Baghdad and Kirkuk that appeared on our
television screens.
No Quagmire, but Still Some Questions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5523-2003Apr10.html
By Michael Kinsley, Page A27
So we've won, or just about. There is no quagmire. Saddam Hussein
is dead, or as good as, along with his sons. It was all fairly
painless -- at least for most Americans sitting at home watching it on
television. Those who opposed the war look like fools. They are
thoroughly discredited, and, if they happen to be Democratic
presidential candidates (and who isn't these days?), they might as
well withdraw and nurse their shame somewhere off the public stage.
The debate over Gulf War II is as over as the war itself soon will be,
and the antis were defeated as thoroughly as Saddam Hussein.
Europe's Decline
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5520-2003Apr10.html
By George F. Will, Page A27
The task of reconstructing Iraq -- more its civil society than its
physical infrastructure -- is entangled with the less urgent task of
reweaving the frayed relations between the United States and France
and Germany, and with the optional task of rehabilitating the United
Nations.
Hussein's Final Mistake
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5521-2003Apr10.html
By Jim Hoagland, Page A27
Saddam Hussein never expected American foot soldiers to come to
Baghdad in three weeks. He expected to have time to get organized as
U.S. warplanes tried to bomb him into submission. But political death
flew through the desert toward the Iraqi dictator on armored cheetah
paws. Three decades of tyranny popped at dawn like a punctured
balloon.
From Firepower To Staying Power
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5519-2003Apr10.html
By Samuel R. Berger, Page A27
As military victory and the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime
draw close, decisions are being made in Washington about how to shape
the direction and development of post-Hussein Iraq. There was far too
little public discussion of these issues before the war, so the
American people haven't focused sharply on what we seek to accomplish,
how or at what cost. But how we handle "after" in Iraq will be as
important as how we fought the war.
The Palestinians' Self-Inflicted Suffering
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5568-2003Apr10.html
Page A26
Molly Moore's bias is astounding ["To Young Palestinians, Images of
Suffering Are All Too Familiar," Style, April 3].
Symbolism, Sanctions and I-Told-You-So's
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5567-2003Apr10.html
Page A26
The enthusiastic Marine who draped the Stars and Stripes over the
face of the doomed Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad [front page, April
10] displayed the insensitive behavior for which Americans are known
around the world. Symbolism is a potent force, and history offers few
opportunities to use it for a greater good. This was one.
Iraqi Army Troops Surrender in Mosul
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6217-2003Apr11.html
Another key city in northern Iraq, Mosul, fell without resistance to
Kurdish military forces today after an entire corps of the Iraqi Army
surrendered.
Plant Explosion Kills One; Forces Evacuation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9514-2003Apr11.html
Investigators have not determined the cause of an explosion that tore
through a food additive manufacturing plant early Friday, leaving one
worker dead and spewing a cloud of ammonia over the area.
CDC Steps Up Precautions: States Asked to Consider Tracking Patients'
Contacts (Post, April 11, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5292-2003Apr10.html
On Second Thought . . . (By Charles Lane, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5182-2003Apr10.html
Hill Democrat Objects To Capitol Spending (By Juliet Eilperin, Page
A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5612-2003Apr10.html
Why U.S. Prisons Have Barres (By Al Kamen, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5297-2003Apr10.html
Proud Family Recalls Fallen Soldier: Sergeant Was Killed With Newsman
in Humvee Accident (By Lois Romano, Page A40)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5684-2003Apr10.html
From Kuwait, a Retired General Plans a New Iraq: Critics Complain That
Bush Administration Has Been Secretive About Garner's Role (By Michael
Dobbs, Page A33)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5656-2003Apr10.html
Academy's New Leaders Call for New Atmosphere (Page A14)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5076-2003Apr10.html
Death Penalty Rejected in Deadly 1986 Hijacking of Plane (By Neely
Tucker, Page A16)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5580-2003Apr10.html
Tape Calling for Jihad Is Attributed to Bin Laden (Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5636-2003Apr10.html
U.S. Issues List of 50 Most-Wanted Leaders: Troops on Streets Will
Join Manhunt (By Walter Pincus and Dana Priest, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5367-2003Apr10.html
FDA Seeks Evidence on Hormone Pill: Drug for Menopause Hot Flashes
Could Be Taken Off Market (By David Brown, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5087-2003Apr10.html
Warning Planned on Stroke Risk Linked to Drug (Page A08)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5605-2003Apr10.html
House Backs Oil Drilling in Arctic Refuge (Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6150-2003Apr11.html
Professor Is Denied Bail in Terrorism Case (Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5557-2003Apr10.html
Studies Find Rise and Risks in Occasional Smoking (Page A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5211-2003Apr10.html
Lawmakers, White House Agree on Smallpox Compensation (By Ceci
Connolly, Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5322-2003Apr10.html
Palestinian Gunmen Kill Two Israeli Soldiers: Nine Wounded After
Break-In at Base; Helicopter Kills Militant in Gaza City (Post, April
11, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5007-2003Apr10.html
Firefight, Suicide Bombing Leave One Marine Dead, 26 Wounded (By Peter
Baker, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5295-2003Apr10.html
Mob Kills 2 Clerics At Shiite Shrine: Identity, Motives of Assailants
Unknown (By Glenn Frankel and Nora Boustany, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5357-2003Apr10.html
Water Shortage Worsens Daily in Basra: War and Vandalism Compound
Problems Posed by an Aging Supply System (By David Finkel, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5334-2003Apr10.html
Kurds' Seizure of City Alarms Turkey: Officials Threaten Force but Say
U.S. Will Be Given Time to Urge Withdrawal (By Philip P. Pan, Page
A35)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5296-2003Apr10.html
U.S. Forces Unopposed In Kirkuk: Troops Greeted by Cheering Crowds (By
Steve Vogel, Page A36)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5652-2003Apr10.html
Britain Greets Baghdad News With Reserve: Many Fear Involvement In
Iraq Will Be Lengthy (By Glenn Frankel, Page A37)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5688-2003Apr10.html
Chirac, Schroeder Go on the Defensive: Paris and Berlin Laud Hussein's
Fall, Warn of Aftermath (By Robert J. McCartney, Page A37)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5638-2003Apr10.html
Baghdad's Airport Becomes Bustling Command Post: V Corps Lt. Gen.
Wallace Sets Up Operations (By Mary Beth Sheridan, Page A38)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5639-2003Apr10.html
'Mission has Changed'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9733-2003Apr11.html
After driving Hussein from power, Marines attempt to restore order.
Baghdad Falls Into Disorder
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5437-2003Apr10.html
Euphoria, vindictiveness, confusion surge in capital city as
government offices, hospitals, homes are looted.
Iraqi Leaders Remain at Large T
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7517-2003Apr11.html
hree men on U.S. most-wanted list have been killed, none captured.
Iraq Economy Plans Hit Snag
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5281-2003Apr10.html
International, domestic support for U.S. economic plans slow in
coming.
House Approves Energy Bill
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7951-2003Apr11.html
Bill grants energy production incentives, doesn't bar drilling in
wildlife refuge.
In Victory, War Supporters Find Sweet Vindication
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3159-2003Apr10.html
By Jefferson Morley
washingtonpost.com Staff
Thursday, April 10, 2003; 11:13 AM
For the small minority of the global online media who supported the
war, it is time to celebrate, praise and look forward. In the face of
widespread popular opposition to the war in virtually every country
except Israel, they editorialized in favor of disarming and ousting
Saddam Hussein. In victory, they are claiming vindication and looking
forward to more such successes.
Bosnian Muslim Commander Faces War Crimes Trial
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-bosnia-warcrimes.html
A Bosnian Muslim wartime commander who led the doomed 1995 defense of
Srebrenica was arrested by peacekeeping forces and handed over to the
Hague on Friday to face charges of war crimes against Bosnian Serbs.
Oil, Oil Everywhere, Except at the Gas Pumps
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/africa/11LAGO.html
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
In the hottest month of the year, just days from the bare-knuckle
brawl known here as elections, Africa's most populous city, the
commercial hub of the world's sixth-largest oil producer, faces a
gasoline shortage.
Power Company Stresses Its Commitment to Brazil
http://tinyurl.com/9cbp
By TONY SMITH
"Nobody invests $4 billion to change their mind later," read the
advertisements in leading Brazilian newspapers. The ads are meant to
deliver a clear message from the AES Corporation to its customers, the
markets and the government.
Chicago and Police Face Suit Over Jailing of War Protesters
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11PROT.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The local chapter of the National Lawyers Guild filed a class action
lawsuit against the city and its police department today for what it
called the unlawful arrest and imprisonment of hundreds of people in
an antiwar protest last month.
War Strains Germans at American Base
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11BASE.html
By SIMON ROMERO
Vera Kieren, a teacher at the Deutsche Schule here, said it happened
when her husband told a convenience store cashier recently that their
daughter did not drink Coca-Cola.
Media Campaign Is Intended to Speed End of War
http://tinyurl.com/9cco
By DAVID E. SANGER with JIM RUTENBERG
President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain took to the
Iraqi airwaves today, using newly seized state television facilities
to tell the Iraqi people, in Mr. Bush's words, that "the nightmare
that Saddam Hussein has brought to your nation will soon be over."
Attack on Judicial Nominee Leads Senate Panel to Delay Vote
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/politics/11JUDG.html
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
The Republican majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee delayed a
vote today on an Arkansas lawyer's nomination to the federal bench,
after Democrats attacked his writings on religion, abortion and the
role of women.
Money Bill for War Stalls
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11COST.html
By DAVID FIRESTONE
Increasingly frantic to pass a bill to pay for the war in Iraq before
they leave for a spring recess, Senate and House leaders struggled
today to persuade a leading senator to drop his insistence on a series
of special interest provisions.
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Don't look for a reason
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,935132,00.html
David Hare: All the explanations for this war are bogus - Bush only
invaded Iraq to prove that he could.
Are tyrants shocked, awed or stocking up on nukes?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,935246,00.html
Jonathan Freedland: Have they got the message? Have Iraq's neighbours,
and the rest of the world's dictators, understood the lesson of
Operation Iraqi Freedom? And if so, what exactly was it?
Homer's odyssey
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,935131,00.html
Mark Lawson: The Simpsons has grown from a humble birth to global
stardom.
Should I stay or should I go?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,934916,00.html
Take two: In this week's email exchange, Kenneth Morgan and Mark
Seddon ask what Labour supporters opposed to Blair should do now.
This week
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,935247,00.html
Marina Hyde: Of all the tedious people one runs into these days, those
who shriek triumphantly "what have the anti-war lot got to say now?"
are perhaps the most deserving of being permanently black-listed by
amusing society.
Smallweed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,935130,00.html
There has been much agitated discussion about the future career of
Saddam Hussein's grinning, fantasy-driven information minister once
the war is over.
'Turks must swallow a bitter pill'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Ankara presses US to remove Kurds from oil-rich Kirkuk.
The left hasn't lost it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,935253,00.html
Why can't John Lloyd spare us the pious sermonising (The left has lost
the plot, April 10) and admit that it is he who has changed.
Ready for inspection
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,935254,00.html
The British and US governments will be keen to show that their
no-doubt imminent discovery of Saddam's fabled weapons of mass
destruction is genuine.
Taking the loot home
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,935255,00.html
It appears that ordinary people have been looting furniture etc in
Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. I hope there will be as much
condemnation in the months to come when US companies begin the process
of looting Iraqi oil.
Voter tests
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,935260,00.html
George Bush and Tony Blair claim to be carrying democracy to less
fortunate nations: but first, they need to convince us that they
understand what democracy means.
End of the skinny dip?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,935256,00.html
Behind the opportunities for the usual puns (Naturists bare their
fears, April 9) lies the fact that our illiberal government has
buried, deep within a bill to deal with horrendous sex crimes, a
clause that will make innocent skinny-dipping effectively illegal.
Going back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,935259,00.html
Seamus Milne's description of life in post-Taliban Afghanistan
(Comment, April 10) is a gross misrepresentation. Sure, there are some
serious problems but if things are as bad as he suggests why would the
best part of 2 million refugees have gone home since the fall of the
Taliban?
Nightmares over Orwell
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,935258,00.html
Geoffrey Wheatcroft greets the winner of the Orwell Prize this year
(Shortcuts, G2, April 10) by asking: "Is Sewell an Orwellian
nightmare?"
There but for fortune
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,935262,00.html
Only the UN can restore order in Iraq
US-Europe Iraq row threatens trade talks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,935116,00.html
The US was embroiled in an acrimonious dispute with Europe last night
over writing off Saddam Hussein's huge international debts as the
weekend meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund
shaped up to be among the most fractious in their 59-year history.
Short demands end to disorder
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,935268,00.html
Britain announces that forces will start to come home as cabinet rebel
calls for humanitarian obligations to be met.
BBC under fire over chaos reports
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/story/0,12123,935295,00.html
Downing Street attacks claims that Iraqis are living in 'more fear
than they have ever known'.
Europe still matters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,933745,00.html
Alexander Chancellor: Has Tony Blair completely blown it over Europe?
It certainly feels a bit like it. His ambition to put Britain at "the
heart of Europe" now seems absurd.
Jokes aside, this corner of America wants Dubya impeached
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,9321,935337,00.html
Simon Hoggart: Though almost everyone here is anti-war, when the
chairman announced: 'Most of us here wish Tony Blair was our
president', there was a stamping ovation.
That Friday feeling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,935070,00.html
April 11: EU officials have gone on strike over a perceived threat to
their pensions, writes Andrew Osborn. Sceptics say they just want a
long weekend.
UN crucial to rebuilding Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch/story/0,12498,934992,00.html
April 11: Like it or not, US needs UN for rebuilding Iraq, writes Mark
Tran.
Weapons teams scour Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935169,00.html
Britain and the United States have bypassed the United Nations to
establish a secret team of inspectors to resume the search for weapons
of mass destruction in Iraq, it emerged last night.
Date set for talks on interim government
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935360,00.html
Some forces are ordered home as US announces meeting to discuss
postwar rule on Tuesday.
Blix: US was bent on war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935168,00.html
War against Iraq was a foregone conclusion months before the first
shot was fired, the chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has claimed.
Mosul descends into chaos as even museum is looted
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935237,00.html
By the time Asif Mohammed turned up for work yesterday morning, the
ancient contents of Mosul's museum had vanished. The looters knew what
they were looking for, and in less than 10 minutes had walked off with
several million dollars worth of Parthian sculpture.
Troops kill five robbers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935361,00.html
Five Iraqi bank robbers were shot and killed by British forces during
looting in Basra, military officials said yesterday, as the row over
how the coalition forces are dealing with increasing unrest in Iraq
escalated.
Plea for Saddam police to help keep the peace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935236,00.html
The emerging US administration in Baghdad intends to use screened
members of Saddam Hussein's municipal police force to keep order in
the capital, in a move reminiscent of the allies' use of Japanese
troops to maintain peace after Tokyo's surrender at the end of the
second world war.
The hell that once was a hospital
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935245,00.html
The man had been dumped near the rubbish bins at the back, blood
spreading across his chequered shirt. An orderly, who had been burying
bloated corpses in a mass grave in the hospital grounds, recited the
Muslim last rites. "Dead, dead, he's died, what can we do?" and
returned to his shovel. But the man was breathing, in slow laborious
gurgles, and his flesh was warm.
Waiting for the nation's wounds to heal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935176,00.html
In a Basra hospital, doctors reveal mixed feelings at the fall of
Saddam but hope over what the future might bring.
British activist shot in head by Israeli troops
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935212,00.html
Student peace worker suffers suspected brain damage in attack while
protecting Palestinian family in Gaza Strip.
Wild card Qusay among 55 suspects in US deck
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935235,00.html
US military commanders have issued packs of playing cards to their
troops in Iraq, each card marked with the name and photograph of one
of 55 most wanted Iraqi suspects.
Turkey threatens to send troops into Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935238,00.html
Turkey held out the option of deploying more troops to northern Iraq
yesterday, if Kurdish fighters failed to relinquish control of two key
cities in the region.
Hoping against hope
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935239,00.html
Hunt for the missing seized by Saddam
At a glance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935324,00.html
At the front
Children killed as marines fire on vehicle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935240,00.html
US marines said they killed two children at a checkpoint in Iraq
yesterday when the driver of the vehicle in which the youngsters were
travelling ignored warnings to stop, creating fears of a suicide
attack.
Children of the war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935244,00.html
Guardian photographer Dan Chung has spent the war inside Iraq
Counting the cost
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935180,00.html
23 days of conflict in numbers
What needs to be done?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935181,00.html
Rebuilding experts face leap in the dark
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935183,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
British-appointed Basra chief exposed as former Ba'athist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935177,00.html
Troops protect sheikh after mob attack
Tribal leaders may get local powers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935178,00.html
A few months after the 1991 Gulf war, Saddam Hussein welcomed Iraq's
tribal leaders to an audience in his palace. He apologised for
agrarian reforms that had angered them and offered reconciliation.
Teenager found during trial of her 'killer'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935216,00.html
An Australian teenager has been found alive in the middle of the trial
of her suspected killer, four years after she vanished and two years
after her family gave her up for dead.
Berlin police end hostage taking
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935218,00.html
Berlin police officers put a dramatic end to a kidnapping yesterday by
storming the hijacked bus, rescuing two hostages unharmed and wounding
the armed bank robber who had commandeered it.
Srebrenica 'hero' faces torture trial
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935219,00.html
Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre accused Nato of anti-Muslim
bias yesterday after it arrested the Bosnian Muslim commander who
tried to defend the enclave.
Dutch party coalition talks fail
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935220,00.html
The Netherlands was plunged into political turmoil yesterday when an
attempt by the country's two largest parties to form a coalition
government collapsed after two-and-a-half months of talks.
Hong Kong bans Sars travellers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935221,00.html
Indonesia and the Philippines joined the list of countries affected by
the deadly atypical pneumonia sweeping the world yesterday.
Election violence hits Nigeria
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935222,00.html
Clashes flared across Nigeria between police and rival political
factions yesterday amid heightened tension caused by today's
parliamentary election.
USS Cole suspects escape
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,935223,00.html
Yemeni security forces were hunting 10 prime suspects in the al-Qaida
bombing of the USS Cole yesterday after they escaped from prison.
Vindication of the heart
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,934218,00.html
Barbara Taylor argues that it is for her enlightened theories about
love, sex and 'universal benevolence' that Mary Wollstonecraft
deserves our attention
Their man in Africa
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,934081,00.html
DJ Taylor on Telegram from Guernica, Nicholas Rankin's biography of a
correspondent who found himself in all the right places
Romantic nationalist
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,934097,00.html
A Scot educated at Eton and Cambridge, Neal Ascherson did national
service in the Royal Marines before becoming a journalist. A supporter
of Polish socialism, he reported from Paris in May 1968 and wrote
books about eastern Europe. Involvement with politics led him to stand
for the Edinburgh parliament
My voilà moment
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,934764,00.html
Only mankind's enjoyment of war can explain our persistence in waging
it, writes Richard Eyre
Man and superman
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,934091,00.html
Wagner searched myths for tales of ancient heroism. But the ideals he
found there - of sacrifice, redemption and the sanctity of love - led
him back to the modern world. By Roger Scruton
Off with their hats
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,934094,00.html
How do you stage Dickens? For David Farr, the key is to ditch the
visions of Victoriana and embrace the modernist who dabbled in the
horrors of the soul
Funny peculiar
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,934095,00.html
He wrote a comic play about anti-globalists - and now audiences around
the world expect him to be a socialist. Gregory Burke continues our
series on political theatre
The Sahara unveiled
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,934089,00.html
Matthew Collin discovers much more than sand dunes in Valley of the
Casbahs by Jeffrey Tayler and Sahara by Marq de Villiers and Sheila
Hirtle
Guru to the general
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,934090,00.html
Barnaby Rogerson is fascinated by Fergus Fleming's account of the
soldier and the priest who laid the foundations of France's north
African conquests, The Sword and the Cross
Double trouble
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,934088,00.html
History and anecdote make uncomfortable companions in Victoria Clark's
The Far Farers
Pressed off
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,934086,00.html
Ian Hargreaves avoids polemic in Journalism: Truth or Dare?, but is he
just sitting on the fence? Roy Greenslade worries that news is now
another commodity
Hatred strolls in by the back door
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,934123,00.html
Gillian Cross on Alan Gibbons's suspenseful tale of the evils of
racism, Caught in the Crossfire
Sisters of no mercy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,933784,00.html
In the pre- and post-war period, orphans were often sent to homes run
by religious orders, such as the Sisters of Nazareth. There they found
a disciplined regime which, they say, tipped over into violence. Now,
decades later, more than 500 former inmates are suing the nuns for
damages, Beatrix Campbell reports.
Robert Fisk: I sat on Saddam's throne and surveyed the dark chamber
where terror was dispensed
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396406
12 April 2003
'Fascist is the word that springs to mind, but fascism with Don
Corleone thrown in'
Andrew Grice: Labour needs the humanitarian aid and reconstruction
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396358
12 April 2003
The Week in Politics
Faith & Reason: The truth behind the sad story of the boy with no arms
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396356
12 April 2003
When we respond to a symbol of suffering we must learn to distinguish
between true compassion and a token salving of our conscience
Robert Fisk: Who is to blame for the collapse in morality that
followed the 'liberation'?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396346
12 April 2003
Pillage merits a specific prevention clause in the Geneva Conventions,
just as it did in the 1907 Hague Convention
Robert Fisk: Flames engulf the symbols of power
Baghdad is burning.
Jeremy Laurance: Dispatch from a frightened city in quarantine
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396353
12 April 2003
I took a cab in Hong Kong to Amoy Gardens and the driver dropped me
200 yards short ? he would go no nearer
Ahmed Chalabi - the saviour of Iraq, or a chancer whose time has come?
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=396344
If Ahmed Chalabi had his way, he would at this very moment be
attending a meeting of Iraqi groups in Nasiriyah, the first step on a
royal progress to claim his rightful throne. Alas, things have rarely
been straightforward for the best-known contender to be the first
president of the gleaming new Iraq that is supposed to rise from the
rubble left by America's bombs and the depredations of Saddam Hussein.
Today's full links
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=396331
Splits over war blight efforts to fund $100bn repair operation
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=396400
12 April 2003
Having waged war to topple Saddam Hussein almost single-handed, the
United States began the crucial task yesterday of organising
international funding to help rebuild Iraq – despite deep opposition
from many countries to the war, and its own scepticism about
multilateral action.
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Weighing the Price of Rebuilding Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/12PICK.html
By THOMAS R. PICKERING and JAMES R. SCHLESINGER
Creating a stable, prosperous Iraqi government will require from the
United States a multiyear, multibillion dollar commitment
Workweek Woes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/12DEGR.html
By JOHN DE GRAAF
Americans now work 1,978 hours annually, a full 350 hours - nine weeks
- more than Western Europeans.
A Brief History of the Multiverse
http://tinyurl.com/9e82
By PAUL DAVIES
This idea of multiple universes, or multiple realities, has been
around for centuries. The scientific justification for it, however, is
new.
War and Peace: Anarchy in the Streets
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/12SAT1.html
The images of smiling children and cheering crowds in Iraq have been
overtaken by a new, much more disturbing portrait of anarchy and fear.
Editorials Favor the American Effort, With Some Exceptions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11REAX.html
Newspaper editorial writers around the world generally applauded the
collapse of the Iraqi government, but many continued to find fault
with the United States and Britain for starting the war.
War and Peace: Triumph on the Battlefield
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/12SAT2.html
With the swift military victory in Iraq, has the United States
attained a new level of proficiency that will transform the nature of
battle?
Leaving to Fail Another Day
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/12SAT3.html
The Republican-led Congress is limping into recess decidedly
laurel-free.
Cooperstown Muffs One
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/12SAT4.html
Maybe it's the stress of war, or maybe it's bad judgment. In any case,
people thousands of miles from the front lines are behaving strangely
in the name of patriotism.
Shifting Winds: The Victory and the Chaos
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/L12IRAQ.html
Deaths of Journalists
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/L12JOUR.html
Augusta Golf Protest
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/L12AUGU.html
Marketing New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/L12BRAN.html
End Early Admissions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/L12ADMI.html
Baghdad on Edge After a Firefight and New Looting
http://tinyurl.com/9e8s
By DEXTER FILKINS
Looting spread into new areas of Baghdad today as American troops
discovered evidence of plans for widespread suicide attacks against
them.
Pillagers Strip Iraqi Museum Of Its Treasure
http://tinyurl.com/9e8w
By JOHN F. BURNS
It took only 48 hours for the National Museum of Iraq to be destroyed,
with at least 50,000 artifacts carried away.
U.S. Attacks On Holdouts Dealt Iraqis Final Blow
http://tinyurl.com/9e90
By JOHN M. BRODER with ERIC SCHMITT
Reports that the remnants of Saddam Hussein's forces were banding
together may have been the key to toppling the Iraqi regime.
Doubt and Death on Drive to Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/9e92
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
The Army's Third Infantry Division swept across southern Iraq in less
the 72 hours.
Across the U.S., Elation Wrestles With Anxiety
http://tinyurl.com/9e95
By DAVID M. HALBFINGERwith JOHN W. FOUNTAIN
The national conversation about the fall of Baghdad this week ranged
from applauding to appalled.
At a Tea Shop in Cairo, Disbelief at War Reports
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/worldspecial/13ARAB.html
By SUSAN SACHS
Those Iraqis who spit on the fallen statue of Saddam Hussein? Those
were not Arabs, insisted the men of Nasr Street.
As Civil Disorder Spreads in Iraq, Mission of American Military Starts
to Widen
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/worldspecial/13FORC.html
By THOM SHANKER
American commanders in Iraq anticipate performing significant combat
operations and peacekeeping-style missions simultaneously.
Yemen Says 2 in Cole Attack Are Among 10 Qaeda Escapees
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/international/worldspecial2/12YEME.html
By SUSAN SACHS
Ten members of Al Qaeda, including at least two suspects in the 2000
bombing of the American destroyer Cole, escaped from a Yemeni prison.
An Italian Traveler Is Slain by Taliban in Afghanistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/international/asia/12AFGH.html
By CARLOTTA GALL
An Italian tourist was shot and killed on Wednesday in a taxi on a
main road in southern Afghanistan, apparently by Taliban gunmen.
France Says Substance Found in Train Station Was Wheat Germ
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/international/europe/12PARI.html
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
The grain was mistakenly identified as ricin because it consists of
protein whose structure is similar to that of ricin.
Two Deny Plot Against U.S. Base
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/international/europe/12TRIA.html
By DESMOND BUTLER
An American woman and a Turkish man accused of planning a terrorist
attack on the Army's European headquarters denied the charges on the
opening day of their trial.
Chilling Testimony and Questions About the Man Offering It
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/international/worldspecial/12DETR.html
By DANNY HAKIM
Three weeks into the Detroit, Mich., trial of four men accused of
plotting terror attacks, the testimony has veered from chilling to
confusing.
Military Begins Screening Iraqis for New Rule
http://tinyurl.com/9e9j
By IAN FISHER
The business of staffing a new Iraqi government began literally in
front of American tanks on Saturday.
Hidden Knives and Ambition Shroud Killing at Holy Shrine
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/worldspecial/13NAJA.html
By CRAIG S. SMITH
A day after a prominent cleric was assassinated in Najaf, Iraq, the
truth of what happened remains hidden.
North Korea Shifts Stance On Discussing Nuclear Arms
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/asia/13KORE.html
By JAMES BROOKE
North Korea said that it would negotiate its nuclear program without
sticking "to any particular dialogue format."
1,000 in Texas Attend Memorial for 9 Killed in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/international/worldspecial/12MEMO.html
By SIMON ROMERO
The nine members of the 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company who died
early in the war were remembered in Fort Bliss, Tex., by family
members, friends and colleagues.
Taxes Driving Some Elderly From Their Homes
By YILU ZHAO
Soaring home values that have led to higher property taxes are
creating unbearable tax burdens for many longtime homeowners.
F.B.I. Was Told Years Ago of Possible Double Agent
http://tinyurl.com/9e9s
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
In spite of being told in the early 1990's that a Los Angeles woman
now accused of being a double-agent might be spying for the Chinese,
the F.B.I. continued using her.
Senate Vote Could Slash Bush Tax Cut in Half
http://tinyurl.com/9eaz
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
With Vice President Dick Cheney casting the tie-breaking Senate vote,
Congress approved a $2.2 trillion budget plan.
The Bushes Report Income But Only Part of the Returns
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/politics/12BUSH.html
By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
President and Mrs. Bush broke with a 26-year tradition of sitting
presidents fully informing the public about their income and taxes.
Modern Additions to Jewish Rituals
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/national/12RELI.html
By DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN
Some people will be putting their own newly-created ritual objects
alongside the traditional ones that will grace Passover seder tables
next week.
Bush's Political Adviser Faults Some Iraq War Coverage
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/international/worldspecial/12ROVE.html
By JACQUES STEINBERG
Karl Rove, the president's senior political adviser, told a gathering
of newspaper editors that the news media's exhaustive coverage of the
war had confused people.
Divided Economic Advice and the Lure of Politics
http://tinyurl.com/9eb5
By DANIEL ALTMAN
This time around, support for President Bush's proposed tax cuts is
far from universal on Wall Street.
Bush Says Hussein Is Out, but War Is Not Yet Over
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/international/worldspecial/12CAPI.html
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON and DOUGLAS JEHL
President Bush declared on Friday that the war in Iraq would not be
over until it had been cleared of banned weapons.
F.B.I. Was Told Years Ago of Possible Double Agent
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/politics/12SPY.html
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
In spite of being told in the early 1990's that a Los Angeles woman
now accused of being a double-agent might be spying for the Chinese,
the F.B.I. continued using her.
Conferees Bargain Over $80 Billion Plan to Finance Iraq War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/international/worldspecial/12COST.html
By DAVID FIRESTONE
House and Senate negotiators neared completion on Friday on a bill to
pay for the war, giving President Bush much of the flexibility he
sought in rebuilding Iraq.
Advocates of Arctic Drilling Buoyed as House Passes Bill
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/politics/12ENER.html
By CARL HULSE
The House approved sweeping incentives on energy on Friday, including
a green light for drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge.
U.S. Diplomats Are Leaving Overseas Posts
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/international/12EVAC.html
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
A combination of the war in Iraq, terrorist threats and the spread of
SARS has resulted in a large withdrawal of American diplomats from
overseas posts.
The Catch-22 of Iraq Contracts
http://tinyurl.com/9ebi
By DIANA B. HENRIQUES
As companies try to win a share in the Iraqi reconstruction effort,
regulators are pressing for disclosure while other officials are
demanding secrecy.
German and French Businesses Are Expecting Cold Shoulder
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/international/worldspecial/12EURO.html
By MARK LANDLER
Businesspeople in France and Germany believe that they will be frozen
out of the lucrative reconstruction process in Iraq.
Fear for a Navy Son, and for Fellow Muslims
http://tinyurl.com/9ebt
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln is finally coursing home from the
war in Iraq, bringing with it an airman whose Brooklyn home is now
filled with relief.
Mideast Peace?: An Arab-Israeli Pact Must Come First
http://tinyurl.com/9ebx
By SHIBLEY TELHAMI
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at the heart of the region's
problems, and it is essential to the success of any American policy.
Mideast Peace?: The Key to Peace Is a Stable Gulf
http://tinyurl.com/9ec1
By MICHAEL SCOTT DORAN
Maintaining American predominance in the Persian Gulf, with its oil
reserves and its strategic location, is a prerequisite for stability
in the Middle East.
A Humanist's Unwitting March to an Inhuman End
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/books/12SING.html
By DINITIA SMITH
The philosopher Peter Singer's new book is suffused with the
melancholy fog of Vienna on a winter afternoon. It has all the power
of a great novel.
Groups Call for Order
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10789-2003Apr11.html
A growing number of humanitarian groups urged the Bush administration
to take "urgent measures" to restore order in Iraq.
U.S.: Leung Cheated IRS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10567-2003Apr11.html
Katrina Leung, the Chinese American civic leader accused of being a
double agent for China, also is suspected of having a long history as
a tax cheat, documents show.
Witness's Credibility Assailed at Terror Trial
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10605-2003Apr11.html
Defense attorneys Friday attacked the credibility of the government's
star witness against four men on trial here for providing support to
terrorists, highlighting Youssef Hmimssa's past credit card scams and
use of aliases.
Coalition Forces Find Few Traces of Hussein, Other Top Officials
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10716-2003Apr11.html
When U.S. troops, rifles drawn, burst into a headquarters of Iraq's
much-feared intelligence service in Baghdad this week, their mission
was to seize thousands of files documenting the nation's foreign spy
network, its secret weapons purchases, its executions of civilians and
the location of chemical and biological weapons.
A Son Writes Dark Epilogue To Case of 'Black Dahlia'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12190-2003Apr12.html
HOLLYWOOD, April 11 -- Before there were lurid tabloid TV murders,
there were lurid tabloid newspaper murders, and one of the most
notorious of the last century was the case of the Black Dahlia.
In Mosul, Looting Surges
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10475-2003Apr11.html
Iraqi forces fled Mosul without a fight on Friday, completing the fall
of northern Iraq and leaving U.S. or British troops in nominal control
of all the country's major cities after 23 days of warfare.
U.S.: No Censure for China, Russia on Rights
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10609-2003Apr11.html
The Bush administration handed diplomatic plums to China and Russia on
Friday by declining to sponsor critical resolutions at the annual
session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
Working on N. Korea
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10513-2003Apr11.html
A network of academics, officials using back-door communication to
break diplomatic impasse.
Stealing Away Euphoria Along With Computers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10596-2003Apr11.html
In three days this week, it seemed as if three years of history had
been telescoped into a visual allegory.
Bosnian Muslim Turned Over to War Crimes Tribunal
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10515-2003Apr11.html
A Bosnian Muslim wartime commander who led the doomed 1995 defense of
Srebrenica was arrested by peacekeeping forces and handed over to the
U.N. war crimes tribunal here Friday to face charges of crimes against
Bosnian Serbs.
Mortuary Job Takes Grit and Sensibility
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10690-2003Apr11.html
FORT LEE, Va. -- On their third day of class, the 17 students from the
U.S. Army Mortuary Affairs Center went to the Richmond morgue and
gazed upon the thing that awaits us all: death.
Party Is Gone, But Amazingly, She Is Not
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9897-2003Apr11.html
BASRA, Iraq, April 11 -- When Hashmia Jassem was younger, before her
brother was executed and her son was shot on the street, before her
hair turned gray overnight in the torture chambers of Basra's secret
police, her father warned her about Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
Seeking Symphony In Two Movements
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11097-2003Apr11.html
Blacks and Whites Are Marching, But Not in the Same Direction
Curtain Call
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10910-2003Apr11.html
Page A18
FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO, in the spring of 1945, a fabulously popular
radio dramatist named Norman Corwin wrote a bit of verse to mark the
fall of Berlin. Mr. Corwin is no Shakespeare, and those lines are very
much dated now, but they still run through the mind of at least one
generation and, in their sentimental way, may have something to say to
others this spring. "So, they've given up," Mr. Corwin wrote. "They're
finally done in, and the rat is dead in an alley back of the
Wilhelmstrasse./Take a bow, GI. Take a bow, little guy./The superman
of tomorrow lies at the feet of you common men of this afternoon."
Jousting With Debt
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10911-2003Apr11.html
Page A18
"THE PURPOSE of these meetings is to retain attention on the other
war which is going on, the war against poverty." That is how World
Bank President James D. Wolfensohn describes this weekend's meetings
of the bank and the International Monetary Fund -- and we hope he
means it. Or rather, we hope he means it in the largest possible
sense. The World Bank and the IMF exist in large part to fight
poverty: poverty in Africa, Latin America -- and Iraq. The World Bank
and IMF meetings should not become political occasions -- a chance for
international factions to push their vision of the post-Saddam Hussein
Middle East. Nor should aid policy become a weapon to fight the
political battles of the moment.
No Easy Victory
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10876-2003Apr11.html
By Philip H. Gordon and Michael E. O'Hanlon, Page A19
In " 'Cakewalk' Revisited" [op-ed, April 10], Ken Adelman gives
himself a pat on the back for having predicted in a February 2002 Post
op-ed that defeating Iraq would be a cakewalk, and he accuses us of
having written a "fear-mongering" article about the challenges that
might be involved in doing so.
But Can We Liberate Our Children?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10875-2003Apr11.html
By Colbert I. King, Page A19
"A 16-year-old sophomore at the District's Cardozo High School was
fatally shot at an entrance to the school yesterday, allegedly by a
14-year-old freshman with whom he had been arguing, D.C. police said."
The Ghosts of 1991
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10874-2003Apr11.html
By Peter W. Galbraith, Page A19
Can it be that the events of 2003 in Iraq have finally dispelled
the ghosts of 1991? The answer may not be quite as obvious as the
welcoming throngs make it seem.
False Picture of Pakistani Schools
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10882-2003Apr11.html
Page A17
I read with great interest the April 7 KidsPost article "The
Two-Hour School." A few issues bothered me seriously.
Holes in Conservative Souls
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10880-2003Apr11.html
Page A17
Richard Cohen takes liberals to task for supposedly supporting
Fidel Castro, and he repeats the late Michael Kelly's warnings of a
"dark hole" in the soul of liberalism [op-ed, April 8]. Here's the
trouble: Many conservatives supported the apartheid regime in South
Africa (and still haven't apologized for it), and no one says that
there is a dark hole in their souls.
Free for All
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10887-2003Apr11.html
Page A17
Down-and-Dirty Debate
If Iraq is rebuilt according to the model of American democracy, I
hope the planners raise the level of debate much higher than that in
the diatribe by Harold Meyerson ["Preemptive Peace," op-ed, April 8].
In lieu of a good argument, he resorts to personal attack and...
The 'Fuss' About Racial Preferences
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10884-2003Apr11.html
Page A17
Colbert I. King ["Scapegoat Syndrome," op-ed, April 5] and Free for
All contributor William H. Gray III ["Building a Better Student Body"]
took Jennifer Gratz, the white student who sued the University of
Michigan over its affirmative action policy, to task for limiting her
legal challenge to the minority racial preferences in that policy and
not including the university's other preferences.
Stand Up Against Protesters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10974-2003Apr11.html
Page A18
Washington is being besieged again by a horde of ardently
ill-informed ideologues protesting globalization. The programs of the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which have contributed
to improved lives for millions, once again are vilified by a coalition
that prides itself on its ability to impede.
Next Steps on Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10975-2003Apr11.html
Page A18
Jubilant headlines about the fall of Baghdad [front page, April 10]
belie the mixed nature of the "victory." Once again the Iraqis are
behaving in a manner that does not fit the Pentagon's plan of how the
war should be going.
Now for Nation Change
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12483-2003Apr12.html
Law and Order: The Military Doesn't Want to Touch It. Who Will?
By R. Jeffrey Smith, Page B01
The street scenes of celebrating Iraqis in Baghdad last week
offered a powerful vindication of Washington's bold war strategy, but
the subsequent looting and burning of the city by local citizens
provided a timely warning about shortcomings in the Bush
administration's planning for peace. A pervasive breakdown of law and
order in Umm Qasr, Basra, Nasiriyah, Mosul and Baghdad heralded both
the end of stifling repression and the onset of a power vacuum that
Washington seems strikingly unprepared to fill.
Media: Help Them Create a BBC of Their Own
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11139-2003Apr11.html
Page B02
Anthony Borden is executive director of the London-based Institute
for War and Peace Reporting, which works to strengthen journalism in
post-war societies. He visited Baghdad just before the war began.After
decades of dictatorship and war, Iraq desperately needs responsible
media outlets as the country struggles to forge a new form of
participatory politics.
The North: How Turkey Can Help
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11141-2003Apr11.html
Page B02
Zeyno Baran, a native of Istanbul, is the director of international
security and energy programs at the Nixon Center.
Big Issues, Bright Ideas
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11140-2003Apr11.html
Page B02
Statues fall, but looters roam Iraq's major cities. Kurdish forces
seize oil-rich territory in northern Iraq, and Turkish troops threaten
to stop them. The political leadership has vanished. There's no
home-grown media to replace the state-run apparatus. Here, experts
offer ways to overcome the obstacles facing Iraq as it moves from
chaos to reconstruction.
Symbols: Be Careful What You Knock Down
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11144-2003Apr11.html
Page B03
Adam Michnik is editor in chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, the first
independent Polish daily newspaper since the fall of communism. A
former dissident and essayist, he spent six years in prison under the
communists. He took part in the 1989 negotiations that brought an end
to communist rule in Poland.
Politics: Welcome a Thousand Points of View
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11143-2003Apr11.html
Page B03
Loulouwa Al Rachid is an analyst and Robert Malley is Middle East
program director at the International Crisis Group.
Oil: Give Every Iraqi An Equal Share
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11142-2003Apr11.html
Page B03
Scott E. Pardee is a professor of economics at Middlebury College
in Vermont who worked for 19 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York.
Chemical Weapons A Hot Story's Elusive Proof
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11145-2003Apr11.html
Page B03
Wartime often generates stories that garner immediate attention,
but then are pushed aside by other major developments. Zeroing In is
focusing on some of the more startling claims and what has happened
since they were first reported.
Supply the Troops, but Give Hospitals Fair Warning
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11124-2003Apr11.html
By Marc Siegel, Page B04
A longtime patient of mine who suffers from severe asthma came to
my office two weeks ago gasping for air. I knew as soon as I put a
stethoscope to her hissing chest that I was going to have to admit her
to the hospital for several days of intravenous steroids. The doctor
in the New York University emergency room suggested -- strangely, I
thought -- that I give her oral steroids first. I told him I
disagreed. In such a severe case, intravenous delivery was by far the
most effective way of calming an inflamed set of spastic lungs. But
when I went to see the patient later that day, I found she had
received the oral version, and, what was worse, she was still wheezing
badly. The nurse explained to me that there was a shortage of
methylprednisolone, the IV steroid I had ordered, because of the war
in Iraq.
Shock and Awe on Bryan Street
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11123-2003Apr11.html
By Maurice Martin, Page B04
My housemates wanted me out of our group house. They said my
presence was "oppressive." Sure, a little mold had grown on my shelf
in the fridge. And yes, I forget to clean the cat's litter box for a
month at a time.
Quarantined
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11125-2003Apr11.html
Page B04
On April 4, President Bush signed an executive order adding SARS
to the government's list of quarantinable communicable diseases. It is
the first addition to the list in 20 years. It permits public health
officials to apprehend or detain persons suspected of having SARS,
although no one is suggesting that will be necessary. The complete
list of quarantinable diseases:
They Were Green. Now They're Black and Blue
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11127-2003Apr11.html
By R.H. Melton, Page B05
Virginia's Mark R. Warner (D) and Maryland's Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
(R) hit it off instantly when they met late last year in, of all
places, Texas. Warner was in Austin leading a seminar for incoming
governors who would soon confront the kind of massive budget deficits
that he had been grappling with for months.
UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
Say the Magic Word . . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11129-2003Apr11.html
Page B05
Is talk cheap in Congress?
"Our answer is yes," claims a team of economists who studied the
relationship between campaign contributions and the number of words
that lawmakers spoke for or against legislation in the House of
Representatives.
The Peaceful Pulitzers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10969-2003Apr11.html
By Michael Getler, Page B06
News organizations are not supposed to make news. But in early
April, the Pulitzer Prizes are announced and staffs gather in a
handful of newsrooms around the country to celebrate their
achievements, pay homage to the work that won the prize and remind
themselves that hard work produces good journalism and, occasionally,
recognition of it.
Three Miscreants
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10978-2003Apr11.html
By Jim Hoagland, Page B07
Three commandments drive the Bush administration's big-power
strategy beyond Iraq: Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive
Russia. That vivid formula was reportedly suggested in policymaking
councils recently by Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national
security adviser.
Health Care and Other Sports
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10977-2003Apr11.html
By David S. Broder, Page B07
RALEIGH, N.C. -- It was hard to tell last week which was more
important to Americans -- the signs of victory in the second Iraq war
or the dispute over admitting women as members of the Augusta National
Golf Club and Tiger Woods's bid for a third consecutive Masters
championship.
Burning to Regulate Expression
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10981-2003Apr11.html
By George F. Will, Page B07
Justice Clarence Thomas, usually silent during oral arguments
before the Supreme Court, spoke sharply during last December's
arguments about whether Virginia's 1952 law banning cross burning,
which the law stipulates is "prima facie evidence of an intent to
intimidate," violates the right of free speech. Thomas, an African
American who grew up in Pin Point, Ga., said: "There is no other
purpose to the [burning] cross -- no communication, no particular
message. It was intended to cause fear and to terrorize a population."
Paige's 'Values' Are America's Values
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10976-2003Apr11.html
By William J. Bennett, Page B07
In an editorial on Thursday titled "Preacher Paige," The Post
joined a chorus of voices criticizing recent comments made by
Secretary of Education Rod Paige on Christian values in education.
A Chance to Reshape the U.N.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10980-2003Apr11.html
By Anne-Marie Slaughter, Page B07
By turning back to the United Nations now, in the moment of victory
in Iraq, President Bush can seize a historic opportunity to pioneer a
tough-minded and enduring form of multilateralism. He can commit the
United States to leading the world rather than defying it, and he can
do so at a time when this country is in a good position to seek new
rules and procedures for making the United Nations a more effective
protector of international order.
Big Brother of the Beltway
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7489-2003Apr11.html
Page B08
Remember Operation TIPS, Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's plan
to recruit citizens to spy on their neighbors? Well, it's back.
Religion in the Classroom
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10967-2003Apr11.html
Page B06
As an African American reared in the District who is college
educated and successful, I found Education Secretary Roderick R.
Paige's comments on religion and public schools offensive [news story,
April 9].
'Semper Fi' in Firdaus Square
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10966-2003Apr11.html
Page B06
Within moments of the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in
Baghdad's Firdaus Square, the criticism began: An American military
vehicle assisted the crowd in the demolition. An American flag was
briefly draped over the statue's head (although it was soon replaced
by an Iraqi one). The scene played well for the American TV audience,
but some said the world would view us as insensitive cowboys.
Contact With Iraqis Who Knew About U.S. POWs Lost (By Vernon Loeb,
Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10751-2003Apr11.html
At Fort Bliss, a World of Grief: Army Base Has Suffered Heaviest
Casualties in Iraq War (By Lee Hockstader, Page A30)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11126-2003Apr11.html
Syria Warned Not to Harbor Escaped Iraqis (By Mike Allen, Page A31)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10610-2003Apr11.html
Conferees Back $80 Billion Spending Bill: $59 Billion Slated to Pay
for Iraq War; Airlines Get $3 Billion in Aid (By Dan Morgan, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10670-2003Apr11.html
Iraq's U.N. Envoy to Depart U.S. (Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10669-2003Apr11.html
Stacking the Deck Against Hussein: U.S. Cards Depict Iraqi Leaders (By
Walter Pincus, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10717-2003Apr11.html
U.S., U.N. in a Cautious Dance: Both Seek Cooperation on Postwar Iraq,
but Neither Wants to Make First Move (By Karen DeYoung, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10750-2003Apr11.html
A Glance At the War (Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12196-2003Apr12.html
Kurds' Looting Rampant in Kirkuk (Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12195-2003Apr12.html
Red Cross, FDA Agree to Blood Plan With Fines: Agency Expects
Organization to Solve 'Chronic Problems' or Pay Stiff Penalties (By
Mary Pat Flaherty and Gilbert M. Gaul, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10508-2003Apr11.html
Study Faults VA on Heart Care: Agency Vows Bid To Improve System (By
David Brown, Page A07)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10510-2003Apr11.html
Bush Aide Predicts Close '04 Race: Economy, Terrorism, Security Will
Be Top Issues, Rove Says (Page A08)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10565-2003Apr11.html
Sharpton Misses Minority Journalists Forum (Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10566-2003Apr11.html
Colorado Panel Passes Bill After Taking Group's Check (Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10561-2003Apr11.html
April Fools' Spoof Spurs School to Close Paper (Page A11)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10511-2003Apr11.html
House Passes Broad Incentives for Oil and Gas Production: Democrats
Fail to Block Tax Breaks (Page A05)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10507-2003Apr11.html
Race Is On to Locate Hussein's Billions (By Michael Dobbs and John
Mintz, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10785-2003Apr11.html
Senate GOP Slashes Tax Cut: House Leaders Upset at Lid Put on Bush
Proposal (By Helen Dewar, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10530-2003Apr11.html
Bush Releases Tax Returns: President, First Lady Reported Income of
$856,056 (Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10606-2003Apr11.html
FBI Assesses Potential Spy Damage: Congress Told FBI Probes Dating
From at Least 1991 Under Review (Post, April 12, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10812-2003Apr11.html
Trying to Interpret The Constitution Risky, Scalia Says (Post, April
12, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10607-2003Apr11.html
Marines Get New Mission: Restoring Law and Order: U.S. Forces Try to
Bring Life in Baghdad Back to Normal (Post, April 12, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9733-2003Apr11.html
From Ocean Icons To Prime Suspects: Orcas Devastate Seal, Otter
Populations (Post, April 12, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10506-2003Apr11.html
Shock, Sadness on the Arab Street: Activists Struggle To Understand
Baghdad's Fall (By Carol Morello and Emily Wax, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9861-2003Apr11.html
At Palace, a New Case of Shock and Awe: Iraqis Find Unfathomable
Opulence at Hussein Complex After Sneaking Onto Grounds (By Rajiv
Chandrasekaran, Page A27)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10601-2003Apr11.html
Antiwar Trio Says Iraq's Future Is What Counts: Leaders Try to Repair
Relations With Allies (By Sharon LaFraniere, Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10658-2003Apr11.html
Kurds' Looting Sweeps Across Liberated Kirkuk: U.S. Forces Take Action
Late in Day (By Karl Vick and Steve Vogel, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10668-2003Apr11.html
Turkish Officials Back Away From Threats to Invade Northern Iraq (By
Philip P. Pan, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10572-2003Apr11.html
Defenses Unseen in Hussein Town: Predator Shows Only Looting in
Tikrit, Where Last Stand Was Feared (By Peter Baker and Jonathan
Weisman, Page A24)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10133-2003Apr11.html
For Iraq's Leaders and Loyalists, a Vanishing Act: Once-Feared Saddam
Loyalists Abandoned Baghdad Overnight (By Anthony Shadid, Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10766-2003Apr11.html
New Force Moves to Gain Sway: Exiles, Others Aided By U.S. in the
South (By Peter Finn, Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10421-2003Apr11.html
Anything, and Everything, Goes: With No Authority to Stop Them, Iraqis
Plunder Capital of Goods (By William Branigin and Rick Atkinson, Page
A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10374-2003Apr11.html
In Need Of Help, Nowhere To Turn: System Lacking Basic Necessities (By
David Finkel, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10795-2003Apr11.html
10 Suspects in USS Cole Blast Escape From Yemeni Prison (Post, April
12, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10514-2003Apr11.html
In Basra, a Chaotic Forum
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14144-2003Apr12.html
Local tensions flare at an assembly devoted to starting new
government.
Protesters Rally in D.C.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13190-2003Apr12.html
Anti-war, pro-troop demonstrators gather for rallies today on the
Mall.
Protests Continue, But With Smaller Crowds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13971-2003Apr12.html
War Enters New Phase as Mission Shifts for Soldiers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13249-2003Apr12.html
As fighting wanes, troops are tasked with maintaining order; top
Hussein adviser gives up.
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The people's oil
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1702288
Apr 10th 2003 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
What should be done to ensure that Iraq's oil is managed truly in the
interests of its newly liberated people?
Friend or foe?
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1699434
Apr 10th 2003
From The Economist print edition
The rise of Linux is dividing the computer industry into winners and
losers
The impossibility of making whole
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1699466
Apr 10th 2003 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
Is a fireman's life worth less than a banker's? America weighs
compensation for victims of the September 11th 2001 attacks on New
York and Washington
Economic and financial indicators
http://www.economist.com/markets/indicators/index.cfm?page=Economic%20and%20Financial
Apr 10th 2003
Emerging-market indicators
http://www.economist.com/markets/indicators/index.cfm?page=Emerging%20Market
Apr 10th 2003
Czech growth
http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1705277
Apr 10th 2003
Foreign direct investment
http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1705260
Apr 10th 2003
Seeing in the dark
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1698659
Apr 10th 2003 | PHILADELPHIA
From The Economist print edition
A new computational model, unveiled at a meeting of the American
Physical Society, finds that dark matter in the universe is highly
organised
A corking idea?
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1698710
Apr 10th 2003
From The Economist print edition
The French (naturally) have developed a new way of eliminating cork
taint
Patriots too
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1666473
Mar 27th 2003
From The Economist print edition
AFTER the collapse of the Camp David peace talks towards the end of
2000, and the start of the Palestinian intifada, many Israelis started
to articulate a single, strident message: they had offered the
Palestinians a priceless gift, and been kicked in the teeth for their
pains; so be it, they would now show the so-and-sos who was master. A
substantial majority of voters (twice) elected Ariel Sharon to do just
that. But some disagreed, and a few of those-loyal Israelis all-have
packaged their dissent into a neat volume of short essays and articles
written over the past two years.
Flights of fancy
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1682200
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist print edition
Tibet, Tibet: Dreams and Memories of a Lost Land
By Patrick French"I HAVE never", wrote Basil Gould, a frontier
official of the British empire, of the 14th Dalai Lama, "seen anybody
assume more complete and natural control of great assemblies." Back in
London, in the margins of Gould's dispatch, a colleague dismissed this
with a scribble: "flight of imaginative fancy". The year was 1940 and
the boy, after all, was only five years old. Yet Gould was right. The
Dalai Lama, now approaching 70, draws crowds second only to the pope.
Born in western China, though exiled from there since 1959, he is more
famous than any Chinese. He has few critics other than China's
communist government and, in the West, Christopher Hitchens, a
pugnacious commentator. He is, as one American magazine puts it, "the
coolest spiritual-leader daddio around".
The Scheherazade of Baghdad
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1705375
Apr 10th 2003 | DOHA
From The Economist print edition
Iraq's marvellous minister of (mis)information
The mother of local wars
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1699312
Apr 10th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Flames in Liberia scorch the neighbours, and vice versa
Deeper into the red
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1700965
Apr 10th 2003
From The Economist print edition
The chancellor's most worrying deficit is his growing credibility gap
A muddled message from an embattled new government
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1704055
Apr 10th 2003 | ISTANBUL
From The Economist print edition
It is becoming unclear exactly what sort of country Turkey's prime
minister, Tayyip Erdogan (pictured above), hopes to build or how he
wants to set about it
The wild frontier
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1699357
Apr 10th 2003 | PESHAWAR
From The Economist print edition
Muslim fundamentalists become acquainted with the realities of
exercising power
Disappearing into a Caribbean gulag
http://www.economist.com/world/la/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1699250
Apr 10th 2003 | HAVANA
From The Economist print edition
Fidel Castro's regime feels threatened-by mounting domestic opposition
as well as George Bush
Safer, but how safe?
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1705719
Apr 10th 2003 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
A lot of time and money is going into protecting New York. More is
needed
The lessons of experience
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1698730
Apr 10th 2003
From The Economist print edition
From Bosnia, East Timor, and other fragile places
Letters
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1698532
On Iraq, France, Cuba, maths, debt forgiveness, Congo
Apr 10th 2003
Nemesis
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1699408
Apr 10th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Now it is America's moment in the Middle East
Getting better, or worse?
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1680078
Apr 9th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Although the rate of new infections has fallen sharply in the southern
Chinese province where a new, potentially fatal respiratory illness
began, the disease remains a concern for the rest of the world
Going round in circles?
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1698155
Apr 10th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
President George Bush has reminded the world that he is serious about
ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Now for the hard part
Towards a more inclusive world economy
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1677429
Apr 11th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The war in Iraq has strengthened the case for making more strenuous
efforts to include emerging-market economies and the poorest countries
as full participants in the world economy. The issue will be much on
the minds of the finance ministers gathered in Washington for the
spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank
A new world order
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1711235
Apr 11th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
With victory now assured for the coalition troops in Iraq, attention
has turned to the reconstruction of the country after the toppling of
Saddam Hussein. But the conflict will also determine the shape of
American foreign policy in the future
An unprecedented operation
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1708111
Apr 10th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Whatever "vital" role the United Nations plays in reconstructing Iraq
when the war ends, one thing is certain: the international body will
first have to feed much of the country's 27m people
Unfinished business
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1712045
Apr 12th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The coalition forces are turning their attention to Tikrit, the home
town of Saddam Hussein, which was attacked by air strikes overnight.
Allied troops are having to try to restore law and order in cities
already taken by the coalition
Powell warns Syria not to prove 'safe haven' for Saddam
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=396752
Syria must not provide a safe haven to the deposed Iraqi dictator, US
Secretary of State Colin Powell warned today.
Nicole Szulc Ginn: Remember Afghanistan, remember Kosovo and Bosnia
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396580
13 April 2003
Democracy's the endgame but the rule of law must come first
Correlli Barnett: Flags fly, statues topple. But what are we fighting
for?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396579
13 April 2003
Passionate ideology - from any side - is the last thing the world
needs now
'Soft' Europe must come into its own
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396578
13 April 2003
Even for a politician as adroit as Tony Blair, it has been hard to
maintain a balance between Europe and the United States in the gales
of the Iraq war and its aftermath.
Bernard Wasserstein: Peace is slouching to Jerusalem
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396575
13 April 2003
Pax paritur bello (peace is produced by war): the Latin tag may sound
Orwellian, but in the Middle East today it rings true.
Iraqis plead for protection
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=396737
US forces discuss dusk-to-dawn curfews as they attempt to stamp out
looting that has emptied city hospitals, banks and offices
A civilisation torn to pieces
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=396743
Baghdad, reports Robert Fisk, is a city at war with itself, at the
mercy of thieves and gunmen
Today's full links
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=396549
maff
The Hootie Doctrine
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/13DOWD.html
By MAUREEN DOWD
Now that Saddam is seriously dead or lounging at Syria Club Med we can
turn our attention from the gulf war to the golf war.
The Sand Wall
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/13FRIE.html
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
There are still two other walls holding back the explosion of freedom
in the Arab East.
Nobody Loves a Liberator
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/13BEEV.html
By ANTONY BEEVOR
Few countries love their liberators once the cheering dies away. This
is especially true when they feel humiliated.
A Purge With a Purpose
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/13BARD.html
By ANN LOUISE BARDACH
It seems likely that a recent purge was intended to make a statement,
and even to win Fidel Castro some advantage.
The Spoils of War Coverage
http://tinyurl.com/9fvg
By FRANK RICH
In the battle for cable news viewers, patriotism has become the
winning marketing ploy.
Aftermath: The Bush Doctrine
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/13SUN1.html
President Bush should not confuse military achievement for a
validation of his doctrine of pre-emptive strikes.
Aftermath: Time for Boldness in the Mideast
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/13SUN2.html
The Bush administration has a historic opportunity to transform the
psychology of the stalled Mideast peace process.
Farewell to Supersonic Travel
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/13SUN3.html
Time is money, but only up to a point. That is the bittersweet lesson
of the supersonic Concorde's retirement.
Jack Kerouac's Haiku
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/13SUN4.html
Jack Kerouac, the poet of inordinate prose, was also a master of
haiku, and a master, as always, at deformalizing the formalities of
any genre.
Iraqi Atrocities, Not on CNN
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/L13CNNN.html
Remaking Iraq: Role of the U.N.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/L13IRAQ.html
Case of Five Cubans
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/L13GORD.html
Civic Caring: Lessons From the Ancients
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/L13EDUC.html
Judges' Life Experience
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/L13JUDG.html
Missionaries' Duty
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/L13MISS.html
Freeing North Korea
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/L13KORE.html
Air Traveler's Quandary
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/opinion/L13AIRR.html
Humiliation and Rage Stalk the Arab World
http://tinyurl.com/9fwg
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
For many Arabs, Saddam Hussein ranked up there in the pantheon of
world-class tyrants. But at least he was an Arab leader ruling an Arab
country.
Iran Warily Confronts New Neighbors: Americans
http://tinyurl.com/9fwo
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
An American rocket killed a 13-year-old boy. A second injured three
people; a third struck an empty Oil Ministry depot. These were not
precision strikes in Iraq. They were rockets gone astray, landing in
Iran.
Looking for Domestic Gains From the Success Abroad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/weekinreview/13HULS.html
By CARL HULSE
Savvy members of Congress say the war in Iraq might give President
Bush leverage with Democrats in conservative districts in the South
and West.
The Last Refuge of Scoundrels and a Noble Virtue
http://tinyurl.com/9fwp
By GEOFFREY NUNBERG
As slogans go, the currently popular, "Peace is patriotic," sounds
less like a call to arms than a defensive retort - "peace is
patriotic, too." But then, patriotism is a word that exists to put
people on the defensive. After all, a word for devotion to one's
country exists in part to imply a contrast with those whose who lack
that feeling.
What Victory in Iraq Means for U.S. Foreign Policy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/weekinreview/13SANG.html
By DAVID E. SANGER
Last week was victory week for the Cheney-Rumsfeld wing of the Bush
administration, and to some minds it was the decisive moment in the
27-month-long struggle for the soul of the president of the United
States.
The Watchword Is Restraint
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/weekinreview/13FREN.html
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
The very idea of going to war to keep North Korea from becoming a
nuclear power has been enough to remake diplomacy in the Far East.
The Poisons That Came From the West
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/weekinreview/13MILH.html
By GARY MILHOLLIN and KELLY MOTZ
The items needed to make chemical weapons arrived in Iraq from Western
companies years ago. Even American firms shipped anthrax strains to
Iraq.
China Discovers Medical Secrecy Is Expensive
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/weekinreview/13KAHN.html
By JOSEPH KAHN
SARS may have seemed less alarming, and almost certainly would have
been less deadly, if China's government had not hidden it like a dirty
secret for four months.
Jacques Chirac's Fair-Weather Friends
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/weekinreview/13BOXA.html
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
It's hard to be the king of France.
Words of War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/weekinreview/13BOXB.html
By THOM SHANKER
The war last week saw the swift capture of Baghdad and the continuing
search for clues on the whereabouts, or the ultimate fate, of Saddam
Hussein. Even if Mr. Hussein is alive, his regime's ability to counter
the American-led offensive appeared to collapse.
A Tyrant Disappears. So Who Feels Safe?
http://tinyurl.com/9fx2
By ALAN COWELL
Until the body of Saddam Hussein is found, dead or alive, many Iraqis
will have trouble believing they are really free.
Invasion Is Easy. Occupation Is Hard.
http://tinyurl.com/9fx6
By SUSAN CHIRA
A little history is a dangerous thing. And history is being brandished
like a weapon right now in Iraq to shape the terms of the peace.
Rebuilding the Politics of Globalization
http://tinyurl.com/9fxd
By JOHN MICKLETHWAITand ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE
All wars end in reconstruction. This time the most visible
reconstruction will be in Iraq - in the form of roads, hospitals and,
hopefully, a parliament. But there is the additional challenge of
rebuilding the Western alliance: with President Jacques Chirac of
France meeting with the leaders of Russia and Germany, the Élysée
Palace and the White House seem so far apart. Yet rebuilding the
alliance is key if the Bush administration is to rebuild an idea that
Washington has championed for half a century: globalization.
Not All Freedom Is Made in America
http://tinyurl.com/9fxg
By ERIC FONER
The plan to bring freedom to the Iraqi people may prove more
complicated than the Bush administration suspects.
Analyze This: Vincent Gigante, Not Crazy After All Those Years
http://tinyurl.com/9fxj
By ANDY NEWMAN
An urban mystery was solved last week when Mafia leader Vincent
Gigante admitted he had deceived a team of psychiatrists who thought
he suffered from various forms of dementia.
U.S. Troops Move to Restore Order in Edgy Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/9e8s
By DEXTER FILKINS and JOHN KIFNER
A marine guarding a Baghdad hospital was shot dead, looting continued
in many areas of the city and U.S. troops discovered evidence of plans
for widespread suicide attacks.
Pillagers Strip Iraqi Museum of Its Treasure
http://tinyurl.com/9e8w
By JOHN F. BURNS
It took only 48 hours for the National Museum of Iraq to be destroyed,
with at least 50,000 artifacts carried away.
Congress Passes $79 Billion Bill to Pay for War
http://tinyurl.com/9fxt
By DAVID FIRESTONE
Congress sent President Bush even more money than he requested but
refused to grant the administration wide latitude to spend it.
Military Begins Screening Iraqis for New Rule
http://tinyurl.com/9e9j
By IAN FISHER
The business of staffing a new Iraqi government began literally in
front of American tanks on Saturday.
Doubt and Death on Drive to Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/9e92
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
The Army's Third Infantry Division swept across southern Iraq in less
than 72 hours. The advance was as breathtaking as it was grinding.
Across the U.S., Elation Wrestles With Anxiety
http://tinyurl.com/9e95
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER with JOHN W. FOUNTAIN
The national conversation about the fall of Baghdad this week ranged
from applauding to appalled.
At a Tea Shop in Cairo, Disbelief at War Reports
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/worldspecial/13ARAB.html
By SUSAN SACHS
Those Iraqis who spit on the fallen statue of Saddam Hussein? Those
were not Arabs, insisted the men of Nasr Street.
U.S. Attacks on Holdouts Dealt Iraqis Final Blow
http://tinyurl.com/9e90
By JOHN M. BRODER with ERIC SCHMITT
Reports that the remnants of Saddam Hussein's forces were banding
together may have been the key to toppling the Iraqi regime.
Marines Meet Little Resistance in Push to Last Holdout
http://tinyurl.com/9fy5
By DEXTER FILKINS and JOHN KIFNER
More than 3,000 marines arrived in Tikrit, where senior Iraqi military
commanders were believed to be holed up.
Marines Find 7 G.I.'s Who Were Captured by Iraqis
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/worldspecial/13CND-POWS.html
By DEXTER FILKINS and CHARLIE LeDUFF
Dressed in tattered camouflage uniforms, striped pajamas or street
clothes, they looked gaunt but all climbed out of the helicopters on
their own power.
In the Heart of France, Anti-U.S. Mood Softens
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/worldspecial/13EURO.html
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
Patrick Lebel watched the television images this week of a statue of
Saddam Hussein toppled in Baghdad as joyous Iraqis danced about and he
thought, as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld did, of the Berlin
Wall.
Hidden Knives and Ambition Shroud Killing at Holy Shrine
http://tinyurl.com/9fzl
By CRAIG S. SMITH
Rumors and intrigue swirled here today in a crowd of angry men milling
around Iraq's holiest mosque two days after a prominent cleric was
assassinated, but the truth of what happened remains a mystery.
Vengeful Chaos Clouds Shiites' New Freedom
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/worldspecial/13MUSL.html
By ALAN FEUER
The streets of Saddam City are on fire, but at the local firehouse,
the workers sit around puffing cigarettes and drinking tea.
Tikrit Capture a Last Symbol
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/worldspecial/13STRA.html
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
The goal of the American force that is advancing on Tikrit is to seal
the demise of the mortally wounded government of Saddam Hussein.
North Korea Shifts Stance on Nuclear Talks
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/asia/13KORE.html
By JAMES BROOKE
North Korea said that it would negotiate its nuclear program without
sticking "to any particular dialogue format."
Nuclear Dispute Can Be Settled Peacefully, South Korean President Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/13CND-KORE.html
By DON KIRK
South Korea welcomed an indication from a North Korean foreign
ministry official that the North would yield to United States demands
for multilateral talks on the nuclear issue.
Plans for Families, Degrees and Careers Come to Abrupt End in Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/9g01
By MONICA DAVEY
The soldiers who died in Iraq all had plans for the future, some to
continue with the Army, others to start new careers once their duty
was done.
Nationwide Inquiry at Veterans' Hospitals
http://tinyurl.com/9g0e
By ROBERT PEAR
The Bush administration has ordered a review of medical research at
115 veterans' hospitals and has halted some studies after
investigators found serious violations.
Philadelphia Schools Look Within to Improve
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/education/13EDIS.html
By SARA RIMER
A change in leadership has turned attention away from privatization
and towards other remedies for poorly-performing schools, such as
after-school programs.
Red Cross Promises to Improve Blood Safety
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/health/13BLOO.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Red Cross is promising to improve its blood collection program to
meet government safety standards, and could face big fines if it fails
to do so.
Atheist Wins Fight to Pray at City Meeting
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/national/13PRAY.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Utah Supreme Court has granted an atheist the right to pray in
City Council meetings.
Retiree Rebuilds Town and Its Future
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/national/13TOWN.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A retired businessman is buying up property in rundown Tuscumbia,
Ala., where he grew up, and trying to turn it back into the busy place
he remembers.
U.S. Plans to Limit Protected Wilderness to 23 Million Acres
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/politics/13LAND.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Interior Department wants to limit Bureau of Land Management lands
eligible for wilderness protection to 23 million acres nationwide.
Oil's Pressure Points
http://tinyurl.com/9g0q
By NEELA BANERJEE
The painful truth is that Iraq is only the most extreme example of the
world's reliance on hot spots to slake the thirst for oil.
In Iraqi Fields, Technical and Political Challenges
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/business/yourmoney/13SOIL.html
By NEELA BANERJEE
FROM Washington to Baghdad, the oil industry is uniformly regarded as
the engine of Iraq's economic revival and eventual political
stability. But making the oil flow again will likely take months, and
require the Bush administration to cut through a thicket of technical,
diplomatic and financial challenges, industry experts say.
The War Goes Well. So Where's the Dividend?
http://tinyurl.com/9g0v
By STEVE LOHR
It is still unclear whether consumer confidence and business
investment will revive from their war-jitter and begin a more
sustained recovery.
The Catch-22 of Iraq Contracts
http://tinyurl.com/9ebi
By DIANA B. HENRIQUES
As companies try to win a share in the Iraqi reconstruction effort,
regulators are pressing for disclosure while other officials are
demanding secrecy.
Carrying On When Suits Are in Camouflage
http://tinyurl.com/9g11
By FARA WARNER
As reservists are called to duty, companies are learning that dealing
with the absence of executives goes beyond completing day-to-day
tasks.
A Walk on the Supply Side of a New Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/business/yourmoney/13VIEW.html
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Administration officials say much of Iraq's reconstruction can be
self-financed. What they do not mention are the elements of "downside
potential."
Next Time, Follow the Spenders, Not the Talkers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/business/yourmoney/13WATC.html
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Rather than rely on big-name strategists for a view on the market,
investors should look at the expectations of large institutional
investors.
Finding Common Ground in Brazil
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/business/yourmoney/13PROF.html
By LARRY ROHTER
What is Jose Alencar, one of Brazil's most successful businessmen,
doing in the leftist government?
In Searching the Web, Google Finds Riches
http://tinyurl.com/9g1a
By JOHN MARKOFF and G. PASCAL ZACHARY
The band of technoinsurgents who run Google are striking a blow
against the giant Web portals by rewriting the rules of Internet
advertising.
Some Search Results Hit Too Close to Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/technology/13SGOO.html
By AMY HARMON
GOOGLE has had an unusual spike in traffic in recent weeks - not to
its main search index, but to a page that allows people to remove
themselves from a service it calls Phonebook.
Tuition Plans: Pay Now, Pay Later
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/edlife/13TUIT.html
By SANDRA SALMANS
Most of the 19 states that offer prepaid tuition plans are sharply
increasing their prices.
The Pen: Mightier Than You Thought
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/arts/design/13REXE.html
By LYLE REXER
IT writes underwater! It writes in arctic cold and desert heat! It
even writes in space!
Adjusting on the Road to Victory
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14839-2003Apr12.html
What ended as a military victory that toppled the Iraqi government in
21 days was filled with moments of uncertainty, miscues and unexpected
successes for U.S. forces. This article is an anatomy of the war as
described by dozens of military officials and commanders, including
key participants in the decision making on the battlefield and in
Washington.
2 Americas Side by Side
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14865-2003Apr12.html
The gulf between California's affluent liberals, who largely oppose
the U.S.-led war with Iraq, and the state's conservative, pro-war
proletariat is emblematic of a growing divide that is transforming the
nation's political landscape.
Casualties Reflect Different War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14800-2003Apr12.html
Nearly 40 percent of the U.S. casualties in the Iraq war were killed
in incidents unrelated to enemy fire, reflecting changes that have
taken place since the first Persian Gulf War.
Anti-Tax Tome Banned
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14840-2003Apr12.html
In a courtroom filled with vociferous tax opponents, a federal judge
extended a temporary ban on a book that argues Americans do not have
to pay income taxes.
'Our Heritage Is Finished'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15136-2003Apr12.html
The looting that was sparked by the fall of Iraqi government has
wreaked more damage on its infrastructure than three weeks of U.S.
bombing.
U.S. Debates Postwar Strategy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14508-2003Apr12.html
The U.S. is struggling to identify the best mix of confrontation and
conciliation to achieve other foreign policy goals that are being
refined in the wake of the collapse of Iraqi government.
Marines Advance on Hussein's Home Town
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14361-2003Apr12.html
A Marine armored column moved north out of Baghdad in the direction of
Tikrit to join in an effort to eliminate the last vestiges of Saddam
Hussein's Baath Party.
Worldwide Protests Continue, With Smaller Crowds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14762-2003Apr12.html
Tens of thousands of people marched in dozens of cities from Seoul to
London to protest the war in Iraq, but the crowds were significantly
smaller than in past antiwar demonstrations.
North Korea Drops Its Demand For One-on-One Talks With U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14759-2003Apr12.html
North Korea said it "will not stick to any particular dialogue format"
but will test whether "the U.S. has a political willingness to drop
its hostile policy."
Private Lynch Begins Treatment in Washington
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15132-2003Apr12.html
Former prisoner of war Pfc. Jessica Lynch returned to U.S. soil
Saturday and was taken to Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
U.S. Troops Help Restore Order to Kirkuk's Streets
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14395-2003Apr12.html
KIRKUK, Iraq, April 12 -- Stability returned to Kirkuk today as
Kurdish authorities zealously reined in looters and U.S. troops came
out of their bases on the fringe of this northern city and patrolled
its welcoming streets.
The Fire This Time
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7499-2003Apr11.html
How would we know if we were already in World War III? To some
scholars, Iraq's just part of something bigger.
Calling Allies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14949-2003Apr12.html
Page B06
THE EXPLOSION of looting in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities at the
end of last week presented a serious new challenge to U.S. and British
forces. It also vividly demonstrated a truth that the Bush
administration has been slow to accept: that the United States cannot
manage postwar Iraq on its own. On Friday, U.S. soldiers mostly stood
by as Iraqis stripped hospitals and other vital facilities,
compounding the humanitarian problems the country faces. Even if order
can be restored in the coming days, U.S. commanders say frankly that
their troops are not prepared to perform police duties -- and there
are few Iraqi police uncompromised by the brutality of Saddam
Hussein's regime. Officials say a number of countries are volunteering
to help with policing and other essential reconstruction tasks. But
they also acknowledge that many such offers are contingent on the
United States winning the United Nations' approval for its postwar
administration. That will likely require more flexibility and
willingness to compromise with Security Council members than the Bush
administration has shown up to now.
A Nation Behind Bars
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14951-2003Apr12.html
Page B06
IMAGINE THAT the United States locked up the populations of
Wyoming, Vermont and North Dakota and then threw in the nation of
Iceland for good measure. The result would be an inmate population of
approximately the same size as the one currently behind bars in the
United States. Last year, for the first time in American history, the
states and the federal government -- in jails and in prisons around
the country -- had more than 2 million people behind bars, according
to Justice Department statistics. Those locked up included 1.3 percent
of all males in this country, 4.8 percent of all black males -- and a
shocking 11.8 percent of black men between the ages of 20 and 34. The
dramatic rise in the prison population has created a nation of
prisoners within American society. While hidden from the view, and
even the consciousness, of most Americans, the existence of this
nation forces those on the outside to ask, in turn, what kind of
nation they want to live in.
Iraq Neighbors Warned: U.S. Is Watching Behavior (Page A36)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14755-2003Apr12.html
Bush Concerned by Iraq Looting, but Confident in Plan: Administration
Seeks To Bolster Campaign's Image in Arab World (By Mike Allen, Page
A37)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14696-2003Apr12.html
Iraqi Kurds In Colorado Says Thanks To Troops (Page A38)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16377-2003Apr13.html
An Opportunity to Relaunch Efforts to Break the Cycle of Violence
(Page A36)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14754-2003Apr12.html
Refereeing Tensions Between State and Defense (Page A36)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14751-2003Apr12.html
Handshakes and Cold Shoulders (Page A36)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14756-2003Apr12.html
The Missing (Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15134-2003Apr12.html
The Fallen (Page A29)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15133-2003Apr12.html
A Single Patient Can Prove Lethal: Small Number Spread Disease Widely
(By Shankar Vedantam, Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14674-2003Apr12.html
Top Iraqi Scientist Surrenders To U.S.: A Valuable Source On Weapons
Program (By Walter Pincus, Page A25)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14821-2003Apr12.html
Report Cites HHS IG's 'Failures': U.S. Won't Charge Janet Rehnquist
(Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14942-2003Apr12.html
L.A. Airport Shootings Ruled Act of Terrorism (Page A08)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14940-2003Apr12.html
Congress Passes $78.5 Billion Emergency Spending Bill for War: Hill
Limits Bush's Discretion on Fund (By Dan Morgan, Page A09)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14748-2003Apr12.html
To GOP, Daschle Words Are Fuel for Senate Hopes (By Mike Allen, Page
A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14820-2003Apr12.html
Interior Dept. Wants to Limit Protected Lands: Wilderness Review
Suspension Could Open 3 Million Utah Acres to Development (Page A12)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14749-2003Apr12.html
For Piestewa, Honors and a Flap: Plan to Rename Peak Is Disputed (Page
A14)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14750-2003Apr12.html
Calif. Sues Restaurant Chains on Mercury Warnings: State Says
Guidelines for Informing Customers of Health Risks Aren't Being
Followed (Page A16)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15002-2003Apr12.html
In a Landslide, Las Vegas Again Goes for the Mouthpiece as Mayor (Page
A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15005-2003Apr12.html
Infecting the First Line of Defense: Hospital Staff Are Hit Hardest by
Deadly Lung Disease (By Rob Stein, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14743-2003Apr12.html
Some Ships, Planes Likely to Start Homeward: But Military Intends to
Continue Buildup of Troops for Security and Humanitarian Relief (Post,
April 13, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14808-2003Apr12.html
U.S. Smallpox Vaccine Program Lags: Workers Decline Immunizations
(Post, April 13, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14807-2003Apr12.html
Sharon: Israel Would Trade Settlements for Peace (AP, April 13, 2003;
4:26 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16461-2003Apr13.html
Hungary Votes to Join EU (AP, April 13, 2003; 12:20 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15425-2003Apr13.html
China's Hospitals in Turmoil: Some SARS Patients Being Turned Away for
Inability to Pay (Post, April 13, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14758-2003Apr12.html
Hussein's Fall Bolsters Middle East Reformers: Even Wary Governments
Voice Need for Change (Post, April 13, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14761-2003Apr12.html
A War Waged With a Sword At His Throat (Post, April 13, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14834-2003Apr12.html
At Baghdad Prison, Search for Missing Proves Fruitless (Post, April
13, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14822-2003Apr12.html
Tempers Flare at Assembly In Basra: New Mayor Defends Plans to Restore
Order (By Susan B. Glasser, Page A33)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14144-2003Apr12.html
In Mosul, Self-Defense Becomes a Priority: Looting Subsides but
Gunfire Continues; U.S. Commander Pledges a Local Police Force (By
Daniel Williams, Page A32)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14377-2003Apr12.html
Seven American POWs Are Rescued
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16971-2003Apr13.html
Bush: 'A Great Day for the Families'
Militia to Police Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18329-2003Apr13.html
U.S.-sponsored opposition militia is being deployed to assist U.S.
troops.
Bush Warns Syria Not to Harbor Iraqis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18065-2003Apr13.html
President Bush warned Syria on Sunday not to harbor fleeing Iraqi
leaders and he rejoiced at the release of seven American soldiers
captured in the war.
Quebec Seeks to Ease Divisiveness
http://tinyurl.com/9g41
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
The ache that clutches at the heart of Quebec, and arguably at the
heart of all of Canada, is gradually easing.
Iranian Calls For a Vote on Relations With U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/middleeast/13IRAN.html
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Iran's powerful former president, Hashemi Rafsanjani, has suggested
holding a referendum on relations with the United States, hinting that
Iran's leadership could soon address the issue.
Carlyle's Power Web on the Potomac
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/business/yourmoney/13SHEL.html
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
A TRUSTED adviser to the Pentagon stands to make $725,000 for advising
a company seeking a deal that the government opposes on national
security grounds. When the country is at war, no less.
Lost in the Shuffle, a Sign of Strength for Social Security
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/business/yourmoney/13SENI.html
By FRED BROCK
The trustees of Social Security extended by a year two important
deadlines often cited by critics as evidence that the system faces
real trouble.
A New Investment, Courtesy of Canada
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/business/yourmoney/13TRUS.html
By BERNARD SIMON
INCOME trusts, which have surged in popularity in Canada, are being
offered on the New York Stock Exchange as antidotes to shrinking stock
portfolios and tiny fixed-income returns.
Commentary Divided on Fall of Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/9g4e
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
As Baghdad fell to United States troops last week, the reaction of
newspaper editorial writers around the world ranged from jubilation to
dejection. And, as these excerpts show, many urged the United States
to use its power wisely. The foreign-language editorials were
translated by The New York Times or BBC World Monitoring.
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Bomb before you buy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,936158,00.html
Naomi Klein: What is being planned in Iraq is not reconstruction but
robbery.
Blair survived because his possible challengers blinked
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,936166,00.html
Martin Kettle: The PM now provokes as much visceral dislike as Mrs
Thatcher did.
Censoring the dead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,936157,00.html
Peter Preston: We can see corpses in TV dramas, but not the real
casualties of war
Road map to nowhere
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,936165,00.html
Ewen MacAskill: Ariel Sharon is promising a new peace initiative, but
it won't succeed without regime change in Israel.
Regime Change
http://tinyurl.com/9ha3
Inside Europe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,936162,00.html
Ian Black: It was last Wednesday's message about the ferrets
regulation that started me thinking about Europe and the Iraq crisis.
Love ya Tony
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,936169,00.html
From New York to LA, and far right to liberal left, Tony Blair is a
hero in America. His stance on the war and his eloquent support of an
inarticulate president has won the hearts and minds of its people.
But, asks leading US political commentator Joe Conason, how long will
the affair last?
My name is Ariel Sharon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,936172,00.html
New York writer Ariel Sharon Leve on the highs and lows of having the
same name as an iron-fisted world leader.
John Sutherland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,936173,00.html
There's a cold reality beneath the rosy glow left by the made-for-TV
version of an American dream come true
Mark Lawson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,936182,00.html
Now that the war is over, an assessment can be made of its television
coverage. We saw stunning live images from the battle zones, but did
this really tell us what was going on?
The rise of the Washington 'neo-cons'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
A small group of rightwingers, known as neo-conservatives, is shaping
US foreign policy. Who are they, and what is their agenda?
Museum's treasures left to the mercy of looters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,936557,00.html
US generals reject plea to protect priceless artefacts from vandals.
'The collection lies in ruins, objects from a long, rich past in
smithereens'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,936561,00.html
This is a tragedy with echoes of past catastrophes: the Mongol sack of
Baghdad in 1258, and the fifth-century destruction of the library of
Alexandria. For the loss is not just Iraq's but ours, too.
Lost treasures of Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,936216,00.html
Archaeologists throughout Britain are appalled at the unchecked
looting now reported (Mosul descends into chaos as even the museum is
looted of treasures, April 12).
The truth about loot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,936217,00.html
"It's the same picture of some person walking out of some building
with a vase," (Donald Rumsfeld on TV pictures of looting in Iraq). Is
Mr Rumsfeld competing with Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed
al-Sahaf?
More moral dilemmas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,936218,00.html
So, US forces in Iraq are distributing packs of 55 playing cards to
their own troops and locals (Wild card, April 12). Presumably the pack
contains three jokers - Bush, Rumsfeld and Blair.
Labour's debate on war, peace and democracy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,936219,00.html
We need among other things to rediscover the history of debate about
democracy in and around Labour (Crisis for the Comrades, April 12).
Winging it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,936220,00.html
How can you write (Leader, April 12) about predecessors to the Wright
brothers without mentioning the real father of aviation, Sir George
Cayley?
Questions over GM trials
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,936221,00.html
Sir Robert May has missed the point concerning public opposition to GM
crops (Moment of truth for GM crops, April 10).
Unsettled in Israel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,936205,00.html
Sharon must do more to convince.
Civilian targets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,936206,00.html
The Telegraph should curb its instincts.
Iraq on fast track for debt relief
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,936138,00.html
British-brokered pact enables IMF and World Bank to lead recovery
programme
US leaves Brown's aid plan in doubt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,936137,00.html
America's decision to throttle at birth plans for a new bankruptcy
code for indebted countries left serious doubts hanging over Gordon
Brown's ambitious plans to double annual aid flows to $100bn (£64bn),
writes Larry Elliott.
Banks 'scorn small firms'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,936135,00.html
High street banks have ignored the needs of small firms for more than
half a century, with damaging consequences for the economy, new
research claims today.
Don't leave it to lone rangers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,936270,00.html
Images of Iraqis looting and pillaging their own capital were not what
America and Britain expected in the aftermath of the collapse of
Saddam Hussein's regime. That should not detract from what was a
mighty efficient operation. Whatever your view about the legitimacy of
the war, the prosecution of it went pretty much to plan.
Brown looks down euro road with hint of a new way to look at inflation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,936269,00.html
Heather Stewart: When politicians start talking about changing the way
they measure things, they're usually up to something.
Straw denies threat to Syria
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,936570,00.html
11am: Jack Straw insisted today that Syria was not 'next on the list',
but warned Damascus to 'cooperate' over chemical weapons and Ba'athist
exiles.
Bush tells Syria to give up Iraqis
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,936403,00.html
George Bush called on Syria yesterday to hand over the Iraqi leaders
his government believes it is sheltering.
Protests as advisory panel axed
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,936587,00.html
11.30am: The international development secretary, Clare Short, has
been accused of damaging efforts to reconstruct Iraq by axing an
advisory panel of academics, scientists, teachers and NGOs.
The final fortress crumbles
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936274,00.html
From a field just outside the town, the final battle for the last
stronghold of Saddam Hussein's empire could be seen unfolding.
Seven US prisoners return safe and well
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936277,00.html
Seven missing American prisoners were found alive and well by the side
of a road north of Baghdad yesterday.
Hunt goes on for the ace of spades and other leaders in the pack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936280,00.html
The US soldiers swooped at 8am, fanning out along the embankment then
storming the luxury riverside estate of their prey - the queen of
spades on America's list of the 55 most wanted officials of Saddam
Hussein's regime.
In a dusty hospital graveyard ... a father's desperate search for his
son
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936192,00.html
He knelt by the graveside with lines of anxiety etched on his forehead
while a hospital orderly in a blue coat dug at the earth with his bare
hands. Two other men joined in, moving the soil away in gentle scoops.
Sharon softens stance on Palestine
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936279,00.html
Leader suggests Israel will trade settlements for peace.
We have Saddam's DNA, say Americans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936278,00.html
The US forces possess confirmed samples of Saddam Hussein's DNA with
which they can determine whether he has been killed or is still at
large, according to the coalition commander, General Tommy Franks.
Sixteen US soldiers injured in hand grenade attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936428,00.html
Sixteen US soldiers were wounded yesterday, at least two of them
seriously, when an Iraqi man threw a hand grenade at them as they
removed mortars from a weapons cache south of the capital.
Saddam's half-brother and No 51 on wanted list is in custody, US says
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936281,00.html
The net appeared to be closing around leading members of Saddam
Hussein's regime yesterday when a half-brother of the Iraqi dictator
was reportedly captured near the northern town of Mosul.
Angry and armed: middle class vigilantes confront the looters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936193,00.html
Spontaneous defiance in affluent suburb acts as catalyst for Baghdad's
residents embittered by US inaction
Financial scandal claims hang over leader in waiting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936196,00.html
Pentagon's choice to succeed Saddam was found guilty over $200m bank
losses
Russia denies helping to train Iraqi intelligence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936197,00.html
Russia has dismissed reports of cooperation between its foreign
intelligence service and the feared Iraqi mukhabarat, ranging from
espionage training to passing on sensitive information about Tony
Blair's meeting with the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.
Three weeks on, and still no water. Now doctors fear an epidemic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936198,00.html
Lack of security holds up agencies
Russia and Jordan join chorus of alarm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936199,00.html
UK and US forces urged to protect citizens
The language of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936200,00.html
An occasional series which decodes the military jargon
Lead cleric threatened by radicals
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936201,00.html
Violence as Shias fight for supremacy
Israeli report clears troops over US death
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936305,00.html
Peace activist killed by bulldozer acted 'illegally and dangerously'
North Korea willing to talk to 'a sincere US'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936306,00.html
North Korea has made a significant move towards dialogue with the US
after an apparently successful attempt by China to break the deadlock
between Washington and Pyongyang.
100 missing in ferry tragedy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936307,00.html
Rescue workers were searching yesterday for about 100 people still
missing after a packed ferry capsized during a storm in northern
Bangladesh.
Hong Kong Sars toll reaches 40
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936308,00.html
Five more Sars patients have died in Hong Kong, health officials said
yesterday.
Hungarians lukewarm about EU
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936309,00.html
Hungarians voted to join the EU in a referendum, but a low turnout
dealt the government a warning that many people remain indifferent and
sceptical towards membership.
Police held for al-Qaida escape
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936310,00.html
Yemen was questioning two senior secret-police officers yesterday
after 10 al-Qaida suspects, including two linked to the suicide
bombing of the American warship USS Cole, escaped from a Yemeni jail,
an official said.
Anger of Nobel winner's widow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936311,00.html
The widow of the Nobel Prize winning Russian academic Andrei Sakharov
has objected to a statue being erected in his honour in central Moscow
because she feels the human rights abuses, poverty and political life
of Russia today do not correspond to the principles and memory of her
late husband.
23 killed in Greek bus crash
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936425,00.html
A bus carrying schoolchildren plunged into a ravine in northern Greece
yesterday killing 23 people and injuring 29, after an accident
involving several vehicles.
Human code fully cracked
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,936244,00.html
Cambridge scientists in global consortium spell out the 3bn letters of
the genome, 50 years on from Crick and Watson's model of DNA
Discovering how to read the book of life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,936245,00.html
More than 350 biomedical advances - diagnostic tests, drugs,
treatments and vaccines - have begun clinical trials since scientists
began to "read" the instruction book of life that is the human genome.
Rageh Omaar wins it for BBC in Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,936414,00.html
It is not just the military who are returning to a hero's welcome -
the BBC's Baghdad reporter Rageh Omaar arrived back in Britain
yesterday widely regarded as having won the journalistic battle of
Baghdad for the broadcaster.
£6m path marks relaunch of Hadrian's Wall
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,936298,00.html
Critics silenced as world heritage site is transformed by massive
investment
Ungag us
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,936084,00.html
Fox News has become America's top-rated cable network thanks to its
gung-ho reporting and flag-waving fervour. Rupert Murdoch is not alone
in thinking Sky News should follow suit. Matt Wells and John Cassy
report.
Don't mention the war
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,936098,00.html
Despite sometimes brilliant coverage of the Iraqi conflict, newspaper
sales have continued to fall and ads have disappeared. And they aren't
the only casualties, says Roy Greenslade - just ask Sly Bailey.
No more hiding behind the news
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,936085,00.html
David Liddiment: War in Iraq has been the most testing of times for
broadcast news organisations, their journalists and support teams.
Christopher Bellamy: Saddam's regime looks likely to end with a
whimper
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396949
14 April 2003
Tikrit, north of Baghdad: sounds like something out of Joseph Conrad.
Robert Fisk: Saddam is airbrushed out by the city that bore his name
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396947
14 April 2003
The fresh black paint is everywhere.
Analysis: Poverty and despair behind Iraq's ethnic violence
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396939
14 April 2003
With so many Iraqis living on the edge of starvation, it is hardly
surprising they took the chance to loot anything they could
Robert Fisk: Saddam is airbrushed out by the city that bore his name
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=396947
14 April 2003
The fresh black paint is everywhere. "Sadr City", it says, where once
the name was "Saddam City". Outside the Aleppo Intermediate School for
Girls, I actually come across a graffiti artist in action, painting
over "Saddam" and again inserting "Sadr".
Cheering crowds don't make an unjust war right
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/yasmin_alibhai_brown/story.jsp?story=396942
In 1970 I was in the streets with hundreds of thousands screaming for
joy the day Idi Amin came to power
Today's full links
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=396937
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Ultimate Insiders
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/opinion/14HERB.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/opinion/14HERB.html
By BOB HERBERT
This unilateral war and the ouster of Saddam Hussein have given the
hawks and their commercial allies carte blanche in Iraq.
The Iraq Money Tree
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/opinion/14MON1.html
It is vital that bidding to reconstruct Iraq be competitive,
transparent and open to all. That has not happened so far.
More Energy Follies
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/opinion/14MON2.html
The uninspired energy bill approved by the House on Friday does little
to rescue the country from its precarious dependence on imported oil.
A Senseless Salute
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/opinion/14LUKA.html
By JOHN LUKACS
The boy soldier salute, made popular by Ronald Reagan and used by
President Bush, represents an exaggeration of the president's military
role.
The Next to Go: Yasir Arafat
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/opinion/14MAKO.html
By DAVID MAKOVSKY
European and Arab leaders should now say publicly what they all say
privately: they have lost confidence in Mr. Arafat's leadership.
The Best Defense
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/opinion/14SAFI.html
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
The credible threat of pre-emptive war, as driven home in Iraq, can
obviate its carrying-out in countries such as North Korea and Syria.
'Untidy' Freedom, and a Cultural Calamity
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/opinion/L14IRAQ.html
Attacks on French Jews
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/opinion/L14FRAN.html
Wrong Library
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/opinion/L14HEMI.html
Setback for Schools
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/opinion/L14CUTS.html
Marines Capture Center of Tikrit
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/international/worldspecial/14CND-TIKR.html
By DEXTER FILKINS
After marines captured the center of Tikrit this morning, a Pentagon
spokesman said that major combat was essentially over.
Marines Discover 7 P.O.W.'s in Town North of Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/9ifh
By DEXTER FILKINS with CHARLIE LeDUFF
The group included all the known U.S. troops officially listed as
captured, but six soldiers are still listed as missing in action.
Joint Patrols Begin in Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/international/worldspecial/14CND-BAGH.html
By JOHN F. BURNS
The announcement was a further sign that chaos is giving way to signs
of a city determined to begin the climb back toward order.
U.S. Sharply Scolds Syria and Threatens Sanctions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/international/worldspecial/14CND-CAPI.html
By DAVID STOUT
The U.S. suspects that Syria is developing chemical weapons and
harboring fugitives from the regime of Saddam Hussein.
For 7 Families, Relief After Weeks of Waiting
http://tinyurl.com/9ig4
By SIMON ROMERO
Seven families across the nation wept, laughed and celebrated at word
that their children and spouses had been released.
Syria's Foreign Minister Calls U.S. Charges 'Baseless'
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/international/worldspecial/14CND-SYRI.html
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa said that the U.S. seemed to be
trying to start another conflict even before stabilizing either Iraq
or Afghanistan.
Nightly News Feels Pinch of 24-Hour News
http://tinyurl.com/9igh
By BILL CARTER
TV news executives are noticing that viewers are increasingly tuning
out the broadcast networks' evening newscasts.
U.S. Sharply Scolds Syria and Threatens Sanctions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/international/worldspecial/14CND-CAPI.html
By DAVID STOUT
The U.S. suspects that Syria is developing chemical weapons and
harboring fugitives from the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Family Dreads Telling Father That Three Daughters Are Dead
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/international/worldspecial/14HOSP.html
By IAN FISHER
Saad Abbas still does not know that his daughters did not survive a
missile attack.
Burden Grows for Southwest Hospitals
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/health/14HOSP.html
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
Thousands of illegal immigrants find their way into American hospitals
every year for care they can neither get at home nor pay for in the
United States.
Coalition Says It Will Fight Local Pursuit of Immigrants
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/international/worldspecial/14IMMI.html
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
Immigration advocacy groups are challenging the Justice Department's
decision to allow police departments to pursue illegal immigrants as
part of the war on terror.
How 3 Weeks of War in Iraq Looked From the Oval Office
http://tinyurl.com/9ihe
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The past 25 days have been among the most stressful of the second Bush
White House, which had to react to the chaos of war and a script that
kept changing.
Bush Demands 'Cooperation' From Syrians
http://tinyurl.com/9ihj
By ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER
President Bush accused Syria of harboring Iraqi military and
government officials, but stopped short of threatening to use military
force.
Rumsfeld Requests Power to Reorganize Services
http://tinyurl.com/9iio
By THOM SHANKER
If approved by Congress, the legislation would put Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld's stamp on uniformed services personnel practices
for years.
World Bank and I.M.F. Say They'll Send Experts to Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/international/worldspecial/14BANK.html
By ELIZABETH BECKER
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund announced that they
would send teams to Iraq to assess needs for reconstruction as soon as
it was safe.
U.S. May Have to Allow Others to Inspect Iraqi Arms
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/international/worldspecial/14VERI.html
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
The Bush administration is legally bound to let independent inspectors
confirm findings of unconventional weapons, but the White House may
ignore such legalities.
Medicare Caught Up in Politics
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/politics/14TALK.html
By ROBIN TONER
In an effort to pass Medicare legislation, Republicans are arguing
that the program is unsustainable and badly in need of major
structural changes.
War Films Falter Next to Real Thing
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/business/media/14MOVI.html
By LAURA M. HOLSON
Nearly every military-related film to hit theaters this year has been
a box office disappointment.
Cyberattacks With Offline Damage
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/technology/14NECO.html
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
A recent paper by a computer security researcher suggests that there
are plenty of gateways that connect cyberattacks to the offline world.
Stocks Rise on Wall Street
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Wall-Street.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Investors attracted by lower prices but uneasy about first-quarter
earnings sent stocks higher Monday, a break from last week's declines.
Research Shows Hazards in Tiny Particles
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/technology/14NANO.html
By BARNABY J. FEDER
A new review of research on nanoscale materials suggests that tiny
particles are often toxic because of their size.
Lab Decodes Genes of Virus Tied to SARS
http://tinyurl.com/9iju
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Scientists in Canada announced they had broken the genetic code of the
virus suspected of causing severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Education Life
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2003/04/13/edlife/index.html
Learning with disabilities: A mother battles with schools, an autistic
boy inches into the mainstream, the college-bound face their
limitations.
Mocking the White House at War
http://tinyurl.com/9ik1
By ALAN COWELL
A celebrated revue called "The Madness of George Dubya" has done well
on the London stage. Now the director wants to take it to America.
Marines Rescue Seven U.S. Prisoners
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19753-2003Apr13.html
The rescue brings an end to a prisoner drama that had consumed senior
military officers; the seven were all in good condition.
U.S. Has DNA Sample To Identify Hussein
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19582-2003Apr13.html
The military has obtained a DNA sample that would enable experts to
identify the bodies of Saddam Hussein and his two sons if they are
found, Tommy Franks said.
Iraq Chaos No Surprise, but Too Few Troops to Quell It
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19587-2003Apr13.html
Pentagon war planners anticipated the fall of Hussein would usher in a
period of chaos, but they chose to field a force that could not hope
to quell such unrest when it emerged.
Bush: Iraq War Drove N. Korea to Concede
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19690-2003Apr13.html
President Bush suggested yesterday that the U.S.-led military defeat
of Iraq had spurred concessions by North Korea, and he said he sees
increasing chances for nuclear-control talks that include Pyongyang.
Shiite Clerics Move to Assume Control in Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19652-2003Apr13.html
The clergy of Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority have moved to fill the
void left by the ouster of Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party
government.
Marines Push Into Hussein's Home Town
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18639-2003Apr13.html
U.S. Marines entered Tikrit from the south Sunday, moving to occupy
the heart of former president Saddam Hussein's native region.
As Militias Leave Kirkuk, Kurd-Arab Tensions Rise
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19774-2003Apr13.html
Kurds were still very much present in Kirkuk, some of them apparently
trying to retake property from Arabs and others staffing an office to
hear Arabs' grievances.
Gorilla stew coming off the menu in Cameroon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22888-2003Apr14.html
Authorities in Cameroon announced Monday that any restaurant caught
serving meat from endangered animals could face up to three years in
prison and a fine of more than $16,000.
Canadian Scientists Find Code for SARS Virus
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20153-2003Apr14.html
Canadian scientists say they have deciphered the genetic code of the
virus that causes a mysterious new respiratory infection that has
sparked an international health emergency.
U.S. Role Shifts as Afghanistan Founders
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19438-2003Apr13.html
Afghanistan is still struggling to establish the basics of a working
government; virtually every significant system in the country is
broken.
Lessons From Embedding
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20005-2003Apr13.html
Unlike the first Gulf War, which most reporters covered through
official briefings, the war in Iraq was a grand experiment in which
600 media people were allowed in the trenches and tanks and
helicopters. - By Howard Kurtz
Penned With Blood
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20006-2003Apr13.html
Who knows what kind of poetry might emerge from America's conflict
with Iraq? What verses, threaded together, will be read by future
generations? Regardless, its creation should surprise few. - By Wil
Haygood
Left in the Lurch
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20004-2003Apr13.html
While thousands of antiwar activists were not turning out to protest
the Iraq war, hundreds were not disembarking from buses to join the
attack against Augusta National's old-boys club. - By Hank Stuever
Sizing Up Terrorism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20002-2003Apr13.html
Although it feels longer than the push to Baghdad, "Avoiding
Armageddon," is a generally clear-eyed look at the post-9/11 world and
a useful guide to what should really concern us about terrorism. - By
Ken Ringle
Farce, Tragedy and Taxes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19866-2003Apr13.html
Page A16
THE CONGRESSIONAL negotiations over this year's budget resolutions
turned into something of a soap opera in the final days and hours --
albeit one whose plot twists appeal only to a narrow category of
viewers. Would the two moderate Republican senators insisting on
limiting tax cuts to $350 billion cave in? How would the Senate
parliamentarian rule? The end result, though, is more than
inside-the-Beltway psychodrama. It's a story with enormous
consequences for the country, about equal parts tragedy and farce.
Lies in the Absence Of Liberty
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19887-2003Apr13.html
By Fred Hiatt, Page A17
The fear and moral corruption of life in a totalitarian state, so
blessedly beyond the understanding of most Americans, was captured in
a poignant moment in Baghdad on Wednesday as Iraqis came to realize
that Saddam Hussein was gone. It was a reminder of how we
underestimate, again and again, the lies that dictators tell and the
lies that their subjects are forced to live, whether in Iraq, the
Soviet Union or China.
No Apologies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19888-2003Apr13.html
By William Raspberry, Page A17
Now that the battle for Baghdad is all but won, it may be time to
clear up a few things.
Perils of the Postwar Era
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19881-2003Apr13.html
Page A16
Let me get this straight:
The U.S.-British coalition's first two actions in the democratization
of Iraq are committing to drive the Kurds out of Kirkuk at Turkey's
behest and putting a former Baath Party general in charge of Basra
[news stories, April 11].
Facts and Vouchers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19886-2003Apr13.html
Page A16
Tommy Wells [letters, April 9] says a debate on school vouchers
should start with the facts. "When a student leaves a public school
for a private school," he writes, "$8,536 is eliminated from the
[public school] budget. That's called de-funding public education."
Ministry in Wartime
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19882-2003Apr13.html
Page A16
As an ordained clergyman of 50 years, I was distressed by Frank
Schaeffer's April 6 op-ed article, in which he said that because of
the antiwar statements of some of the bishops and priests of his
church, he was "being stripped of the comfort of my church in the name
of 'peace' by people who seem determined to make God as small as we
are."
CAIR: No Room to Judge
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19884-2003Apr13.html
Page A16
An April 7 news story described the Council on American-Islamic
Relations' displeasure with Daniel Pipes's nomination to a seat on the
U.S. Institute of Peace board of directors. CAIR claimed that the
nomination "sends entirely the wrong message."
What About Congo?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19880-2003Apr13.html
Page A16
After reading the April 7 news story about violence in Congo, I
wonder: Where is our outrage over the killing of 1,000 people last
week alone? And what about humanitarian aid to a country where 2
million people have died as a result of conflict in the past 41/2
years?
Revving Up a Baghdad Message Machine (By Al Kamen, Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19875-2003Apr13.html
U.S. to Help With Dinar Dilemma: Treasury, Other Federal Agencies Gear
for Role in Iraq Reconstruction (By Christopher Lee, Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19408-2003Apr13.html
Survey Finds Americans Split on 'E-Government' (By Judy Sarasohn, Page
A14)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19407-2003Apr13.html
Man Is Arrested in Deaths Of Five Women in Phoenix (Page A18)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20720-2003Apr14.html
The Fallen (Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19953-2003Apr13.html
Bush's Hardest Battle May Be Over Agenda at Home (By Dana Milbank and
Jim VandeHei, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19689-2003Apr13.html
Pentagon Was Told Of Risk to Museums: U.S. Urged to Save Iraq's
Historic Artifacts (Post, April 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19691-2003Apr13.html
Antiwar Groups Shifting Their Focus to Bush: Voter Registration,
Search for Congressional Candidates Among Strategies Considered (Post,
April 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19590-2003Apr13.html
From Bookish Boy to Focus of FBI Manhunt: Terror Suspect Labeled Worst
Threat to U.S. (Post, April 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19406-2003Apr13.html
A Peek at the Old, Cold and Dirty in the Cosmos (Post, April 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11093-2003Apr11.html
New Agency, Old Problems: Family Says Bureaucratic Troubles Persist at
Immigration Service (Post, April 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19493-2003Apr13.html
Joy of Rescue Mixes With Sadness for Family: N.J. Soldier Learns
Sister Died Five Days After His Capture in Phone Call After Release
(Post, April 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19696-2003Apr13.html
Families of Seven POWs Elated by News of Their Rescue: 21 Days of
Anguish, Prayer and Waiting Come to Happy End (Post, April 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20007-2003Apr13.html
White House Escalates Pressure on Syria
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22809-2003Apr14.html
The Bush administration accuses Iraq's neighbor of developing chemical
weapons, harboring former Iraqi leaders and allowing foreign fighters
to enter Iraq to attack U.S. troops.
Little Movement in N. Ireland Peace Process
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23157-2003Apr14.html
The Northern Ireland peace process remained in a state of suspension
as Britain, Ireland and a Bush administration envoy struggled to coax
a commitment to permanently end violence from the Irish Republican
Army.
Marines Get Hands-On Civics Lesson: Young Officers Struggle to Keep
the Peace in Baghdad as City's New 'Mayors' (By Jonathan Finer, Page
A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18681-2003Apr13.html
Tribe Recaptures Its Liberty, if Not Its Land (By Susan B. Glasser,
Page A19)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19440-2003Apr13.html
Afghan Bomb Kills Suspects (By April Witt, Page A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18339-2003Apr13.html
Days of Darkness, With Death Outside the Door (By Peter Baker, Page
A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19192-2003Apr13.html
Exile Group's Militia to Move Into Baghdad To Help U.S.: Pentagon
Order Could Anger Other Members of Opposition (Post, April 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18329-2003Apr13.html
China Says SARS Creating 'Grave' Crisis (Post, April 14, 2003; 3:55
PM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24294-2003Apr14.html
Firefight in Southern Philippines Kills 12 Muslim Rebels (AP, April
14, 2003; 9:58 AM)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22446-2003Apr14.html
First Push for Order Rises Out of the Chaos in Baghdad: U.S. Job Fair
Draws Police, Engineers (Post, April 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19439-2003Apr13.html
U.S. Reconstruction Office Sends Teams to Iraq to Assess Needs (Post,
April 14, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19653-2003Apr13.html
Fear and Rethinking in the Middle East
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21545-2003Apr14.html
As Iraq struggles to escape from the lawlessness that followed the
fall of Saddam Hussein's government, both new thinking and old fears
are being heard in the international online media.
Troops Seize Control of Tikrit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22501-2003Apr14.html
Military calls relativly easy operation the last decisive battle of
the war.
An Untidy Aftermath
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22077-2003Apr14.html
So much for the notion that the looting was kind of charming.
maff
Coalition in the dock
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,936827,00.html
Richard Overy: There is a strong war crimes case against US and
British leaders, but big powers have immunity.
The thrill of battle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,936825,00.html
Matthew Engel: War for many Americans has become something
fascinating, glorious, satisfying, charmingly distant and thus
quasi-fictional.
So begins Blair's descent into powerless mediocrity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,936956,00.html
Hugo Young: Victory in Iraq risks being effaced by imminent surrender
over the euro.
Who was it good for?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,936948,00.html
The war in Iraq has been a predictably grim business, full of death,
destruction and now rampant looting. But it hasn't been miserable for
everyone. Sally Weale finds some unlikely winners in the conflict.
Look at the size of those missiles
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,936959,00.html
They are laughable, yes. But the paintings and murals found in Saddam
Hussein's private quarters betray a mind obsessed with sex and
violence, argues Jonathan Jones.
Is this plundering really so bad?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,936969,00.html
David Aaronovitch: It was a strange thing to wake up early on Sunday
morning, and see the first light catch, not the tip of the wife's
alabaster nose, but the gigantic brown cheek of Pharoah Amenophis III.
Building the new Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,936911,00.html
The search for Saddam's successor has started. Iraqi exiles like
myself look to one another to find people capable of leading Iraq to
"complete liberation".
Media war's first salvos
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,936912,00.html
You faithfully report the BBC public relations department assertion
that its reporter in Baghdad, Rageh Omaar, was "widely regarded" as
having won the putative journalistic battle of Baghdad (Rageh Omaar
wins it for BBC in Baghdad, April 14).
Respect for the rules
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,936913,00.html
I heard Jack Straw insisting on yesterday's BBC Today programme that
Syria must "respect the rules of the international community".
Blair faces a crucial test in Washington
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,936914,00.html
David Hare's brilliant analysis of the Iraq scene (Don't look for a
reason, April 12) is effectively the most potent and incisive we have
had. It read like a script for his next play.
Peace map
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,936915,00.html
Unlike Ewen MacAskill (Road map to nowhere, April 14), I believe that
the Israelis have the political will for a comprehensive peace
agreement with the Palestinians.
Our fears for the Congo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,936916,00.html
We want to express our concern over the situation in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (Counting the dead, April 10). Since 1998, the war
in the DRC has claimed more than 3 million lives - making it the worst
in Africa's history.
Bush's next move
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,936907,00.html
It should be Palestine not Damascus.
Oil price falls as Iraq prepares to export
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,936923,00.html
Global oil prices slumped further yesterday as traders feared Iraqi
exports would be brought on stream more quickly than expected just as
demand is falling.
Elections by end of next year?
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,936890,00.html
Tony Blair last night claimed 'victory' and told MPs that Iraqi
elections could be held as soon as 2004.
Surge in war support confirms dramatic shift in public opinion
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/polls/story/0,11030,937043,00.html
Support for the war among British voters has surged to a new record
level of 63%, according to results of this week's Guardian/ICM war
tracker poll.
Anti-war MPs cling to intellectual life rafts
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/commons/comment/0,9236,936881,00.html
The war is over, more or less, and so it was a chance for MPs to
clarify what they had said over the past few months.
She who must be surveyed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,936560,00.html
April 14: The South African media have been paying plenty of attention
to an ancient tribe's new monarch, writes Rory Carroll.
Going back to the board
http://www.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch/story/0,12498,936725,00.html
April 14: Does Germany need a dose of the Anglo-American industrial
model? David Gow investigates.
Bush vetoes Syria war plan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937034,00.html
The White House has privately ruled out suggestions that the US should
go to war against Syria following its military success in Iraq, and
has blocked preliminary planning for such a campaign in the Pentagon,
the Guardian learned yesterday.
Armed Shia on streets in first sign of power tussle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937029,00.html
Armed groups of Shia citizens, acting on instructions from clerics in
the holy city of Najaf, were attempting to bring order to districts of
Baghdad yesterday.
A moment of pure Hollywood in the town of a thousand Saddams
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936885,00.html
It is not difficult to find a statue of Saddam Hussein in Tikrit, the
town of a thousand Saddams. There is the equine statue of Saddam -
sword in hand - in Tikrit's main square.
Fall of the last stronghold
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936884,00.html
The US heralded the end of the main military phase of the war against
Iraq last night as the country's last stronghold fell with minimal
resistance.
Arafat jeopardises peace by rejecting new cabinet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936898,00.html
Yasser Arafat has angrily rejected his prime minister's proposed
cabinet, a reaction which endangers the whole process of Palestinian
reform demanded by the international community.
Sars claims young victims in Hong Kong
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936901,00.html
Chinese president ends silence on epidemic.
'Terror emir' on treason charges
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936900,00.html
The radical Indonesian cleric thought to have masterminded last year's
Bali bombing is to be tried for attempting to overthrow the government
and establish an Islamic state.
Russian treasure hunters destroy 'Greek outpost'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936899,00.html
The Russian security services are trying to prevent illegal
archaeologists, known as "black diggers", destroying the remains of
what might have been a remote outpost of classical Greek civilisation.
Buried vans could be chemical weapons labs, say US troops
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937115,00.html
An American general in Iraq said last night that his troops had
uncovered 11 vans buried underground that could be mobile chemical and
biological weapons laboratories.
Syria: US rattles the sabre but prepares for peace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937003,00.html
The accusations coming from all corners of the Bush administration
sound familiar - developing weapons of mass destruction while
consorting with terrorists. It appears as if the case against Syria is
being made in the same way as the prosecution of Iraq was put together
in the months before the war on Saddam Hussein.
Talks on new regime exclude UN and are boycotted by Shia group
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937004,00.html
American officials said yesterday they believed a new Iraqi government
could be formed within weeks but warned that the UN would not play a
significant role.
Charges against Damascus
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937005,00.html
Providing military equipment to Saddam Hussein's regime
With battles over, a perilous phase begins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937024,00.html
Coalition fears that with the fall of Tikrit, guerrillas and suicide
bombers could now wage a low-intensity conflict
US prisoners tell of tough time and dramatic rescue
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937025,00.html
Soldiers were subjected to interrogation, taunting and beatings
Regime pair may be ready to surrender
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937026,00.html
US forces in Mosul in northern Iraq believe they are close to
negotiating the surrender of two leading members of Saddam Hussein's
regime thought to be sheltering among diehard neighbourhoods in the
city.
Ancient archive lost in Baghdad library blaze
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936943,00.html
As flames engulfed Baghdad's National Library yesterday, destroying
manuscripts many centuries old, the Pentagon admitted that it had been
caught unprepared by the widespread looting of antiquities, despite
months of warnings from American archaeologists.
Jobs for the boys: the reconstruction billions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936944,00.html
Questions over favoured firms' links to Bush administration
New York killing blamed on smoking ban
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,936903,00.html
New York's smoking ban reached a new peak of controversy when a
bouncer was stabbed to death for asking a man to put out his
cigarette.
Warrior class
http://education.guardian.co.uk/further/story/0,5500,936734,00.html
Education: the US forces' biggest attraction. By Peter Kingston
Robert Fisk: Library books, letters and priceless documents are set
ablaze in final chapter of the sacking of Baghdad
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=397350
15 April 2003
So yesterday was the burning of books: first came the looters, then
the arsonists.
Robert Fisk: Would President Assad invite a cruise missile to his
palace?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=397347
15 April 2003
So now Syria is in America's gunsights.
Today's full links
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=397310
Bomb
http://tinyurl.com/9k18
By CHARLES McGRATH
War supplies great material for movies, novels and plays - but not
necessarily for television news.
Battle Lines
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/magazine/13QUESTIONS.html
Questions for Christopher Logue, the author of "All Day Permanent
Red."
Commute to Nowhere
http://tinyurl.com/9jmv
By JONATHAN MAHLER
In a new kind of recession, out-of-work executives are being forced to
rethink their professional identities, their personal relationships
and their most fundamental sense of who they are.
The Next Resolution
http://tinyurl.com/9k1g
By JAMES TRAUB
If you think the United Nations is irrelevant now in Iraq, wait and
see what hawkish policy makers are planning for any sequel.
Who Owns the Rules of War?
http://tinyurl.com/9k1j
By KENNETH ANDERSON
The war in Iraq demands a rethinking of the international rules of
conduct. The outcome could mean less power for neutral, well-meaning
human rights groups and more for big-stick-wielding states. That would
be a good thing.
The Disquieted American
http://tinyurl.com/9k1l
By KURT ANDERSEN
Traveling through Vietnam, I saw all that we ought to fear about war
in Iraq - and all that we have to hope for.
Soldier of Misfortune
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/magazine/13LIVES.html
By LANCE CPL. DERRICK JENSEN, as told to PETER MAASS
Every marine suspects he might die in battle, but sometimes death
comes in unexpected ways.
'The Future of Freedom': Overdoing Democracy
http://tinyurl.com/9k1r
By NIALL FERGUSON
In his brave and ambitious update of Tocqueville, Fareed Zakaria
proposes that liberty is threatened by an excess of democracy.
Alexis de Tocqueville
http://tinyurl.com/9k1u
'Terror and Liberalism': What Would Woodrow Wilson Do?
http://tinyurl.com/9k24
By GARY ROSEN
In the final chapter of his book ''A Tale of Two Utopias'' (1996),
Paul Berman laid out the rival historical claims of Francis Fukuyama
and Andre Glucksmann, big thinkers with very different notions of what
the cold war's end would bring. Fukuyama, the optimistic American,
looked forward, in his famous thesis about ''the end of history,'' to
the slow, sure spread of liberal democracy. Glucksmann, a Frenchman
and chastened ex-Maoist, saw dark, even monstrous possibilities ahead
in the likely reaction to the free world's triumph. Berman himself
split the difference: ''Since I am a critic and not a philosopher, I
see no reason not to say that both messages seem true enough.''
Francis Fukuyama
http://tinyurl.com/9k27
'A Wilderness So Immense': How the West Was Bought
http://tinyurl.com/9k2l
By SUSAN DUNN
"Damn sugar, damn coffee, damn colonies!" Napoleon shouted in January
1803. He had just lost more than 24,000 troops to the rebellion in
Haiti; his dream of a revived empire in North America was dashed.
Suddenly and impulsively, he decided to rid himself of his newly
reacquired colony of Louisiana. His foreign minister, Talleyrand,
approached Jefferson's ambassador, Robert Livingston, who was in Paris
with instructions to try to buy only West Florida and the crucial port
of New Orleans. What would Livingston ''give for the whole?''
Talleyrand asked. It would take longer to draw up the final documents
than it had to negotiate the sale -- $15 million for 565 million
acres.
Louisiana Purchase
http://tinyurl.com/9k2p
Colonialism
http://tinyurl.com/9k33
'The Extravagant Universe': Department of Dark Energy
http://tinyurl.com/9k30
By MICHAEL RIORDAN
In 1929, the astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is
not at rest. By measuring the speed and distance of various galaxies,
he established that all but a few are receding from us and that their
''recessional velocities,'' the speeds at which they are moving away,
increase steadily with distance. His surprising conclusion, accepted
by scientists ever since, is that the universe is expanding.
'Wild Bill': Dirty Rotten Hero
http://tinyurl.com/9k39
By JAMES RYERSON
On his tombstone in Arlington National Cemetery, William O. Douglas is
identified correctly as a former justice of the United States Supreme
Court, and incorrectly as a former member of the United States armed
forces. The error is significant, not only because Arlington National
Cemetery reserves its plots for distinguished veterans but because
Douglas himself was willfully responsible for the mistake. For 10
weeks at the end of World War I, the 20-year-old Douglas served in the
Whitman College regiment of the Students' Army Training Corps in Walla
Walla, Wash., where he and his fellow trainees conducted unarmed
predawn marches in their street clothes against imaginary enemies. He
later described his wartime experience as a three-month stint in
Europe as an Army private, and recorded some of the putative details
in an autobiography as well as a Supreme Court opinion.
William O. Douglas
http://tinyurl.com/9k3c
'Memoirs of an Italian Terrorist': Notes From Underground
http://tinyurl.com/9k3i
By RICHARD EDER
Organizing a terrorist action ''has much more in common with the
approach of a scrupulous accountant than that of a guerrilla
fighter,'' writes the author of ''Memoirs of an Italian Terrorist.''
He continues: ''I imagine that few wars or guerrilla campaigns or
armed uprisings, call it what you like, have required the level of
drudge work, routine or rat race that is so much a part of ours.''
'Voyages of Delusion': Overcoming a Geographical Fantasy
http://tinyurl.com/9k3l
By JONATHAN DORE
If today the term "Northwest Passage" suggests an ice-clogged route
through the Canadian Arctic, it is as well to remember that it once
denoted a simple sail from Europe to the Orient through a broad,
magically temperate channel much farther south. Such a channel does
not exist, of course, but our chillier understanding of the Northwest
Passage became possible only once this more beguiling vision of an
easy route had been thoroughly looked for and, reluctantly, ruled out
of the question. This essentially negative task was completed during
the 18th century, the period covered in Glyn Williams's ''Voyages of
Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage'' (readers should
overlook the publisher's misleading subtitle, which suggests the
19th-century explorations in the Arctic, not covered here; the British
edition is more accurately subtitled ''The Search for the Northwest
Passage in the Age of Reason''). One of its central themes is the
paradox that geographical theories of prodigious improbability still
held sway in the era of the Enlightenment, inspiring exploratory
voyages based on delusions. A further paradox is that if the end
result -- that there is no passage in temperate latitudes -- had been
known at the start, the voyages that finally delineated the details of
the coast would probably never have been made.
Northwest Passage
http://tinyurl.com/9k3p
Age of Reason
http://tinyurl.com/9k3z
Age of Paine
http://tinyurl.com/9k43
'The Rebbe's Army': God's Salesmen
http://tinyurl.com/9k4d
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
Several chapters into ''The Rebbe's Army,'' Sue Fishkoff describes a
group of Hasidic teenagers making their weekly search for Jewish
passers-by, in this case in a Portland, Ore., mall favored by
purple-haired, body-pierced skate punks. One of them, with a backward
baseball cap atop his head, spots the yeshiva students in their black
coats and fedoras and asks, ''Hey, you guys Mormon?''
Scientists Say Human Genome Is Complete
http://tinyurl.com/9k4h
By NICHOLAS WADE
The parts of the genome still missing are of minor importance, but
many biologists would like to see them sequenced before declaring the
genome finished.
Human Genome
http://tinyurl.com/9k4i
Celebrated Math Problem Solved, Russian Reports
http://tinyurl.com/9k5c
By SARA ROBINSON
A Russian mathematician is reporting that he has proved the Poincaré
Conjecture, one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics.
Poincaré Conjecture
http://tinyurl.com/9k4o
Math Convention Problems Just Keep On Multiplying
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages/?msg=192
The Secret War
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899657.asp
It's been the best-covered war in history. But the key to success was
what we didn't see
Fineman: Different From Dad
http://www.msnbc.com/news/898879.asp
No sooner had the statue toppled than Bush launched the next front:
the economy. The race to dodge 41's fate
Looking for a Leader Amid the Ashes
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899639.asp
The next mission is to rebuild Iraq
Iraqi Metamorphoses
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899383.asp
This Iraqi woman wants the world to know her tragic story so that no
one doubts the military action taken against Saddam Hussein
In Revolution City
http://www.msnbc.com/news/898878.asp
Iraq's Shiite majority, long oppressed by Saddam, may finally get the
chance to rule. The guys with Hizbullah headbands may be a dangerous
sign
‘They Are Getting Their Own Back'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899626.asp
Basra: Defeating Iraq may prove easier than pacifying it
An Iraqi Grunt's Escape
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899625.asp
Iraqi soldiers in the north discarded their uniforms and attempted to
find refuge and transportation back to Baghdad
Fareed Zakaria: How to Wage the Peace
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899469.asp
Improving on Saddam's rule will be easy. (Hint: Don't gas people.) But
democracy will take hard work. Don't believe oil riches will make it
easier. And above all, don't rush it
Koreas: Driving a Hard Bargain
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899732.asp
How might a nuclear North flex its muscle?
How to Make A Virus
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899514.asp
China's Guangdong province could be a petri dish for bugs even more
deadly than the mysterious SARS
‘Helpfully Neutral'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899618.asp
Tehran has subtly aided the U.S. war effort. But that may shift in the
battle for Iraq's Shiite majority
The Last Thing Iraqis Need
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899508.asp
Keeping luxury hotels occupied is perhaps the main contribution of
U.N. officials to the local economies they are unsuccessfully advising
Familiar Faces
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899565.asp
The Peronist old guard doesn't shame easily. They're back and eager
for power
Letter From America: Ready for the Real Scoop?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/898997.asp
Sexy celebrity gossip
A Producer to the End
http://www.msnbc.com/news/898978.asp
Sam Spiegel won Oscars but alienated loved ones
'Sam Spiegel': Brought to You by S. P. Eagle
http://tinyurl.com/9k77
By JAMES HARVEY
This book was written out of a kind of love, as the author tells us
right off. Sam Spiegel (1901-85), a ''treasured friend'' of her
stepfather, Harold Pinter, and her mother, Antonia Fraser, was for
Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni one of those bountiful, sporadically
appearing rich-uncle figures whom children always adore, if they are
lucky enough to have any. Later on, she became a frequent guest on the
producer's famous yacht, Malahne.
Levy: The Killer Browser
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899010.asp
It's been only a decade since the release of Mosaic, the Web
application that changed finance, commerce, culture—and the world
Mosaic Browser
http://tinyurl.com/9k7j
‘Out of Left Field'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899005.asp
Andreessen did Mosaic, then Netscape. He was at the center of the
browser wars and dot-com mania. What's he learned?
No PC Required
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899013.asp
Some accountants still do IRS returns without software. Remember
pencils and calculators?
VCs Open the Wallets
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899021.asp
There's new money for start-ups, though nowhere near the cash that
flowed during the mania
Waiting for Wi-Fi
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899018.asp
Wi-Fi start-ups are starting to sense potential in an industry that so
far has been dominated by hype
Victory Is No Panacea
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899460.asp
Before the war, there were problems: the stock market bust, heavy debt
loads and surplus industrial capacity. They haven't gone away
Quindlen: The Sounds of Silence
http://www.msnbc.com/news/899483.asp
A lesson in American history: each time the United States becomes
impartial it betrays the very keystone upon which it's greatness rests
So, Who's Next?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030421-443199,00.html
Michael Elliott says before the Bush Administration turns to Syria and
Iran, it must address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Why the Bear Will Lose Its Bite
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030421-443209,00.html
As the war winds down, Bush will get help fixing the economy. Here's
how
Will You Buy WiFi?
http://www.time.com/time/globalbusiness/article/0,9171,1101030421-443172,00.html
Tech giants from Intel to Cisco bet that road warriors will pay for
wireless Web access
When the Cheering Stops
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030421/story.html
Jubilation and chaos greet the fall of Saddam's regime, leaving Iraqis
and Americans puzzling over how to rebuild the nation
The Search for the Smoking Gun
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030421/nhunt.html
Coalition forces step up their search for weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq
Who Will Call the Shots?
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030421/nbrokers.html
The U.S. is looking for successors to Saddam. One is Ahmed Chalabi-but
some say he's yesterday's man
Inside Basra
http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/030421/basra.html
For two weeks, the people of the city were caught in a standoff
between British troops and Ba'athist fanatics. Then came liberation —
and anarchy. Basra's tale
Building Blocs
http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/030421/slice.html
Carving a slice of postwar Iraq
Europe's Gulf War Syndrome
http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/030421/syndrome.html
Why peace won't be enough to lift Europe's sagging economies out of
their long slump
Who Owns The Oil?
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901030421-443143,00.html
The U.S. plan for Iraqi black gold could be more Islamic than anyone
expected
The Generals' Election
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901030421-443153,00.html
Doubts remain whether Nigeria's latest election is really democracy in
action
maff
Behind Our Backs
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/15KRUG.html
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The political lesson of the last year is that war works - that is,
it's an excellent cover for the Republican Party's domestic political
agenda.
Handing Over the Keys to Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/15KRIS.html
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
In Iraq, America must strike a balance between a quick transition that
risks leaving a mess behind and an extended occupation that risks
alienating the Iraqis.
Good Riddance to the School Boards
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/15FREE.html
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
Eradication of New York City's community school boards is the best
chance in memory for meaningful reform.
Charity Begins at Schedule A
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/15AYRE.html
By IAN AYRES and BARRY NALEBUFF
By requiring everyone to calculate their donations as a percentage of
their income, the I.R.S. could stimulate charity.
The Road to Damascus
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/15TUE1.html
Syria may turn out to be one of the most complex problems facing the
Bush administration as it rebuilds Iraq.
Making the Tax System Fairer
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/15TUE2.html
A newly released report concludes that criminal enforcement against
tax cheating is "in shambles."
Sacking the Past
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/15TUE3.html
Until this past weekend, one of the most important collections of
Iraqi antiquities could still be found in Baghdad. But that was before
the looters came.
A Notable Advance on SARS
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/15TUE5.html
In the month since severe acute respiratory syndrome triggered a
global health alert, scientists have made remarkable progress in
identifying the cause.
After Iraq: Could Syria Be Next?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/L15IRAQ.html
In the Mideast, Walls That Divide
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/L15FRIE.html
The Actors, the War and the Hall of Fame
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/L15HALL.html
A Perilous World
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/L15SCHO.html
Restore Commuter Tax
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/L15COMM.html
A Role for Europe
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/L15REBU.html
A Trip to the Automat
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/opinion/L15AUTO.html
U.S.-Led Talks in Iraq End With Pledge to Meet Again in 10 Days
http://tinyurl.com/9ljm
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
At talks on the future of Iraq that brought together often-quarrelsome
Iraqi factions, the U.S. pledged not to rule the country.
Pentagon Asserts the Main Fighting Is Finished in Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/9ljr
By ERIC SCHMITT with BERNARD WEINRAUB
The Pentagon declared that major combat operations in Iraq were over
after U.S. forces took control of Tikrit.
In Hometown, Hussein's Glory Is Quickly Gone
http://tinyurl.com/9ljw
By DEXTER FILKINS
The end came for the last and most formidable redoubt of Saddam
Hussein's reign, as thousands of American marines poured into Tikrit.
A Couple Separated by War While United in Their Fears
http://tinyurl.com/9lk1
By JAYSON BLAIR with MICHAEL WILSON
The fall of Baghdad may have lessened the worries for many Americans,
but for couples like the Thompsons, the days are still consumed with
fear, loneliness and pain.
Syria Fears the Unknown: What's Behind U.S. Threats
http://tinyurl.com/9lk5
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Residents of Damascus, Syria, wonder aloud if the United States Army
plans to march on their city.
As the Iraq War Goes On, Afghan Violence Increases
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/worldspecial/15AFGH.html
By CARLOTTA GALL
While United States forces have been busy in Iraq, there has been an
alarming spate of violence in Afghanistan.
CNN's Silence About Torture Is Criticized
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/worldspecial/15CNN.html
By JIM RUTENBERG
An acknowledgment by CNN's chief news executive that he withheld some
accounts of Saddam Hussein's brutality to protect Iraqi sources came
in for some withering criticism.
For Many Iraqis, an American Patrol Is a Welcome Sight
http://tinyurl.com/9lka
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Eager to protect their neighborhoods from looters, Iraqis have helped
Americans providing security.
Radical Cleric Is Charged With Treason In Indonesia
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/worldspecial/15INDO.html
By RAYMOND BONNER
Prosecutors in Indonesia indicted a radical Islamic cleric on charges
of treason and plotting to overthrow the Indonesian government.
Accused Helper of Al Qaeda Pleads Guilty
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/worldspecial/15SEAT.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Muslim charged with aiding Al Qaeda pleaded guilty to a lesser
charge and agreed to help in the investigation of a long-sought imam
in London.
Attacks Riddle Afghanistan, Including Shootings and Explosions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/international/asia/14AFGH.html
By CARLOTTA GALL
Opponents of the Afghan government continued their attacks over the
weekend.
Americans See Clear Victory in Iraq, Poll Finds
http://tinyurl.com/9lkp
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JANET ELDER
Americans say a victory in Iraq will stand even if Saddam Hussein
remains at large, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News
Poll.
County Says It's Too Poor to Defend the Poor
http://tinyurl.com/9lkt
By ADAM LIPTAK
A Mississippi county is suing the state because it cannot afford to
provide defendants with anything more than assembly-line justice.
Spy Suspect May Have Told Chinese of Bugs, U.S. Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/politics/15SPY.html
By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU
Officials fear that an F.B.I. informer tipped off the Chinese
government to a covert United States effort to plant listening devices
aboard China's version of Air Force One.
A Couple Separated by War While United in Their Fears
http://tinyurl.com/9lk1
By JAYSON BLAIR with MICHAEL WILSON
The fall of Baghdad may have lessened the worries for many Americans,
but for couples like the Thompsons, the days are still consumed with
fear, loneliness and pain.
For a Historic Ship, a New Port of Call
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/national/15SHIP.html
By IVER PETERSON
The United States, the fastest passenger ocean liner in the world in
its heyday but now a fading hulk, has been bought by Norwegian Cruise
Lines.
Hoping to Seize Moment, Bush Pushes Tax Cut Plan
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/politics/15CND-BUSH.html
By DAVID STOUT
President Bush hopes to capitalize on the bounce in his popularity
ratings that has come from his prosecution of the Iraq war to push
through his economic goals.
U.S. Threatens to Impose Penalties Against Syrians
http://tinyurl.com/9llb
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell threatened sanctions if Syria
continued to offer haven to Iraqi leaders or to defy U.S. demands on
chemical weapons and terrorism.
Syria Harbors Iraqis and Grants Transit to Hezbollah, U.S. Asserts
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/worldspecial/15INTE.html
By DON VAN NATTA Jr. and DOUGLAS JEHL
Syria is allowing some members of Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim militant
group based in Lebanon, to transit from Syrian-controlled southern
Lebanon to Iraq.
U.S. Overseer Begins Meeting With Iraqis on New Government
http://tinyurl.com/9jjk
By JANE PERLEZ
Lt. Gen. Jay Garner is presiding over a meeting in Nasiriya today
intended to begin the process of forming a representative government
for Iraq.
Technology Battle Between Satellite Operators and Cable
http://tinyurl.com/9llp
By MATT RICHTEL
Ruport Murdoch's recent acquisition of DirecTV adds another piece to
his global satellite empire and puts him squarely at the center of a
fierce technological battle.
Lost No More: An Etruscan Rebirth
http://tinyurl.com/9llv
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
If the Etruscans were once considered a "lost" society, they are now
being found in new excavations and a closer examination of artifacts.
E.P.A. Orders Companies to Examine Effects of Chemicals
http://tinyurl.com/9lm3
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
Scientists are raising concerns about the potential health and
environmental effects of an important family of industrial chemicals.
Stem Cell Transplants Offer New Hope in Some Cases of Blindness
http://tinyurl.com/9lm6
By GWEN KINKEAD
A little-known operation restores hope for people who lose sight from
chemical or heat burns of the eye or certain rare diseases.
How One Person Can Fuel an Epidemic
http://tinyurl.com/9lmh
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. and LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Watching SARS hop around the world and explode in new outbreaks,
epidemiologists began to ask themselves: is it carried by
"superspreaders"?
Quest for Weight-Loss Drug Takes an Unusual Turn
http://tinyurl.com/9lmn
By DENISE GRADY
Researchers have been studying weight loss in people taking two drugs
already on the market, but approved for a completely different use.
Squeezed Colleges See Credit Ratings Drop
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/education/15COLL.html
By GREG WINTER
A record number of downgrades reflect pressures on private colleges to
spend money, to keep classrooms filled and to raise tuition.
A Challenge to White Supremacy, 100 Years Later
http://tinyurl.com/9ln0
By FELICIA R. LEE
"The Souls of Black Folk," W. E. B. DuBois's groundbreaking book about
race in America, is being celebrated in its centennial year with a
host of events.
W. E. B. DuBois
http://tinyurl.com/9ln3
Frederick Douglass
http://tinyurl.com/9lno
U.S. Toughens Warnings to Syria
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26432-2003Apr14.html
The U.S. warned Syria to consider "the implications" of providing
haven for escaping Iraqi leaders and to "think seriously" about
pursuing chemical weapons and aiding anti-Israel groups.
Genome Project Completed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26372-2003Apr14.html
The Human Genome Project, 13 years in the making, has revealed in
exquisite detail the genetic blueprint underlying all human life.
In Plea Deal, Seattle Activist Admits Conspiring to Aid Taliban
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26039-2003Apr14.html
A Muslim convert admitted in federal court in Seattle Monday that he
conspired to aid the deposed Taliban government in Afghanistan, part
of a deal with prosecutors that could lead to criminal charges against
a radical London cleric linked to al Qaeda.
As Iraqis Flee To Syria, U.S. Nabs Scientist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26442-2003Apr14.html
Numerous senior Iraqi officials have fled into Syria over the last two
weeks.
U.S. Convenes Forum on Iraqi Future
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30858-2003Apr15.html
Thousands of Iraqis protest outside a meeting of U.S. officials and
Iraqi leaders invited by the U.S. military.
Chinese Report 10 More SARS Deaths
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26724-2003Apr14.html
China and Hong Kong reported 10 new deaths today from severe acute
respiratory syndrome and Premier Wen Jiabao described the disease for
the first time as a "grave" crisis that continues to spread.
Where the Lizard Is King
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26156-2003Apr14.html
Behind the meat counter at Mercadito Ramos II, Jaime Medina lifted a
bag of dark-pink iguana meat to the silver scale. The headless,
skinless lizard registered 3.3 pounds. "Forty dollars," Medina said in
Spanish.
Old Bones Bring Some Currency To a Broken Economy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26709-2003Apr14.html
NEUQUEN, Argentina
"Is this a vertebra?" asked Jorge Lagos, scooping up a curiously
round, oddly colored stone from the reddish earth.
SARS Fears Complicate Asia Trade
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26162-2003Apr14.html
Companies deliberate over whether the production lines overseas can be
supervised electronically, by e-mail or teleconference, as concern
over the spread of SARS grows.
In Broken Baghdad, Photo Negatives
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26194-2003Apr14.html
Two pictures -- one of a 12-year-old boy whose arms have been blown
off, the other of a museum official walking through a looted museum --
have stirred some of the strongest anger about the war in Iraq. - By
Philip Kennicott
Stronger IRA Commitment Sought
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26069-2003Apr14.html
The Northern Ireland peace process remained in a state of suspension
Monday as Britain, Ireland and a senior envoy from the Bush
administration struggled to coax a definitive commitment from the
Irish Republican Army to permanently end violence.
Military Goals In Iraq Shift
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26345-2003Apr14.html
Major combat operations are now over in Iraq as U.S. forces move to
securing Iraq's cities and searching for chemical and biological
weapons, senior defense officials said Monday.
Immigrant Marine Fights for Citizenship
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26246-2003Apr14.html
Sgt. Khanh T. Nguyen is a man without a country fighting for the
United States
Tending to the Psychic Wounds of POWs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25920-2003Apr14.html
Decompression helps former POWs come to grips with the euphoria,
survivor guilt, depersonalization, even liberation anxiety they feel
when they are freed. - By Don Oldenburg
CNN Executive Defends Silence on Atrocities
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26857-2003Apr14.html
Eason Jordan sent a memo to his staff defending his decision to
withhold information about how Saddam Hussein's regime had tortured
and killed Iraqis who had helped the cable news network over the
years. - By Lisa de Moraes
A Party With a Twist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27757-2003Apr15.html
We're all just a bunch of DNA swirling around our cells, and
understanding that holds the key to our very existence. Which brings
us to Monday night's party at the Library of Congress: "The Helix and
the Genome." - By Roxanne Roberts
Journalists: Armed and Dangerous?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28865-2003Apr15.html
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 15, 2003; 8:29 AM
Have reporters in Iraq been acting too much like soldiers?
Truth-Telling
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26640-2003Apr14.html
Page A24
EVERY NEWS ORGANIZATION, and every reporter, makes difficult,
morally ambiguous decisions when working in a totalitarian state.
There are no hard and fast rules about where to draw the line between
legitimate cooperation with authorities and outright collaboration.
Some of the time it is right to let readers and viewers make
intelligent inferences, as long as a sentence stating that "this
reporter was operating under the rules of local censorship" is
inserted into an article or broadcast report. Sometimes it is better
to continue publishing news from a place, if the choice is between
taking an unpleasant official from a corrupt regime out to lunch or
producing no news at all.
Evangelize Elsewhere
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26646-2003Apr14.html
Page A24
IF THE REV. Franklin Graham wanted to play the role of Mother
Teresa in Iraq, ministering "quietly" to a suffering people, as he
wrote in a recent op-ed article in the Los Angeles Times, he should
have thought through the operation a little more carefully. It's hard
to slip into a mostly Muslim country unnoticed when you are the son of
America's most famous Christian evangelist, a friend of the president
-- and, most to the point, a public figure who has called Islam a
"wicked" and "evil" religion, "a greater threat than anyone's willing
to speak."
Mideast Peace: Follow The Map
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26669-2003Apr14.html
By Robert S. Strauss, Page A25
Over the past 21/2 years, more than 750 Israelis and 2,000
Palestinians have died in an escalation of the horrendous conflict in
the Middle East. Our inability to improve the situation and hands-off
approach have hurt American credibility in the region and compromised
our reputation as an honest broker for peace. In turn, our ability to
muster broad international support for other policies, such as those
on Iraq and the war on terrorism, has been hindered.
Regime Change's Regional Ripples
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26668-2003Apr14.html
By David Ignatius, Page A25
DOHA, Qatar -- In their lightning conquest of Iraq, Gen. Tommy
Franks and his commanders here have thrown a huge boulder into the
small, dank pond of Middle East politics.
Religious Instruction From Secretary Paige
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26666-2003Apr14.html
By Richard Cohen, Page A25
Last month in New York, I heard Rod Paige speak. He is the
secretary of education, and the event was about literacy, and while I
cannot remember exactly what he said, I will go out on a limb and say
he was for it. I do remember, though, that he thanked a rather
prominent New Yorker for the swell speech she had just given. The
audience squirmed just a bit. The woman had not spoken.
Democrats in a Dilemma
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26665-2003Apr14.html
By Harold Meyerson, Page A25
The campaign for president is still taking shape, but divisions in
the Democratic ranks over the war have already made 2004 look a little
like the Democrats' nightmare year of 1968. And though the war is
winding down, with Saddam Hussein deposed and few American casualties,
the party actually has more doves now -- both candidates and voters --
than it did in '68. The way in which the Bush administration
preemptively took us into war -- and gleefully destroyed the global
institutions and alliances that the United States had created and
maintained for close to 60 years -- enraged and appalled Democratic
liberals more than any federal policy since Vietnam.
The Price of Liberty
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26667-2003Apr14.html
By E. J. Dionne Jr., Page A25
If you think government is useless, evil and unnecessary, ponder
those pictures of looters in Iraq ransacking homes, hotels, even
hospitals. Feel for that sobbing official of the National Museum of
Antiquities, aghast at the destruction of irreplaceable historical
artifacts by an angry mob.
Invade on the Cheap? I Never Said It.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26670-2003Apr14.html
Page A24
Philip H. Gordon and Michael E. O'Hanlon ["No Easy Victory," op-ed,
April 12] have every right to disagree with what I wrote -- but not
with what I never wrote and never believed.
What War Has Wrought
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26671-2003Apr14.html
Page A24
"Peaceful change" may be the purported topic of the April 8 news
story "For Some, Syria Looms as Next Goal," but the story sounds more
like a summation of Pentagon threats. Richard Perle is quoted as
saying, "We're not going to make war on the world for democracy,"
while also saying, "I hope the example of Iraq after Afghanistan will
prove persuasive."
Two Sides to Cuba Story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26695-2003Apr14.html
Page A24
The April 3 editorial "Cuba's Crackdown" left out some salient
facts. This move against dissidents is a response, says the Cuban
government, to the flagrant violation of diplomatic norms by James
Cason, chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana. While some
accusations against Mr. Cason are simply hyperventilating by the
Cubans, some hold up under scrutiny.
Scientists Release Analysis of SARS Genetic Code: Completed Genome May
Offer Better Diagnosis, Future Treatments for Lung Disease (Post,
April 15, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26723-2003Apr14.html
Between Slopes And Hot Tub, Professionals Get a Tax Break: Firms Find
Creative Ways to Tap 'Travel and Education' Deduction (Post, April 15,
2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25868-2003Apr14.html
Graham Invitation Irks Muslims at Pentagon: Clergyman Has Called Islam
'Evil' (Post, April 15, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26209-2003Apr14.html
Heat Shielding Was Area of Concern Before Columbia: NASA Found
Post-Flight Wing Damage on Another Shuttle (Post, April 15, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26371-2003Apr14.html
No School Choice but to Improve: Change in Public Schools Is Not
Optional, Hickok Believes (By Michael A. Fletcher, Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25704-2003Apr14.html
For CSIS, It's OSI to the Rescue (By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane,
Page A23)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25705-2003Apr14.html
Breyer Says Rights Need Guarding in Terror War (Page A10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26775-2003Apr14.html
U.S. Has No Plans to Count Civilian Casualties: Congress Calls for
'Assistance' to Iraqis For War Losses (By Bradley Graham and Dan
Morgan, Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26305-2003Apr14.html
Long Island Diocese Is Sued Over Sex Abuse Allegations (Page A02)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26648-2003Apr14.html
Youth, 15, Dies in Shooting At New Orleans High School: Three Wounded
as Teenagers Open Fire in Gym (By Mary Foster, Page A03)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26750-2003Apr14.html
Bush May Return to Fundraising Next Month (By Mike Allen, Page A04)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25869-2003Apr14.html
EPA Probes Widely Used Chemical: Compound May Pose Health Risk to
Women and Young Girls (By Eric Pianin, Page A05)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26045-2003Apr14.html
Former President Bush Joins Battle Over Judges: Funds Raised for Ads
Targeting Democrats (By Thomas B. Edsall, Page A06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25871-2003Apr14.html
House Ethics Panel Limits Gifts: New Restrictions Imposed On
Lawmakers' Travel, Dining (By Juliet Eilperin, Page A07)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26183-2003Apr14.html
At Baghdad Market, Blast Is Another Turn In Cycle of Suffering (Post,
April 15, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26375-2003Apr14.html
Separatist Party Loses in Quebec: Nine-Year Hold on Provincial
Government Ended by Liberals' Win (Post, April 15, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26076-2003Apr14.html
Oasis of Hedonism In Nation of Poverty: Home of Hussein's Son Filled
With Wine, Women (Post, April 15, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26067-2003Apr14.html
Afghan Governor Strains To Shed Warlord Image: Gul Agha's Rule in
Kandahar Dismays Some in Kabul (By April Witt, Page A22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26782-2003Apr14.html
Beseeching the Conqueror for Aid, Protection (By Mary Beth Sheridan,
Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26231-2003Apr14.html
People in Basra Contest Official View of Siege: Life Was Mostly
Normal, Residents Say; Doctors Report Many Civilians Killed (By Keith
B. Richburg, Page A13)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26066-2003Apr14.html
Iraqi Envoy's Son Charged (Page A15)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26711-2003Apr14.html
Iraqis Say Lynch Raid Faced No Resistance (By Keith B. Richburg, Page
A17)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26714-2003Apr14.html
Aggressive Screening Spurs Hope in Singapore: Isolation Wards,
Disease-Tracking Curbs SARS Spread (By Ellen Nakashima, Page A20)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26725-2003Apr14.html
Sierra Leone Court May Offer Model for War Crimes Cases: Hybrid
Tribunal, With Limited Lifespan, Focuses on Higher-Ups (By Douglas
Farah, Page A21)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26642-2003Apr14.html
Major Combat Is 'Over' as Tikrit Falls: Mission Shifts To Restoring
Order, Finding Militiamen (By Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26298-2003Apr14.html
U.S.-Led Gathering to Begin Remaking Iraq (By Alan Sipress and Carol
Morello, Page A01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26448-2003Apr14.html
World Wonders If Syria's Next
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28992-2003Apr15.html
Many papers feel the odds of a U.S. attack on Damascus are rather
high.
Take Weight Off the Wait List
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30491-2003Apr15.html
Patience helps. So does appreciating the fine qualities of fallback
colleges.
Bush Demands $550 Billion Tax Cut
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30764-2003Apr15.html
President Bush on Tuesday demanded at least $550 billion in tax cuts
over 10 years, a retreat from his original proposal of more than $700
billion that reflected congressional reluctance to run up bigger
deficits in wartime.
Nuclear Material, but No Smoking Gun, Found at Plant
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/worldspecial/15CND-SEAR.html
By JUDITH MILLER
An American team hunting for unconventional Iraqi weapons at an
ammunition plant near Karbala have discovered some radioactive
material in a maintenance building and biological equipment that can
be used for peaceful or military purposes buried in metal containers,
but no "smoking gun" proving that Iraq made chemical, biological or
nuclear materials at the plant.
Powell Says 'There Is No War Plan' Against Syria
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/worldspecial/15CND-SYRI.html
By BRIAN KNOWLTON,
International Herald Tribune
Secretary of State Colin Powell said today that "there is no war plan"
against Syria, as the United States appeared intent on cooling anxiety
in the region caused by recent tough-sounding comments from the Bush
administration.
French Threat to Militant Muslims After Council Vote
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/europe/15CND-MUSL.html
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
France's interior minister threatened today to expel any Muslim
religious leader considered extremist after a fundamentalist Muslim
organization unexpectedly won a large number of seats in an election
for the country's first national council of Muslims.
South Africa to Pay Reparations to Victims of Apartheid Crimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/africa/15CND-AFRI.html
By GINGER THOMPSON
President Thabo Mbeki said today that his government would pay
reparations totaling some $85 million to more than 19,000 victims of
apartheid crimes, who testified about their suffering before the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission.
Mugabe's Recruits Flee Brutal Zimbabwean Past
http://tinyurl.com/9lt3
By GINGER THOMPSON
It's neither the week they spent in jail nor the nights on the streets
that most torment the dozen or so young Zimbabweans standing like
scared deer in a park at the center of the city. Their nightmares,
they said, come from the demons inside.
Liberals Poised for Victory Over Separatists in Quebec
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/americas/15CANA.html
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
The federalist Liberal party took an insurmountable lead tonight in
provincial elections to wrest control of Quebec from the separatist
Parti Québécois. The vote should shelve the possibility of another
divisive referendum on independence for the foreseeable future.
Clash in Mosul Complicates Already Troubled U.S. Arrival
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/worldspecial/15CND-NORT.html
By DAVID ROHDE
At least 10 Iraqis were reported killed and 16 injured today in a
clash in northern Iraq that Marines called a gun battle and Iraqis
described as the shooting of unarmed civilians. The deaths further
complicated the already troubled arrival of American troops in Mosul,
a city considered a center of Iraqi nationalism.
Spain Expels 6 Iraqi Diplomats After Arms Cache Is Revealed
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/worldspecial/15SPAI.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Spain has ordered six Iraqi diplomats to leave Madrid after the top
diplomat reportedly told the Spanish authorities about a cache of
illicit guns in the Iraqi Embassy.
Bush to Campaign for Tax Cut Plan
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/politics/15ECON.html
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
With hostilities in Iraq apparently winding down, the White House
signaled today that it would put President Bush's wartime popularity
to work immediately on behalf of his beleaguered tax cut plan,
reflecting deep anxiety among Republicans about the political peril in
the weak economy.
Science Aids Hussein Hunt, General Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/worldspecial/15SADD.html
By DAVID JOHNSTON
A senior American military commander said today that any member of
President Saddam Hussein's family could be positively identified,
whether dead or alive, through scientific matching techniques.
Plan Would Use Software, Not Devices, to Fight Piracy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/technology/15CRYP.html
By JOHN MARKOFF
A prominent computer security researcher has proposed a technical
solution aimed at forging a middle ground in the increasingly bitter
battle by Hollywood and Silicon Valley over the best way to protect
digital content from consumer piracy.
New Battle Over Jenin, on Television
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/middleeast/15ISRA.html
By GREG MYRE
Scene one: Israeli soldiers fighting their way through the congested
alleys of the Jenin refugee camp face frequent fire, but stop to open
a tin of food for a distraught, elderly Palestinian woman, who thanks
God for their kindness.
maff
The war is over. Now these questions must be answered
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=397649
Where are the weapons of mass destruction?
Where is Saddam?
What about the alleged links to al-Qa'ida?
How many Iraqi soldiers were killed and injured?
How many civilians were killed and injured?
How many Allied casualties?
Did the Allies stick to the Geneva Conventions?
Why did Saddam's forces crumble?
Was the war illegal?
What side deals were made?
Who is in the 'coalition' and what did they do?
Where is the anti-war alliance now?
Is the UN relevant any more?
Do Iraqis feel liberated?
Why did so many journalists die?
Who was really responsible for the two marketplace bombings?
Is there a humanitarian crisis?
Are the contracts to rebuild Iraq all going to White House cronies?
Is this the first step to reordering the Middle East?
What about North Korea?
What happened to the human shields?
Has public opinion changed since the war began?
Is Ahmed Chalabi just a crooked US stooge?
What are the chances of an Iranian-style Shia revolution?
How long will American troops stay in Iraq?
Has the Rumsfeld doctrine been vindicated?
Was it really all about Israel?
Or was it about oil?
Or was it about the 2004 presidential election?
Is the world a safer place?
Special analysis: Iraq has fallen. Saddam is deposed. But, after 27
days of war, little else is resolved
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=397647
16 April 2003
Not a single confirmed finding has been made of weapons of mass
destruction, chemical, biological, or nuclear, the supposed existence
of which was the formal, casus belli and, as the heart of UN
resolution 1441, the sole legal justification for the war.
Rupert Cornwell: Has the war left the world a safer place?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=397646
16 April 2003
It's over, and mercifully faster than most of us dared imagine.
Analysis: The limits of UN power in the new world order
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=397602
16 April 2003
The 2003 Iraq war confirms that legitimising the use of force through
the UN will remain the exception rather than the rule
Special analysis continued: After 27 days of war, little else is
resolved
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=397648
16 April 2003
The theory is that America has the right to protect its security by
acting pre-emptively to avert an external threat.
Iraq needs economic recovery before it can achieve political stability
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/hamish_mcrae/story.jsp?story=397605
It is arrogant to suggest that, since the Allies invaded Iraq, they
have a duty to rebuild it. That's not how economics work
Today's full links
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=397600
Don't hold your breath
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,937574,00.html
Jonathan Freedland: Hopes for Middle East peacemaking are premature.
Neither Sharon nor Bush is going to deliver what's needed.
Blair's doctrine peters out in the wreckage of Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,937550,00.html
Polly Toynbee: His electrifying vision was just a garland of rhetoric
on the war chariot.
Democracy only grows from below
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,937552,00.html
Paul Foot: US-British policy has ensured that genuine Iraqi opposition
is broken
My part in the dirty war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,937581,00.html
Martin Ingram: The four-year inquiry into "collusion" between the
security forces and terrorists in Northern Ireland will conclude this
week that the police and army did indeed help loyalist paramilitaries
to target people for assassination - and the practice was widespread.
Muslims need not apply
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,937777,00.html
Raekha Prasad: Non-white Britons are becoming part of the collateral
damage of the fight against terrorism as family members are denied
visas to visit them.
Is the laird of Skye a racist?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,937643,00.html
Rod Liddle: Hello, good morning and welcome to yet another edition of
our popular panel game, Spot the Racist Bastard.
Unreality television
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,937545,00.html
Gary Younge: Friends has its first non-white character, but US TV
shows remain deeply racially segregated
Long shots
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,937513,00.html
For the past four weeks the newspapers have been full of powerful and
haunting photographs from the Iraq war. But how do they compare with
the great pictures from earlier conflicts, asks war photographer Nick
Danziger.
'Iraqis will defend democracy'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
The heavyweight American political journals consider the options.
Putting peace on the map
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,937691,00.html
Ewen MacAskill's suggestion that the neo-conservatives in the Bush
administration and the Israeli right read from the same hymn sheet may
sound logical, but it is not borne out by the facts (Road map to
nowhere, April 14).
Questions for the polls
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,937692,00.html
The Guardian/ICM war tracker poll (Surge in war support confirms
dramatic shift in public opinion, April 15) assumes that what the war
is fundamentally about is "to remove Saddam Hussein".
Force is not the answer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,937696,00.html
As France, Germany and Russia agreed at their "anti-war" meeting that
military force is not the right means to resolve complex political
problems, can we expect Vladimir Putin to withdraw his troops from
Chechnya?
The high price of museum plundering
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,937693,00.html
The answer to the question posed by David Aaronovitch's column (Is
this plundering really so bad? G2, April 15) is an emphatic "Yes, it
is".
Flash point
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,937694,00.html
The offence of indecent exposure will not criminalise skinny dippers
(Letters, April 12); nor restrict the activities of naturists who
exercise their preference without running a risk of causing distress
to others.
My 'trial' on bank charges
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,937695,00.html
Ahmad Chalabi is my brother (Financial scandal claims hang over leader
in waiting, April 14). Petra Bank was operated entirely correctly, was
solvent and able to meet all its commitments.
Rebuilding Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,937651,00.html
It was conceived as a way to heal the "hunger, desperation, poverty
and chaos" of the war so that America could do "whatever it is able to
do to assist in the return of normal economic health". That was the
Marshall Plan of 1947 when the US pumped the equivalent of $100bn into
lubricating Europe's postwar recovery.
Short breaks ranks again
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,937756,00.html
US and Britain 'should have done better' in anticipaing the collapse
of order in Iraq.
Straw challenge to Syria on arms
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,937657,00.html
Jack Straw distanced Britain from America's increasingly critical
stance towards Syria yesterday but warned that the government in
Damascus had 'serious questions' to answer.
UK calls for neutrals to monitor hunt for weapons
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,937760,00.html
Britain is to press for an international body on the lines of the
Northern Ireland disarmament commission to oversee the search for
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Peaced on or peaced off?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0,7371,337484,00.html
Caroon: Steve Bell on the chaos that has marked the beginning of talks
to decide Iraq's future.
Germany and UK rebuild bridges
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,937753,00.html
Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder last night staked out a role for
themselves as mediators between the US and France in the postwar
world.
PM's visit enrages anti-war Greeks
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,937575,00.html
Tony Blair flew into Athens for the historic EU enlargement ceremony
last night, against a backdrop of criticism from one of the most
anti-war populaces on the continent.
'Why does Blair want to spoil it all?'
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/eu/comment/0,9236,937775,00.html
Where has the war left Britain in relation to the EU?
Those enemies within
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,937381,00.html
April 15: German chancellor's route to economic revival is strewn with
political speed bumps, writes John Hooper.
Name-dropping
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,937274,00.html
April 15: Rebranding of South-Central will not be enough to erase the
memory of 1992's riots, says Duncan Campbell.
Farewell to a poetic bridge
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,937241,00.html
April 15: Preparing to leave Shanghai, John Gittings visits parts of
the city that evoke its venerable and more recent past.
Chaos mars talks on Iraqi self-rule
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937667,00.html
Shia group boycotts meeting · 12 die in riots in Mosul · Delegates
agree to meet again.
UK calls for neutrals to monitor hunt for weapons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937703,00.html
Britain is to press for an international body on the lines of the
Northern Ireland disarmament commission to oversee the search for
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Ali flies out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937702,00.html
Boy who lost arms in air strike heads for Kuwait hospital.
The nightmare scenario: freedom to choose rule by the ayatollahs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937620,00.html
Demonstrations show many in the Shia majority reject western-style
government.
Saddam's missing billions and link to al-Qaida
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937608,00.html
Experts fear state funds were moved to middlemen who also acted for
terror groups.
US neglect casts dark shadow over a city without light or much love
for the invaders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937604,00.html
A week after the US occupation of Baghdad began, there is a bitterness
and tension between citizens and occupiers.
Looted banks plunge savers into poverty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937606,00.html
Tens of thousands of Iraqis have lost their savings as a result of
looting which has left the country without a single functioning bank.
Millions face poverty in the absence of a government which can resume
paying salaries to teachers, doctors, civil servants and factory
workers.
'Light' sentence enrages Fortuyn's followers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937486,00.html
Admirers of the assassinated Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn struggled to
contain their fury yesterday when his self-confessed killer got off
"lightly" with an 18-year prison term.
Apartheid victims to get £2,500 each
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937487,00.html
South Africa will pay a reparations grant of almost £2,500 to each of
19,000 victims of apartheid who appeared before the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, President Thabo Mbeki said yesterday.
Sars crisis claims nine more lives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937512,00.html
Hong Kong suffered nine more Sars deaths yesterday - its biggest
one-day total - and doctors from a hard-hit hospital denied
accusations that poor infection controls may have aggravated the
crisis.
Achille Lauro killer caught
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937769,00.html
The leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front who masterminded the
1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro has been
arrested in Baghdad, according to US intelligence sources.
British Museum rescue pledge
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937701,00.html
The British Museum has announced a taskforce of conservators and
curators, funded by an anonymous private donor, to go to the rescue of
Iraq's ravaged museums.
Prominent Iraqi clerics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937621,00.html
Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr Hakim
US uses Ur-symbol of civilisation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937622,00.html
When the Bush administration said last week that a crucial meeting of
Iraqi politicians would take place "outside Nassiriya", there was
little hint of how powerfully symbolic the chosen location would be.
Dollars replace dinars while Iraq awaits new currency
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937607,00.html
The Saddam dinar, bearing the picture of the deposed ruler, may be
changing hands for up to $78 a time on the internet auction site eBay,
but on the streets of Iraq the dollar is taking over.
Riots greet would-be leader of Mosul
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937603,00.html
US special forces struggled to impose order in Mosul yesterday after a
public address by the self-styled governor of Iraq's third largest
city descended into a riot involving several thousand people, in which
12 were reported killed and at least 16 injured
Pro-Saddam gangs challenge marines' control of Tikrit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937605,00.html
Gangs of Arab tribesmen armed with Kalashnikovs and machine guns were
still in control of much of Tikrit last night, a day after US marines
apparently liberated the town.
Security fears block return of UN team
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937584,00.html
Evacuated UN staff were prevented from returning to northern Iraq
yesterday by security fears as shortages of water, food and
electricity hampered aid operations across the country.
The language of occupation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937585,00.html
Decoding the military jargon
Paris takes pragmatic line as poll shows isolation fear
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937586,00.html
Nearly half the French electorate believes that France was isolated
diplomatically because of its opposition to the invasion of Iraq,
according to an opinion poll yesterday.
Straw challenge to Syria on arms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937485,00.html
The Vatican is using a 16th-century icon that is one of the holiest
objects in Orthodox Russia as a bargaining chip in the attempt to
secure a visit to Russia by Pope John Paul II.
Vatican barters with Russia for papal visit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937508,00.html
James Ujaama, an American Muslim who worked at the Finsbury Park
mosque in London and was a close associate of the cleric Abu Hamza,
has pleaded guilty to assisting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
US Muslim guilty of Taliban aid
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937508,00.html
James Ujaama, an American Muslim who worked at the Finsbury Park
mosque in London and was a close associate of the cleric Abu Hamza,
has pleaded guilty to assisting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Missing tourists 'kidnapped'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937509,00.html
A Dutchman missing in the Algerian desert with 30 other tourists has
been kidnapped, the Netherlands said yesterday, raising fears the
entire group is being held captive.
Tokyo faces power blackout
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937510,00.html
Tokyo's main power company shut down the last of its 17 nuclear
reactors for safety checks yesterday, threatening Japan's capital with
its first blackouts in nearly 20 years.
UN steps up pressure on Israel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,937511,00.html
The UN commission on human rights urged Israel yesterday to start
dismantling Jewish settlements in the occupied territories because
they violate international law and are an obstacle to peace.
Viking gene blamed for women's cancer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,937480,00.html
Families in Scotland may be able to blame a form of inherited cancer
on the Vikings who began to arrive with Ivarr the Boneless and Halfdan
Wide-Embrace more than 1,000 years ago. And a Northern Irish form of
the disease may have been spread during the Elizabethan plantation of
Ulster in the 16th century.
The voices of doom were so wrong
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,935735,00.html
Andrew Rawnsley: Those who said war would be a catastrophe now say the
same about the peace. Tony Blair will have to confound them again.
All for one...
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,935843,00.html
David Aaronovitch: The rebirth of Iraq is too important to be left in
American hands alone.
Our man on the roof
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,935642,00.html
Amid bombs and bullets, crippled tanks and toppling statues, Rageh
Omaar, the BBC's man in Baghdad has remained cool and calm, lucidly
recounting the defeat of Saddam. Little wonder his fan club is
growing, here and in the US.
The US should welcome help
http://www.observer.co.uk/leaders/story/0,6903,935621,00.html
The peace cannot be won unilaterally.
Hawks get their gloating in early
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,935772,00.html
Peter Preston on the press: While media gloating has spread as fast as
looting in Baghdad, not all of the pro-war camp got their military
analysis right.
There is one choice, and it is the UN
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,935771,00.html
Barbara Stocking, director of Oxfam says that the victors cannot
rebuild the nation.
The worst is over. So was it worth it?
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,935766,00.html
We ask a cross-section of public figures if the end of Saddam's regime
has justified the means.
Hard Times in the Himalayas
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,935597,00.html
Unseen Wars: Continuing our regular online series examining
under-reported conflicts around the world, John H Norris of the
International Crisis Group asks whether Nepal will plunge a volatile
region back into conflict.
Winning the peace
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,935448,00.html
Can the United States and its allies avoid the mistakes of post-war
reconstruction elsewhere, ask Frederick Barton and Paul Flach.
'I have never cried for joy so much in my life'
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,936070,00.html
The Observer's panel of Iraqi exiles express their joy at the fall of
Saddam - and their fears about whether the west's promises to Iraq
will be kept.
All over bar the shouting
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,935441,00.html
Plenty of commentators around the world didn't feel that Wednesday's
historic events ended the argument, says Bulent Yusuf in his weekly
round-up of global press opinion.
'There are many more black people in prison - nothing like the same
growth in the civil service'
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,935452,00.html
A range of Britons respond to Trevor Phillips' Observer article
setting out a new agenda for race in Britain.
When saying nothing takes an hour
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,935424,00.html
William Keegan: I thought it was a bit rich to blame the slowdown in
world trade.
War-weary Mirror needs new marching orders
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,935420,00.html
The problem isn't Piers Morgan, but a yawning need for relevance ,
says Peter Preston.
I want a road map, too
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,935979,00.html
The Prime Minister has been led a merry dance by President Bush, says
Richard Ingrams.
It's your election, too
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,935836,00.html
Ruaridh Nicoll: Now is not the time for apathy. Now is the time to be
engaged.
Painful rebirth of Iraq after Saddam
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,935651,00.html
The aftermath: As Saddam's tyranny crumbles, a new nation struggles to
be born amid looting, flames and disorder. Two questions now dominate
in Washington and Baghdad: what future is there for Iraq? And just who
should be in charge of it?
Out of the darkness
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,935676,00.html
Paul Harris in Shuaba hears Iraqis slowly and fearfully - because they
are not convinced Saddam has gone - begin to tell of the terror, the
torture, and the friends and family who disappeared.
Exile takes centre stage
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,935679,00.html
The future leader: Drawing on the model of Nelson Mandela's Truth And
Reconciliation Commission, Ahmad Chalabi reveals a passionate vision
for his country.
Bush ready to fight war on two fronts
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,935695,00.html
Civil war in Washington: Defeat of Saddam does not end US ambitions in
the Middle East. The friends of President Bush have grand plans to
create an American Imperium - and to consolidate their power at home,
writes Ed Vulliamy.
The moderate mullah who knew the Shias must change
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,935652,00.html
Abdul Majid al-Khoei was stabbed by a fanatic. Before he died he spoke
of his hopes for his faith.
Ripples of fear and friendship spread across Middle East
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,935857,00.html
Regional tensions: Arab nations must now face up to a region
transformed. Middle East expert Dilip Hiro presents an authoritative
survey of how the regional tensions are likely to play out.
Bull market is back, says shares guru
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,935399,00.html
The bounce in the stock market since the lows on 12 March marks the
start of the 2003 bull market, says the respected stock market
historian David Schwartz.
Feeling bullish
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,935414,00.html
History suggests that the bears have had their day, argues stock
market historian David Schwartz.
But we're not out of the woods yet
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,935413,00.html
Heather Connon finds that even though many analysts believe prices
will rise in the short term, they remain sceptical
Jubilant Murdoch takes on the world
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,935422,00.html
Cable TV operators will shudder, says Jamie Doward.
Murdoch signs 'win, win' TV deal
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,935407,00.html
Heads he wins, tails he wins. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp will collect
a staggering $300m if the media giant's acquisition of DirecTV falls
apart. The huge break fee underlines how seriously News Corp wants
DirecTV, which will give Murdoch the chance to create his long-coveted
global satellite platform.
Hunt for Saddam's billions heats up
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,935426,00.html
But tracking down his ill-gotten gains may prove an impossible task,
writes Conal Walsh.
Turning swords into market share
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,935428,00.html
British contractors are lobbying hard for a slice of the closed US
defence industry, reports Oliver Morgan.
Profit must have a purpose
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,935427,00.html
The sight of British and American companies squabbling over pickings
from the not-quite-dead corpse of Saddam Hussein's Iraq will confirm
the widely held view that the business world will stop at nothing to
pursue profit.
It's not all over for UK and the euro
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,935416,00.html
Brown seemed to blame Europe, but Faisal Islam argues the subtext
paves the way to the single currency.
Showing courage in line of fire
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,935418,00.html
The death toll was unacceptably high, but the broadcast media proved
itself in Iraq, writes ITN's Stuart Purvis.
BBC defends its reporter in Baghdad
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,935952,00.html
The BBC has strongly denied Downing Street's accusation that its
reporting had been marred by biased journalism.
Hoon backs ex-Saddam loyalists to rebuild nation
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,935748,00.html
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon says it is time to allow Iraqis to start
'building from the bottom', as members of the Ba'ath party are to be
used to restore order.
Refugees to get £3,000 to go home
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,935761,00.html
Tens of thousands of Iraqi asylum seekers in Britain are to be offered
voluntary repatriation packages including a payment of up to £3,000
per family if they return home once the position in the country has
stabilised.
Students make 'E' to pay off their loans
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,935911,00.html
High flying science graduates are paying off student loans by
manufacturing ecstasy and other synthetic drugs for organised gangs,
the Observer can reveal.
Blair adviser attacks Labour GM crops 'fix'
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,935944,00.html
A key scientific adviser to Tony Blair has condemned ministerial
efforts to have an independent scientific review of GM technology as
'artificial'.
Britons want to follow New York smoking ban
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,935847,00.html
More than half of Britons back New York-style bans on smoking in
restaurants, according to a survey published today.
Peace deal stalls again as IRA stays in business
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,935844,00.html
The IRA has continued to shoot, maim and exile people from Northern
Ireland amid overoptimistic claims that the republican terror group
was about to go out of business.
Welcome aboard the Iraqi gravy train
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,935610,00.html
Terry Jones: Congratulations to all the winners of tickets to take
part in the greatest rebuilding show on earth.
Saddam's weapons chief surrenders to US forces
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935941,00.html
The hunt for Saddam Hussein and his inner circle took a dramatic twist
last night with the surrender of the former dictator's chief
scientist, who could unlock the secrets of Iraq's chemical weapons
programme.
Syria could be next, warns Washington
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,935959,00.html
The United States is ready to threaten military action against
President Bashar Assad's regime in Damascus, sources in the Bush
administration have told The Observer.
Ripples of fear and friendship spread across Middle East
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935855,00.html
Arab nations must now face up to a region transformed. Middle East
expert Dilip Hiro presents an authoritative survey of how the regional
tensions are likely to play out.
Arms secrets revealed in spies' files
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,936003,00.html
Inside Saddam's secret police HQ Patrick Graham finds secret documents
which detail Iraqi plans to hide damning evidence from UN weapons
inspectors.
Anger swells amid anarchy
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935818,00.html
Peter Beaumont in Baghdad: Amid growing resentment among ordinary
Iraqis, American troops stood by yesterday and watched roaming gangs
of looters continue their wholesale destruction of Baghdad as civil
violence escalated across the city.
Looters trash museum's treasures
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935762,00.html
The world's first written words may have been lost forever. After
surviving for more than 5,000 years, distinctive clay tablets that are
recognised as the root of all mankind's written communication have
either been destroyed or stolen in yesterday's looting of the Iraqi
national museum.
Kurds moving in on Saddam's powerbase
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935972,00.html
Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas were advancing on Tikrit, the powerbase
of Saddam Hussein's regime, last night as reports from the city
suggested resistance had collapsed except for skirmishing. Jason Burke
reports.
'Each barrel could be the smoking gun'
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935690,00.html
Burhan Wazir sees British weapons inspection regiment enjoys access
denied to Blix's UN team.
How clerks and a cleric fought suicide fanatics
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935685,00.html
As US tanks pushed into Baghdad, the support crew of the 3/15th
Battalion were ambushed by the 'Foreign Brigade' - volunteers who had
pledged to fight America to the death.
Scandal-hit US firm wins key contracts
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935689,00.html
A US military contractor accused of human rights violations has won a
multi-million-dollar contract to police post-Saddam Iraq, The Observer
can reveal.
US universities in race quota row
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935829,00.html
America divided over admissions policy as excluded white students take
fight to the Supreme Court.
Victim's rape story set to be bestseller
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935783,00.html
Writing a bestseller is the new therapy for victims of serious crime -
particularly women who break one of the last taboos by talking openly
about being raped.
No end to the slaughter as Hutus refuse to quit Congo
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935826,00.html
UN-led meeting fails to bring peace to a war-torn nation.
Sahara warning as 31 tourists vanish
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935828,00.html
This weekend the number of would-be adventurers who have disappeared
in the Algerian desert's sands over the past two month rose to 31.
Bond goes to Bollywood for love as well as money
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935707,00.html
007 makes a play for Eastern affections as producers choose between
two former Miss Worlds and a model to star opposite Brosnan.
Modern science ruins prehistoric art
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935784,00.html
Science is now failing where the caveman's instinct triumphed. After
surviving undisturbed for 20,000 years, the prehistoric wall paintings
at Lascaux in central France are threatened with irreparable damage by
modern man's attempts to save them.
At the organ for 639 years - it's the ultimate molto largo
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,935833,00.html
Organisers of a concert in a former church in Germany are fitting
double glazing in preparation for a particularly long and loud piece
of music - it will last for centuries.
Britain must not walk away from the new Europe
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,936036,00.html
To spurn Europe now would be an act of political treachery
Mission impossible
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,935854,00.html
In this extract from her compelling expose, 'We Did Nothing', Linda
Polman offers a chilling eyewitness account of the helplessness of UN
soldiers in Rwanda in April 1995 when 4,000 Hutu refugees were
slaughtered by Tutsi troops.
Vikings? Such friendly folk, say textbooks
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,935845,00.html
Schoolchildren are getting rewritten histories of Europe that are
politically correct but cut out the awkward facts.
The other 9/11
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,935440,00.html
Ariel Dorfman exposes the double standards at the heart of western
foreign policy in his account of the trial of General Pinochet,
Exorcising Terror
Pinochet
http://tinyurl.com/9n9g
If this is victory, what will peace look like?
http://www.observer.co.uk/letters/story/0,6903,935965,00.html
Long views of the Iraq war.
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History Up in Smoke
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/16DOWD.html
By MAUREEN DOWD
Just because we didn't go to Iraq to bring artistic treasures home
doesn't mean we have to be utterly indifferent to their fate.
Roto-Rooter
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/16FRIE.html
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The U.S. should promote reform or regime change in Syria, but we have
no legal basis to do it now by military means and are not likely to
try.
Baghdad's Buried Treasure
By ERIC DAVIS
Despite skeptical opinions to the contrary, history indicates that
civil society and democracy can be restored in Iraq.
The Home-Front War on Taxes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/16WED3.html
President Bush's plan for more upper-bracket tax cuts will only stoke
the nation's record levels of deficit spending and deepening debt.
One Huge Step for Cleaner Air
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/16WED4.html
Thanks to Christine Todd Whitman's steady advocacy for tougher
controls on air pollution from diesel engines, we can all breathe
easier.
Governing Iraq, Not Fighting It
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/L16IRAQ.html
When Presidents Salute the Troops
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/L16SALU.html
The Bicoastal Difference That Really Isn't
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/L16LAAA.html
Discrimination Is Wrong
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/L16ZAGA.html
The 9/11 Memorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/L16MEMO.html
Smoking Ban Fallout
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/L16SMOK.html
Charity and the I.R.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/L16IRSS.html
Leisure Time vs. Money
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/L16WORK.html
Thailand's Drug War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/opinion/L16THAI.html
Bush Says Regime in Iraq Is No More; Syria Is Penalized
http://tinyurl.com/9op2
By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER
The administration used America's rapid success in overthrowing Saddam
Hussein to put new pressure on Iran and Syria.
North Koreans and U.S. Plan Talks in Beijing Next Week
http://tinyurl.com/9op7
By DAVID E. SANGER
The agreement to enter the negotiations with both China and the U.S.
marks a major concession for North Korea and an apparent victory for
President Bush.
U.S. Puts Iraqi Death Toll at 7 in Mosul Clashes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/international/worldspecial/16CND-NORT.html
By DAVID ROHDE
Seven Iraqis were killed and "several wounded" by U.S. forces in
response to a demonstration in which shots were fired at U.S. troops,
the U.S. military said today.
Carrying the Worst News, Dutifully
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/international/worldspecial/16BARR.html
By DAN BARRY
If a marine from Connecticut is wounded or killed in Iraq, chances are
that Col. David Kilbourn will be the one to notify the family.
Looking at Postwar Bush, Democrats Are Gloomy About 2004
http://tinyurl.com/9opn
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
The swift fall of Baghdad has complicated what many Democrats had
already viewed as the difficult task of unseating President Bush and
winning back Congress next year.
Cable's War Coverage Suggests a New 'Fox Effect' on Television
http://tinyurl.com/9opw
By JIM RUTENBERG
Fox News is now the most-watched source of cable news, with anchors
who skewer the mainstream media, belittle the French and flay anybody
who questions the president's war effort.
Hussein's Last Appearance
http://tinyurl.com/9oq8
By JOHN F. BURNS
At a Baghdad mosque, people say that Saddam Hussein appeared last
Wednesday to make what could be his last promise.
Pledge Made to Democracy by Exiles, Sheiks and Clerics
http://tinyurl.com/9oqc
By MARC SANTORA with PATRICK E. TYLER
Iraqi exile leaders, tribal sheiks, ethnic Kurds and Shiite clerics
said they would work to create a fully democratic government.
Experts Say China Has Greatly Underestimated Virus Cases
http://tinyurl.com/9oqe
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Cases are possibly now in the range of 100 to 200 rather than the 37
that were officially reported on Monday, authorities said.
For Korean-Americans, Concerns for a New War
http://tinyurl.com/9oqn
By CALVIN SIMS
Many Korean-Americans worry that after the United States-led coalition
finishes its military campaign in Iraq, North Korea will be its next
target.
Testing Fad Achieves New Levels With the Disabled
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/education/16EDUC.html
By MICHAEL WINERIP
The federal and state governments have instituted standardized tests
for students who, because of their limitations, are unable to even use
pencils.
Bush Lowers Goal of Tax Cut Plan in a Concession
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/politics/16BUSH.html
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
The president lowered his tax cut target to $550 billion, a retreat on
his economic principles and an admission that his original plan for
$726 billion was dead.
Slump in Plane Travel Grounds Wichita
http://tinyurl.com/9oqz
By PETER T. KILBORN
The plunge in air travel since Sept. 11, 2001 - worsened in recent
weeks by war and added to a general economic downturn - has struck
this Kansas town hard.
E.P.A. Backs Stricter Guidelines
http://tinyurl.com/9or4
By JENNIFER 8. LEE and ANDREW C. REVKIN
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed rules that would deeply
cut the smog-forming pollution spewing from diesel engines in nonroad
equipment.
Prosecutors Say Spy Suspect Revealed Details of Inquiry
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/politics/16SPY.html
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
An F.B.I. informer accused of being a double agent may have revealed
to Beijing the identities of two F.B.I. agents working on a nuclear
espionage investigation.
Illinois Senator Announces He Won't Seek Re-election
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/national/16ILLI.html
By JODI WILGOREN
Peter Fitzgerald, the Republican banking heir who spent $13 million in
1998 to become the youngest member of the Senate, announced that he
would not seek a second term.
South Dakota's Cosmic Battle Over a Dry Mine
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/national/16NEUT.html
By KENNETH CHANG
Rarely have neutrinos - subatomic waifs that usually stream
unencumbered through trees, people and the rest of the universe -
fomented public protests, or a lawsuit.
White House to Start Online Forum
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/politics/16CHAT.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The White House plans to begin an interactive feature on its Web site
that will allow Internet users around the world to have virtual chats
with administration officials.
Victory in Iraq Helps Armed Services Chief
http://tinyurl.com/9orf
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is
delighted that the war in Iraq has refocused the country's attention
on the importance of national security.
S.E.C. Picks Fed Official to Lead Panel
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/business/16ACCO.html
By FLOYD NORRIS
William J. McDonough, the longtime president of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, was chosen to be chairman of an accounting oversight
board.
For Dassault Aviation, War in Iraq Means Less Work
http://tinyurl.com/9orq
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
The military side of Dassault Aviation was having a tough time making
new sales even before the war in Iraq. Now, the things even worse.
After 2 Years of Gains, Gold Struggles to Keep Its Luster
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/business/16CND-PORT.html
By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER
Will strong individual investor demand for gold persist, or will it
slow, now that the war in Iraq appears nearly over?
Former WorldCom Official Hit With Fraud Charges
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-WorldCom-Sullivan.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The government filed new bank fraud charges against Scott Sullivan,
accusing him of lying on financial statements to secure $4.5 billion
in credit for the company.
Technology Shares Rise as Blue Chips Fall
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-markets-stocks.html
By REUTERS
Technology shares rose on encouraging earnings reports from Intel and
Microsoft, but blue chip stocks were down.
Glaxo and Bayer Settle U.S. Medicaid Fraud Charges
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/business/16WIRES-BAYER.html
By REUTERS
GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Bayer AG reached the biggest-ever Medicaid
fraud settlement with U.S. prosecutors on charges the drug makers
inflated prescription drug prices.
Northwest Airlines Sees Losses Double
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Earns-Northwest-Airlines.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First quarter losses more than doubled to $396 million as the travel
industry suffered from the combined effects of war in Iraq and higher
fuel prices.
Court Hears Fight Over Numbers Used for Cellphones
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/technology/16CELL.html
By MATT RICHTEL with JOHN FILES
The wireless telephone industry appealed to a federal court in
Washington to block a government effort to allow consumers to keep
their cellphone numbers when they switch mobile phone carriers.
Launching Is Delayed for Repairs to 2 Robots
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/science/16MARS.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Problems aboard two spacecraft scheduled for exploration missions on
Mars have prompted NASA to delay the launching of the first one about
a week.
Young Lawyer, Old Issue: Seeking Social Justice
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/nyregion/16PROF.html
By LYNDA RICHARDSON
Vanita Gupta, at all of 28, is a lead lawyer in the Tulia, Tex., case
in which more than a tenth of the town's black population was arrested
in an out-of-control drug sting.
Iraqi Man Was Actually a U.S. Agent, Lawyer Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/international/worldspecial/16AGEN.html
By BENJAMIN WEISER
An Iraqi man accused of working as an agent for Iraqi intelligence was
actually trying to help the United States learn about Iraq's
intelligence activities, his lawyer said.
Patakis' Income Is Up 11%, Tax Returns Show
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/nyregion/16PATA.html
By WINNIE HU
The big earner in Gov. George E. Pataki's family last year was not the
governor himself but his wife, Libby, who reported $206,500 in income
from consulting fees and four speeches.
Yellow Ribbon? Fine, but Heed New Red Tape
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/nyregion/16RIBB.html
By MARIA NEWMAN
The war in Iraq may end before residents kiss and make up in a small
South Jersey town that has been torn over the right to hang yellow
ribbons in support of the troops.
New Online Genre Supplies Lessons on the War in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/nyregion/16LESS.html
By SAM DILLON
A new hybrid online genre - part daily journalism, part education -
has taken shape during the war.
A Warning Against Mixing Commerce and Academics
http://tinyurl.com/9osp
By SARA RIMER
In his new book, a former president of Harvard University looks at the
pressure universities face to blur the boundaries between academia and
the corporate world.
Dilemma's Definition: The Left and Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/9ost
By DAVID CARR
This has been a tough war for commentators on the American left. To
hope for defeat meant cheering for Saddam Hussein. To hope for victory
meant cheering for President Bush.
Clinton's Postwar Critique
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37451-2003Apr16.html
Former president is back in the news, blasting his successor. - Howard
Kurtz
U.S., North Korea to Begin Talks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35246-2003Apr16.html
The Bush administration will begin talks with North Korea next week,
ending a months-long diplomatic stalemate stemming from the
administration's confrontation with the reclusive regime over its
nuclear aspirations.
Candidates Divided Over Syria, Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33823-2003Apr15.html
The U.S.'s next steps in rebuilding Iraq and combating global
terrorism have sparked another disagreement among the Democrats
running for president and produced a hawkish warning to Syria from one
candidate.
Researchers Building Math Model of SARS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33699-2003Apr15.html
Is there still time to dampen the flames of the SARS epidemic to the
point where it can burn itself out? That's the most pressing question
in medicine today. A research team in London is trying to answer it by
the end of this week.
Achille Lauro Planner Captured
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34067-2003Apr15.html
The Palestinian guerrilla leader was captured Tuesday in Baghdad by
the U.S.
Saddam Hussein Still Stands Tall in Tikrit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34090-2003Apr15.html
In the dictator's hometown there have been no outpourings of joy for
U.S. troops, no looting or public debate.
Shiites Rejoice in Newfound Freedom
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34172-2003Apr15.html
In the tumultuous days of Baghdad's new beginning, the country's
emboldened Shiite Muslim majority has embraced its freedom.
Chirac Moves to Repair U.S. Ties
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34329-2003Apr15.html
President Jacques Chirac called President Bush for their first
conversation in more than two months.
Beijing Said to Conceal Extent of Disease
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33525-2003Apr15.html
The Beijing city government is significantly underreporting both the
incidence of SARS in China's capital and the role Beijing plays as a
new source of the disease's spread, Chinese doctors said Tuesday.
France Warns It Will Deport Islamic Radicals
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33720-2003Apr15.html
France threatened Tuesday to deport immigrant Muslim leaders if they
espoused violence or anti-Semitism, after a fundamentalist group won a
substantial share of seats in a new council that will represent Islam
in France.
Iraqi American Reflects on the Dreams Of a Slain Cleric
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34671-2003Apr15.html
Sohair Al-Mosully , an Iraqi-born architect who collaborated with
slain Shiite leader Abdul Majid Khoei, describes the cleric as a
visionary and a liberal who had a clear idea of what postwar Iraq
would look like.
Syria Denies Accusations as U.S. 'Service' to Israel
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32536-2003Apr15.html
Syria on Tuesday condemned U.S. charges that the country was
developing chemical weapons, claiming the accusations were unfounded
and aimed at serving the interests of Israel.
Rumsfeld: Plan Put Iraq Off Balance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33901-2003Apr15.html
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that the Iraqi
government probably expected a replay of the 1991 Persian Gulf War's
long air campaign and was surprised by the speed of the U.S. ground
attack.
A Mosque of Suspicion
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34782-2003Apr15.html
Abderrahmane Mohamed, imam of Brooklyn's Masjid al-Farooq, finds that
in a volatile time for American Muslims, he must tend his flock at a
mosque tainted by terrorism allegations. - By Lynne Duke
Balancing Act
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34439-2003Apr15.html
Page A26
WHILE ABOUT 100 Iraqi leaders met under U.S. auspices near
Nasiriyah to talk about a democratic future for their country,
thousands more were on the streets protesting the meeting, saying they
objected equally to Saddam Hussein and to U.S. control over Iraq.
Americans should take some measure of pride in both sides of the
event: It's been a long time since anyone in Iraq could voice a
dissenting opinion. But the dueling meetings also provide some hint of
the challenges ahead and the subtlety that U.S. officials will need in
meeting them. Those challenges in turn argue for a measure of humility
in welcoming allied support and a measure of caution as the United
States turns to new targets, such as Syria.
Fix the Money Primary
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34474-2003Apr15.html
Page A26
YESTERDAY WAS THE DEADLINE for presidential candidates to file the
first fundraising reports of the 2004 campaign, but the insider
chatter over who did well in the money primary obscures a more
fundamental point: The current method of financing presidential
campaigns is outmoded. The two-part system involves full public
funding for the general election campaign, which works pretty well,
and partial funding for the primary campaign, which doesn't work so
well anymore. The primary system offers candidates a deal by which
they agree to abide by spending limits (about $50 million in 2004) in
return for federal matching funds (for the first $250 of every
donation). The idea was to limit the influence of money in politics,
freeing candidates to some extent from the money chase and reducing
the importance of big donors.
Still No Gay Linguists
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34475-2003Apr15.html
Page A26
THE UNITED STATES may be at war -- both with al Qaeda and in Iraq
-- but the military still knows a domestic threat when it sees one:
gay linguists in training. Last year, the Servicemembers Legal Defense
Network (SLDN), an advocacy group that represents gay men and lesbians
trying to serve their country despite the military's irrational "don't
ask, don't tell" policy, disclosed that the military had discharged at
least 10 linguists, seven of them Arabic-speaking, because of their
sexual orientations. The military preferred to exacerbate a
governmentwide shortage of Arabic-speakers rather than relax its gay
ban, though the policy stigmatizes patriots and injures the military's
readiness. You might think the Pentagon would have responded to the
negative publicity. But apparently it has been undeterred.
Between Restoration And Revolution
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34500-2003Apr15.html
By Michael McFaul, Page A27
For supporters of democracy, there is nothing more exciting or
memorable than the fall of another dictator. The construction of a new
political system, however, is a much more ambiguous process. The
French still commemorate the storming of the Bastille, but the
consolidation of democracy afterward took decades. Russian democrats
at one point celebrated August 1991 as the month Soviet communism
collapsed, but they stopped having parties later in the decade, when
democracy's arrival still seemed far away. Navigating the gap between
the fall of the old order and the formation of the new order is always
difficult; it's especially dangerous when extremist movements and
ideologies are added to the mix.
The U.N.'s Human Rights Rituals
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34496-2003Apr15.html
By Anne Applebaum, Page A27
When is human rights abuse not human rights abuse? When the U.N.
Human Rights Commission is discussing it -- or so it seems, judging by
that august body's 59th session, now taking place in Geneva. Founded
just after World War II and chaired in its early years by Eleanor
Roosevelt, the commission meets but once a year and its tasks are
manifold. Over the years, the commission has acquired, among other
things, a working group on arbitrary detention, a special rapporteur
on the right to education and a special representative on internally
displaced persons. Some 3,000 people gather in Geneva for the annual
meetings; the commission has issued mandates to investigate 38
countries for human rights abuse.
Tale Of Two Judges
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34499-2003Apr15.html
By David S. Broder, Page A27
Were it not for an old friend, I would have been as oblivious to
the story of Judge Edward Prado of San Antonio as the rest of the
Washington press corps.
Collateral Damage in Cuba
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34497-2003Apr15.html
By Marcelo Lopez Bañobre, Page A27
Just because President Bush has placed Cuba in the second troika of
the evil countries, it does not mean that we cannot have an opinion
about the war in Iraq.
No Economic Panacea
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34502-2003Apr15.html
By Robert J. Samuelson, Page A27
We all want to believe in the economics of victory: that military
triumph will trigger economic revival. The theory seems plausible.
Policing Iraq, and Other Postwar Issues
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34513-2003Apr15.html
Page A26
The April 11 editorial "The Arab Opportunity" brought to mind an
idea:
Due Process for All
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34514-2003Apr15.html
Page A26
The Bush administration's effort to block Zacarias Moussaoui's
attorneys from interviewing a potential witness for his defense is
worrisome [news story, April 2]. The presumption of innocence and the
right of due process are fundamental to our way of life and are what
set this country apart from tyrannical regimes.
Iraqi Leaders Gather Under U.S. Tent
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33093-2003Apr15.html
Government Planning Meeting Is Denounced as Unrepresentative by
Uninvited
By Keith B. Richburg, Page A01
UR, Iraq, April 15 -- Protected by barbed wire and armed Marines,
about 100 U.S.-chosen Iraqi community leaders and exile activists
gathered today under a tent at an abandoned military air base to take
the first step in planning a new government for Iraq. Outside the air
base, near the biblical birthplace of Abraham, dozens of uninvited
political figures denounced the gathering as illegitimate and
unrepresentative of long-established Iraqi groups that had opposed the
rule of Saddam Hussein.
Rescuers Nearly Called Mission Off
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33662-2003Apr15.html
Team of Marines Feared Ambush
By Peter Baker, Page A01
MARINE COMBAT HEADQUARTERS, Central Iraq, April 15 -- The Marines
were told to look for House 13. Inside they hoped would be U.S.
soldiers captured by the Iraqis. As they made their way through a
dusty warren of two-story mud-colored hutches in the Iraqi town of
Samarra, they found House 11. They found House 12. But no House 13.
Vulnerable GOP Senator Won't Seek Reelection
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33817-2003Apr15.html
By Helen Dewar, Page A04
First-term Sen. Peter G. Fitzgerald (R-Ill.), widely regarded as
the most vulnerable Senate incumbent facing the voters next year,
announced yesterday that he will not seek reelection, pushing the
Illinois race to the forefront of battles for control of the narrowly
divided chamber.
Bush Says He Would Accept Smaller Tax Cut
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33379-2003Apr15.html
By Mike Allen, Page A04
President Bush gave up yesterday on the full tax cut that was the
centerpiece of his domestic agenda, telling small-business leaders he
will accept a package that is 25 percent smaller. Congressional
leaders in both parties said even that figure looks unattainable.
Kerry Leads Democratic Hopefuls in Funds Raised
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34160-2003Apr15.html
By Thomas B. Edsall and Sarah Cohen, Page A07
Of all the Democratic presidential primary contestants, Sen. John
F. Kerry (Mass.) has by far the most money in the bank, $8.1 million,
according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission
yesterday.
Alleged Chinese Spy Is Denied Bail
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34074-2003Apr15.html
By Kimberly Edds and Dan Eggen, Page A08
LOS ANGELES, April 15 -- A U.S. magistrate judge refused today to
release alleged Chinese spy Katrina M. Leung on bail, saying he is not
certain investigators had found all of the classified documents she
may have procured during two decades of alleged spying.
Lieberman Signs Up Clinton Admaker
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33349-2003Apr15.html
By Dan Balz, Page A08
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) hit the national stage with the
help of former vice president Al Gore, but he has turned to veteran
consultants from the Clinton family political team for help in getting
to the White House.
Court Seeks Deal on Terror Witness Access
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33913-2003Apr15.html
By Jerry Markon, Page A12
A federal appeals court yesterday gave the government a chance to
reconsider its refusal to allow Zacarias Moussaoui access to a key al
Qaeda detainee, seeking a middle ground that could allow the trial of
the only person charged in the United States in connection with the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to proceed.
Gas Prices Continue to Fall
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33614-2003Apr15.html
Nationwide Average for Regular Is $1.60 a Gallon
By Kenneth Bredemeier, Page A15
A sharp drop in crude oil prices in the past month is finally
showing up at U.S. gasoline pumps.
3 Israelis and 3 Palestinians Killed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33455-2003Apr15.html
Slowing of War Shifts Attention Back to Gaza and West Bank
By Molly Moore, Page A22
JERUSALEM, April 15 -- With the war in Iraq winding down, six
killings in the Gaza Strip and West Bank provided a bloody reminder
today that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict grinds on with its daily
violence.
Quebec Separatists Regroup
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34617-2003Apr15.html
Party Leader Says Election Defeat Could Re-Energize Movement
By DeNeen L. Brown, Page A23
MONTREAL, April 15 -- Bernard Landry, leader of the Parti
Quebecois, said today its defeat in elections Monday would not stop
its campaign to make Quebec an independent country. Instead, he said
the loss may reinvigorate the movement and analysts say the Parti
Quebecois, or PQ, may be stronger as an opposition party than when it
ruled.
Shiite Demands Pose Challenge to U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34086-2003Apr15.html
By John Mintz and Dana Priest, Page A33
As Shiite groups, some backed by Iran, escalate their demands for
political control in a new Iraq, the Bush administration appears to
have little influence or contacts with the factions that could pose
the biggest obstacle to creating a pro-American democratic government,
U.S. officials and independent analysts said yesterday.
Iraqi American Reflects on the Dreams Of a Slain Cleric
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34671-2003Apr15.html
By Nora Boustany, Page A34
S ohair Al-Mosully , an Iraqi-born architect who collaborated with
slain Shiite leader Abdul Majid Khoei, describes the cleric as a
visionary and a liberal who had a clear idea of what postwar Iraq
would look like.
Fallen Va. Marine Was Proud to Serve
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34529-2003Apr15.html
By Martin Weil, Page A34
When people recalled David Edward Owens Jr. last night, they
remembered him as a nice guy, a "good kid."
The Fallen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34558-2003Apr15.html
Page A34
Names of those confirmed dead by the Pentagon since Sunday:
U.S. Forces Will Redeploy Into 3 Zones
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34052-2003Apr15.html
Marines to Occupy Southern Iraq as Army Takes Over North; General Will
Oversee Capital
By Peter Baker, Page A31
MARINE COMBAT HEADQUARTERS, Iraq, April 15 -- Military officers
said today that U.S. forces in Iraq will begin redeploying Thursday to
set up occupation zones as they enter into a postwar phase of
enforcing security and restoring services around the country.
Accused Iraqi Agent Says He Aided U.S. and Wants Asylum
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34531-2003Apr15.html
Page A31
NEW YORK, April 15 -- A former Iraqi diplomat's son accused of
aiding Iraqi spies was actually helping the United States and plans to
seek asylum, his lawyer said today.
U.S. Boycott Being Felt, French Say
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33986-2003Apr15.html
Wine Sales Off Sharply; Other Products Affected
By Robert J. McCartney, Page A32
PARIS, April 15 -- An American backlash against French products and
businesses has started to bite, dashing hopes here that appeals in the
United States to punish France economically for opposing the war in
Iraq would go unheeded.
Britain Opts for Diplomacy on Syria
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33456-2003Apr15.html
U.S. Officials' Warnings to Assad Cause Alarm in Europe
By Glenn Frankel, Page A30
LONDON, April 15 -- British leaders today appeared to be walking a
fine line on Syria -- echoing the Bush administration's tough warning
that the country should not support political fugitives from
neighboring Iraq, yet insisting that President Bashar Assad's
government should be dealt with by diplomatic means.
Terrorism, And Money, Worry a City
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33380-2003Apr15.html
L.A. Faces Array of Threats While Awaiting U.S. Funds
By William Booth, Page A25
LOS ANGELES -- John Miller, former co-host of ABC News' "20/20,"
now wears a cop's pager and a loaded sidearm on his hip. His new job
is special assistant to the Los Angeles police chief in charge of
counterterrorism.
Passing the Torch
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33904-2003Apr15.html
By Al Kamen, Page A25
News reports about what's next for Iraq have focused narrowly on
rebuilding the country, its institutions and, of course, its oil
industry. But little notice has been given to some very important
Iraqi institutions thrown into complete disarray after the fall of
Saddam Hussein and his family.
White House Officials To Conduct Web Chats
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33906-2003Apr15.html
By Dana Milbank, Page A25
After the last presidential news conference, there was a chorus of
complaints from viewers alleging a low quality of questioning. Now the
public will have a chance to try its hand at questioning the White
House.
Police Force Is an Experiment in Rebuilding
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34138-2003Apr15.html
Returning Officers, on Patrol With Marines, Try to Convey a New Image
By Mary Beth Sheridan, Page A29
BAGHDAD, April 15 -- As a police officer in Iraq's old system of
dictatorship, Kareem Hassan was one of the untouchables, a swaggering
symbol of authority in his green uniform and black beret. But with the
collapse of President Saddam Hussein's government, his role has
suddenly changed.
Hussein's Rule 'Is No More,' President Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34084-2003Apr15.html
Bush Says Victory 'Not Complete'; Rhetoric on Syria Toned Down
By Dana Milbank, Page A29
A buoyant President Bush proclaimed yesterday that "the regime of
Saddam Hussein is no more," as administration officials began to
discuss the aftermath of a conflict that appears to be coming quickly
to an end.
Tougher Rules Unveiled For Diesel Emissions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33899-2003Apr15.html
By Eric Pianin, Page A01
The Bush administration yesterday announced tougher restrictions on
harmful emissions from off-road diesel-powered vehicles, fashioning a
compromise with strong appeal to environmentalists despite some
concessions to industry.
Once Again, A River Will Run Through It
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33999-2003Apr15.html
By Blaine Harden, Page A03
MISSOULA, Mont., April 15 -- When he campaigned for the presidency
three years ago, George W. Bush stood foursquare for the virtues of
dams in the Pacific Northwest.
Gas Prices Continue to Fall
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33614-2003Apr15.html
Nationwide Average for Regular Is $1.60 a Gallon
By Kenneth Bredemeier, Page A15
A sharp drop in crude oil prices in the past month is finally
showing up at U.S. gasoline pumps.
Outrageous CEO Pay Still A Sore Point
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34679-2003Apr15.html
By Steven Pearlstein, Page E01
It's been more than a year since scandals exposed the games
corporate insiders routinely played to enrich themselves while
hoodwinking investors. Now I have some bad news:
As Iraq War Ebbs, Bush Calls for End to Sanctions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38802-2003Apr16.html
The president asks the U.N. Security Council to lift economic limits
on Iraq put in place after the '91 war ended.
U.S. Flexes on N. Korea Talks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38907-2003Apr16.html
Bush team offers new concessions to get Pyongyang to come to the
table.
SARS Tied to Common Cold
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39713-2003Apr16.html
Virus now identified, which will speed development of treatments,
vaccine.
Fight Over '85 Hijack Planner
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39372-2003Apr16.html
Italy wants Achille Lauro mastermind as U.S. dismisses Palestinian
claims.
Nasiriyah Conference Greeted With Suspicion, Satisfaction
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37446-2003Apr16.html
"The Unthinkable Has Happened," declares the caption of the front page
photo in today's edition of the New Straits Times, the leading daily
in the predominantly Muslim nation of Malaysia. The photo, showing
demonstrators shouting at a U.S. soldier outside of the U.S.-led
gathering of Iraqi activists and exiles, is the same one that appears
on the front page of today's Washington Post. But the caption bristles
with attitude:
Free to Protest, Iraqis Complain About the U.S.
http://tinyurl.com/9ox8
By IAN FISHER
Protests against the American forces here are rising by the day as
Iraqis exercise their new right to complain - something that often
landed them in prison or worse during President Saddam Hussein's rule.
U.S. Inspectors Find No Forbidden Weapons at Iraqi Arms Plant
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/international/worldspecial/16SEAR.html
By JUDITH MILLER
An American team hunting for unconventional Iraqi weapons at an
ammunition manufacturing and storage plant near Karbala have
discovered some suspicious items, but appeared to have come away yet
again without the "smoking gun" proving that Iraq made chemical,
biological or nuclear materials here.
Curators Appeal for a Ban on Purchase of Iraqi Artifacts
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/international/worldspecial/16ANTI.html
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
The world's museum officials and archaeologists appealed to the
American government yesterday to take stronger steps to prevent
further pillaging in Baghdad and called for a moratorium on the
purchase of Iraqi antiquities on the international market.
Experts' Pleas to Pentagon Didn't Save Museum
http://tinyurl.com/9oxl
By DOUGLAS JEHL and ELIZABETH BECKER
The plunder last week of Iraq's national museum, one of the Middle
East's most important archaeological repositories, occurred despite
repeated requests to the Pentagon by experts and scholars that the
site be protected when American troops entered Baghdad.
In European Union Milestone, 10 Lands Sign Pacts to Join
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/international/europe/16CND-GREE.html
By FRANK BRUNI
During a historic ceremony in the cradle of democracy, the leaders of
10 countries signed treaties here today to join the European Union,
extending its reach to include a broad swath of Europe once allied
with the former Soviet Union.
Japanese Official Seeks to Guard Against Korean Missiles
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/international/asia/16CND-JAPA.html
By JAMES BROOKE
Japan's defense minister called today for expanding his country's
antimissile defenses, placing only cautious hope in arms control talks
that are to start next week between the United States and North Korea.
Dutch Court Sentences Killer of Politician to 18-Year Term
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/international/europe/16DUTC.html
By MARLISE SIMONS
The man who confessed to killing Pim Fortuyn, the right-wing Dutch
politician, was sentenced to 18 years in prison today for an
assassination that reverberated throughout Europe and continues to
disturb this country's politics.
South Africa Will Pay $3,900 to Apartheid Victims' Families
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/international/africa/16AFRI.html
By GINGER THOMPSON
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa said today that his government
would pay reparations totaling $85 million to more than 19,000 victims
of apartheid crimes who testified about their suffering before the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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America on probation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,938318,00.html
Timothy Garton Ash: The peace will give the final verdict on this war.
The US is not the Great Satan, but it may again be the Great Gatsby.
Blair's alliance with Bush is a damaging strategic error
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,938323,00.html
Robin Cook: War has undermined Britain in both Europe and the
developing world.
Why Syria is America's new target
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,938326,00.html
Andrew Green: Israel's last strategic opponent can turn occupied Iraq
into a quagmire.
Who says feminism is dead?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,938321,00.html
Kristin Aune: It is derided as the realm of middle-aged nostalgia but
young women are showing they're up for the fight
Put away childish things
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,938319,00.html
Ludovic Kennedy: There is no God. So why do people cling to such
absurd palliatives when we are on the brink of colonising the
universe?
The way we love now
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,938320,00.html
David McKie: The first a father knows of his daughter's intentions
nowadays is when he picks up an answerphone message which says: "By
the way, me and Kev has deliberate got married."
'Idleness is good'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,938216,00.html
His staff choose their own managers, set their own salaries and take
breaks in the office hammocks. So how did businessman Ricardo Semler
ever become a millionaire? He explains all to Stephen Moss.
Ricardo Semler
http://tinyurl.com/8g6v
Maverick
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages/?msg=669
'Pondering European identity'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Ten countries sign on the dotted line in Athens.
Women at war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,938221,00.html
Traditionally, women in wartime were seen as victims. But with so many
involved in Iraq as soldiers and politicians, has that changed? By
Natasha Walter.
Exhibition marks first flight
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,936879,00.html
The Imperial War Museum, Duxford is hosting an exhibition marking the
100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' historic flight.
Rethinking Europe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,938334,00.html
EU leaders must adjust to new times.
Warm words
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,938376,00.html
In praise of climate change.
There is no sign of victory on the home front
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,938357,00.html
Notebook: US Inc is unable to deliver good news.
Blair mends fences with Chirac
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,9061,938258,00.html
Britain urges France and Russia to return to UN and forge agreement on
postwar Iraq.
World waits to see which way US will jump
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,938472,00.html
Hawks have the upper hand but next few weeks will decide direction of
Bush foreign policy - and with it the fate of many nations.
All the prosperity in China
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,938540,00.html
April 16: China looks set to become the locomotive of global economic
recovery, explains Victor Keegan.
More die as troops open fire on Mosul crowd
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938171,00.html
Community leaders in Mosul appealed for calm yesterday after US forces
became involved in a lethal firefight in the city centre for the
second day running.
Radical relives horror of regime's most feared prison
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938176,00.html
Shia dissident who refused to fight spent 17 years in jails that were
the scene of torture, beatings and executions.
Scientists urge shell clear-up to protect civilians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938336,00.html
Royal Society spells out dangers of depleted uranium.
Vigilantes in action to recover stolen goods and bring looters to book
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938175,00.html
Angry crowds brandishing sticks and iron bars stopped vehicles on the
main road south from the Iraqi capital yesterday, forcing frightened
drivers to return looted goods.
Iran attacks US and braces for nuclear dispute
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938170,00.html
The Iranian president Mohammad Khatami yesterday lashed out at America
for its aggressive stance, stating that Tehran would not recognise a
US-installed administration in Iraq and warning Iran would support
Syria were it attacked.
China 'still hiding' many Sars cases
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938302,00.html
Beijing may have more than five times as many Sars cases than it has
admitted, a World Health Organisation official said yesterday.
Beijing brokers North Korea talks with US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938295,00.html
Seoul backs strategy to defuse nuclear stand-off.
Abbas: US trophy or reformed terrorist?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938342,00.html
Diplomatic tussle over status of Palestinian leader caught in Baghdad.
Coffee, confidences, and lessons in a kind of history from the
'jackal'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938339,00.html
Ed Vulliamy recalls meeting Abu Abbas, the wandering jackal of the
Palestinian revolution, on the eve of the last Gulf war in Baghdad.
New bank scandal evidence against family of leader in waiting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938169,00.html
Fresh evidence emerged yesterday of banking scandals involving the
family of the Pentagon's preferred candidate for a political role in
post-war Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi.
Raid on laboratory of 'Dr Germ' fails to turn up the smoking gun
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938172,00.html
American special forces have raided the Baghdad home of the Iraqi
scientist, nicknamed "Dr Germ", who ran the country's secret
biological laboratory.
EU leaders hail their new frontiers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938290,00.html
Jubilation as 10 states sign accession treaty, but demonstrations and
divisions over Iraq cast a shadow.
Bias alleged over rules on minority rights
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938289,00.html
Brussels has been acting hypocritically by pressing incoming members
from eastern Europe to adopt minority protection rules which do not
apply in several western European Union countries, a study concluded
yesterday.
Bloomberg budget gives NY the choice of bad and worse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938294,00.html
The baboons are to be evicted, firefighters will be sacked and
thousands of police officers will be given their marching orders.
Adulterers can sleep easier in LA suburb that has caught up with the
times
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938226,00.html
Great news this week for adulterers and indeed anyone who has been
having sex without being married in the Los Angeles suburb of Rolling
Hills this week.
Denktash shuns talks in Cypriot south
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938287,00.html
The Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash, said yesterday that
government parties from the Turkish north of Cyprus would not attend
the talks, called by the Greek prime minister, Costas Simitis, which
are to be held in the southern portion of the island.
Taliban fighters captured after killing of tourist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938300,00.html
Afghan soldiers captured eight Taliban fighters, including two
commanders, after a fierce battle left two soldiers dead in a
mountainous southern region of the country, a senior government
official said yesterday.
US used far more dioxin on Vietnam than it admitted
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938296,00.html
US troops sprayed far more dioxin over wartime Vietnam than they
admitted at the time, according to new research.
Murdered boys add to Chechen fears
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938301,00.html
The bodies of three schoolboys were discovered yesterday in Chechnya,
two days after they were reported missing.
Radar survey aims to solve mystery of Mars's water
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938195,00.html
A European spacecraft bound for Mars in June will "feel" miles below
the surface of the red planet for ice and water.
Cruise missile sub back in UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938337,00.html
The submarine HMS Turbulent, the first Royal Navy vessel to return
home from the war against Iraq, arrived at Plymouth yesterday.
Ageing gene identified
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,938254,00.html
Two research teams have identified the gene which accelerates ageing.
The Odeon: great theatre, lousy view
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,938264,00.html
The original Odeon - built in the Athens of Pericles 2,500 years ago -
was not much of a night out, according to computer scientists at the
University of Warwick.
Second Sight
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,937953,00.html
Steve Bowbrick: The volume of words and images produced by the war in
Iraq is unprecedented. No war - no event in human history, surely -
can have been better recorded.
The current era is defined locally
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/105/science/The_current_era_is_defined_locally+.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/9q08
(4/15/2003)
In a park in West Bridgewater stands an old iron anvil. A plaque on a
nearby forge-stone reads: "The land of this park was bought in 1649
from the Massasoit Indians by Miles Standish and others as part of the
Bridgewater Purchase and allotted to John Ames, an original
shareholder and settler. And here before the Revolutionary War the
fourth inheritor, Captain John Ames, began the manufacture of shovels
with a trip-hammer set on this stone."
It is Britain, not France, that is isolated in Europe
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/mary_dejevsky/story.jsp?story=397892
Austrians like to say, tongue in cheek, that the genius of their
country's diplomacy is to have convinced the world that Hitler was a
German, and Beethoven an Austrian. Something similar could be said of
Britain's presentational feat over the past month. With hostilities in
Iraq almost over, most people in this country now seem to believe that
the best part of the world, including a majority of European
countries, lined up with Britain supporting US military action, and
that France, Germany and Russia were the odd countries out, led astray
by that Gallic pied piper, Jacques Chirac.
Robert Fisk: For the people on the streets, this is not liberation but
a new colonial oppression
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=397925
America's war of 'liberation' may be over. But Iraq's war of
liberation from the Americans is just about to begin
Rupert Cornwell: Mr Bush's new war is with the Democratic Party
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=397893
17 April 2003
If his campaigning for the 2002 mid-term elections is any guide, Mr
Bush will hit the road with a vengeance next year
US said to 'care more about Iraqi oil than its people'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=397930
Allied forces were accused by human rights organisations yesterday of
using cluster bombs in populated areas of Baghdad and caring more
about protecting oil reserves than the welfare of the Iraqi people.
Today's full links
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=397924
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Missing in Action
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/17FOST.html
By BENJAMIN R. FOSTER and KAREN POLINGER FOSTER
We mourn the loss of the treasures once painstakingly preserved in the
great Iraq museum in Baghdad for us and for future generations.
An Army for Art
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/17LOWE.html
By CONSTANCE LOWENTHAL and STEPHEN URICE
The Pentagon should reconstitute the monuments section, created in
1943, to advise on cultural property matters in postwar Iraq.
A Job for Unesco
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/17VAND.html
By WILLIAM J. VANDEN HEUVEL
In the restoration of Iraq, the United States has a duty to lead and
the United Nations should welcome the opportunity to respond.
A City on the Ropes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/17HERB.html
By BOB HERBERT
Nineteen months after Sept. 11 there's still a gaping hole in the
heart of Lower Manhattan, and New York City overall is still hurting.
Sharon at Passover
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/17SAFI.html
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
At this post-Saddam Passover, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
focus is on "two peoples, two states."
North Korea Blinks
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/17THU1.html
The goal of negotiations with North Korea should be nothing less than
getting it to give up its nuclear ambitions.
Filibustering Priscilla Owen
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/17THU2.html
The filibuster is not a tool to be used lightly, but it is justified
in the case of certain conservative judicial nominees.
Dictatorships and Disease
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/17THU5.html
Information is a necessary disinfectant, but it cannot be put to use
in societies where everything is perfect by decree.
The Knotty Problem of Syria
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/L17FRIE.html
Scenes From Iraq: Mixed Messages?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/L17IRAQ.html
A City Budget, and the Cries of Pain
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/L17NYCC.html
Our Boys, My Brothers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/L17BROT.html
Lawyers for the Poor
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/L17LAWY.html
Champion of Tolerance
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/L17PAIG.html
Smoking-Ban Enforcers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/L17SMOK.html
Old Ship's New Life
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/opinion/L17SHIP.html
Bush Urging U.N. to Lift Sanctions Imposed on Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/9qwb
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON with FELICITY BARRINGER
Ending the sanctions, which requires a Security Council vote, should
make it easier to sell Iraqi oil and raise money to repair the damage
from the war.
U.S. Forces Capture Hussein's Half-Brother
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/international/worldspecial/17CND-BROTHER.html
By JOHN M. BRODER
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, a former chief of Iraqi intelligence, is
believed to have helped Saddam Hussein hide billions of dollars.
Marines Again Kill Iraqis in Exchange of Fire in Mosul
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/international/worldspecial/17NORT.html
By DAVID ROHDE
For a second straight day, American marines saying they were acting in
self-defense killed Iraqis in the city's main square.
Muslims Hesitating on Gifts as U.S. Scrutinizes Charities
http://tinyurl.com/9qwq
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
American Muslims say they are scared to do anything that might bring
scrutiny from the Federal Bureau of Investigation - and that includes
donating to Islamic charities.
Relief Groups Seek to Keep Pentagon at Arm's Length
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/international/17AID.html
By JANE PERLEZ
The planning for relief assistance in postwar Iraq has been so
dominated by the Pentagon that private aid groups say they are risking
their neutrality by sending workers into the country.
U.S. Considers Indicting Terrorist Arrested in Iraq on Achille Lauro
Murder
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/international/worldspecial/17TERR.html
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
The Bush administration explored ways of bringing charges against Abu
Abbas and withheld judgment about whether to turn him over to Italy.
Dim Whispers of the Missing
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/international/worldspecial/17QUES.html
By ALAN FEUER
Scores of Iraqis believe their relatives are being held at a security
complex in Baghdad.
U.S. Generals Meet in Palace, Sealing Victory
http://tinyurl.com/9qxx
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and JOHN KIFNER
The commanders discussed how to maintain security and rebuild Iraq now
that Saddam Hussein is gone.
White House Is Pressing Israelis to Take Initiatives in Peace Talks
http://tinyurl.com/9qy3
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
The Bush administration is pressing Israel to ease its crackdown in
the West Bank and Gaza once a new Palestinian prime minister is
installed.
Former Nowhere Is Suddenly a Haven From It All
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/international/asia/17TASM.html
By RAYMOND BONNER
Tasmania, Australia, is emerging as a safe haven from terrorism, war
and SARS.
In U.S., Fear Is Spreading Faster Than SARS
http://tinyurl.com/9qzz
By DEAN E. MURPHY
Along the West Coast, a pervasive fear of SARS has taken hold, despite
the fact that no one in the U.S. has died from it.
Administration Reduces Level of Terrorism Alert to Yellow
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/international/worldspecial/17HOME.html
By PHILIP SHENON
Intelligence reports suggest that the threat of terrorist attacks has
decreased with the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Prosecutors Detail Lavish Way of Life of Double Agent Suspect
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/national/17SPY.html
By CALVIN SIMS
The extent of Katrina Leung's assets, which the authorities have
described as "enormous and complex," has begun to emerge in recent
days.
Beleaguered Black College Loses Its Chief
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/education/17COLL.html
By GREG WINTER
After losing the battle to win back his institution's accreditation,
the president of Morris Brown College has abruptly resigned.
Proposal to Rename Mountain for G.I. Runs Afoul of Politics
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/international/worldspecial/17PEAK.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A proposal to rename a Phoenix mountain after an American Indian
killed in Iraq has led to a nasty fight between the Democratic
governor and some Republican lawmakers.
Adultery May Be a Sin, but It's a Crime No More
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/national/17ADUL.html
By JONATHAN D. GLATER
A gated California community drops a provision from its municipal code
that made adultery punishable by up to three months in jail.
When a Snow Day Is More Than Just Play
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/education/17TEST.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
An essay question on snow days on a Massachusetts writing exam raises
accusations of cultural bias.
El Paso Group Plans to Wave Flag High in Honor of Troops
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/international/worldspecial/17POLE.html
By PETER T. KILBORN
Restaurant owners in El Paso announced that they would begin an effort
to collect more than $400,000 to build the nation's tallest flagpole
at nearby Fort Bliss.
A Soft Economy and a Tax Cut Plan Loom Above Re-election Campaign
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/national/17ECON.html
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
President Bush is confronting the reality that there is not all that
much he can do to strengthen the economy so it improves his chances
for re-election.
Republican Feuding Muddles Outlook for a Bush Plan
http://tinyurl.com/9r1a
By CARL HULSE
President Bush is stumping the nation in an effort to convert the
momentum of war into new energy for his domestic agenda. But the push
may stall just blocks from the White House.
A Deficit, Any Way It Is Sliced
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/business/17SCEN.html
By JEFF MADRICK
The Congressional Budget Office's updated forecasting methods don't
help the White House's argument for tax cuts.
New Campaign Law Adds 40% to Democratic Coffers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/politics/17FEC.html
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
Candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination have taken much
more in campaign contributions so far this year than they could have
under the old laws.
Iraq Pipeline to Syria No Big Secret, Experts Say
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/international/worldspecial/17OIL.html
By NEELA BANERJEE with FELICITY BARRINGER
Although the Bush administration is moving to shut down a pipeline
that provided Iraqi oil to Syria illegally, American oil companies
have long imported Syrian oil.
On the Ground in Iraq, the Best Compass Is in the Sky
http://tinyurl.com/9r20
By SETH SCHIESEL
In the Iraqi desert, satellite technology - specifically the Global
Positioning System, or G.P.S. - has become a fundamental and pervasive
navigation tool for ground forces.
Journal's Closing Spells End of an Era
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/books/17PART.html
By EMILY EAKIN
Partisan Review, the quarterly journal of culture and politics that
emerged from the ideological ferment of the 1930's to become the house
organ for a generation of brilliant American intellectuals and
writers, is ceasing publication after 66 years. The journal's final
issue, a tribute to its co-founder and editor in chief, William
Phillips, who died in September at 94, is being mailed to subscribers
this week.
Baghdad Bank Plundered as Iraq's Economy Falters
http://tinyurl.com/9r2g
By CRAIG S. SMITH
An axe rose and fell above a jeering mob in a narrow street behind
Iraq's central bank here as a man worked to crack open a safe. Men
with Kalashnikov assault rifles raised in the air shouted for others
in the crowd to keep back, then set off a stampede down the street
with an extended burst of fire.
Stocks Climb on Tech Earnings
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-markets-stocks.html
By REUTERS
Technology stocks rose today as investors found comfort in financial
results from high-tech companies like Nokia and Broadcom.
Eluding the Web's Snare
http://tinyurl.com/9r2r
By KATIE HAFNER
More than 40 percent of Americans still do not go online, even though
many of them have access to computers with Web connections.
Iraqi's Road Home, by Way of the Web
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/technology/circuits/17iraq.html
By LISA NAPOLI
For Iraqi expatriates like Sam Kareem, years of online talk about
their homeland's future is now turning to action.
Gadgets That Warm to the Real You
http://tinyurl.com/9r2z
By SAM LUBELL
Consumer electronics makers large and small are turning their
attention to biometric security: identifying people by their physical
and behavioral markers.
Before Lightning Can Strike, a Sky Watcher Pulls the Plug
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/technology/circuits/17next.html
By ANNE EISENBERG
A new device can detect lightning and automatically disconnect
computers, televisions and other electronic devices and switch them to
a battery backup.
Debate Over a Brazilian Town's Passion Play
http://tinyurl.com/9r3h
By LARRY ROHTER
A lavish million-dollar spectacle, featuring Brazilian TV stars and
hundreds of extras, draws huge crowds and offends traditionalists.
Some Looters Had Keys to Iraqi Museum Vaults, Experts Say
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-War-Iraq-Museums.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some of the looters who ravaged Iraqi antiquities appeared highly
organized and even had keys to museum vaults and were able to take
pieces from safes.
Sci-Fi Shrine for Seattle, Complete With Aliens
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/arts/design/17SCIF.html
By STEPHEN KINZER
Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, is planning to build a
"cultural project" in Seattle devoted to the science-fiction
experience.
Powell Expects Diplomatic Trip to Syria
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41977-2003Apr16.html
Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that he expected to
travel to Syria as part of a "very vigorous diplomatic exchange" with
a country Washington has accused of developing chemical weapons.
Terror Threat Level Dropped to Yellow
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41323-2003Apr16.html
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge lowered the nation's terrorist
alert threat level Wednesday from "high risk" to "elevated risk,"
partly because hostilities in Iraq are coming to a close.
U.S. Argues Against Access to Operative in Sept. 11 Trial
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41815-2003Apr16.html
The government has told an appellate court that the judiciary should
not interfere with the executive branch's war on terrorism, arguing
that alleged Sept. 11, 2001, conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has no
right to secure trial testimony from a key al Qaeda operative because
the detainee is overseas and "simply beyond the reach of the courts."
Security Agency Selects Privacy Watchdog
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41854-2003Apr16.html
A former privacy official for a controversial Internet advertising
firm was named Wednesday as chief privacy officer of the Department of
Homeland Security.
Homeland Security Dept. Fills Privacy Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39211-2003Apr16.html
The former privacy officer of Internet advertising giant DoubleClick
will be the Department of Homeland Security's first privacy czar.
Terror Alert Lowered to Yellow
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38230-2003Apr16.html
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge today lowered the nation's
terrorist alert threat level from orange or "high risk" to yellow or
"elevated risk," but in an initial statement the department did not
describe the reasoning behind the move.
Forces Kill At Least 10 In Mosul Incidents
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42357-2003Apr16.html
MOSUL, Iraq, April 16 -- U.S. forces killed three civilians in this
traditionally nationalistic northern Iraqi city today, a day after at
least seven people were killed by the U.S. military during a riot in
protest against the conduct of the American occupation.
Genetic Error Causes Rapid-Aging Syndrome
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42270-2003Apr16.html
Two teams of scientists reported yesterday that they had found a
genetic mutation that causes children to die of old age, and said
their research offered both a way to find a cure and insights into
normal aging.
U.S. Refuses to Release Abbas
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41743-2003Apr16.html
The U.S.rejected Palestinian demands for the release of Mohammed
Abbas, saying the only question was whether he should serve a life
sentence in Italy or face new charges in the U.S. for masterminding
the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking.
European Leaders Call for U.N. Role in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44994-2003Apr17.html
European leaders called Thursday for a central role for the United
Nations in rebuilding Iraq as they sought to heal the bitter split
over the U.S.-led war.
China's Help Led To Talks With N. Korea
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42046-2003Apr16.html
The Bush administration's decision to meet with North Korea next week
in Beijing, was made in response to China's increasingly cooperative
role in the North Korean crisis.
Hussein's Half-Brother Captured
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43972-2003Apr17.html
A half-brother of Saddam Hussein who was formerly Iraq's intelligence
chief and later managed the Iraqi ruler's money in Europe was captured
by U.S. troops today in a bloodless raid on a house in Baghdad, U.S.
military officials announced.
Literary Giant Stirs Up A Hornet's Nest in India
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42350-2003Apr16.html
Last year, after a half-century in India's literary limelight, author
and journalist Khushwant Singh announced that he was retiring from
public life.
No Progress Seen in Northern Ireland Peace Talks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41572-2003Apr16.html
Efforts to secure a quick breakthrough in the Northern Ireland peace
process appeared in trouble Wednesday, with no immediate new moves by
the Irish Republican Army to renounce violence.
EU Seeks Unified Stance On the Rebuilding of Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42351-2003Apr16.html
European Union leaders moved to resolve deep differences over the Iraq
war today and present the position that the United Nations should have
an important role in postwar reconstruction and European countries
would cooperate in that job.
The Last POW
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42422-2003Apr16.html
Scott Speicher was, the story went, the first U.S. serviceman to be
killed in the Gulf War, a Navy pilot shot down on the first night of
the attack, his F-18 crashing into the Iraqi desert below. Today the
Pentagon is not so sure. - By Jennifer Frey
Bush Panel Members Quit Over Looting
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42416-2003Apr16.html
Citing "the wanton and preventable destruction" of Iraq's National
Museum of Antiquities, the chairman of the President's Advisory
Committee on Cultural Property has submitted his resignation to
President Bush.- By Paul Richard
The Forgotten War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42265-2003Apr16.html
Page A22
TELEVISION PICTURES may appear to tell a different story, but right
now, the world's most vicious conflict is not the one going on in
Iraq. In fact, if the death tolls from the current Iraq war, the 1991
Gulf War, the war in Afghanistan and all of the Balkan wars of the
past decade are combined, they would still not exceed the number of
deaths caused by the much more obscure war in Congo. The International
Rescue Committee, which works with refugees in the region, in a report
published this week that 3.3 million people have died prematurely in
that country since war broke out in 1998. The committee also believes
that one in every eight homes has suffered a violent death; that in
some regions, 75 percent of children born during the war have died or
will die before their second birthday; and that the region is plagued
by malnutrition and infectious diseases that in other circumstances
would be curable.
North Korea's Human Catastrophe
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42275-2003Apr16.html
By Carl Gershman, Page A23
The abandonment by North Korea of its demand for one-on-one
negotiations with the United States is a welcome development.
Pyongyang has understandably reconsidered the wisdom of its strategy
of provoking the United States militarily in order to win economic aid
and security guarantees. But while multilateral talks may follow, it
would be a mistake if they were to focus exclusively on settling the
nuclear issue. The security crisis can never be resolved in any
lasting way without addressing the heart of the problem: the terrible
crimes the North Korean regime is committing against its own people.
Victims of Civic Passivity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42276-2003Apr16.html
By Jim Hoagland, Page A23
The Pentagon is taking fire for failing to protect Baghdad's
incomparable National Museum and its archaeological treasures from
rampaging mobs. There is some justice in the accusation: The security
lapses at the museum and at Iraq's hospitals were inexcusable.
License to Legislate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42274-2003Apr16.html
By George F. Will, Page A23
Because the Democratic Party has leased itself in perpetuity to the
trial lawyers, significant tort reform by legislatures seems
unobtainable. There is a Supreme Court propensity to legislate when it
thinks legislatures should but won't. However, that propensity is
injurious to constitutional law and democratic practices, even when
the resulting court-made social policy would be desirable if
established by legislation.
The Test of Peace
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42273-2003Apr16.html
By Richard Cohen, Page A23
With the war in Iraq virtually over, with Saddam Hussein either on
the lam or reduced to a swab of DNA, "now comes the hard part" has
become the cliche of the moment. Given the looting of Baghdad, its
government ministries, its museums and even its hospitals, who can
argue? But I have something else to add: Now comes the best part.
Why No Buzz on West Nile Virus?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42239-2003Apr16.html
Page A22
In his April 13 Outlook article, Peter Hotez describes the all-out
attack on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). As an emerging
contagious disease, SARS deserves all the attention it is commanding.
War on the Cheap (Cont'd)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42240-2003Apr16.html
Page A22
Despite his protestations [letters, April 15], Ken Adelman clearly
and explicitly advocated use of a very modest U.S. force to take on
Saddam Hussein a year ago. Those who doubt that point should reread
his Feb. 13, 2002, op-ed piece.
Embedded, Embittered and Emboldened
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42241-2003Apr16.html
Page A22
An April 10 news story quoted Vice President Cheney as saying, in a
speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors , that "in the
early days of the war, the plan was criticized by some retired
military officers embedded in TV studios." His comment received quite
a bit of laughter from the audience.
A Regime of Payoffs and Persecution
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41740-2003Apr16.html
Files in Basra Detail How Baath Party Kept Tabs on Comrades,
'Traitors'
By Susan B. Glasser, Page A01
BASRA, Iraq, April 16 -- The bookkeepers of the police state were
meticulous.
Bush Urges U.N. to Lift Sanctions on Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42042-2003Apr16.html
New Way of War Will Help U.S. Target Threats, President Warns
By Mike Allen, Page A01
ST. LOUIS, April 16 -- President Bush urged the United Nations
today to lift economic sanctions on Iraq, and warned that the United
States sees a new era of warfare in which lethal technology and secret
operations allow swift, precise strikes on threatening governments.
Scientists Identify Cause of Outbreak
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39713-2003Apr16.html
Data on Viruses Connect SARS to The Common Cold
By Rob Stein, Page A01
The new lung infection that has triggered an international health
emergency is unquestionably caused by a previously unknown virus
related to germs that cause the common cold, the World Health
Organization announced yesterday.
In the Dark Over Power Outage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41123-2003Apr16.html
Mystery of Blackout's Cause Hinders Efforts to Restore Electricity
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Page A01
BAGHDAD, April 16 -- At 8 p.m. on April 3, as U.S. tanks rumbled
into Baghdad's international airport to prepare for a final attack,
the power went out across this sprawling city. Perhaps the Americans
had bombed a power plant, people here figured, or President Saddam
Hussein had ordered everything shut down. Either way, they assumed,
once the government fell and U.S. forces asserted control here, the
lights and the air conditioning would be on again.
Beijing's Help Led To Talks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42046-2003Apr16.html
U.S. Cuts Demands On North Korea
By Karen DeYoung and Doug Struck, Page A01
The Bush administration's decision to meet with North Korean
representatives next week in Beijing, a significant retreat from its
insistence that it would talk to Pyongyang only in the presence of
officials from Japan, South Korea and China, was made in response to
China's increasingly cooperative role in the North Korean crisis,
senior administration officials said yesterday.
Frist Off to Rocky Start
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42097-2003Apr16.html
Senate Leader's Tax Cut Flap, Missteps Have Caused Problems for Bush
and GOP
By Jim VandeHei and Helen Dewar, Page A01
As a close friend and political ally of President Bush, Sen. Bill
Frist seemed the White House's ideal choice when he captured the
Senate majority leader post in December. Yet 100 days into the job,
the Tennessee Republican has stumbled in pushing the president's
agenda and infuriated some fellow Republicans by cutting a last-minute
deal to slash Bush's prized tax cut package.
Genetic Error Causes Rapid-Aging Syndrome
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42270-2003Apr16.html
Discovery Offers Hope for Treatments
Page A06
Two teams of scientists reported yesterday that they had found a
genetic mutation that causes children to die of old age, and said
their research offered both a way to find a cure and insights into
normal aging.
3-Month Push Gave Edwards Democratic Fundraising Edge
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41741-2003Apr16.html
Trial Lawyers Are Key Contributors to $7.4 Million Total
By Thomas B. Edsall and Dan Balz, Page A08
After announcing in January that he would compete for the
Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. John Edwards (N.C.) went on a
three-month tear through 175 fundraising events, most of them tapping
into the pockets of the nation's trial lawyers, an affluent
constituency under siege by Republican politicians at every level of
government.
Hawks May Rule, but This Dove Perseveres
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41742-2003Apr16.html
Antiwar Organizer Shrugs Off Polls and Turns Her Coalition's Efforts
to Iraq's Future
By Michael Powell, Page A11
NEW YORK -- She had the television on last week, watching the video
of Saddam Hussein's statue toppling and listening as a Greek chorus of
cable pundits scolded any who dared oppose this war.
Palestinian Demands That U.S. Release Abbas Are Rejected
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41743-2003Apr16.html
Klinghoffer Family Applauds Capture of Chief Plotter of Cruise Ship
Hijacking
By Dan Eggen, Page A12
U.S. officials yesterday rejected Palestinian demands for the
release of captured guerrilla leader Mohammed Abbas, saying the only
question was whether he should serve a life sentence in Italy or face
new charges in the United States for masterminding the 1985 Achille
Lauro hijacking.
Syria Built Arsenal as 'Equalizer'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42104-2003Apr16.html
Israel's Arms Spurred Fear
By Walter Pincus, Page A30
Syria's current arsenal of chemical warheads and Scud missiles was
started more than 30 years ago to counter Israel's development and
possession of nuclear weapons, according to present and former U.S.
intelligence officials.
U.N. Panel Rejects Censure of Russia on Chechnya Abuses
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41571-2003Apr16.html
By Jonathan Fowler, Page A15
GENEVA, April 16 -- For the second consecutive year, Russia today
escaped censure by the United Nations' top human rights body for
alleged violations by its forces in Chechnya.
Looters Halt Flow of Oil From Kirkuk
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41596-2003Apr16.html
Managers Blame U.S. For Not Stopping Kurds
By Karl Vick, Page A25
KIRKUK, Iraq -- Hundreds of looters still show up each day to carry
away valuable pieces of North Oil Co., nearly a week after U.S. troops
were said to have secured Kirkuk's oil fields.
Kurds Redrawing Map by Memory, With Force
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41711-2003Apr16.html
By Daniel Williams and Karl Vick, Page A25
MUNTASIR, Iraq -- With the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Iraq's
ethnic Kurdish minority has achieved a long-held dream: restored
control over broad swaths of territory the Kurds consider their own.
But as the U.S.-led war that toppled the Iraqi president comes to an
end, Arabs, Turkmen, Americans and the Kurds themselves are struggling
to prevent that dream from becoming a nightmare.
Iraqi Shiites Are Pilgrims Once Again
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40651-2003Apr16.html
With Hussein Gone, Many Trek to Karbala
By Keith B. Richburg, Page A25
KARBALA, Iraq, April 16 -- They came by the tens of thousands,
crowding the highways on foot, walking from as far as Basra and
Nasiriyah to the south and Baghdad to the north. They carried green
flags, representing Islam, and black flags, a sign of mourning. The
women were covered head-to-foot in black robes. Many of the men wore
red-and-white-checkered kaffiyehs on their heads.
Commander Pays Triumphant Visit to Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42414-2003Apr16.html
Top U.S. Officers Brief Franks at A Hussein Palace
By Alan Sipress, Page A25
BAGHDAD, April 16 -- Gen. Tommy R. Franks, who commanded U.S. and
British forces in the war against Iraq, paid a brief conqueror's visit
to Baghdad today, greeting U.S. soldiers with hugs and horseplay and
smoking a victory cigar with his top officers in one of former
president Saddam Hussein's commandeered palaces.
Iraqi Boy Burned in U.S. Bombing Gets Surgery
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42319-2003Apr16.html
By Patrick McDowell, Page A26
KUWAIT CITY, April 16 -- Kuwaiti doctors performed plastic surgery
today on a 12-year-old boy who suffered severe burns and lost both his
arms during the U.S. bombardment of Baghdad, becoming a symbol of
Iraqi suffering during the war.
Forces Kill At Least 10 In Mosul Incidents
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42357-2003Apr16.html
Occupation, Governor Have Angered Residents
By Daniel Williams, Page A27
MOSUL, Iraq, April 16 -- U.S. forces killed three civilians in this
traditionally nationalistic northern Iraqi city today, a day after at
least seven people were killed by the U.S. military during a riot in
protest against the conduct of the American occupation.
Pentagon's Iraqi Proteges Go Home to Mixed Welcome
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42322-2003Apr16.html
Exiles Seek Interim Control
By Peter Finn, Page A27
BAGHDAD, April 16 -- A Pentagon-backed Iraqi militia composed
mostly of exiles rumbled into town today on the back of U.S. military
trucks.
U.S. Plans to Offer Iraqi Public Workers $20 to Return to Jobs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42321-2003Apr16.html
By Monte Reel, Page A27
KUWAIT CITY, April 16 -- With Iraq's national currency worth next
to nothing and its public employees mostly out of work, U.S. officials
overseeing reconstruction said today that they plan to give $20 to any
civil service employee who returns to the job.
Sharon Asks U.S. to Pressure Syria on Militants
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41900-2003Apr16.html
By Molly Moore, Page A30
JERUSALEM, April 16 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has
urged the United States to exert "very heavy" pressure on neighboring
Syria to dislodge militant organizations supported by Damascus, but
stopped short of advocating military action that analysts warn could
put Israel in far more imminent danger from missile attacks than ever
posed by Iraq.
EU Seeks Unified Stance On the Rebuilding of Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42351-2003Apr16.html
By Robert J. McCartney, Page A31
PARIS, April 16 -- European Union leaders moved to resolve deep
differences over the Iraq war today and present the United States with
a common position that the United Nations should have an important
role in postwar reconstruction and that European countries would
cooperate in that job.
U.S. Seeks Bids for Iraq Peacekeeping
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41812-2003Apr16.html
Contractors Invited; Foreign Forces Offered
By Colum Lynch and Vernon Loeb, Page A31
The Pentagon's search for foreign peacekeeping forces for Iraq
gathered some momentum yesterday as the State Department solicited
bids from private U.S. contractors for training a national Iraqi
police force and overhauling the country's judicial and prison
systems.
Boston Reaping Big Dig's Benefits
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41324-2003Apr16.html
Massive Project Eases Legendary Traffic Snarls
By Pamela Ferdinand, Page A03
BOSTON
On an ordinary Friday about 7 p.m., Matthew Medford dropped his wife
off at Logan International Airport, but instead of heading north to
the comfort of his suburban home, Medford took a detour. He found
himself speeding through the bowels of the dark city and across the
Charles...
States Ask Feds to Help Get the Salt Out
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41355-2003Apr16.html
By Judy Sarasohn, Page A21
California, Texas and other thirsty states don't need a divining
rod to find water. There's the ocean -- if only it weren't salty.
Whistle-Blowing Ranger Cries Foul
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41356-2003Apr16.html
Seasonal Park Employee Not Rehired
By Kimberly Edds, Page A21
For 30 years, Bob Jackson patrolled the vast expanses of
Yellowstone National Park's backcountry on horseback, pursuing hunters
who sneaked inside the park to shoot protected wildlife.
British Aided 'Dirty War'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45622-2003Apr17.html
Britain's top officer finds that rogue forces colluded in N. Ireland
killings.
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The suits inside the battledress
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1719466
Apr 17th 2003 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
Is collusion between government and big business increasing in
America?
A new world order
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1721193
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
The shape of international relations after the war in Iraq is still
unclear. Will there be a complete break with the past?
Can normal relations be restored?
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1714421
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
At a special summit in Athens, European Union leaders have signed the
treaty admitting ten new members in a year's time. But the meeting has
come at a time of considerable international tension, with
transatlantic and intra-European relations under strain
Mr Kim's change of heart
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1719396
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
North Korea stops sabre-rattling and agrees to talks with America and
China about its nuclear programme
Bush changes tack
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1721155
Apr 16th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
As the war in Iraq draws to a close, President George Bush is turning
his attention back to his domestic agenda. For the first time, he has
signalled a willingness to compromise in the tax-cut battle
The road to democracy
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1726995
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
A parliamentary poll complete, a presidential election to come, and no
coup likely. Africa's most populous country is moving in the right
direction, albeit slowly
Not only bad for your health
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1713808
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Economists are now predicting that SARS, a deadly pneumonia that
originated in China, may have a more damaging effect on East Asia's
economies than the war in Iraq. However, the identification of the
virus that causes the disease should speed the search for a cure
We're (still) in the money
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1718878
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist Global Agenda
Corporate scandals and falling share prices have forced companies to
rethink their executive-compensation schemes. And yet, bosses are
still being paid sums that many shareholders consider indefensible: in
America, top-level compensation actually rose last year
Rebuilding Iraq
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1715348
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist print edition
How to win the peace
Letters
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1714759
On affirmative action, SARS, illegal drugs, the war in Iraq, George
Bush, American diplomacy, pigeons
Apr 17th 2003
The hard path to new nationhood
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1715028
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Iraq's military occupiers will be starting almost from scratch
Like father, like son?
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1714949
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist print edition
The question that still haunts the Bush presidency
Chávez rides high, for now
http://www.economist.com/world/la/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1715417
Apr 17th 2003 | CARACAS
From The Economist print edition
A year after Venezuela's failed coup, its president rules in triumph
over a shattered and still-divided country
Thais love Thaksin
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1715390
Apr 17th 2003 | BANGKOK
From The Economist print edition
Despite the misgivings of foreign and domestic commentators,
Thailand's forceful prime minister seems to be unassailable
Cocorico? Or the chickens come home to roost?
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1718852
Apr 17th 2003 | PARIS
From The Economist print edition
After a meeting in Russia of Europe's three leading opponents of the
war in Iraq, France's president has most to lose
Hard numbers
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1718799
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Maths and science have gone into a dangerous decline in Britain
Blair v Bart
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1721240
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Tony Blair gets the ultimate accolade
A moderate spin
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1723639
Apr 17th 2003 | JERUSALEM AND RAMALLAH
From The Economist print edition
Ariel Sharon's latest words were long on charm, short on substance
The retiring Mr Koc
http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1715064
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Why a foreign quote would be better than dynastic succession for
Turkey's big companies
Abdul Majid al-Khoei
http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1714838
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Abdul Majid al-Khoei, a good man lost to Iraq, died on April 10th,
aged 41
The language of light
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1714714
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist print edition
King James I wanted a Bible that would unite his fractured realm. A
new book recounts how this great work was made
The generation game
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1698597
Apr 10th 2003
From The Economist print edition
A new book travels to the frontiers of science in an attempt to
resolve the ongoing quarrel over genetics and environment
Texas v Paris, the prequel
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1698605
Apr 10th 2003
From The Economist print edition
THE dead cannot defend themselves; nor can they commit new errors: two
reasons why they make perfect fodder for historians who want to praise
what they might have done had they lived longer or in better times.
Grandma was right
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1682193
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist print edition
SUPPOSE you are a fat New Yorker. Suppose, furthermore, that you are
increasingly susceptible to heart disease and you have to get the
pounds off. Time is not on your side, and there are more than 25,000
diet books in print. Where do you go to find dependable counsel? The
man you need, many cardiac specialists will tell you, is a New Jersey
doctor named Joel Fuhrman who specialises in nutrition.
Worked to death
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1682166
Apr 3rd 2003
From The Economist print edition
Is there a moral equivalence between Hitler's concentration camps and
the Russian Gulag? A new book looks at the singular history of
Stalin's labour camps
Getting a grippe
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1714874
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist print edition
A virus yields up its genes
Swamp thing or monster of the deep?
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1714858
Apr 17th 2003 | NICE
From The Economist print edition
A discussion about the end of the last ice age has repercussions for
today's climate
Economic and financial indicators
http://www.economist.com/markets/indicators/index.cfm?page=Economic%20and%20Financial
Apr 17th 2003
Emerging-market indicators
http://www.economist.com/markets/indicators/index.cfm?page=Emerging%20Market
Apr 17th 2003
Death sentences
http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1721070&marketErr=1
Apr 17th 2003
Stockmarket concentration
http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1721005&marketErr=1
Apr 17th 2003
Love on the rocks
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1721121
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Arguments between insurers and reinsurers over the payment of claims
are becoming increasingly acrimonious
Reeling like a bad movie
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1719526
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist print edition
The growing pressure to break it up
Where the hedge funds hide
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1721232
Apr 17th 2003
From The Economist print edition
How St James's became an international financial centre
Cluster Effect
http://tinyurl.com/9smd
Avalanches
http://tinyurl.com/9smj
The thieves of Baghdad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,939200,00.html
John O'Farrell: The Baghdad branch of Neighbourhood Watch has been
completely overwhelmed this week.
Shock, awe - and tanks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/story/0,3604,939205,00.html
In the Pentagon's phrase, major combat operations in Iraq have now
finished. But what really went on behind the soundbites and spin that
dominated the news coverage?
Saddam's fall will reignite the revolutionary debate
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,939204,00.html
The dispute in Iran about Islam's political role will now shake Iraq.
Easter's hawks and doves
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,939202,00.html
Giles Fraser: Sin must be paid for with blood - that view of the
crucifixion leads to support for capital punishment and war.
Turning a blind eye to murder
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,939203,00.html
Peter Taylor: The Stevens report shows the army and police were out of
control.
Hell on earth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,939043,00.html
This is the most polluted place in Russia - where the snow is black,
the air tastes of sulphur and the life expectancy for factory workers
is 10 years below the Russian average. But now a local union rep is
taking on the might of Russian industry in Sunday's mayoral elections
- and promising to clean up the town. Nick Paton Walsh is one of the
few foreigners to be allowed in
'Divisions won't be easily healed'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
The British papers react with suspicion to events in Athens.
Superstition is not just for ladies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,939206,00.html
Superstition isn't just for women. An unbridled fear of magpies is the
most macho doctrine of all
A step closer to justice in Ulster
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,939034,00.html
Why does John Stevens' investigation into criminal collusion between
the army, police and paramilitaries seem to be limited to 1980-99
(Scandal of Ulster's secret war, April 17)?
We must invest in non-animal research
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,939037,00.html
You repeat the false claim that animal experiments have been at the
heart of most major medical breakthroughs.
Poster boy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,939038,00.html
I can't comprehend why we, the western world, first have to blow off a
child's arms, or napalm a village to create so-called "poster
children" before we will notice them (Hope for Ali, April 11). What is
so wrong with us that we cannot act without this?
No faith in Ludovic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,939039,00.html
I realise that to be published you must send a very short "clever"
letter, a learned one signed by at least 10 very clever and/or
well-known people, or be called Keith Flett.
Muffin and Mrs Anthrax
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,939036,00.html
Well done, Marcel Berlins (G2, April 15) for acknowledging that lots
of barristers doing public service work in family, crime and
immigration, paid by what used to be called legal aid, do very
difficult jobs for little money.
It happened here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,939031,00.html
Come clean about the dirty war.
Not another stand-off
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,939032,00.html
A deal can be done on Iraq sanctions.
Cover-up may involve ministers
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,9061,939108,00.html
The cover-up into security force collusion with loyalist murder gangs
in Northern Ireland may have reached the highest echelons of the army
and government, Sir John Stevens revealed yesterday.
Blair feared for premiership over war
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,939311,00.html
Tony Blair today admitted he had feared for his premiership as he led
Britain into a war with Iraq but his belief in the cause had never
once wavered.
Diary
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/diary/story/0,9176,939243,00.html
Matthew Norman: Our Good Friday special begins with a glimpse into the
thinking of retired US general Jay Garner about how to resurrect Iraq.
US believes capture of brother could lead to Saddam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939142,00.html
The US is hoping to secure vital leads in the hunt for Saddam Hussein,
his elusive weapons of mass destruction and hidden funds after the
capture in Baghdad yesterday of his half-brother, Barzan Ibrahim Hasan
al-Tikriti.
Power struggle rages in Saddam hometown
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939071,00.html
Gangs of armed Iraqis loyal to Saddam Hussein's clan are still
operating in his hometown, Tikrit, American military officials
admitted yesterday.
Arabs face evictions as Kurds take revenge
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939067,00.html
Iraqi Arabs claim they are being forcibly expelled from homes and
villages in and around the northern city of Kirkuk by Kurds who are
bent on undoing years of their own forced expulsion at the hands of
the Iraqi regime.
Old guard faces crisis as heat turns on Syria
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939044,00.html
At the moment when American forces swept into Baghdad and Iraqis began
attacking the symbols of Saddam Hussein's rule, Syrian television
interrupted its live coverage of the war to bring viewers a programme
about Islamic art and architecture.
Bombs silent, but the children still suffer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939084,00.html
A five-year-old boy blinded when he picked up a cluster bomb while he
played with friends is just the latest victim as the agony goes on
EU and US clash on trade with Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939086,00.html
Sanctions may become bargaining chip in UN security council.
Ethiopia's worst famine in 20 years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939045,00.html
Charities say 20m people may need food aid to survive, as measles and
malaria sweep countryside.
Australia criticised for troops pullout
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939068,00.html
Australia is to pull the bulk of its troops out of Iraq within two
months and has no plans for a substantial peacekeeping commitment,
John Howard, the prime minister, announced yesterday.
Raid on bank turns into riot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939070,00.html
A riot broke out at a bank in Baghdad yesterday after thieves blew a
hole in the vault and dropped children inside to bring out fistfuls of
cash. US troops arrested the thieves and took away US $4m for
safekeeping.
Bechtel wins contract prize
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939297,00.html
Firm with close links to White House given $680m deal to rebuild
electrical, water and sewage systems
Damascus may expel Saddam regime fugitives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939308,00.html
Syria may be preparing to quietly expel some members of Saddam
Hussein's regime who have sought refuge inside its borders, US
officials said last night.
US sends in its own weapons inspectors
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939081,00.html
The US is preparing to intensify its efforts to find weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq, sending in 1,000 scientists, intelligence
analysts and others, straining further the international disagreement
over who should verify that the country is WMD-free, it was revealed
yesterday.
Bush's cultural aides quit over sack of Baghdad's treasures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939298,00.html
Two senior cultural advisers to President Bush have resigned in fury
at the US military's failure to prevent the looting of antiquities
from Baghdad's national museum.
'I can't go to school any more because I don't have arms'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939082,00.html
Ali Ismail Abbas, the 12-year-old Iraqi boy who lost both arms in a US
missile attack, felt well enough yesterday to request one of his
favourite meals - a shish kebab.
Charity's anger as US halts aid plane
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939083,00.html
Save the Children yesterday accused the US military of allowing
children to die after it refused to grant permission for a plane
loaded with medical supplies to land in northern Iraq.
Expanding union woos Russia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939085,00.html
'Wider Europe' plan seeks to pacify those left outside club
Annan vows to pursue Cyprus peace plan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939087,00.html
The UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, said yesterday that he will
stick by his reunification plan for Cyprus even if it has been
rejected by Turkish Cypriots.
Time for realism, not histrionics, in the hallways of power
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939309,00.html
There's obviously a risk that the mutual blackmailing game will start
all over again in the hallways of the United Nations, with permanent
security council members brandishing their veto powers as if they were
Kalashnikovs in the bitter fight around Iraq's postwar reconstruction.
Russia now does most of the grumbling, and the implicit threatening,
playing the role France had before the war.
Leaders seek to heal wounds of conflict
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939088,00.html
European Union leaders issued a declaration yesterday that sought to
bury their differences over the war in Iraq.
First Sars case reported in India
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939078,00.html
The Sars virus has been detected in India for the first time, in
samples taken from a 32-year-old marine engineer, officials said
yesterday.
MP's killing rocks Russian democracy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939134,00.html
Third assassination of prominent politician in recent months casts
cloud over preparations for general election
Americans lean on Israel to make concessions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939135,00.html
Sharon told he may not tinker with the 'road map' to peace
Reichstag rallies to gastro-nationalist banner
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939136,00.html
After the storming by countless anti-American demonstrators at
McDonald's, mass defections to Mecca Cola and the rechristening of
french fries as freedom fries, comes an eruption of nutritional
nationalism in, of all sensitive places, the Reichstag.
Low-carb diet pioneer dies at 72
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939133,00.html
Robert Atkins, famous advocate of a popular but controversial
high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, died yesterday, nine days after
falling and hitting his head on an icy New York pavement.
Call to rename Snowdon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,939125,00.html
A group which fights to save the Welsh language and Welsh-speaking
communities is demanding today that Snowdon and the Snowdonia range
should revert to their original Welsh names.
Pope warns against unholy communion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,939126,00.html
In the first act of his busy Easter season, Pope John Paul II
yesterday warned Catholics against taking holy communion delivered by
ministers of other denominations.
Avebury's monster revealed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,939115,00.html
A stone age monster has been uncovered at Avebury in Wiltshire.
Archaeologists have discovered that an already impressive megalith
drops at least 2.2m underground and weighs up to 100 tons - rivalling
the largest stones at Stonehenge.
Cover story: Moving pictures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,938552,00.html
The problem: the people of the highlands and islands - an area the
size of Belgium - have only eight cinemas. The solution: a mobile film
house that negotiates single-track roads, peat bogs and stormy waters
to take films to the most far-flung parts of Britain. Aida Edemariam
catches up with the Screen Machine in Tobermory
Now North Korea must be invaded and liberated, for the sake of its
people
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/johann_hari/story.jsp?story=398186
When 200,000 people are released from a single gulag, it will be like
the opening of the gates of Auschwitz
Today's links in full
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=398177
Why Iraq now needs the help of its neighbours
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/adrian_hamilton/story.jsp?story=398184
For the sake of Iraqi self-respect, the American forces need to get
out as soon as possible
Edward Chaplin: Britain understands Iraq's history
http://argument.independent.co.uk/podium/story.jsp?story=398197
From the speech by the UK representative at the Nasiriyah conference
This divergence of views over the war complicates the moves towards
peace
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=398191
18 April 2003
The perfunctory declaration on Iraq issued by the European Union at
the end of its summit in Athens may have papered over some of the
cracks inside Europe, but it has left the fissure between Europe and
the United States as glaringly wide as ever. It was no wonder the
Prime Minister, suspended awkwardly between the two, left without
attending the "family photo" and before the declaration was issued.
France and Russia prepare for battle over UN sanctions
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=398255
By Anne Penketh
18 April 2003
Russia and France served notice yesterday that they would not be
steamrollered into lifting United Nations sanctions against Iraq.
$20bn for war and now a $2bn monthly bill
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
18 April 2003
The war in Iraq has already cost the United States around $20bn
(£12.7bn) - $3bn of that in munitions - and the cost of keeping troops
in the country will run at $2bn a month, the Pentagon says.
maff
Rejecting the World
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/18KRUG.html
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The greenhouse effect is a quintessentially global issue, which makes
it anathema to the isolationist Bush administration.
Running for the Exits
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/18KRIS.html
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
We need to remember the missed opportunities of Kuwait as we work for
democracy in Iraq, so that we do not leave the job half-complete.
When Freedom Leads to Anarchy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/18SHIP.html
By DAVID K. SHIPLER
In part because of negligent planning in Washington, the notion is
taking root in Baghdad that freedom means anarchy.
Oil, Food and a Whole Lot of Questions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/18ROSE.html
By CLAUDIA ROSETT
Before United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan extends the
oil-for-food operation in Iraq, he needs to open the books.
The Quest for Illicit Weapons
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/18FRI1.html
The White House should bring in inspectors from the United Nations to
locate illicit materials in Iraq and enhance the credibility of any
findings.
Preventing a Miscarriage of Justice
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/18FRI2.html
The Supreme Court must not allow Delma Banks Jr., a Texas death row
inmate, to be put to death while there is serious doubt about his
guilt.
Cuban Litmus Test
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/18FRI3.html
Judging Fidel Castro's regime is indeed a litmus test for Latin
American nations - a test of the maturity of their own democracies.
A New Look at Arab-Israeli Peace
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/L18MIDE.html
Diplomatic Minuet Over North Korea
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/L18KORE.html
No. 1 in Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/L18IRAQ.html
Running Out of Oil
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/L18OILL.html
Democrats' Lost Voice
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/L18DEMS.html
Local School Boards
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/L18SCHO.html
Religion and Science
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/L18UNIV.html
Deal With Diesel Fumes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/L18EPAA.html
Justice in Cambodia
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/L18CAMB.html
U.S. Gives Bechtel a Major Contract in Rebuilding Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/9top
By ELIZABETH BECKER and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
The award will initially pay the Bechtel Group $34.6 million and could
go up to $680 million over 18 months.
U.S. Captures a Half Brother of Iraqi Chief
http://tinyurl.com/9tot
By IAN FISHER and JOHN KIFNER
With still no sign of Saddam Hussein himself, American Special Forces
captured one of his half brothers, a former intelligence chief.
Trained for War, 12 Green Berets Keep the Peace in an Iraqi Town
http://tinyurl.com/9tou
By JAMES DAO
Army Special Forces soldiers in Diwaniya, Iraq, have found themselves
on a mission to rebuild the city.
West Pointers Prepare to Face Changed World
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/worldspecial/18POIN.html
By LYDIA POLGREEN
West Point cadets are full of new questions about America's role - and
their own - in a world that has changed greatly since many of them
enrolled.
Rumsfeld Looking for Help in Finding Outlawed Arms
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/worldspecial/18PENT.html
By ERIC SCHMITT
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that the United States still
needs the help of Iraqis to find banned weapons in their country.
U.N. and European Union Consider the Future of Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/worldspecial/18NATI.html
By FELICITY BARRINGER with FRANK BRUNI
Kofi Annan implored European Union leaders to forge a shared position
on the terms and timing of Iraq's political and economic
reconstruction.
Art Experts Mobilize Team to Recover Stolen Treasure and Salvage Iraqi
Museums
http://tinyurl.com/9tpg
By ALAN RIDING
The emergency mission to Iraq will measure the damage done to the
National Museum and other cultural institutions.
Germany's Bleak Display: 6,780 Neo-Nazi Scrawls
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/europe/18NAZI.html
By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
Irmela Schramm's collection of images of neo-Nazi graffiti is becoming
a part of the German antihate, antiracism circuit.
China Cautions Officials Not to Hide SARS Cases
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/asia/18CND-BEIJ.html
By ERIK ECKHOLM
China's top leaders issued their strongest warning yet about severe
acute respiratory syndrome and explicitly cautioned officials not to
cover up the spread of the disease.
North Korea Says It Is Extracting Plutonium From Fuel Rods
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/asia/18CND-KOREA.html
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Just days away from the opening of high-stakes discussions with the
United States, North Korea announced today that it was reprocessing
nuclear fuel rods.
Islamic World Less Welcoming to American Scholars
http://tinyurl.com/9tpt
By SAM DILLON
The war in Iraq, and the angry reactions it has aroused across the
Islamic world, have disrupted work by American scholars from Tunisia
to Pakistan.
Gay Partners, Too, Are Separated by War, and by Secrecy
http://tinyurl.com/9tq2
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
With their hearts and lives in upheaval, the gay partners of troops
overseas voice frustration that they have not received the emotional
support or benefits that married couples get.
In Hoopla Over a P.O.W., a Mirror of U.S. Society
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/worldspecial/18WATC.html
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
There have been many television magazine shows devoted to Pfc. Jessica
Lynch, and several movie treatments are in the works.
Crime Bill Would Curb Judges' Powers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/politics/18SENT.html
By ADAM LIPTAK
A bill recently passed to set up a national alert system for child
abductions includes provisions that limit judicial discretion in
sentencing criminals.
Certain Words Can Trip Up AIDS Grants, Scientists Say
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/national/18GRAN.html
By ERICA GOODE
Scientists who study AIDS say they have been warned by federal health
officials that their research may come under unusual scrutiny.
Fight Over California Schools Raises New Issue of Priorities
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/education/18SCHO.html
By JONATHAN D. GLATER
California has spent $13 million in the last three years defending
itself in a suit seeking to improve conditions in its public schools.
60 Manatees Killed by Red Tide
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/science/18MANA.html
By REUTERS
A red tide algae bloom has killed at least 60 manatees along 90 miles
of Florida's south-central Gulf Coast over two months.
Lawmakers Take Aim at Syrians
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/worldspecial/18SANC.html
By CARL HULSE
Lawmakers in both parties say they will renew a push for economic and
diplomatic sanctions against Syria when Congress returns at the end of
the month.
Judges Question Bid to Halt Lawsuit on Cheney
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/politics/18CHEN.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Members of a federal appeals court questioned a Bush administration
request to stop a lawsuit delving into Vice President Dick Cheney's
contacts with energy executives.
Muslims Object to Graham
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/worldspecial/18GRAH.html
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
The Pentagon will proceed with a Good Friday religious service by the
Rev. Franklin Graham, despite objections from Muslim groups that he
has called Islam "very evil and wicked."
Franklin Graham
http://tinyurl.com/9tr8
Senator John Edwards' Campaign Says It Will Return Firm's Checks
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/politics/campaigns/18EDWA.html
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
The campaign of the North Carolina Democrat will return $10,000 in
contributions from employees at an Arkansas law firm who thought their
firm would reimburse them.
Iraq to Run On Dollars Till It Gets New Currency
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/business/18BANK.html
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
The Bush administration plans to run Iraq on dollars until it fosters
a replacement for today's nearly worthless "Saddam dinars."
Nokia Tempers Positive Report With a Warning
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/business/worldbusiness/18NOKI.html
By CHRISTINE WHITEHOUSE
Nokia, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, keeps finding ways
to sail through the stormy weather in its industry with surprisingly
little damage.
Some Shareholders Are Far From Preferred
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/business/18NORR.html
By FLOYD NORRIS
The Perini Corporation is one of the first companies to get work
rebuilding Iraq. But things are not upbeat for those who own Perini's
preferred stock.
Poland, in 'Deal of Century,' Signs to Buy 48 U.S. Fighter Jets
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/business/worldbusiness/18CND-POLAND.html
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
In the largest arms deal by a former Soviet-bloc country since the end
of the cold war, Poland will pay $3.5 billion for 48 Lockheed Martin
jet fighters.
In the Skies Over Iraq, Silent Observers Become Futuristic Weapons
http://tinyurl.com/9ts5
By ERIC SCHMITT
Remotely piloted aircraft like the stripped-down RQ-1 Predator drone
have played a crucial role in the Iraq war.
A Beady-Eyed Perspective on Migrating Birds
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/movies/18WING.html
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
The breathtaking cinematography of migrating birds in Jacques Perrin's
mystical documentary transports you to an exalted realm where nature
operates under its own inviolable laws.
Glover's Opinion on War? Don't Get Him Started
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/nyregion/18BOLD.html
By COREY KILGANNON
It's always nice when Hollywood types get in touch with their social
consciousness.
With Gaze Fixed on the Infinite
http://tinyurl.com/9tsm
By ROBERTA SMITH
At this beautiful show of early Buddhist sculpture at the Japan
Society, inner truths triumph over outward appearances.
She Who Made Industry Dance
http://tinyurl.com/9tst
By SARAH BOXER
The photographer Margaret Bourke-White was a born climber. When she
was a child, she liked to walk along the tops of fences. When she grew
up, she requested the top floors of hotels. Her office in the Chrysler
building was eye-level with the gargoyles. But where did her love of
climbing end?
Justifying Abuse
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48411-2003Apr17.html
Page A20
"HUMAN RIGHTS FILE was closed forever, and Sudan's innocence
declared." So read a newspaper headline in Khartoum this week after
the vote by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights to remove Sudan from a
list of countries requiring special monitoring. For the past decade, a
U.N. human rights investigator has made regular visits to the country,
publishing accounts of the government's treatment of people in the
northern parts of the country it controls, as well as the rebel
movement's behavior in the war-torn south. This week's vote will now
bring his mandate to an end.
Bean Ball
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48414-2003Apr17.html
Page A20
IT TAKES A SPECIAL KIND of talent to suffuse Susan Sarandon with
the dignity of martyrdom. So perhaps some recognition is due to Dale
Petroskey, the president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and
Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. Mr. Petroskey, a former Reagan White House
official, invited Ms. Sarandon and her husband, Tim Robbins, to speak
at a screening of their 1988 movie "Bull Durham." He then disinvited
them last week in a letter that said their outspoken antiwar politics
could not only pollute the event but also "undermine the U.S.
position, which ultimately could put our troops in even more danger."
He delivered the letter the same day he released it to the wire
services. All of which had the effect of turning Mr. Robbins and Ms.
Sarandon, who came to Washington on Tuesday to complain that they had
been bullied and intimidated, into wounded martyrs.
Green Success
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48415-2003Apr17.html
Page A20
THIS WEEK MARKS a rare moment of harmony between the Bush
administration and environmentalists -- so rare, in fact, that it
calls for reflection. The source of this sweetness and light was the
Environmental Protection Agency's announcement Tuesday of new
regulations limiting pollution emitted by bulldozers, tractors,
road-building and irrigation equipment and other "off-road" diesel
vehicles. It sounds like a small change, but it is expected to greatly
improve air quality. A handful of major environmental lobbyists
praised the new rules, which will ultimately slash the sulfur content
of emissions by 99 percent. So too, though, did a handful of industry
lobbyists, including the American petroleum industry, whose spokesman
complimented the EPA for "consulting with all stakeholders early on."
Unprepared For a Plague
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48416-2003Apr17.html
By Philip Alcabes, Page A21
Smallpox has been on the minds of public health officials for the
past year, as Americans worry about a bioterrorist attack. But the
disease that has struck isn't smallpox, nor is it somebody's
deliberate attempt to spread germs. Rather, it is nature's newest
surprise: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). SARS has gone from
a few cases of pneumonia in southern China to a worldwide infection in
just four months, with more than 150 deaths so far. This should remind
us about the basics of disease control.
Syrian Power Play
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48422-2003Apr17.html
By Charles Krauthammer, Page A21
Does Syria want to become the Argentina of Iraqi war criminals? The
analogy is apt, but it fails in one respect. Argentina took in Nazi
fugitives after the Second World War out of sentimentality. It had a
soft spot for Nazis. But it was hardly going to become the base for
the destabilization of the new Germany.
Spoils To the Victor
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48421-2003Apr17.html
By Michael Kinsley, Page A21
President Bush, who was oh-so sneery about the idea of
"nation-building" during the 2000 campaign, is now nation-building
with a vengeance. He plans to spend something like $60 billion over
the next three years rebuilding Iraq. The agenda includes everything
from repairing the oil fields to rewriting the elementary school
textbooks. Like the Clinton administration he ridiculed, he now
realizes that you cannot pour soldiers and bombs into a country,
declare it liberated and come home.
Disabling Organized Labor
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48418-2003Apr17.html
By E. J. Dionne Jr., Page A21
Rebellions in Republican ranks, both loud and quiet, suggest that
the Bush administration may be getting too partisan even for members
of the president's own party.
Groping Toward Democracy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48420-2003Apr17.html
By David Ignatius, Page A21
KUWAIT CITY -- The new Iraq is barely a week old. But already
Iraqis are beginning to take their new freedom for granted and wonder
what's next. They are impatient: Yesterday, Americans were their
liberators; today they are occupiers of a nation that wants to build
its own future.
Democracy and Revolution
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48426-2003Apr17.html
Page A20
How can the Bush administration argue that it wants to bring
democracy to Iraq when it handpicks the delegates to the Ur conference
to set up an interim government [front page, April 16]?
Good Friday At the Pentagon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48427-2003Apr17.html
Page A20
Regarding the April 15 editorial "Evangelize Elsewhere" and the
news story of the same day "Graham Invitation Irks Muslims at
Pentagon": Somebody is missing the point.
CAIR: In the Mainstream
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48425-2003Apr17.html
Page A20
In his April 14 letter supporting the nomination of Daniel Pipes to
the U.S. Institute of Peace board of directors, Rich Leonardi said
that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), America's
largest Islamic civil liberties group, "called the conviction of the
1993 World Trade Center bombers a 'hate crime,' and the group includes
on its advisory board Siraj Wahaj [sic], whom the U.S. attorney listed
as one of the 'unindicted persons who may be alleged as
co-conspirators' in that case."
Lifting of Sanctions Linked to U.N. Role
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48297-2003Apr17.html
War Opponents Place Conditions on U.S. Request for Iraq Aid
By Colum Lynch and Robert J. McCartney, Page A01
UNITED NATIONS, April 17 -- Russia, France and other key Security
Council members set the stage today for a new battle over Iraq,
signaling that the United States must give the United Nations a
broader role in reconstruction efforts before sanctions can be lifted.
Key Hussein Half-Brother Captured
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48319-2003Apr17.html
Former Intelligence Chief, Money Manager Was Member of Inner Circle
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Page A01
BAGHDAD, April 17 -- U.S. Special Operations troops today captured
a half-brother of Saddam Hussein who formerly served as the deposed
president's intelligence chief and his money manager in Switzerland
and was one of the most-wanted members of Iraq's former leadership,
U.S. military officials said.
Measure of Doubt in Rhythm of Life
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48347-2003Apr17.html
War Leaves Residents Struggling With Issues of Arab Identity
By Emily Wax, Page A01
CAIRO -- Despite the morning sunlight sparkling onto her lap, the
din of the war in Iraq on the television, and the women leaning over
their balconies in this crowded alleyway yelling about the price of
eggs, Passant Hassan sits in the tiny bookshop, bows her head and
tries to read the Koran.
Edwards Returns Law Firm's Donations
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48206-2003Apr17.html
By Thomas B. Edsall and Dan Balz, Page A01
The presidential campaign of Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) announced
yesterday it will return $10,000 to employees of a Little Rock law
firm after a law clerk said she expected her boss to reimburse her for
a $2,000 donation.
Expert Thieves Took Artifacts, UNESCO Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47721-2003Apr17.html
By Robert J. McCartney, Page A01
PARIS, April 17 -- Well-organized professional thieves stole most
of the priceless artifacts looted from Baghdad's National Museum of
Antiquities last week, and they may have had inside help from
low-level museum employees, the head of UNESCO said today.
Judges Question U.S. Move in Cheney Suit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48207-2003Apr17.html
Panel Criticizes Request for Intervention in Two Groups' Bid for Task
Force Data
By Henri E. Cauvin, Page A02
A government lawyer for Vice President Cheney received a scolding
yesterday from a panel of federal appeals judges over the Bush
administration's use of an unusual legal maneuver to avoid disclosing
information about Cheney's energy policy task force.
Ten Years Later, Waco Feels the Weight of a Deadly Siege
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47987-2003Apr17.html
City Tries to Put Tragedy in Its Past
By Lee Hockstader and Karin Brulliard, Page A03
Ten years later, the Texas town is indelibly marked by an event
that most residents would rather forget -- the assault by federal
agents and fire at the Branch Davidian compound after a 51-day siege
in 1993.
Pope Reaffirms Traditions on Communion
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47869-2003Apr17.html
By Alan Cooperman, Page A08
In what may be his last encyclical letter, Pope John Paul II
yesterday emphasized the importance of the Eucharist to the Roman
Catholic Church and reaffirmed that those who have committed serious
sins must go to confession before taking Holy Communion.
CDC Urges Routine HIV Testing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47881-2003Apr17.html
New Screening Procedures Aimed Especially at Pregnant Women
By Ceci Connolly, Page A09
The nation's top public health doctor, declaring current AIDS
prevention programs a major disappointment, announced yesterday the
Bush administration will begin encouraging doctors to offer routine
HIV testing to all their patients, especially pregnant women.
Smarts Ponder Who Will Tell Story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47870-2003Apr17.html
Family Receiving Offers for Books, Movies About Abducted Teen
By Patty Henetz, Page A10
SALT LAKE CITY -- Elizabeth Smart is spending a lot of time with
her family and friends these days. She's going to church and making
trips to the mall, though she's not back at school yet.
Harvard Panel Urges Changes In Abuse Policy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47840-2003Apr17.html
Page A10
BOSTON, April 17 -- A panel studying Harvard University's sexual
misconduct policy recommended more teaching on such issues as sexual
consent and a more streamlined process for investigating alleged rapes
and harassment.
British Forces Aided Hit Men, Report Charges
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48194-2003Apr17.html
Conspiracy Alleged in N. Ireland Killings
By Glenn Frankel, Page A14
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, April 17 -- Patrick Finucane and his
family were sitting down to dinner on a Sunday in February 1989 when
two gunmen in ski masks burst into their house and shot the Catholic
civil rights lawyer 14 times, in front of his wife and three children.
Russian Lawmaker Assassinated in Moscow
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47916-2003Apr17.html
Opposition Figure Had Challenged Putin on Chechnya
By Sharon LaFraniere, Page A14
MOSCOW, April 17 -- An opposition lawmaker and one-time political
ally of billionaire businessman Boris Berezovsky was gunned down today
outside his apartment building in Moscow, one in a string of political
killings in the country this year.
Pakistan Fails to Rein In Guerrillas
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48018-2003Apr17.html
Infiltration of Kashmir Continues Despite Promises, U.S. Official Says
By Glenn Kessler, Page A14
A senior U.S. official said yesterday that Washington has failed to
persuade Pakistan, a close U.S. ally, to prevent Islamic guerrillas
from crossing into the Indian-controlled portion of the disputed
Kashmir region, warning at the same time that India should not respond
to continued infiltration with excessive force.
U.N. Commission Urges Cuba to Accept Envoy's Visit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48195-2003Apr17.html
By Richard Waddington, Page A15
GENEVA, April 17 -- The United Nations' top human rights body kept
up the pressure on Cuba over its rights record today by urging the
communist state to accept a visit by a U.N. envoy to probe alleged
abuses.
In China's Capital, 'We're Panicking'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47917-2003Apr17.html
Reality of SARS Empties Streets of Beijing
By John Pomfret, Page A16
BEIJING, April 17 -- There were moments today when this city of 13
million people appeared deserted.
Powell Tries to Bridge the Transatlantic Gap
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48570-2003Apr17.html
By Nora Boustany, Page A17
After all the weeks of acrimony in European-U.S. relations over the
Iraq war, it looks like diplomacy is back on track to cement some of
the cracks.
Families of Detained Saudis Cling to Snippets from Letters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47924-2003Apr17.html
By Carol Morello, Page A18
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- There would be almost nothing remarkable
about Fahed Fouzan's letters home were they not postmarked from a
detention camp for suspected terrorists.
Ensuring a Senate Inscribed in History
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48213-2003Apr17.html
Office is Chamber's Institutional Memory
By Helen Dewar, Page A19
Senate historians have a major new task: assembling documents and
artifacts for display in the visitors center under construction on the
Capitol grounds.
Dearth Day
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48321-2003Apr17.html
By Al Kamen, Page A19
If any Bush administration folks worried about criticism from
environmental organizations in 2004 -- and there's no indication much
sleep was being lost on that account -- they should feel much better
now.
Ivory Coast Rebels Become Part of Cabinet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48098-2003Apr17.html
Page A22
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, April 17 -- The country's new unity
government held its first cabinet meeting with newly sworn-in rebel
ministers today, even as the rebels accused the government of new
attacks.
Looters May Have Destroyed Priceless Cuneiform Archive
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48178-2003Apr17.html
By Guy Gugliotta, Page A23
Looters at Iraq's National Museum of Antiquities pillaged and,
perhaps, destroyed an archive of more than 100,000 cuneiform clay
tablets -- a unique and priceless trove of ancient Mesopotamian
writings that included the "Sippar Library," the oldest library ever
found intact on its original shelves.
U.S. Actions Questioned After Killing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47925-2003Apr17.html
Family in Mosul Angered by Death
By Mary Beth Sheridan, Page A23
MOSUL, Iraq, April 17 -- Yasin Mohammad Salih felt a surge of hope
when this northern Iraqi city was freed from the grip of Saddam
Hussein's forces a week ago. But on Thursday, the 46-year-old mechanic
was seething about the U.S. military. His mentally disabled brother
lay dead, shot two days earlier during a riot in which U.S. troops
killed at least seven people.
Contract for Rebuilding of Iraq Awarded To Bechtel
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48308-2003Apr17.html
U.S. Firm 1 of 6 Invited to Bid for $680 Million Project
By Karen DeYoung and Jackie Spinner, Page A23
The U.S. Agency for International Development yesterday awarded San
Francisco-based Bechtel National Inc. a contract worth as much as $680
million to build and restore Iraq's infrastructure, including roads
and airports, sewage and irrigation systems, schools and power plants.
Twin Burials Salute a Singular Cause
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48239-2003Apr17.html
At Arlington, Mourners Honor Iraq War Veterans Who Answered the Call
to Duty
By Elaine Rivera and Jerry Markon, Page A23
They died differently, one killed in a fierce firefight in Iraq,
the other in a grenade attack by a fellow airman in Kuwait, but Marine
Lance Cpl. Patrick Nixon and Air National Guard Maj. Gregory Stone
were buried side by side yesterday in the soil of Arlington National
Cemetery.
N.C. Firm Selected To Set Iraq's Needs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47926-2003Apr17.html
Nonprofit to Foster Local Government
By Monte Reel, Page A25
KUWAIT CITY, April 17 -- A small team of North Carolina researchers
employed last week is being asked to help launch a wide array of
projects to help Iraq regain its footing.
'Open' Contest Pledged For Iraq Subcontracts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48532-2003Apr17.html
By Jackie Spinner, Page A25
Bechtel National Inc., selected for a closely watched contract for
reconstruction in Iraq, said yesterday that it had not yet decided
which companies it would work with as subcontractors.
U.S. to Help Probe Looting of Iraqi Cultural Treasures
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47871-2003Apr17.html
By Dan Eggen, Page A26
More than two dozen FBI agents in Iraq will help conduct criminal
investigations into widespread looting at the National Museum of
Antiquities and other cultural sites, U.S. law enforcement officials
said yesterday.
Wounded Md. Soldier Never Lost Faith Under Fire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48197-2003Apr17.html
By Hamil R. Harris, Page A27
The last time he was at New Song Bible Fellowship in Bowie, Damien
Luten asked the congregation to pray for his safety. It was early
January, and Luten, the church's former youth leader, was headed back
to Fort Bliss, Tex., where he and other members of the Army's 507th
Maintenance Company were preparing to leave for Iraq.
Hospital Staff Overwhelmed by Well-Wishers' Gifts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48131-2003Apr17.html
By Karlyn Barker, Page A27
Pfc. Jessica D. Lynch, the injured former prisoner of war, has been
inundated with flowers, fruit baskets and other gifts since arriving
back in the United States -- and says she would prefer that
well-wishers just send cards and letters.
Maryland Marine Mistaken for Foe Is Fatally Shot Near Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49082-2003Apr18.html
By Petula Dvorak and Darragh Johnson, Page A27
A Marine from Maryland was fatally shot in Iraq this week after he
was mistaken for an enemy soldier, the Department of Defense said
yesterday.
One Step Forward, Direction Uncertain
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48568-2003Apr17.html
U.S. Notes Iran's Cooperation in Iraq War
By Glenn Kessler and Walter Pincus, Page A28
Bush administration officials said yesterday they are pleased by
Iran's willingness to cooperate with U.S. requests during the war with
neighboring Iraq -- a decision perhaps smoothed by the
administration's bombing of Iranian opposition fighters based in Iraq.
But it is unclear if this "good behavior" signals a thaw in relations
with the Islamic republic.
Aiding Iraqi People Is Priority, Poll Finds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47422-2003Apr17.html
Many Say Locating Hussein Not Essential
By Claudia Deane and Richard Morin, Page A28
Most Americans are satisfied with U.S. and British efforts to
restore civil order in Iraq, and they now rank humanitarian needs as
the top priority there -- more important than searching for Saddam
Hussein or banned weapons -- according to a Washington Post-ABC News
poll.
Rumsfeld, Myers Again Criticize War Coverage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47892-2003Apr17.html
Ex-Military Officers Are Singled Out
By Thomas E. Ricks, Page A28
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and his top military officer
returned to one of their favorite recent themes Thursday, criticizing
the media's coverage of the war in Iraq as at times "inaccurate" and
"conflicting."
Syria Won't Allow Arms Inspections
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48099-2003Apr17.html
Page A28
CAIRO, April 17 -- Syria said today that it would not allow arms
inspections on its soil but would join forces with the world to rid
the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction, in line with a
proposal it has submitted to the United Nations.
Iraqi Muslims Protest Against Foreign Troops
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50762-2003Apr18.html
Tens of thousands of Iraqi Muslims took to the streets of Baghdad
after Friday prayers today to demand the departure of U.S. and other
foreign troops and the establishment of an Islamic state.
North Korea Readying Fuel Rods
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50460-2003Apr18.html
North Korea today said it has begun reprocessing spent nuclear fuel
rods, challenging the United States with a new crisis just days after
the communist state agreed to negotiate over its nuclear program next
week in China.
Nigeria on Edge as Election Nears
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44274-2003Apr17.html
Threats of violence mounted in Nigeria on Thursday ahead of a weekend
presidential election after opposition leaders accused the ruling
party of rigging last Saturday's parliamentary polls.
New U.S. Citizens Get to Clown Around
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48133-2003Apr17.html
The nation's newest citizens took over the spotlight Thursday at the
Greatest Show on Earth, outshining, for at least a few moments, the
star-spangled performance of the ringmaster.
Paying Respect to Low-Carb Visionary
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48507-2003Apr17.html
It's a shame Dr. Atkins died just when his "diet revolution" was
starting to achieve the scientific acceptance he sought for so long,
yet in some way he must be relieved that his death could not be linked
to the intake of fat. - By Megan Rosenfeld
The Vanishing Past
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47963-2003Apr17.html
The chaos in Iraq's museums stands in sharp contrast to the
orderliness of archaeology as it was once practiced in that country. -
By Philp Kennicott
Post-Iraq Stress Syndrome
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50021-2003Apr18.html
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 18, 2003; 8:43 AM
One of the few non-war stories to make The Washington Post's
front-page lately involved America Online filing a bunch of lawsuits
against e-mail spam artists.
Political Party in Mosul Emerges With Own Army
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/worldspecial/18NORT.html
By DAVID ROHDE
Across this battered city, Iraqi political parties have slowly begun
opening up new offices this week. But only one group shares a base
with American Special Forces soldiers, has a private army trained by
the Americans and is guarding a local hospital alongside American
troops.
Bechtel Has Ties in Washington, and to Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/worldspecial/18CONT.html
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. with DIANA B. HENRIQUES
The company that will lead the reconstruction of Iraq had its
beginnings in 1898, when Warren A. Bechtel and his pack of mules were
hired to grade railroad beds in the Oklahoma Territory. A century
later, his company, which is still controlled by his descendants, is
one of the world's largest and most politically connected construction
companies.
Arab TV Broadcast Is Said to Show Hussein on April 9
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/worldspecial/18CND-SADD.html
By DAVID STOUT
An Arab television network broadcast a videotape today of a man it
said was Saddam Hussein rallying the faithful on the streets of
Baghdad last week. But American intelligence analysts were skeptical
that the tape was what it purported to be.
Neighbors of Iraq Express Concern Over U.S. Intentions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/worldspecial/18CND-SAUDI.html
By SARAH KERSHAW
Leaders of the six countries that share a border with Iraq, including
Syria, met here today for their first postwar summit, sharply
criticizing the United States for its mounting pressure on Syria and
saying they expected to conclude the meeting with a unified stance
against even a short-term military occupation of Iraq.
Tensions Mount in Nigeria's Presidential Campaign
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/africa/18NIGE.html
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Barely two days before balloting begins, Nigerians across this vast
and fractious nation were bracing for what many feared would be
violent clashes during elections for governorships and the presidency
on Saturday.
U.N. Gives Cuba Mild Rebuke Over Crackdown on Dissidents
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/americas/18CUBA.html
By DAVID GONZALEZ
The United Nations Human Rights Commission passed a mild rebuke to
Cuba today, but it said nothing about the recent crackdown on
dissidents that has set off international outrage.
A Reticent China Undercuts Its Milder New Image
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/science/sciencespecial/18CHIN.html
By JOSEPH KAHN
China's restrictions on information about a highly infectious
respiratory illness has undermined five years of diplomacy intended to
alter its image as a prickly regional power and to improve relations
with neighboring countries, Asian politicians and analysts say.
Israel Indicates Willingness Ease Policy on Palestinians
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/international/middleeast/18CND-MIDE.html
By GREG MYRE
With the Bush administration preparing to push a new Middle East peace
initiative, Israel said today it was willing to pull back troops,
release some Palestinian prisoners and ease travel restrictions if an
emerging Palestinian government makes a serious effort to halt
violence.
Denver Police to Stop Files on Protesters
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/national/18DENV.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The police will end their longtime practice of keeping secret files on
protesters like Quakers and Roman Catholic nuns under a proposed
lawsuit settlement announced today.
$20bn for war and now a $2bn monthly bill
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=398254
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
18 April 2003
The war in Iraq has already cost the United States around $20bn
(£12.7bn) – $3bn of that in munitions – and the cost of keeping troops
maff
Our last occupation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,939608,00.html
Jonathan Glancey: Gas, chemicals, bombs: Britain has used them all
before in Iraq.
War games and gaffes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,939609,00.html
Mark Lawson: The artistic and cultural legacy of the war teeters on
the edge of taste.
Blair is in thrall to the myth of a monolithic modernity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,939489,00.html
John Gray: From public services to Iraq, we are told the American way
is the only way.
The new dark age
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,939586,00.html
Ben Okri: The looting and burning of Iraq's museums and libraries has
left us all losers
The meaning of Easter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,938958,00.html
In this week's email exchange, two prominent theologians offer
different interpretations of the Resurrection.
This week
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,939624,00.html
"Love," yowled Pat Benatar, "is a battlefield." One imagines there are
currently some shrapnel-soaked marines in the environs of Baghdad who
might take issue with Ms Benatar's thesis.
'Murder is murder is murder'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Evidence of army and police collusion in Belfast killings.
Shock, awe - and tanks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
Donald Rumsfeld said Iraq would see a new type of conflict, but the
tactics would have been familiar to commanders in the first world war
Jesus, the early years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,938081,00.html
How do you create an image of Christ when you've no idea what he looks
like? Neil MacGregor believes an ancient mosaic on a dining-room floor
in Dorset may provide some answers
Saving Venus
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,939346,00.html
How the Venus de Milo was saved, reported in the Guardian, August 24,
1871
Deep waters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,938082,00.html
It seems to be a two-hour, black-and-white Hungarian film about a man
and a whale. But Béla Tarr's latest could also be a bleak vision of
chaos and capitalism, says Richard Williams
Unholy visions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,938227,00.html
Photography can't make great religious art. But that's never stopped
it from trying, says Jonathan Jones
Fighting the media war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,939606,00.html
As editor in chief of Reuters, can I represent some of the unseen
heroes covering the conflict (War in the Gulf - who was it good for?
April 15).
The original Mr Bean
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,939604,00.html
Andrew Green has an interesting take on Syrian support for such
terrorist groups as Hamas and Hizbullah (Why Syria is American's next
target, April 17).
Saddam's comic fantasies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,939603,00.html
Jonathan Jones denounces the paintings found in Saddam's private
quarters as "art for the barely literate, or the barely sentient"
(Look at the size of those missiles, April 15).
Human rights in Cuba
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,939601,00.html
As members of the democratic left, united by a commitment to human
rights, democratic government and social justice, we condemn the Cuban
state's repression of independent thinkers and writers, human rights
activists and democrats (Report, April 17).
North Korea next
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,939590,00.html
Pyongyang feels the grave digger's breath.
Huge deficit undermines Bush's tax cut plans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,939629,00.html
The ballooning US budget deficit is expected to have reached between
$55bn (£35bn) and $61bn during March, further undermining the Bush
administration's push for huge tax cuts.
Russian oil deal in the pipeline
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,939630,00.html
Russian oil companies Yukos and Sibneft may be on the verge of
combining their operations to create one of the world's largest energy
companies, investment banking sources said yesterday.
Cold turkey's gonna get you on the run
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,939493,00.html
Post-war uncertainty means investors will continue to be deprived of
their bull market opiate
Prove Iraqi guilt, MPs tell Blair
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,939536,00.html
Tony Blair is facing a fresh rebellion from Labour backbenchers who
are growing alarmed about the failure to uncover weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq.
Blair admits he had war jitters
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,939498,00.html
Tony Blair's admission that he told officials to prepare for his
resignation if he failed to win the crucial Commons vote on the
looming war with Iraq surprised many Labour MPs yesterday.
Was Saddam still alive as statue toppled?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939538,00.html
The pot-bellied, olive-uniformed image of Saddam Hussein popped up on
Middle Eastern television sets yesterday, along with a slurred,
rambling call to arms, confounding US hopes that the Iraqi dictator is
dead and fuelling fears he may have gone underground in the hope of
fighting back another day.
Black Dahlia killer trail leads to my father, says ex-cop
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939524,00.html
Few murders have cast a longer, darker shadow over Los Angeles than
the Black Dahlia case. The killing and mutilation of would-be actress
Elizabeth Short in 1947 led to endless speculation as to who was the
likely murderer and around 500 "confessions". The mystery has been the
subject of numerous books and films, including True Confessions,
starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall.
Protesters pour from the mosques to reclaim the streets for Islam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939556,00.html
Iraq's huge political differences erupted into the open in the capital
yesterday as tens of thousands of religious protesters called on the
US to leave the country.
Troops still seek the 'smoking gun'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939525,00.html
As inspectors wait to join the search, coalition forces are bracing
themselves for a lengthy trawl for banned weapons of mass destruction.
Aid agencies say security concerns are holding them back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939526,00.html
The first major UN food convoy headed for Baghdad yesterday as aid
agencies warned that poor security was now seriously hampering their
work.
Tension runs high as Nigeria votes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939577,00.html
The ethnic and religious cauldron that is Nigeria goes to the polls
today to elect a president, in what is being billed as a crucial test
for democracy in Africa. Warnings of bloodshed and fraud heightened
tension as 60 million registered voters prepared to cast ballots in
the shadow of previous failed efforts to transfer power from one
civilian administration to another.
North Korea steps up nuclear programme
http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,939683,00.html
North Korea stepped into the nuclear danger zone yesterday by
declaring it had begun reprocessing 8,000 spent fuel rods from the
reactor at the heart of its confrontation with the United States.
Neighbours declare support for Syria
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939554,00.html
Iraq's neighbours stepped up tensions between the US and the Arab
world yesterday by calling for the withdrawal of coalition troops from
Iraq and declaring their support for Syria as they met for a summit to
discuss the region's postwar future.
Former Saddam aide on wanted list is captured
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939555,00.html
US military officials said yesterday they had arrested and started
questioning a senior Ba'ath party leader, who is among America's 55
most wanted Iraqis.
Footballers who paid the penalty for failure
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939495,00.html
How Uday's terror made the game a matter of life or death
Surrealist's art collection fetches £32m
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939570,00.html
After two weeks of turbulent auctions - inevitably described as
surrealist - the sale of André Breton's personal art collection has
fetched E46m (£31.8m), twice the pre-sale estimate.
Poland snubs EU by buying US jets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939572,00.html
Poland and the US underlined their friendship yesterday by signing an
agreement on the biggest military package in Europe in years - and the
most substantial ever in former communist eastern Europe.
Indian PM offers friendship to Pakistan from behind bulletproof glass
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939573,00.html
The Indian prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, offered friendship
with arch-rival Pakistan yesterday in the first public address in
Kashmir by an Indian head of government for 16 years.
Taking the Cornish out of pasties
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,939544,00.html
The centuries-old connection between the words "Cornish" and "pasty"
is being challenged by Cumbria, which claims to have invented the
unique "two-course" picnic food first.
My brother Zac
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,938576,00.html
Zacarias Moussaoui is the only person to be charged in the US in
connection with the September 11 attacks. He has been dubbed the 20th
hijacker. Here his brother Abd Samad Moussaoui describes a childhood
beset by racism in France and the indoctrination he believes his
brother received in London, which drove him into the arms of al-Qaida.
A babel of voices
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,938578,00.html
Ali Smith is a generous kind of writer. It's open house in her books -
everyone gets a turn at narrating, even a passing fly. She tells
Melissa Denes about childhood gender-bending, a false-start career and
the much-loved authors that helped her to develop such a liberal take
on the world.
The come-on
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,938646,00.html
Egon Schiele insisted that the erotic is as heroic a subject as wars
or religion. He combined high art and pornography in a manner only
possible in radical Vienna of the pre-first world war years. But it
still landed him in jail. By Jonathan Jones.
Bringing it all back home
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,938569,00.html
Julie Burchill: During this war, you got the feeling that it was the
very excellence of this country's soldiers that really upset the
anti-war lobby; no friendly fire fiascos or civilian tragedies that
could be used to belittle them, as with the Yanks, just good hearts
and good fighting.
The greatest gulf
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938983,00.html
Jonathan Raban argues that, apart from the immediate cost in human
life, military intervention in Iraq has also represented a disastrous
failure of imagination and a fatal inability to understand the role of
history - and religion - in the region
Choose life
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938790,00.html
When the world is suffocating in a climate of fear, writes Nadine
Gordimer, don't give in
All fired up with nowhere to go
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938813,00.html
M John Harrison finds hope in Alan Wall's China, a tale where people
struggle - and fail - to make sense of themselves
Pretty boy lost
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938797,00.html
Kathryn Hughes finds Ann Wroe's account of a royal pretender, Perkin:
A Story of Deception, just too clever
Renaissance tragedy
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938798,00.html
Sarah Dunant on Lauro Martines's portrait of the bloodthirsty power
struggle between the Medici and the Pazzi, April Blood
Between the sheets
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938799,00.html
Jad Adams is titillated by Michael Diamond's history of 19th-century
scandal-mongering, Victorian Sensation
Shell-shocked
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938829,00.html
In the first world war, soldiers were traumatised by the sight of
corpse-strewn trenches, writes Michele Barrett, while official censors
attempted to shield the public from the horrors of battle
Pump-house of the heart
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938792,00.html
Zygmunt Bauman argues in Liquid Love that in the consumer age, human
relationships are caught between our irreconcilable needs for security
and freedom. Stuart Jeffries fears he may be right
Pass the ketchup, please
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938793,00.html
Harvey, Quilley and Beynon make little effort to lure the common
tomato-eating reader to the table, but they prove to be good hosts in
Exploring the Tomato
Natural conclusion
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938796,00.html
Steven Rose welcomes Matt Ridley's proposal for an end to the 'Darwin
wars' in Nature via Nurture
DNA trouble
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938795,00.html
Finn Bowring's anti-GM rhetoric in Science, Seeds and Cyborgs fails to
convince Johnjoe McFadden
Faith, hope, not much charity
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,938982,00.html
Critical eye: Religion is in the air as the books pages take up God
and Wood
A dangerous groundswell of resentment is building up on the streets of
Baghdad
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/fergal_keane/story.jsp?story=398447
Without American power, Iraqis would still live in fear of Saddam.
With American power, they feel weak and humiliated
Protesters call for 'army of occupation' to quit Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=398526
More than 20,000 people marched through Baghdad yesterday in the
biggest anti-American protest so far
Cannabis may become 'the aspirin of the 21st century'
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health/story.jsp?story=398495
Cannabis, the third most popular recreational drug after alcohol and
tobacco, could win a new role as the aspirin of the 21st century, with
growing evidence that its compounds may protect the brain against the
damaging effects of ageing.
Today's full links
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=398432
De-fense! De-fense! De-fense!
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/19KELL.html
By BILL KELLER
The military triumph in Iraq, despite some mishaps and heartbreak, was
a romp compared with the long slog to secure our own shores.
Making Peace and Profits in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/19KARA.html
By ZACHARY KARABALL
Rebuilding Iraq is such a monumental undertaking that the involvement
of private enterprise was inevitable. It is also controversial.
The True Good Samaritans
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/19PYNE.html
By ROBERT PYNE
The question is not whether Franklin Graham or anyone else should help
his fellow human beings. Rather, the question is how.
Anxiety in the Air
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/19BEAT.html
By JENNY T. BEATTY
As an airline pilot, "security" recently took on new meaning. Now I'm
concerned about job security.
And the Winner is Bechtel
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/19SAT1.html
Awarding the first major contract for reconstruction in Iraq to an
American company under restricted bidding procedures sends a
deplorable message to a skeptical world.
Lifting Sanctions on Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/19SAT2.html
The world no longer needs to worry about keeping Iraqi oil revenue out
of the hands of an ambitious dictator intent on buying weapons.
Art Lost to Iraq, and to the World
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/L19MUSE.html
Opposing This War, but Not All Wars
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/L19LEFT.html
Journalism on Fox
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/L19FOXX.html
At the Speed of Sound
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/L19CONC.html
Veterans and Priorities
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/L19KRUG.html
Prelude to an Invasion?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/L19SYRI.html
Wanted: More Nurses
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/L19NURS.html
Japan's Energy Needs
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/L19JAPA.html
Obstacles to Irish Peace
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/L19IRIS.html
A Better Smoking Law
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/L19SMOK.html
Not There, but Voting
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/opinion/L19VOTE.html
Sunnis and Shiites Unite to Protest U.S. and Hussein
http://tinyurl.com/9vaf
By JOHN KIFNER and CRAIG S. SMITH
Shiite and Sunni Muslims demonstrated against the U.S., while Ahmad
Chalabi emerged to stake a claim to a role in Iraq's future.
Bush Plans to Ask U.N. to Lift Penalties Against Iraq in Phases
http://tinyurl.com/9vah
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
The U.S. would gradually turn over parts of the economy to an Iraqi
authority assembled with American guidance.
For Family in Iraq, 3 Deaths From a Moment of Confusion
http://tinyurl.com/9vat
By DEXTER FILKINS
The fate of the Kachadoorian family seems to crystallize much about
the nature of the conflict in Iraq, in its terror and confusion and
goodness.
A Chance 'to Decompress' for 7 Freed Americans
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/international/worldspecial/19POWS.html
By MARK LANDLER
The six men and one woman appeared briefly at a military hospital in
Germany, where they are being debriefed.
At Journey's End, a Marine Is Mourned
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/international/middleeast/19BARR.html
By DAN BARRY
The ripples caused by the deaths in this brief war have changed lives
in Mosul, in London, and, with Sgt. Riayan Tejeda's death, in
Washington Heights.
At Least 7 Iraqi Leaders Believed to Be in Syria
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/international/worldspecial/19PENT.html
By DOUGLAS JEHL
The U.S. believes that at least seven senior Iraqi officials are now
in Syria, including a figure who is No. 8 on the American wanted list.
Turkey, Spared a War, Still Pays a Heavy Price
http://tinyurl.com/9vaw
By ALAN COWELL
Turkey both forfeited $5 billion in proffered American economic aid
and dealt itself out of the region's decision-making.
Once Dangerous Pilgrimage Is Forbidden No More
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/international/worldspecial/19PILG.html
By MARC SANTORA
Once a year the Shiite faithful would try to make their way to the
holy city of Karbala under threat of arrest and persecution. Now,
thousands are walking freely.
New Tape of Hussein Prolongs Debate on His Fate
http://tinyurl.com/9vbd
By DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN
U.S. officials said the tape contained valuable visual clues that
might enable them to establish when and where it was made.
North Korea's Atomic Bravado Incites a Host of Skeptics
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/international/asia/19KORE.html
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
North Korea appeared to announce that it was reprocessing nuclear fuel
rods. Later, however, the statement was withdrawn.
Israeli Soldier Kills Journalist in West Bank
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-APTN-Cameraman-Killed.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nazeh Darwazeh, a cameraman with Associated Press Television News, was
covering a skirmish in the West Bank city of Nablus today when he was
shot and killed.
Baghdad Peace: Made in Kosovo
http://tinyurl.com/9vbi
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
The military's experience in peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and
Kosovo helped the transition in Iraq.
In Military Wards, Questions and Fears From the Wounded
http://tinyurl.com/9vbm
By JAYSON BLAIR
Patients recovering from Iraq war wounds tell of anxious visits to
counselors, as well as feelings of fright and remorse.
Of Empty Tombs and Angels
http://tinyurl.com/9vbo
By PETER STEINFELS
The empty-tomb narratives, untidy in variety, nonetheless prove grist
for theological reflection.
Texas Reactor Vessel Is Leaking Water
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/national/19NUKE.html
By MATTHEW L. WALD
A nuclear reactor in Texas is leaking cooling water from the bottom of
its giant reactor vessel, a development that experts view with
concern.
After Years of Crises, an Atlanta College Is on Death Watch
http://tinyurl.com/9vbr
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Financial problems and loss of accreditation may mean that a
historically black college will itself become history.
Cuba Is Told to Pay $67 Million to Family of Executed American
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/national/19EXEC.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The family of an American businessman who was killed by a Cuban firing
squad in 1961 has won $67 million in damages in its lawsuit against
the Cuban government.
Ashcroft Is Criticized for Remarks About Witness in Terror-Cell Case
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/international/worldspecial/19DETR.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The trial judge implied that Attorney General John Ashcroft's praise
for the government's chief witness violated his ban on public
comments.
After Trial, Operative Offered Judge an Apology and a Blessing
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/international/worldspecial/19LETT.html
By BENJAMIN WEISER
A former Al Qaeda operative who pleaded guilty in New York to a
conspiracy charge has written to his judge to apologize for his
wrongdoing and bless the American justice system.
Utility to Spend $1.2 Billion to Cut Emissions
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/national/19POWE.html
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
In addition to reducing pollution at eight plants, the Dominion
Virginia Power Company will pay a $5.3 million federal fine.
Subcontractors to Receive Bulk of Iraq Reconstruction
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/international/worldspecial/19REBU.html
By DIANA B. HENRIQUES
Although the Bechtel Group has been selected for up to $680 million
worth of work, a large percentage of that money will flow to non-U.S.
companies.
Advanced Micro Issues Challenge to Rivals
http://tinyurl.com/9vc5
By JOHN MARKOFF with STEVE LOHR
Intel will face its strongest challenge in more than a decade when its
archrival formally unveils the Opteron 64-bit microprocessor.
Cloaked in Green, but Guzzling Gas
http://tinyurl.com/9vc9
By DANNY HAKIM
Japanese carmakers may have developed hybrids, but their attention is
on the light truck and S.U.V. markets.
Rip! Zap! Ding! It's a Classic 6-Minute Pot Roast
http://tinyurl.com/9vcc
By SHERRI DAY
To appeal to overscheduled families - and to reverse declining sales -
food companies are offering hyperspeed versions of the old-fashioned
comfort foods.
F.D.A. Approval of Nasal Vaccine for Flu Expected
http://tinyurl.com/9vcf
By ANDREW POLLACK
The needle-free alternative, and the advertising dollars that will be
behind it, could vastly increase the number of people who get flu
vaccines.
A Scholar Follows Her Family's Dusty Footprints
http://tinyurl.com/9vcj
By MARC LACEY
Louise Leakey is the third generation of a family that sometimes seems
to have pieced together the early portrait of Homo erectus all on its
own.
I Feel, Therefore I Am
http://tinyurl.com/9vck
By EMILY EAKIN
Scientists have begun to approach consciousness in more Spinozist
terms: as a complex and indivisible mind-brain-body system.
Study Finds Asthma in 25% of Children in Central Harlem
http://tinyurl.com/9vcq
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Experts say it is one of the highest asthma rates ever documented for
an American neighborhood.
All-American? U.S. Says No
http://tinyurl.com/9vct
By COREY KILGANNON
A teenager may be deported to Pakistan, even though the United States
has been his home since he was 8-years-old.
Farewell, Old Partisans of Past Crusades
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/arts/19PART.html
By MORRIS DICKSTEIN
Partisan Review has suspended publication precisely when widespread
nostalgia for public intellectuals has reached a peak.
A Test of Conscience for Southern Justice
http://tinyurl.com/9vd4
By PATRICIA COHEN
Suzanne Lebsock has done an impressive job of historical re-creation
in documenting what happened in a case that rivaled O. J. Simpson's
for fame in its day.
The Ninth, Heavy Mettle
http://tinyurl.com/9vd8
By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Documents that survive over generations take on ever greater power. An
unlikely example is a three-volume manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony.
'Reading Lolita in Tehran'
http://tinyurl.com/9vdc
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Azar Nafisi's remarkable new book is a harrowing portrait of Iran's
Islamic revolution and an eloquent brief on the transformative powers
of fiction.
Justifying Abuse
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48411-2003Apr17.html
Page A20
"HUMAN RIGHTS FILE was closed forever, and Sudan's innocence
declared." So read a newspaper headline in Khartoum this week after
the vote by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights to remove Sudan from a
list of countries requiring special monitoring. For the past decade, a
U.N. human rights investigator has made regular visits to the country,
publishing accounts of the government's treatment of people in the
northern parts of the country it controls, as well as the rebel
movement's behavior in the war-torn south. This week's vote will now
bring his mandate to an end.
Green Success
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48415-2003Apr17.html
Page A20
THIS WEEK MARKS a rare moment of harmony between the Bush
administration and environmentalists -- so rare, in fact, that it
calls for reflection. The source of this sweetness and light was the
Environmental Protection Agency's announcement Tuesday of new
regulations limiting pollution emitted by bulldozers, tractors,
road-building and irrigation equipment and other "off-road" diesel
vehicles. It sounds like a small change, but it is expected to greatly
improve air quality. A handful of major environmental lobbyists
praised the new rules, which will ultimately slash the sulfur content
of emissions by 99 percent. So too, though, did a handful of industry
lobbyists, including the American petroleum industry, whose spokesman
complimented the EPA for "consulting with all stakeholders early on."
April 19, 1943: Fighting Back
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53893-2003Apr18.html
By Abraham Brumberg, Page A13
Sixty years ago today, on April 19, 1943, a large force of the
German army under the leadership of SS Gen. Juergen Stroop entered the
Warsaw Ghetto. Its mission: to wipe out the last remnant of Warsaw's
Jews, some 40,000 men, women and children. To their astonishment, the
Germans were met by a hail of bullets and grenades, which caused them
to retreat, regroup and call for reinforcements. The fire came from a
group of desperate young men and women called the Jewish Fighting
Organization. Of the original 400,000 inhabitants of the ghetto, set
up in late 1940, most of those who had survived starvation, typhus and
dysentery had been sent to the Treblinka death camp, 60 miles east of
Warsaw.
No Saturday Matinee
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53894-2003Apr18.html
By Colbert I. King, Page A13
An unbroken multi-year diet of Saturday-matinee, Grade B westerns
at the now-gone Mott Theater in the city's West End convinced me and
my childhood friends that fistfights, shootings and killing could be,
well, sorta fun. What else were we to think?
TV's Military 'Embeds'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53896-2003Apr18.html
By Colman McCarthy, Page A13
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff have been unhappy with the criticism of their war
effort by former military men appearing on television. So am I, but
for a different reason. The top people at the Pentagon are wondering
why these ex-military talkers can't follow the company line on how
well the war has been fought. I'm wondering why these spokesmen for
militarism are on TV in the first place.
Last E-Mails of an Indoctrinated Activist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53861-2003Apr18.html
Page A11
"Last E-Mails From a Young Activist" [Outlook, March 30] is
revealing -- but not in the manner perhaps intended by the writer, the
late Rachel Corrie. Corrie was the 23-year-old from Olympia, Wash.,
killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip last month.
In the Business of News Management
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53862-2003Apr18.html
Page A11
I was amused by the juxtaposition of Fred Hiatt's April 14 op-ed
column and Tom Toles's cartoon that day on the editorial page. Hiatt
implied that totalitarian rulers are unique in the practice of lying
to their citizens.
Free for All
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53866-2003Apr18.html
Page A11
Cakewalks and Quagmires
Michael Kinsley asks, "What will toppling [Saddam] Hussein ultimately
cost in dollars and in lives (American, Iraqi, others)?" ["No
Quagmire, but Still Some Questions," op-ed, April 11]. Kinsley
suggests that an honest answer to this question forms part of the...
Calling for a Secular Secretary
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53867-2003Apr18.html
Page A11
In his defense of statements made by Secretary of Education Rod
Paige, William J. Bennett [op-ed, April 13] conflates the American
creed with that of Christianity. But these creeds are, in many ways,
distinctly at odds.
Selective Support for Preferences
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53865-2003Apr18.html
Page A11
Jonathan Strong's letter ["The Fuss About Racial Preferences," Free
for All, April 12] misses the point about affirmative action
admissions. First, he tries to divert attention from the real issues
by questioning the accuracy of the statements about the numbers of
white students admitted to the University of Michigan with lower SAT
scores and grade-point averages than Jennifer Gratz, the white student
who sued the University of Michigan. For the record, the University of
Michigan states in its brief that 1,400 white and Asian American
students with lower scores and grade-point averages were admitted to
the university the year that Gratz was denied admission.
Risking One's Life For the Truth
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53863-2003Apr18.html
Page A11
Almost every foreign correspondent I know working in a "difficult"
country has had to face the situation CNN chief news executive Eason
Jordan has encountered ["Truth-Telling," editorial, April 15]. Once
someone helps a journalist cover a story, it goes without saying that
the journalist owes that person some protection. No journalist has the
right to endanger a person's life unless, perhaps, endangering that
one person will without a doubt save the lives of thousands more. But
that is not the case with Jordan's "hidden information." Do you really
think that if he had revealed, say, that his translator was being
tortured we would have learned something we didn't know about Saddam
Hussein's regime? No.
Pros and Cons of Protest Coverage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53864-2003Apr18.html
Page A11
I was troubled by the April 13 coverage of the two war marches that
took place in Washington on April 12. The pro-war march article was
given the same amount of space as the antiwar march's, even though the
antiwar march attracted at least six times as many people (30,000 vs.
5,000). Your paper even played down this vast difference in attendance
by stating in its opening lines only that each march had attracted
"thousands" of people. One had to read much further into the two
articles to get the attendance figures.
Let the Easter Eggs Roll
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53911-2003Apr18.html
Page A12
Although he was present both times in 1975 when President Gerald R.
Ford dodged assassins' bullets, 20 years later Mr. Ford's chief of
staff said, "One thing that is harmful and destructive to the way our
system works is the system of security. The Secret Service and
attendants have become so numerous and controlling that it is a
put-off for the American people."
'Evolving' on Vouchers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53907-2003Apr18.html
Page A12
In his April 17 Metro column, "Cafritz Rolls With the Polls," Marc
Fisher quoted from statements opposing vouchers that he found on my
Web site. But I had already told another Post writer that I never
wrote those words. Further, Mr. Fisher made no attempt to contact me
before writing his column.
Race Organizers on the Run
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53912-2003Apr18.html
Page A12
Area runners are getting the runaround from local race organizers.
Show Me the Results
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53908-2003Apr18.html
Page A12
During the past six months a financial consultant for the D.C.
schools has been paid $279,771. "He's worth every penny we're paying
him," according to Louis J. Erste, the system's chief operating
officer [Metro, April 10]. But where is the work he completed and what
has been the result?
Tax, Spend and Rack Up Debt
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53909-2003Apr18.html
Page A12
President Bush wants to give a huge tax cut to the well-to-do. He
says it will stimulate the economy.
Who Pays for the Tanker's Security?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53910-2003Apr18.html
Page A12
Later this year, for the first time since 1980, a foreign tanker
carrying liquefied natural gas will enter the Chesapeake Bay and pass
within three miles of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant [Metro,
April 1]. It will be headed to the reactivated Cove Point natural gas
facility in southern Calvert County to make a delivery. Along the way
the tanker will trigger the region's largest maritime security
operation. Coast Guard commanders have established "unprecedented"
security measures.
N. Korean Statements Jeopardize New Talks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53593-2003Apr18.html
Nuclear Program's Status Is Unclear
By Glenn Kessler and Doug Struck, Page A01
Talks next week aimed at resolving the crisis over nuclear programs
in North Korea were thrown into doubt yesterday after the communist
state released conflicting statements about whether it has taken the
dramatic step of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods into enriched
material for weapons.
Sunnis in Iraq Protest U.S. Occupation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53661-2003Apr18.html
Cleric Calls for Muslim Unity; Hussein Aide Caught
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Page A01
BAGHDAD, April 18 -- Thousands of Sunni Muslims, uneasy at the
prospect of losing their position in Iraqi society to the Shiite
majority, staged their first show of force today since the fall of
President Saddam Hussein's government, marching through the streets of
Baghdad to protest the U.S. military occupation and to demand a Muslim
state without distinction between Sunnis and Shiites.
Pilgrimage of Sorrow: Shiite Faithful Bury Dead
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53654-2003Apr18.html
By Anthony Shadid, Page A01
NAJAF, Iraq, April 18 -- On the sun-baked sand of one of the
world's largest cemeteries, Ali Kadhim Subhi walked today along a row
of 10 coffins allocated to the corpses who were once his family.
Wider Fallout Seen From Race-Neutral Admissions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53554-2003Apr18.html
Fewer Minority MDs, Lawyers May Be Result
By Michael A. Fletcher, Page A01
If race-conscious admissions are eliminated at the nation's
professional schools, the United States will likely witness a dramatic
decline in the number of black and Hispanic doctors and lawyers,
according to forecasts prepared by associations representing medical
and law schools.
Scars Document Torture by Hussein Regime
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53372-2003Apr18.html
By Susan B. Glasser, Page A01
BASRA, Iraq, April 18 -- Anwar Abdul Razak said both his ears were
cut off. Saad Abdul Wahab said his jailers placed electrodes on his
navel to administer shocks. Nabil Abdul Ali said his shoulders were
dislocated and an electric wire was wrapped around his genitals and
attached to a hand-cranked machine. Zuhair Kubba said he was hung
upside down and beaten with an iron rod.
In Canada, Precautions Against New Virus Change Holy Week Rituals
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53511-2003Apr18.html
By DeNeen L. Brown, Page A08
TORONTO, April 18 -- When worshipers arrived at Our Lady Help of
Christians church here today for Good Friday Mass, they did not dip
their fingers into holy water for a blessing. As they knelt on the red
carpet for communion, they did not receive the blessed bread on their
tongues, but in their hands. Instead of kissing the cross, they bowed
to it.
Administration Launches Tax Cut Blitz
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53486-2003Apr18.html
By Mike Allen, Page A02
CRAWFORD, Tex., April 18 -- President Bush and his allies in
business are launching a nationwide campaign to pressure reluctant
lawmakers to vote for his tax cut, with Bush planning to travel
heavily to strategic states in his first big push on a domestic issue
since the run-up to the war.
Tribal Colleges Drum Up Students
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53555-2003Apr18.html
30,000 Learning Job Skills, Indian Heritage, Culture
By Tom Nugent, Page A03
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. -- One of the first things George Roy tells
his new Ojibwe students each semester is that they should feel free to
call him "Signaak," rather than "Mr. Roy."
At Pentagon, Graham Lets Controversy Sit Silently
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53250-2003Apr18.html
Page A04
The Rev. Franklin Graham, who has assumed the mantle of his famous
father, evangelist Billy Graham, preached to a packed auditorium at
the Pentagon yesterday over the objections of Muslim employees.
China Orders End To SARS Coverup
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53287-2003Apr18.html
Officials Begin Belated Campaign Against Disease
By John Pomfret, Page A08
BEIJING, April 18 -- China's Communist leaders today declared a
nationwide war on the SARS virus and ordered officials to stop
covering up the extent of the epidemic that is spreading throughout
China.
Indian Leader Calls for Talks on Kashmir
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53288-2003Apr18.html
Gesture to Pakistan Lacks Any Specifics
By John Lancaster, Page A09
SRINAGAR, India, April 18 -- Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
said today that India wants to hold talks with Pakistan to resolve
their half-century-old dispute over Kashmir, sounding a rare
conciliatory note after more than a year of unrelenting hostility
between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
Cuba Bars U.N. Human Rights Envoy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52921-2003Apr18.html
Castro Government Defiant as Foreign Pressure Builds Against Crackdown
on Dissent
Page A14
HAVANA, April 18 -- Cuba said today it would not allow a U.N. human
rights envoy to visit the island following the most severe crackdown
in decades on opponents of President Fidel Castro.
For the Ibrahims, Life Is A Ledger
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53612-2003Apr18.html
By David Finkel, Page A15
BASRA, Iraq
On Day 8 of their liberation, Ayad Ibrahim is the first to welcome the
new day.
Warm Welcome for Wary Marines
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53298-2003Apr18.html
In Some Baghdad Neighborhoods, Residents Applaud Patrols
By Carol Morello, Page A15
BAGHDAD, April 18 -- The one moment 1st Lt. Ryan Gilchrist will
always cherish from his 11 days in Baghdad is when he heard the sound
of applause cutting through the darkness on his first night patrol in
the devastated city.
TV Shows 'April 9' Tape Of Hussein
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53332-2003Apr18.html
Video Recorded at Mosque Hit Soon After by Marines
By Walter Pincus, Page A15
The mystery of whether Saddam Hussein is alive deepened yesterday
when Abu Dhabi television broadcast a videotape that it said was shot
the afternoon of April 9 showing the former Iraqi president,
accompanied by his younger son Qusay, walking near the Adhamiya Mosque
in northern Baghdad and being cheered by crowds.
Options on Handling of Iraqi POWs Considered
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53487-2003Apr18.html
Geneva Conventions May Complicate U.S. Trial Plans
By John Mintz, Page A20
With 6,000 prisoners of war in American custody in Iraq, including
five top officials of the deposed Iraqi government, the United States
is only in the earliest phases of thinking about what kinds of legal
proceedings they should face if they are believed to have violated
international law, U.S. government officials said.
Top Iraqi Scientist Surrenders To U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54955-2003Apr19.html
Capture May Aid Weapons Search
Page A20
An Iraqi scientist called the "father" of one of his country's
nerve agent programs has turned himself in to American authorities, a
U.S. official said yesterday.
The Fallen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53821-2003Apr18.html
Page A20
Names of those confirmed as dead since Wednesday by the Department
of Defense:
Park Service Plans Outsourcing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53294-2003Apr18.html
Effort to Follow Bush Policy Could Cost 1,708 Federal Jobs
By Christopher Lee, Page A04
The National Park Service plans to turn over as many as 1,708 jobs
to private companies by the end of fiscal 2004 in a process that could
cost as much as $3 million, curtail workforce diversity and have
"serious consequences" for visitor services, the agency's director
said.
Rescuers Try to Save Whales Stranded Off Fla. Keys
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52920-2003Apr18.html
Page A05
BIG PINE KEY, Fla., April 18 -- At least 27 pilot whales stranded
themselves today in shallow water off the Florida Keys and four have
died, officials said.
Hussein's Finance Minister Held in Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54818-2003Apr19.html
Iraqi police arrested Saddam Hussein's former finance minister -- one
of the 55 most-wanted members of the ex-regime -- and turned him over
to U.S. Marines.
Resurrecting Interest In Jesus's Brother
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53632-2003Apr18.html
By Lonnae O'Neal Parker, Page C01
At its most significant, history is a palpable thing. It exists not
merely in the sense of place and import it adds to our lives, or the
questions it leaves us to ponder, but also in its transcendent
ambassadors of stone and clay and script. In the physical vessels that
speak to us across oceans of time.
'Helen of Troy': A Long, Silly Iliad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53640-2003Apr18.html
By Tom Shales, Page C01
Perhaps the most striking thing about "Helen of Troy," the new USA
Network miniseries based on very old tales from Greek mythology, is --
to put it bluntly -- Helen's fanny. It makes a conspicuous appearance
in Part 1 (tomorrow night at 8) and returns for an encore in Part 2
(Monday night, same time, same network).
A Creative Chip Off the Old Blocks -- for Girls
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53988-2003Apr18.html
Page C02
Girls rarely grow up to be architects or industrial designers, or
so the numbers indicate. Some people now believe that playthings just
might bridge that gender gap.
Iraq's Neighbors Issue Declaration Criticizing U.S. Over Syria
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/international/worldspecial/19SAUD.html
By SARAH KERSHAW
Foreign ministers of the six countries that share a border with Iraq,
including Syria, met here today for their first postwar summit
meeting, sharply criticizing the United States for its mounting
pressure on Syria and urging the "occupying powers" to quickly
stabilize Iraq and withdraw.
Facing U.S. Threat of Penalties, Cuba Issues a Defiant Statement
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/international/americas/19CUBA.html
By DAVID GONZALEZ
As the Bush administration considers several measures to penalize Cuba
in response to its jailing of nonviolent dissidents, the Cuban
authorities said today that they were ready to withstand the worst.
maff
So where are they, Mr Blair?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=398837
Not one illegal warhead. Not one drum of chemicals. Not one
incriminating document. Not one shred of evidence that Iraq has
weapons of mass destruction in more than a month of war and occupation
Hans Blix steps up pressure to allow inspectors back in
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=398710
Chief United Nations weapons inspector to pile pressure on United
States to let the UN back into the post-war reconstruction process
John Pilger: The unthinkable is becoming normal. Do not forget the
horror
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=398722
The saving of one little boy must not be a cover for the crime of this
war
Alan Watkins: Pilate is a safe pair of hands and will go far
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/alan_watkins/story.jsp?story=398719
The execution on Friday of the Palestinian terrorist, Jesus ("Son of
God") Christ, has aroused a surprising amount of interest outside the
Middle East, where he was little known, even in his native Judea. It
may be useful to set out the ascertainable facts of his life and
death.
Shirley Williams: Self-absorbed and selfish, we've lost our beliefs -
and the plot
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=398724
Modern secular societies are self-absorbed and self-contained, seeing
the spiritual dimension of human beings as a private matter for each
individual. Social relationships and the norms that govern them are no
longer central to many. Modern information technology enables them to
create their own microworlds of virtual friends and colleagues.
Today's full links
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=398661
A Tale of Two Fridays
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/20DOWD.html
By MAUREEN DOWD
The Pentagon, a k a the International Trust for Historic Preservation,
has once more shown the world its deep cultural sensitivity.
The Third Bubble
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/20FRIE.html
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Three bubbles actually burst at the beginning of the 21st century: a
stock market bubble, a corporate ethics bubble and a terrorism bubble.
My Two Wars
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/20HARR.html
By JAMES HARRIS
A confident pilot in 1991 returns to Iraq as a nervous doctor in 2003.
Jon Stewart's Perfect Pitch
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/arts/20RICH.html
By FRANK RICH
The nightly laughter generated by "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart"
has been an anomaly on television throughout the war.
The War at Home
http://tinyurl.com/9wgg
On almost every front, President Bush's domestic agenda is a disaster,
a national train wreck that must be headed off for the country's
well-being.
Time Is Not on Our Side
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/20SUN2.html
The Supreme Court needs to rule quickly on the legal challenges to the
new law that banned unregulated "soft money" campaign donations.
Making the Number Mobile, Too
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/20SUN3.html
Lack of number "portability" is an oddly paralyzing feature for a
product that is all about promising hypermobility.
Windows on SARS, and on China
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/L20SARS.html
Muslims in America: A Time of Fear
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/L20MUSL.html
The War's Terrible Toll
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/L20LEFT.html
Support Family Farmers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/L20FARM.html
Not Free to Be Gay
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/L20GAYS.html
The Affordable Defense
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/L20OREG.html
A City With Less
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/L20BUDG.html
Bad Use of Parkland
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/L20WATE.html
No New Tax Cuts
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/L20TAXX.html
Democrats Need Vision
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/L20DEMS.html
Europe Finds No Counterweight to American Power
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20JUDT.html
By TONY JUDT
The war in Iraq has reminded Europe - France and Germany especially -
of the difficulty of countering America's armed reach with so-called
soft power.
What Washington Did While the War Was on TV
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20HULS.html
By CARL HULSE
While Humvees sped toward Baghdad, the federal government churned out
laws, executive orders and court decisions that passed relatively
unnoticed.
Missing: A Vase, a Book, a Bird and 10,000 Years of History
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20GOOD.html
By ADAM GOODHEART
Many archaeologists and art historians are expressing regret, anger
and sadness over the hundreds of thousands of artifacts and texts that
were looted last week in Iraq.
Our First Words, Written in Clay, in an Accountant's Hand
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20MANG.html
By ALBERTO MANGUEL
In 1989, two years before the gulf war, I traveled to Baghdad to write
an article on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which the Iraqi Ministry
of Culture planned to have rebuilt. The project never materialized,
but I was able to explore Baghdad and its intricate labyrinth. One
experience was memorable above all: the discovery, in the National
Museum of Iraq, of two small clay tablets from the fourth millennium
B.C. that had recently been unearthed in Syria.
Did Lord Elgin Do Something Right?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20TIER.html
By JOHN TIERNEY
What, if anything, have we learned about protecting historical
treasures?
Chaos in Congo Suits Many Parties Just Fine
http://tinyurl.com/9wi0
By ADAM HOCHSCHILD
At least 3.3 million people have died in Congo's civil war. Few
Americans, however, seem to care about stopping a conflict with a
death toll larger than any since World War II. Why?
The True Cost of Hegemony: Huge Debt
http://tinyurl.com/9wi3
By NIALL FERGUSON
While the U.S. hopes the reconstruction of Iraq will soon be paying
for itself, history suggests it will require substantial foreign
capital.
When Cities Go Broke, the Options Are Few
http://tinyurl.com/9wi7
By SAM ROBERTS
In the 1980's, the Swedish government doubled its stock transfer tax.
Revenue, however, rose only about 15 percent, since traders simply
fled to London exchanges.
The Id of a Hot Rod in a Minivan Land
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20MACG.html
By JEFF MacGREGOR
Don't be fooled by the few ultragreen gas/electric hybrids you're
hearing about. The next wave of postmodern automotive engineering is
horsepower.
A World of Doughnuts and Spheres
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20JOHN.html
By GEORGE JOHNSON
Dr. Grigori Perelman of St. Petersburg says he has found a proof of
the Poincaré Conjecture, one of the seven most important math problems
of the millennium.
Covert Ops Enter the Genomic Era
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20BOXA.html
By NICHOLAS WADE
The Central Intelligence Agency is known to prepare health and
psychiatric profiles of foreign leaders. But on what basis, given that
the patients don't make regular appointments for checkups with the
C.I.A.'s physicians?
Words of War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20BOXB.html
By THOM SHANKER
The Pentagon last week announced the end of major offensive operations
in Iraq, and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has already assigned
the military to gather "lessons learned" from the conflict.
The Faraway War Set Latin America on Edge
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20ROHT.html
By LARRY ROHTER
The City Council here is considering a measure to rename United States
Street "The Street of the Iraqi People," but others can't wait and
have already pasted over the street signs. Boycotts of American
companies and products have been organized all over Latin America, and
in the Brazilian resort town of Olinda, the owner of a popular bar has
posted a placard that reads: No Americans allowed.
Civics 101, Taught by Saddam Hussein
http://tinyurl.com/9wih
By PHEBE MARR
Changing the political culture may prove to be one of the biggest
challenges in postwar Iraq. While most Iraqis want liberation, they
may not yet be prepared for, or even understand, Western-style
democracy. For the last 34 years under Saddam Hussein, Iraqis have
been subjected to a highly nationalist - even militaristic -
education.
Last, Desperate Days of a Brutal Reign
http://tinyurl.com/9wim
By JOHN F. BURNS
Nothing characterized the way Saddam Hussein ruled so much as the
bullying, mendacious and cowardly way in which his regime behaved as
its power collapsed.
From Power Grid to Schools, Rebuilding a Broken Nation
http://tinyurl.com/9win
By IAN FISHER
Most experts agree that making Iraq work again will prove a
complicated and expensive job for the Americans who will oversee it.
Pentagon Expects Long-Term Access to Four Key Bases in Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/9wio
By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT
A deal with the emerging government of Iraq would project U.S. power
into the heart of the unsettled region.
After the War, New Stature for Rumsfeld
http://tinyurl.com/9wiq
By MATTHEW PURDY
Victory in Iraq has made the defense secretary unusually forceful at a
pivotal moment for the U.S. military.
Spectacular Success or Incomplete Picture?
http://tinyurl.com/9wir
By JIM RUTENBERG and BILL CARTER
Opinions remain divided on how television - the center ring of the war
coverage - performed during the war.
Fighters From Syria Among Iraqi Prisoners in an American Camp
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/international/worldspecial/20SYRI.html
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
No one knows how many Syrian or other fighters crossed the border into
Iraq to join the fight against British and American troops.
The Question in Cairo: Will Soap Prices Fall and Democracy Rise?
http://tinyurl.com/9wiu
By SUSAN SACHS
The newspaper columnists still spew dark prophecies about American
designs in the region, but most Egyptians are talking about inflation
and the rising price of laundry soap.
Antiwar Movement Tries to Find a Meaningful Message
http://tinyurl.com/9wiv
By KATE ZERNIKE
The antiwar movement is trying to move forward now that the conflict
it so passionately wanted to avert - and for a time, thought it might
avert - has ended.
Scenes That Linger: An Iraq Chronicle
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/international/20RETR.html
By TODD S. PURDUM
Times correspondents and photographers share their experiences during
the war in Iraq.
Nigerians Go to Polls in Test of Democracy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/international/africa/20NIGE.html
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Nigerians lined up on Saturday morning to register their choice for
president, but trouble in the country's restive, oil-producing south
clouded over this historic exercise.
Ailing Pope Attends Vatican Easter Vigil
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Vatican-Holy-Week.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pope John Paul II led a solemn candlelight vigil in the final hours
before Easter Sunday, pushing forward with his tiring schedule of Holy
Week ceremonies.
The Plan Is to Hug First, Ask Questions Later
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/international/worldspecial/20POWS.html
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
The family of one former prisoner of war in Iraq is all set to welcome
him back, with an infinite number of hugs and two cases of steaks from
a local butcher.
Spectacular Success or Incomplete Picture?
http://tinyurl.com/9wir
By JIM RUTENBERG and BILL CARTER
Opinions remain divided on how television - the center ring of the war
coverage - performed during the war.
As Families Mourn, They Raise Questions Regarding Information
http://tinyurl.com/9wj3
By MONICA DAVEY
The war wound down in its fourth week, but that was no solace for the
American service members' families who found military officers waiting
at their doorsteps.
F.B.I. Spy Case Highlights Problem With Informants
http://tinyurl.com/9wj4
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
In recent years, several hundred agents have been disciplined for
improper dealings with their informants, law enforcement officials
say.
The Hot New Sound in South Beach: 'Quiet, Please'
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/national/20FLOR.html
By DANA CANEDY
The pretty people and the trendy shops can stay, but South Beach
residents have had enough of the loud music that thumps nightly from
car stereos, boomboxes and nightclubs.
Lawyer Whose Disclosure Brought Down a Judge Is Punished
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/politics/20JUDG.html
By ADAM LIPTAK
A lawyer who divulged a client's confidences to bring down a corrupt
judge acted improperly, the Washington Supreme Court ruled on
Thursday.
Oregon Muslims Protest Monthlong Detention Without a Charge
http://tinyurl.com/9wj7
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
The secrecy surrounding the case of a Palestinian-American who has
been imprisoned for 29 days has generated outrage in Portland's Muslim
community.
Hawaiian Surfer Tops Biggest Wave Contest
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/national/20SURF.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
An 18-year-old Hawaiian surfer, Makua Rothman, overcame an unexpected
French challenge to win a $66,000 prize for having ridden the biggest
wave in the world.
A New Way of Warfare Leaves Behind an Abundance of Loose Ends
http://tinyurl.com/9wje
By R. W. APPLE Jr.
The war in Iraq was neither as painful as its opponents predicted nor
as painless as its proponents suggested.
Free Speech for Companies on Justices' Agenda
http://tinyurl.com/9wk4
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
A Supreme Court case on Nike's potential liability for any
misstatements in defense of its overseas practices has turned into a
debate over corporations' right to free speech.
Oil Fields in a Sorry State, Stripped Even of the Toilets
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/international/worldspecial/20NORT.html
By C. J. CHIVERS
At the North Oil Company, one of the Middle East's most important oil
reserves, managers have no offices, no cars, no computers and few
employees who dare come to work.
This Can't Be a Bull Market. There Are Too Many Bulls.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/business/yourmoney/20STRA.html
By MARK HULBERT
Investors who expect stocks to surge after the war in Iraq, as they
did in 1991, maybe overlooking an important difference.
Creative Deal or Highflying Pork?
http://tinyurl.com/9wkk
By LESLIE WAYNE
An extraordinary aircraft-leasing plan by Boeing and the Air Force
proposes to employ the kind of off-the-books financing made infamous
by Enron.
The Scrushy Mix: Strict and So Lenient
http://tinyurl.com/9wkq
By REED ABELSON and MILT FREUDENHEIM
Richard M. Scrushy, the founder of HealthSouth, ruled by top-down
fear, threatened critics with reprisals and paid his loyal
subordinates well.
With Interest Rates Stable, Credit Card Fees Rise
http://tinyurl.com/9wks
By JENNIFER BAYOT
Many fees and business practices that were considered unusual only a
few years ago are quickly becoming widespread.
A Town's Protests Threaten Argentina's Mining Future
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/business/yourmoney/20GOLD.html
By LESLIE MOORE
After voters turned against a proposed $720 million gold and silver
mine, investors are thinking twice about mining in Argentina.
The Travel Industry Changes Its Vacation Plans
http://tinyurl.com/9wkw
By JOE SHARKEY
This is shaping up as one of the most retrograde leisure-travel
seasons in memory. Here's a look at some of the global trends.
Boldly Defending Their Options in a Penitent Age
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/business/yourmoney/20WATC.html
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Executives, at least at some companies, are still in me-first mode.
Low Rate of AIDS Virus in Philippines Is a Puzzle
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/international/asia/20FILI.html
By SETH MYDANS
Public health officials say they are stumped by a paradox in the
Philippines, where a very low rate of condom use accompanies a very
low rate of H.I.V. infection.
Shuddering Through the Season of Hope
http://tinyurl.com/9wkz
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
War and worry dampen spring's theme of renewal in New York City.
Helping Graduates Outwit Hard Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/jobs/20HOME.html
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Trudy Steinfeld tells thousands of N.Y.U. graduates each year that it
is not hard to land a job so long as they take a shrewd approach to
their search.
Seen This Guy Lately?
http://tinyurl.com/9wl4
By A. O. SCOTT
Al Pacino was so contained in "The Godfather," his best performance.
So why has he been chewing the scenery for the past decade?
Korean Diplomacy Enters a New Era
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/international/asia/20KORE.html
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
The last time a South Korean president traveled to Washington,
President Bush had just been inaugurated and this country's leader,
Kim Dae Jung, was an elder statesman with a Nobel Peace Prize who
thought he could secure American support for his policy of engaging
North Korea.
Europe Gets Tougher on U.S. Companies
http://tinyurl.com/9wlc
By SAMUEL LOEWENBERG
AMERICAN corporations doing business in Europe are finding themselves
in an unusual position. They are having to follow orders.
Divided European City Looks Toward a Reunion
http://tinyurl.com/9wld
By MARK LANDLER
The two restaurants face each other across the lazy currents of the
Neisse River - a span of water so narrow and shallow it seems less a
dividing line than a nuisance.
Even Critics of War Say the White House Spun It With Skill
http://tinyurl.com/9wlh
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
The second Persian Gulf war was not only a runaway victory for the
United States military, but for another aggressive force that fired
off round-the-clock verbal cruise missiles: the White House
communications operation.
Iraq's Not-so-Frozen Assets
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58544-2003Apr19.html
Page B06
WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH, on the day war broke out with Iraq, ordered
the seizure of $1.4 billion in Iraqi assets held in the United States,
he declared that his purpose was to ensure that the funds be used "to
assist the Iraqi people and to assist in the reconstruction of Iraq."
A wise move -- but not because it took the funds out of Saddam
Hussein's hands. The Iraqi dictator had not been able to touch this
money since it was frozen during the first Gulf War 12 years ago. The
threat, rather, came from lawsuits brought by American victims of
Hussein's tyranny. Under a reckless spree of congressional acts since
1996, victims of terrorism, torture and other atrocities have been
permitted to tap the frozen assets of terrorist-sponsoring states. By
expropriating these assets -- making them, in effect, American
property and no longer frozen Iraqi property -- Mr. Bush sought to
ensure that they would be employed in the broader national interest,
not as the vagaries of the tort system might dictate.
Museum With a Message
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58545-2003Apr19.html
Page B06
THE U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum opened its doors 10 years ago
this month following years of skeptical questions: What was a museum
dedicated to an event of European and Jewish history doing on the
Mall? Was the Holocaust in any real sense part of the American
experience? Should the museum address other genocides as well? These
questions had -- and still have -- no adequate philosophical or
theoretical answers. For while the Holocaust is in some respects
unique, it is not so different from other efforts by one people to
wipe out another as to have a claim on American consciousness that
transcends the time and place in which it occurred. Indeed, if the
Holocaust museum were not among the finest historical exhibits of any
kind, on any subject, anywhere, its existence at the central square of
American democracy would be difficult to justify.
A Case for Disclosure
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58546-2003Apr19.html
Page B06
THE CONTROVERSY surrounding the business dealings of Defense Policy
Board member Richard N. Perle raises the question: Why aren't such
activities subject to the kind of financial disclosure rules that
apply to other senior government types? Mr. Perle resigned last month
as chairman of the defense board after news reports about his
activities as a private businessman, but he remains a member of the
board, an unpaid advisory panel that includes -- not surprisingly,
given the expertise one would expect from such a group -- a number of
people with ties to the defense industry. For ethics purposes, the
board members are considered "special government employees," a
category that includes thousands of outside consultants, temporary
employees and members of part-time advisory committees sprinkled
throughout government. These SGEs, as they are known, are subject to
many federal ethics rules; for example, they aren't permitted to
participate in government matters directly related to their financial
interests. They file financial disclosure forms, but generally these
aren't open to public inspection; instead, they're reviewed for
possible conflicts of interest by agency ethics officers. The notion
-- and it's not one to be dismissed lightly -- is that making the
forms public would pose too great a disincentive to public service,
particularly for those who volunteer their time.
Diversity: Not There Yet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53883-2003Apr18.html
By Richard C. Atkinson, Page B07
In the weeks leading up to the Supreme Court's hearing on
affirmative action, the public University of California system was
depicted alternately as a dramatic success or a dismal failure in its
efforts to enroll Latino and African American students after the
elimination of race and ethnicity as factors in student admissions.
Airlines' Soothing Ill Wind
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53887-2003Apr18.html
By George F. Will, Page B07
Even a short war can be a big boulder hurled into the pond of
society, causing large waves. Today's wars against Iraq and terrorism
are components of a perfect storm of converging calamities for
America's airline industry. As a result, a conservative Republican
administration is being forced into doing something conservatives
distrust -- administering "industrial policy." By its actions, and
even more by its inactions, the administration will preside over a
radical transformation of the industry.
Training Peacekeepers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53886-2003Apr18.html
By Susan Rice, Page B07
The looting and lawlessness in Iraq's major cities have presented
the U.S. military with a predictable but unwelcome challenge: to
perform as police and peacekeepers. Rarely if ever have thousands of
U.S. forces had to make the transition from war fighters to
peacekeepers in less than 24 hours. It is no easy feat, either
psychologically or practically, to go from using overwhelming force to
defeat an enemy to saving civilian lives through the provision of
critical humanitarian assistance such as water and electricity. Most
U.S. forces have been ordered to stop killing. Now they are guarding
the injured in hospitals emptied of virtually all supplies, securing
key infrastructure that days before they might have been targeting,
policing neighborhoods and disarming rogue elements until an Iraqi
police force can be reconstituted.
Moderates With New Muscle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53884-2003Apr18.html
By David S. Broder, Page B07
They are, by any reckoning, the most scorned people in politics --
moderate Republicans. For decades, going back at least to their rout
at the Republican National Convention in 1964, they have been labeled
as weaklings, folks who can't get organized and who never win. In
other words, wimps.
Must Iraq Stay Whole?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53885-2003Apr18.html
By Ralph Peters, Page B07
Traditional wisdom insists that Iraq must remain in one piece.
Washington subscribes to that belief. The Bush administration insists
it will not permit the breakup of Iraq.
Strange Resemblance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53915-2003Apr18.html
Page B06
The April 7 news story "For Wolfowitz, a Vision May Be Realized"
said that Henry Kissinger was an inspiration for the title character
in "Dr. Strangelove." In fact, at the archive of Terry Southern's
writings at the New York Public Library, proof is plentiful that
neither Mr. Southern nor director Stanley Kubrick knew of Henry
Kissinger when conceiving the character in 1961 and 1962.
Much More Than a Spat
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53914-2003Apr18.html
Page B06
The April 14 editorial on the Senate's passage of the CARE Act,
"Faith-Based Charade," correctly noted that the Bush administration's
response to the omission of "charitable choice" provisions from the
final bill -- withdrawing its support of $1.4 billion for social
service providers in poor neighborhoods -- is shortsighted political
payback. Unfortunately, the editorial referred to the debate
surrounding the bill as a civil liberties "spat."
Chilling Signs Of the Times
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53916-2003Apr18.html
Page B06
Thanks for printing Nathan Edelson's "Big Brother of the Beltway"
piece [Close to Home, April 13]. I was chilled the first time I saw
the "REPORT TERRORISM" signs on I-66 a few weeks ago; since then I've
shared my disbelief with many friends. We're now waiting for "IS YOUR
NEIGHBOR ACTING UN-AMERICAN?" to flash up there.
The Perils Of Empire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54028-2003Apr18.html
This Looks Like America's Moment. History Should Give Us Pause
By Paul Kennedy, Page B01
Eighty-six years ago, another powerful invading army had just
entered Baghdad. At the same time, other divisions driving
north-eastwards from Egypt were occupying Palestine. Urged on by their
own strategists and intellectuals, these forces would soon advance
upon Damascus. They would exercise great influence upon Iran and the
Persian Gulf states. Donning the mantle of liberators, they would
encourage regime change in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. They would send
out messages of hope that "the entire Arab world may rise once more to
greatness and renown" now that its oppressors were defeated. These
were folks determined to make the entire Middle East secure and stable
-- a blessing to the world, no doubt, but a particular blessing to
their own hegemonic nation, and that nation was Great Britain.
Paul Kennedy
http://tinyurl.com/9x2s
Burn a Country's Past and You Torch Its Future
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54029-2003Apr18.html
By Robert Darnton, Page B01
It happened here, too. The British burned our national library in
1814. It wasn't much of a library, to be sure -- just a collection of
about 3,000 volumes assembled for the use of senators and
representatives in the new capitol being built in the wilderness of
Washington, D.C. But in destroying it, the British invaders struck at
the heart of what would develop into a national identity.
If Liberalism's Such a Dead Horse, Why Beat It?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54019-2003Apr18.html
By Michael Skube, Page B02
No one in American public life has become so much a pariah, so
ready a punching bag, as the liberal. He can trace his lineage to
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln (a Republican, no less) and
Thomas Jefferson all he wants. He's still a libril, and for that
reason hounded from elective office, hammered on talk radio and -- as
if injury needed insult -- hung out to dry in best-selling books.
A Congregation Divided
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54020-2003Apr18.html
On the War, Not Just a Matter of Practicing What I Preach
By Henry G. Brinton, Page B02
In recent months, during the run-up to war, as Americans clashed
with Iraqi forces and now as they try to restore order to the country,
I've been shepherding a more divided congregation than usual. Some of
my parishioners say that our troops are performing the godly work of
liberation, using their weapons to free the oppressed. Others argue
that Jesus would take a stand against the war and armed occupation,
since he opposed the use of violence. I can find ample theological
support for either view, although I have tended to oppose the
intervention and to urge restraint.
We Have the Power. Now, How Do We Use It?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54022-2003Apr18.html
By Andrew J. Bacevich, Page B03
Although George W. Bush won't own up to the fact, the United States
today has become an imperial power, bent on forging a global Pax
Americana. Pretending otherwise serves no purpose. Indeed, to persist
in that pretense as we wade ever more deeply into such storied
imperial arenas as Iraq and Afghanistan only invites disaster.
Goodbye, Coke. Hello, Mecca Cola
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54023-2003Apr18.html
This Boycott of U.S. Products Could Really Do Some Damage
By Will Hutton, Page B04
LONDON
While America has won the war in Iraq in less than four weeks and with
astonishingly few casualties, it has been suffering collateral damage
in another theater of conflict -- its trade relations. In the Arab
world, and more seriously in the rich markets of Europe, American...
The Sun Never Sets On the British Museum
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54026-2003Apr18.html
By Sue Ellicott, Page B05
LONDON
Shortly before lunchtime on a recent sunny day in central London, the
last few seats in the British Museum's basement lecture theater were
filling up fast. Students came in nibbling their sandwiches. A lady in
a silk headscarf waved hello to a friend. Behind me, an elderly man in
a...
Lethal Legacy: Bioweapons for Sale
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58454-2003Apr19.html
U.S. Declined South African Scientist's Offer on Man-Made Pathogens
By Joby Warrick and John Mintz, Page A01
First of two articles
PRETORIA, South Africa -- Daan Goosen's calling card to the FBI was a
vial of bacteria he had freeze-dried and hidden inside a toothpaste
tube for secret passage to the United States.
Iraqi Police Arrest Ex-Finance Minister
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57701-2003Apr19.html
Scientist Linked To Nerve Agents Surrenders to U.S.
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Page A01
BAGHDAD, April 19 -- Officers from Iraq's newly reconstituted
police force arrested Saddam Hussein's former finance minister here
and turned him over to U.S. authorities, who hope he can provide
information about the millions of dollars the ousted Iraqi leader
allegedly stashed away, U.S. military officials said today.
Agent in Spy Saga 'Was One Of Us'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58327-2003Apr19.html
FBI Colleagues Admired Espionage-Case Suspect
By Rene Sanchez, Page A01
LOS ANGELES -- The retirement party the FBI threw James J. Smith
three years ago drew a large and admiring crowd. So many people were
sorry to see him go. He may not have been the classic G-man -- he
never liked wearing a tie, for one thing -- but he was an easygoing
old pro who had worked with distinction here for decades, and some
younger agents and staffers had come to regard him as a father figure.
Shiite Clerics Face a Time Of Opportunity and Risks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58399-2003Apr19.html
By Anthony Shadid, Page A01
NAJAF, Iraq -- By the standards of Iraq and its Shiite Muslim
majority, Sayyid Muqtada Sadr is a blue blood.
Rumsfeld Stands Tall After Iraq Victory
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58343-2003Apr19.html
By Thomas E. Ricks, Page A01
As U.S. forces wind down the war in Iraq, Donald H. Rumsfeld stands
astride the military establishment as few defense secretaries ever
have.
On Medicare, Bush Left Details to Congress
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58100-2003Apr19.html
President Offered Blueprint for Change Without Specifics on Drug
Subsidies, Feasibility
By Amy Goldstein, Page A04
On a Friday afternoon, President Bush and a few aides gathered in
the White House's Roosevelt Room for a final strategy session on the
future of Medicare. It was four days before Bush would issue a
long-anticipated plan to redesign the massive health insurance
program, and the administration had been divided for weeks over what
-- and how much -- to propose.
Bush to Worship With U.S. Troops in Texas
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57911-2003Apr19.html
Push to Preserve Tax-Cut Proposal Begins in Earnest When President
Returns
By Mike Allen, Page A05
CRAWFORD, Tex., April 19 -- President Bush spent a third
consecutive day out of sight today as he celebrated Easter weekend
with his parents, then will return to Washington on Monday to confront
a sluggish economy and a balky Congress.
Conservatives Attack Two GOP Senators With Electronically Doctored
Images
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56607-2003Apr19.html
By Helen Dewar, Page A05
Politicians generally are happy to pose with a flag. But not the
French flag, especially these days.
Leung Family Lashes Out at 'FBI Bungling'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58279-2003Apr19.html
By Dan Eggen, Page A06
The Los Angeles area woman accused of being a double agent for the
Chinese government is being prosecuted to cover up "FBI bungling" and
is being singled out for especially harsh treatment because of her
race and gender, her family said in a statement yesterday.
U.S. War Success Feeds Hope for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58611-2003Apr19.html
Bush Administration Sees Urgency, Prospects Grow as Hussein Falls and
Arafat Appears to Give Way
By Karen DeYoung, Page A08
U.S. officials said this week that the successful military action
in Iraq, along with the prospect of new Palestinian leadership, have
increased both the urgency and the chance for a resolution of the
Arab-Israeli dispute after months of delay.
Beijing Told Doctors To Hide SARS Victims
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58325-2003Apr19.html
By John Pomfret, Page A10
BEIJING, April 19 -- Chinese authorities ordered doctors in Beijing
to hide SARS patients from a team of World Health Organization experts
last week in an attempt to play down the extent of the epidemic,
Chinese doctors and other sources said today.
Clashing Agendas Threaten Start of North Korea Talks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58006-2003Apr19.html
Even if Parties Compromise Enough to Make Progress, U.S. Officials
Disagree on Strategy
By Doug Struck and Glenn Kessler, Page A12
TOKYO -- Days before the Bush administration approaches its first
negotiations with the North Koreans over their nuclear ambitions, the
United States is at odds with its nominal allies on the issue -- South
Korea, Japan, China and Russia -- and U.S. officials are torn over how
to proceed beyond the first step.
6 Die in Nigerian Presidential Vote
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58380-2003Apr19.html
Despite Scattered Violence, Election Appears to Go Smoothly
Page A17
LAGOS, Nigeria, April 19 -- Nigerian soldiers opened fire on young
men at a polling station today, killing six people, and a gang stashed
ballot boxes in the trunk of a car during presidential elections in
this oil-rich yet desperately poor nation.
Chernobyl Compensation Demanded
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58379-2003Apr19.html
Page A17
KIEV, Ukraine, April 19 -- Thousands of Chernobyl survivors marched
in downtown Kiev today to demand that the government increase social
services and pay overdue compensation to victims of the world's worst
nuclear accident 17 years ago.
Israeli Army Pushes Into Gaza Camp, Kills 2
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58078-2003Apr19.html
Page A18
GAZA CITY, April 19 -- Israeli forces using dozens of tanks and
attack helicopters pushed into Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip
today, killing two people and wounding at least 16, witnesses and
doctors said.
U.S. Pledges To Persevere In Rebuilding
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58381-2003Apr19.html
General in Charge of Effort Vows Iraqis Will Elect Own Leaders
By Peter Slevin and Monte Reel, Page A19
KUWAIT CITY, April 19 -- On the eve of his departure for Baghdad to
launch the most ambitious American nation-building effort since the
1940s, the retired U.S. Army general assigned to run the vast project
said the Bush administration will persevere until Iraq has an elected
government after 30 years of repressive one-party rule.
3 Key Battles Turned Tide of Invasion
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58383-2003Apr19.html
Infantry Soldiers Broke Last Significant Lines of Iraqi Resistance in
Close-Quarters Combat
By William Branigin, Page A20
BAGHDAD, April 19 -- For many of the soldiers, it was their first
real taste of combat. In the 18 days they had spent in Iraq since
crossing the border from Kuwait, the enemy had proved reluctant and
elusive.
With Iraq War Over, Wariness of U.S. Pervades Syria
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58382-2003Apr19.html
By Daniel Williams, Page A19
DAMASCUS, Syria, Apr. 19 -- At a spartan three-story apartment
building in a dusty suburb here, members of the Islamic Resistance
Movement, known by its Arabic acronym Hamas, idled over sweet tea and
wondered how long their stay would last. The Palestinian group, which
in recent years has spearheaded attacks on civilians in Israel, has
long maintained an office here. Now, its presence has become part of a
diplomatic conflict between the Bush administration and the Syrian
government of President Bashar Assad.
Thousands at Texas Base Welcome Returning POWs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58200-2003Apr19.html
Crowd Erupts With Joy at Sight of Plane Carrying 7 Soldiers
By Manuel Roig-Franzia, Page A21
For residents of Fort Bliss and Fort Hood, joy over the return of
seven soldiers captured by Iraqi forces was muted by lingering
mourning for the nine who were killed March 23 in an ambush outside
Nasiriyah.
The Fallen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58513-2003Apr19.html
Page A21
Names of those confirmed as dead since last Sunday by the
Department of Defense:
Exiled Iraqi Hopes to Get Oil Flowing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58559-2003Apr19.html
By Peter Behr, Page A26
Working out of a guarded government office building in Arlington,
former Iraqi oil official Muhammad-Ali Zainy has formed a small team
of energy engineers and technocrats that he expects will soon be
headed to Baghdad to help put the country's oil ministry back on its
feet.
Shiite Clerics Face a Time Of Opportunity and Risks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58399-2003Apr19.html
By Anthony Shadid, Page A01
NAJAF, Iraq -- By the standards of Iraq and its Shiite Muslim
majority, Sayyid Muqtada Sadr is a blue blood.
U.S. Congressmen Assured That Syria Will Not Give Asylum to Wanted
Iraqis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60987-2003Apr20.html
Syria will not give asylum to Iraqis wanted for war crimes and will
expel any Iraqi who crosses into the country, President Bashar Assad
told two U.S. congressman Sunday, the lawmakers said.
North Korea Says Koreans Should Unite to Resist the U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61083-2003Apr20.html
North Korea said Sunday that South Korea should join it in resisting
U.S. moves toward war, another angry pronouncement days before highly
sensitive talks between Washington and Pyongyang.
Bush: Syria Starting to Cooperate With U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61557-2003Apr20.html
Syria's president said Sunday that the country will expel any Iraqi
who crosses the border.
A New Wave of Wireless
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54030-2003Apr18.html
'WiFi' Networks Are Expanding Internet's Reach, Profit Opportunities
'Krakatoa': The Wrath of the Earth
http://tinyurl.com/9x5l
By RICHARD ELLIS
Simon Winchester's book is an account of the Krakatoa blast in 1883,
one of the biggest explosions known to history, which virtually erased
the whole place.
'After': Surviving Sept. 11
http://tinyurl.com/9x5i
By ROBERT STONE
Steven Brill reports on some of the people who kept the city (and
country) going after the terrorist attacks.
'The Gate': The Executioner's Soft Side
http://tinyurl.com/9x5r
By RICHARD EDER
François Bizot was released from a Khmer Rouge prison camp by a
commander who treated him with sympathy yet went on to commit terrible
atrocities.
'Such Sweet Thunder': African-American Life at the Nation's Crossroads
http://tinyurl.com/9x5u
By WHITNEY TERRELL
I had dinner the other night on Campbell Street in Kansas City, near
the setting of the novel ''Such Sweet Thunder.'' A few blocks from my
table its hero, Amerigo Jones, climbs a steep hill to his family
apartment, walking ''duckfooted on the wine-red herringbone bricks,''
and I hoped to trace his steps. It was not a completely unreasonable
fantasy. Though the Vietnam Cafe, where I ate, certainly hadn't
existed in the 1930's, when much of the novel takes place, its pressed
tin ceiling most likely had; the cornerstone of the neighborhood
church read 1895. But when I headed south, I found that Campbell
Street ended in a grass berm, and beyond it the novel's entire
fictional world -- its open porches, alleys and persimmon trees -- had
been replaced by the roaring throat of the Interstate.
'Empire': Queen Victoria's Secret
http://tinyurl.com/9x5w
By MARGARET MacMILLAN
"Why should Americans care about the history of the British Empire?"
Niall Ferguson asks in the introduction to the American edition of
''Empire.'' His answer is that they may have to. Can Washington
continue to foster free trade, the democratic institutions it values
or the rule of law indirectly? Can it rely on weak, corrupt
governments to cope with terrorism? Has the time come, in other words,
for the United States to take direct charge of countries like
Afghanistan and Iraq? Are we looking at a new empire, this one
American?
'Morenga': Rehearsal for Genocide
http://tinyurl.com/9x5z
By GILES FODEN
The early 20th-century German presence in South West Africa, now
Namibia, is as brutal an example of European colonialism as one can
find, and in 1904 its repressive policies provoked a rebellion by the
Herero tribe. Armed with hunting rifles, these proud horsemen fought
the Germans to the best of their ability and at first did quite well.
Their adversary, however, was backed up by what was then the most
advanced military-industrial complex in the world. Even intimate
knowledge of the terrain and the use of guerrilla tactics, which had
helped the Boers in their uprising against the British in neighboring
South Africa, would not prevent a near annihilation of the Herero in
what some have seen as the century's first genocide.
Business Ethics and Other Oxymorons
http://tinyurl.com/9x63
By FLOYD NORRIS
Threre is a faddish aspect to America's recent fascination with
business scandals. Enron was an amazing tale of hubris, greed,
corruption and incompetence. Still, the impact of its collapse would
have been far smaller a couple of years earlier, when the stock market
was still booming. But just as ''Chicago,'' with its cynical
worldview, was overshadowed by cheerier fare in 1975 and a big hit a
quarter of a century later, Enron came after investors had lost a lot
of money and were eager for someone to blame. It didn't hurt that the
company was already a pariah in California, blamed for profiteering in
the energy crisis there.
'Poison': Toxicology and Autobiography
http://tinyurl.com/9x65
By MARINA WARNER
Like goblin fruits, poisons flourish their seductiveness under
appetizing colors: they lurk inside the plumpest, reddest mushrooms
and the loveliest flowers, inside the trumpets of datura, in poppy
heads and foxglove bells. They come dressed in beckoning words and
phrases, too: mandragora, belladonna, henbane, fly agaric, ''green
dream.''
'First Off the Tee': Bunker Mentality
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/books/review/20KLEINT.html
By BRADLEY S. KLEIN
Richard Nixon should have played more golf. If he had, maybe he
wouldn't have had so much free time in the Oval Office for hatching
plots against his ''enemies.'' William Howard Taft should have played
a lot less and attended more to the country's emerging global
presence. As for Bill Clinton, he should have kept better score -- or
at least adhered to the rules of golf.
'The Geography of Thought': East Brain, West Brain
http://tinyurl.com/9x6a
By SHERRY ORTNER
"East is East and West is West.'' Richard E. Nisbett would like to
convince us that Kipling's line is true in some profound sense. A
social psychologist at the University of Michigan, Nisbett has
surveyed a large number of psychology experiments, including many of
his own, to conclude that there are major differences, enduring for
centuries, between the modes of thought of ''Asian'' and ''Western''
people. Specifically, the Western style of thought is characterized as
embodying the value of ''individual distinctiveness'' or
''independence,'' while the Eastern style of thought embodies the
value of ''harmonious social relations'' or ''interdependence.''
Viral Terrors
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/magazine/20WWLN.html
By ABRAHAM VERGHESE
Fighting SARS can impinge on civil liberties as much as countering Al
Qaeda does - and that's O.K.
Spooky
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/magazine/20ENCOUNTER.html
By MATT BAI
In a world of pre-emptive strikes and code-orange alerts, George
Friedman claims he can tell investors precisely what to expect - for
less than $10 a month.
The Unmanned Army
http://tinyurl.com/9x6j
By MATTHEW BRZEZINSKI
The pilotless planes that hovered over Baghdad are the cusp of a
technological revolution that could change the way wars are fought -
with fewer soldiers and smarter machines. But within the military
itself, the idea persists that all wars eventually have to be won on
the ground, with blood and guts
The Day the Traffic Disappeared
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/magazine/20TRAFFIC.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By RANDY KENNEDY
After London instituted a radical anti-automobile plan, it did more
than ease congestion. It set a global precedent. Over to you, Mayor
Bloomberg.
'Good Kills'
http://tinyurl.com/9x6p
By PETER MAASS
To get to Baghdad, the marines of the Third Battalion fought the
old-fashioned way - by shooting as many of the enemy as they could.
Their victims weren't all soldiers.
The Silencing of Gideon's Trumpet
http://tinyurl.com/9x6v
By ANTHONY LEWIS
Forty years ago, the Supreme Court found that the Constitution
guaranteed the right to a lawyer. Maybe the Bush administration hasn't
read the decision.
This Grass Is Always Greener
http://tinyurl.com/9x71
By JONATHAN DEE
The hopeful past, failed present and utopian future of plasticized
sod.
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Bush needs his next fix
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/0,6957,,00.html
Gary Younge: His talent for war has been proven, but the US president
still has a mammoth task ahead to ensure he is re-elected.
They miss so much it's spooky
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,940368,00.html
Peter Preston: Intelligence services cost billions, and it is hard to
prove their worth.
Buddha goes to Hollywood
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,940369,00.html
Hywel Williams: Richard Gere is to open a Buddhist spa - but do
western believers understand the religion?
This occupation is a disaster. The US must leave - and fast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,940375,00.html
Jonathan Steele: Any gratitude for the removal of Saddam is now
virtually exhausted.
Tested to destruction
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,940371,00.html
Jennni Russell: The NUT has voted to boycott Sats. They are right to
resist the tests-and-targets culture in our schools.
Why we all love to hate the French
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,940370,00.html
Roy Hattersley: Blair has been saved by Britain's mistrust of her near
neighbour.
Writing off tyrants' debt is a principle that should be extended to
even poorer nations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,940573,00.html
Charlotte Denny: Any deal for Iraq must not be seen as favouritism for
countries the US wants to cultivate.
Charlotte Denny
http://tinyurl.com/9yav
Gangs of LA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,940297,00.html
For 20 years gang warfare has raged on the streets of Los Angeles,
claiming more than 10,000 lives. So can the city's new police chief
repeat what he did in New York and reduce the murder rate? Duncan
Campbell reports.
John Sutherland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,940295,00.html
Pro-peace, pro-UN, pro Europe - hang on a minute, does this mean Tony
Blair's the Antichrist in disguise?
Mr Monosyllabic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,940294,00.html
Morgan Freeman doesn't want to talk about money, drugs, the war, his
friend Colin Powell, or even his new movie. In fact, he may be the
most difficult subject our interviewer has ever come across
'The moral is to be more radical'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Blair's future: Will he be able to capitalise on his Iraq triumph?
Archives that hold the key to the future for Iraqis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,940409,00.html
The news that Iraq's national archives have been looted and burnt adds
to the sorry picture of Baghdad in this war.
Revisionism revisited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,940407,00.html
Handel asked the right questions
A Baghdad bounce
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,940404,00.html
But, like his father, Bush is no shoo-in
Blacks more likely to be stopped
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,940527,00.html
Afro-Caribbeans 27 times more likely to be stopped and searched under
a special police power.
Body armour inquiry into tank sergeant's death
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,940554,00.html
The Ministry of Defence is investigating whether full body armour was
supplied to a British tank commander who was killed while trying to
calm a riot in southern Iraq in the opening days of the war.
Pressure on Blair over reliability of weapons reports
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,940353,00.html
The Conservatives said yesterday that Tony Blair had a moral
obligation to investigate whether the intelligence services had misled
the government into believing Saddam Hussein was harbouring weapons of
mass destruction, the stated cause of the war in Iraq.
Anger at UN role for rights violators
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,940557,00.html
Human rights organisations are protesting at the inclusion of
countries with some of the worst records of abuses on a list of
candidates for election to the main United Nations watchdog.
US 'to keep bases in Iraq'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940386,00.html
The US is planning a long-term military presence in Iraq, in a move
which will dramatically extend American power in the region and spread
dismay and fear among its opponents across the Arab world.
Sugar industry threatens to scupper WHO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940287,00.html
The sugar industry in the US is threatening to bring the World Health
Organisation to its knees by demanding that Congress end its funding
unless the WHO scraps guidelines on healthy eating, due to be
published on Wednesday.
China says Sars outbreak is 10 times worse than admitted
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sars/story/0,13036,940372,00.html
The Chinese government sacked its health minister and another senior
official yesterday in an attempt to establish credibility for its
handling of the Sars health crisis as the death toll continued to
mount.
Body armour inquiry into tank sergeant's death
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940299,00.html
The Ministry of Defence is investigating whether full body armour was
supplied to a British tank commander who was killed while trying to
calm a riot in southern Iraq in the opening days of the war.
Ba'athists slip quietly back into control
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940306,00.html
They have quietly removed the pictures of Saddam Hussein from their
sitting rooms, and reconfigured their memories to transform lives of
privilege into tales of suffering.
How American power girds the globe with a ring of steel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940308,00.html
New bases take Pentagon's armed presence far and wide
Six killed as Israeli tanks push into Gaza
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940420,00.html
Amid calls for peace talks, army begins one of biggest raids for
years.
Arafat proves to be a hard act to follow - and to negotiate with
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940422,00.html
The future of the Middle East peace process hung in the balance
yesterday after the Palestinian prime minister designate stormed out
of a discussion with Yasser Arafat and threatened to abandon the
premiership before even taking up the post.
Le Pen grooms daughter as heir to National Front
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940269,00.html
Far right party's national congress sees possible first step towards
leadership for 'the clone', a candidate made in her father's image
Chinese cover-up creates new sense of insecurity in face of Sars
epidemic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940293,00.html
Leaders reveal 'grave' situation as public's faith is shattered
What it is and how to avoid it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940296,00.html
What is Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars)?
Pope puts pressure on US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940302,00.html
The Pope sent a coded rebuke to Washington yesterday when he urged
Iraqis to take charge of rebuilding their country while working
closely with the international community.
Shias in first public pilgrimage since 1989
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940303,00.html
Thousands of Shia worshippers left the capital on foot yesterday for
the holy city of Kerbala, in the first pilgrimage allowed on Iraq's
main highways for more than 10 years.
Tank captain admits firing on media hotel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940311,00.html
A US army captain has admitted that an Abrams tank under his command
fired on the Palestine hotel in Baghdad, killing two journalists, but
said he had not been told that the hotel was home to the international
press.
Sahaf turned into talking doll
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940313,00.html
The one member of Saddam Hussein's former government to emerge from
the war with a greatly enhanced profile has been turned into an
American icon. The minister of information, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf,
has been made into a 30cm-tall doll, dressed in standard green
military uniform.
Zimbabwean activist 'dies after torture'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940421,00.html
A member of Zimbabwe's opposition has died as a result of police
torture, according to the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Obasanjo tipped for second term
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940424,00.html
President Olusegun Obasanjo was last night tipped to win a second term
in Nigeria's presidential elections as the country braced itself for
clashes between rival ethnic, religious and political groups.
Morality pact boosts Vatican's power in Slovakia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940270,00.html
Slovakia is planning to seal a pact with the Vatican on conscientious
objection, vastly increasing the influence of Roman Catholicism in the
country's schools, hospitals, courts, and security structures.
Refugee protest camp raided by police
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940274,00.html
A protest camp close to a refugee detention centre was raided by armed
police yesterday after a weekend of demonstrations at the site in
South Australia.
The agony and ecstasy of serving a Michelangelo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940275,00.html
The woman hired to clean Michelangelo's statue of David has walked out
of arguably the best job in art restoration - after a row with her
boss over the best way to clean the marble hunk ready for his 500th
birthday party next year.
Lost Ford western found in French archive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940277,00.html
A John Ford film, missing for more than 70 years, has been discovered
in archives in France and will be screened on French television on May
4.
Wang Fanxi
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940426,00.html
Chinese Trotskyist influential among students in Britain
Saddam's son-in-law in 'surrender'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940575,00.html
US hopes that trusted aide will help in establishing dictator's fate
US researchers claim gene therapy could cure diabetes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,940387,00.html
The race to find genetic therapies to cure diabetes heated up
yesterday as researchers announced they had rid mice of the disease by
tricking their livers into producing insulin.
Winners in the war
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,940290,00.html
Before the invasion of Iraq few outside the Middle East had heard of
al-Jazeera. Now, thanks to its blood-soaked pictures and exclusive
stories, the small satellite channel has become a media sensation.
Michael Wolff reports
US wants permanent access to military bases
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=399021
The US is planning to use Iraq to maintain a long-term strategic
foothold in the Middle East that would include the right to use four
of the country's military bases
Today's full links
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=399069
Is American facism here?
http://forums.indigital.co.uk/id-argument/messages/?msg=19679
How these people are doing more for the Third World than Western
governments
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,939861,00.html
Money sent home by migrant workers in rich countries now exceeds
overseas aid, says Faisal Islam.
Faisal Islam
http://tinyurl.com/9yfi
Poor nations hit by debt relief with strings attached
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,939859,00.html
Write-off programmes have been mired in targets and conditions,
reports Nick Mathiason.
Reaganomics are back - but don't add up
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,939872,00.html
Bush's tax-lite deficit vision of recovery has even some Republicans
worried, writes Joanna Walters in New York.
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What Is it Good For?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/opinion/21HERB.html
By BOB HERBERT
The blatant war-mongering followed immediately by profiteering raises
questions about the real reasons Americans have been fighting in Iraq.
Crossroads of Culture
http://tinyurl.com/9z9l
By PETER WATSON
The golden age that Arab fundamentalists refer to was achieved only
because Baghdad was wide open to foreign influences.
Follow the Money
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/opinion/21SAFI.html
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
France and Russia are preventing an end to sanctions on free Iraq
because they want to control the U.N.'s oil-for-food program.
Everglades in Peril
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/opinion/21MON1Y.html
The most ambitious environmental rescue operation ever tried in this
country - a $7.8 billion plan to restore the Everglades - is suddenly
at risk
The Rules for Covering Brutal Dictatorships Aren't Black and White
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/opinion/21MON3.html
By ETHAN BRONNER
Covering totalitarian states, such as those in the Middle East, forces
a journalist to act in compromising ways.
The Prize: A Deal to Rebuild Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/opinion/L21IRAQ.html
Why the Silence on Cuban Abuses?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/opinion/L21CUBA.html
It's a Bird of Prey . . . in Bryant Park!
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/opinion/L21HAWK.html
Helping to Fight SARS
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/opinion/L21SARS.html
Excluding Muslims
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/opinion/L21VISA.html
Workfare's Failure
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/opinion/L21WELF.html
Fairness in Court
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/opinion/L21LAWY.html
Keep Guns Off Planes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/opinion/L21PILO.html
Freedom and Fox
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/opinion/L21FOXX.html
Marines End Role in Iraq's Capital as Army Moves In
http://tinyurl.com/9za8
By JOHN KIFNER and IAN FISHER
The change came on the eve of the Shiite majority's most emotional
religious celebration. Also, officials reported the capture of Saddam
Hussein's son-in-law.
Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to
Assert
http://tinyurl.com/9ykx
By JUDITH MILLER
A scientist who claims to have worked in Iraq's chemical weapons
program has told a U.S. military team that Iraq destroyed equipment
only days before the war began.
Bush More Hopeful on Syria
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/international/worldspecial/21PREX.html
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
President Bush said that he was encouraged by signs that Syria was
heeding his call not to harbor former Iraqi leaders.
Baghdad's Power Vacuum Is Drawing Only Dissent
http://tinyurl.com/9zal
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Two weeks after American forces rolled into the city, American
commanders are trying to identify a group of Iraqi leaders to help
them run it.
A Celebrated Return to U.S. Soil for Former P.O.W.'s
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/international/worldspecial/21POWS.html
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
At Fort Bliss, Tex., it remained unclear when the freed prisoners
would be released for a leave or a furlough, or for how long.
Turks Wonder Whether U.S. Will Share Spoils of Rebuilding
http://tinyurl.com/9zas
By ALAN COWELL
Many in Turkey are wondering whether the United States will offer
Turkish businesses a share of the spoils in rebuilding Iraq.
With the War Largely Over, OPEC Fears Oil Price Drop
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/business/worldbusiness/21OIL.html
By NEELA BANERJEE
When OPEC meets on Thursday, it will face more uncertainty now that
the main fighting is over.
Iraqis Confront Grim Memories
http://tinyurl.com/9zb4
By DEXTER FILKINS
The fall of Saddam Hussein is bringing out scores of people who have
returned in freedom to the place of their captivity.
U.S. Overseer Arrives in Baghdad to Begin Interim Government
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/international/worldspecial/21CND-IRAQ.html
By JANE PERLEZ
Retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner said today that his priority was to
restore basic services such as water and electricity.
North Korea Revises Web Report on Fuel Rods
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/international/asia/21CND-KORE.html
By DON KIRK
North Korea, by a quick shift in two or three words, eased the way
today for the opening of the first talks between American and North
Korean negotiators in months.
China Admits Underreporting Its SARS Cases
http://tinyurl.com/9zbg
By ERIK ECKHOLM
The government sought to repair its shredded credibility by stripping
two top officials of their power.
Early Returns in Nigeria Indicate President Will Remain
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/international/africa/21NIGE.html
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Olusegun Obasanjo appeared to be in no danger of losing his seat as
results from the election trickled in to the capital.
A Small Texas Town Keeps the Easter Fires Burning
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/national/21EAST.html
By MICHAEL BRICK
The fires commemorate the ones said to have been set more than 150
years ago by the Comanches to signify their acceptance of a peace
treaty with German immigrants.
More Than a Roof for Girls Leaving Foster Care
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/national/21FOST.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
When a charity asked for help to transform a shabby three-story house
in a Los Angeles suburb into a home for girls leaving foster care, it
had plenty of help.
States, Facing Budget Shortfalls, Cut the Major and the Mundane
http://tinyurl.com/9zcq
By TIMOTHY EGAN
From Lincoln, Neb., to Honolulu, desperate states are struggling with
their worst financial crises since World War II.
Bill to Bar Suits Against Gun Industry Stuns Crime Victims
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/politics/21GUNS.html
By FOX BUTTERFIELD
Last week the House of Representatives passed a bill granting the gun
industry nationwide immunity from virtually all lawsuits.
Administration Divided Over North Korea
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/international/asia/21KORE.html
By DAVID E. SANGER
The internal Bush administration battles that once surrounded the
policy on Iraq are re-emerging over North Korea.
U.S. Limiting Costs of Drugs for Medicare
http://tinyurl.com/9zd4
By ROBERT PEAR
The Bush administration has begun to weigh cost as a factor in
deciding whether Medicare should pay for new drugs and medical
procedures.
A Reunion Mends Frayed School Ties
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/national/21LETT.html
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Earlier this month, some 950 invitations were mailed out for an
extraordinary event at the White House: George W. Bush's 35th Yale
reunion.
To Save Tax Cut, Bush Banks on Political Capital
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/politics/21MEMO.html
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
The Bush administration is confident that the president can use his
postwar popularity to force the tax cut back up.
Trademarking 'Shock and Awe'
http://tinyurl.com/9zdd
By SABRA CHARTRAND
A few entrepreneurs have been trying to trademark phrases from the war
in Iraq. But will anybody buy "Shock and Awe" salsa?
Now Digital, Spy Camera Technology Widens Gaze
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/technology/21CAME.html
By LAURIE J. FLYNN
The use of surveillance cameras is surging, driven by new digital
technology, falling prices and terrorism jitters.
Speaking Up, Minus the Bullhorn
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/business/yourmoney/20PREL.html
By ABBY ELLIN
I have strong opinions, but there are places that call for treading
carefully. The workplace seems to be one of them.
To Shop, or Not, When a War Is On
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/business/20ETHI.html
By JEFFREY L. SEGLIN
Consumers have been grappling with an ethical question: Is it
appropriate to be spending while American soldiers are off fighting?
Economies Hurt by SARS, and Fear
http://tinyurl.com/9zec
By KEITH BRADSHER
SARS is starting to cause measurable economic harm worldwide,
particularly in parts of the Asia-Pacific region.
Army Hospital Is a Haven for Wounded or Ill Iraqis
http://tinyurl.com/9zep
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
United States military hospitals in Baghdad are treating mostly Iraqis
with war wounds.
Border Issue With Pakistan Raises Concern In Afghanistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/international/asia/21AFGH.html
By CARLOTTA GALL
The "Friendship Gate" has brought to the fore the far-from-friendly
state of relations between the two countries.
Speak Out. The Police Are All Ears.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/nyregion/21MATT.html
By JOYCE PURNICK
Hundreds of people who were arrested in New York during political
demonstrations were asked about their political activities. The
questioning will continue, but anonymously.
Essays on Law (But Life Creeps In)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/books/21OCON.html
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's new book of essays on legal history
barely hints at the self-described cowgirl's love for Western
literature.
Take the Money and Run
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64644-2003Apr20.html
Page A22
WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH delivered a Rose Garden speech last week
calling for a tax cut of "at least $550 billion," it was cast as a
significant retreat from his original proposal of $726 billion through
2013. That may be, but what was striking to us was that Mr. Bush
wouldn't simply take the $350 billion in tax cuts he is guaranteed and
declare victory. After all, as Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa)
pointed out in a speech on the Senate floor in which he pledged to
hold the line at $350 billion, when reports about the administration's
tax cut proposals first began to dribble out last fall, the figures
began at $150 billion, then crept up to $300 billion. The notion that
a $700 billion-plus tax cut was needed didn't come up until just
before the plan was unveiled. "If you review where the growth package
started, at about $150 billion," Mr. Grassley noted, "you could say
the ball has been moved substantially." Indeed, from our perspective,
even at $350 billion the ball has been moved way too far.
A Reborn Nation Tries To Walk
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64677-2003Apr20.html
By David Ignatius, Page A23
BAGHDAD -- Easter Sunday in the Iraqi capital brings a cascade of
images that show how this battered nation is coming back from the
dead.
A Shared Strategic Vision
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64678-2003Apr20.html
By Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Page A23
ANKARA, Turkey -- The role that Turkey could -- or should -- play
in Operation Iraqi Freedom has been the subject of much debate in both
Turkey and the United States. Unfortunately, in the course of the
debate, some pessimists have even called into question the relevance
of the strategic partnership between our countries.
Lift the Sanctions Now
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64679-2003Apr20.html
By Charles Krauthammer, Page A23
The Iraqi economy is devastated, the people destitute, the country
desperately awaiting reconstruction. Fortunately, Iraq has oil.
Perversely, it cannot sell its oil because it is still technically
under the U.N. sanctions imposed in 1990 on Saddam Hussein for his
invasion of Kuwait and kept in place when he refused to get rid of his
weapons of mass destruction. All we need to get suffering Iraqis on
the road to recovery is to lift the embargo and let them sell their
oil.
Hokum From the Prosecution
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64680-2003Apr20.html
By William Raspberry, Page A23
I love courtroom dramas. Maybe that's why I keep going back to that
February day when Colin Powell, as powerfully persuasive as any
district attorney ever was, put on that famous multimedia production
that convinced me -- convinced America -- that Saddam Hussein really
was developing (and hiding) weapons of mass destruction.
When Eyewitnesses Err
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64675-2003Apr20.html
Page A22
The disturbing case of wrongly convicted Army Sgt. Dennis Maher
["Three Strikes," editorial, April 6] highlights one of the criminal
justice system's best-kept secrets: Eyewitnesses frequently identify
innocent people as the perpetrators of crimes.
Making Metro Safe and Efficient
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64674-2003Apr20.html
Page A22
The claim by Khalid Sheik Mohammed that al Qaeda has targeted Metro
is less surprising to me than the low-tech means by which the
terrorists planned to pull off the attack: setting fires [news story,
April 9].
Taxes for Tyranny
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64673-2003Apr20.html
Page A22
In his April 15 op-ed column, "The Price of Liberty," E.J. Dionne
Jr. sets up a straw man that he ably strikes down: the American
citizen who shakes his head at the chaos resulting from a lack of
government in Iraq yet who still dislikes paying "too much" to fund
his own government at tax time.
SARS Coverup Spurs A Shake-Up in Beijing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64440-2003Apr20.html
By John Pomfret, Page A01
BEIJING, April 20 -- In the most significant political shake-up in
more than a decade, the mayor of Beijing and the minister of health
were removed from their Communist Party posts today for failing to
deal with the spread of SARS in China.
Biotoxins Fall Into Private Hands
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64518-2003Apr20.html
Global Risk Seen In S. African Poisons
By Joby Warrick, Page A01
Second of two articles
PRETORIA, South Africa -- In three days of secret meetings last July,
the man known throughout South Africa as "Doctor Death" astounded U.S.
law enforcement officials with tales of how the former white-minority
government carried out unique experiments with...
President Praises Efforts By Syria
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64504-2003Apr20.html
New Cooperation On Iraq Is Cited
By Mike Allen and Daniel Williams, Page A01
FORT HOOD, Tex., April 20 -- President Bush ended his
administration's three-week escalation of warnings to Syria today and
praised Iraq's neighbor for new cooperation in the hunt for senior
aides to Saddam Hussein.
Iraqis Learn Sad Fate of the Missing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64210-2003Apr20.html
For One Family, News of Relatives' Death Ends 20 Years of Uncertainty
By Peter Finn, Page A01
BAGHDAD, April 20 -- In November 1981, Awatif Hamdani, a
22-year-old medical student, disappeared along with her husband, Ali
Nassir.
A New Boss in Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64336-2003Apr20.html
Self-Proclaimed Governor Trades Favors for Fealty
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Page A01
BAGHDAD, April 20 -- A dozen sheiks from the southern suburb of
Daura, resplendent in gold-fringed robes and aristocratic in posture,
gathered around a U-shaped table in the Sheraton Hotel this afternoon
to meet the man who claims to be the new boss of Baghdad.
Local Officials Rise Up to Defy The Patriot Act
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64173-2003Apr20.html
By Evelyn Nieves, Page A01
ARCATA, Calif. -- This North Coast city may look sweet -- old,
low-to-the-ground buildings, town square with a bronze statue of
William McKinley, ambling pickup trucks -- but it acts like a radical.
Officials Argue for Fast U.S. Exit From Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64173-2003Apr20.html
By Jonathan Weisman and Mike Allen, Page A01
Confronting cost estimates of at least $20 billion a year and fears
that Iraq could become permanently dependent on a U.S. military
presence, senior officials in the White House and Pentagon are
questioning the Bush administration's most ambitious, long-term plans
for Iraq's reconstruction.
Remains of Migrants Haunt DNA Expert
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63972-2003Apr20.html
Project Would Identify Deceased Through Families
By Lee Hockstader, Page A03
DEL RIO, Tex. -- He was just a boy, 13 or 14 years old at the most.
Democrats Facing February Primaries
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64211-2003Apr20.html
Several States Move Balloting Earlier
By Dan Balz, Page A06
The Democratic presidential primary-caucus schedule has gone
through a wholesale reordering since the 2000 election, with
candidates facing the most diverse and challenging series of early
contests in at least two decades.
Tundra Reveals Oldest DNA
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54012-2003Apr18.html
Scientists from Denmark, England and Russia have detected DNA from
plants that lived 300,000 to 400,000 years ago -- the oldest DNA ever
found -- in core sediment samples from 100 feet deep in the Arctic
tundra. The finds were especially surprising, they reported, because
much of the DNA was not found in the remains of specific plants or
animals, but was simply preserved in the frozen ground. That suggests
that scientists need not be limited to studying fossil remains as they
try to unravel the genetics of early evolution and discern what the
ancient environment looked like.
Senators Wary of Theocracy In Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63760-2003Apr20.html
By Christopher Lee, Page A12
The United States would have a hard time accepting an Islamic
theocracy in Iraq, even if its leaders are popularly elected, two
senators said yesterday.
SARS Virus Seen as Long-Term Threat
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64351-2003Apr20.html
Whether Disease Will Cause Crisis or Sporadic Outbreaks Is Hard to
Predict
By Rob Stein, Page A20
Despite an unparalleled global counterattack, severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS) has likely become a permanent threat that
will plague humanity indefinitely, infectious disease experts say.
For Iraq's Christians, Easter Is Marked by Sorrow, Dread
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63988-2003Apr20.html
Religious Minority That Found Favor With Hussein Faces Uncertain
Future
By Carol Morello, Page A10
BAGHDAD, April 20 -- In all his 57 years, Samir Ahad had never
experienced an Easter Sunday so filled with sorrow, hopelessness and
dread as this one.
Change of Guard in Baghdad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64298-2003Apr20.html
Marines Withdraw; Hussein Son-in-Law Reportedly Surrenders
By William Branigin, Page A10
BAGHDAD, April 20 -- A U.S. Army brigade that seized Baghdad's
international airport in heavy fighting two weeks ago moved into the
eastern half of the capital today, taking over security duties from
U.S. Marines.
Kurds Return to Northern Iraqi City, Evicting Arabs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64190-2003Apr20.html
Hundreds Being Ousted as Displaced Group Reclaims Land Taken Over 30
Years
By Mary Beth Sheridan, Page A15
KIRKUK, Iraq, April 20 -- It's been a decade since Abd Ali Hamid
moved to this northern Iraqi city, eager to start a new life. The
Iraqi government had promised him a plot of land in Kirkuk and a loan
the equivalent of $20,000, an irresistible offer for a poor Arab
fisherman from the south. Hamid built a roomy, two-story home with
mint-green walls and black-speckled tile floors.
Nigerian President Holds Big Lead
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64192-2003Apr20.html
Opposition Alleges Election Fraud, Threatens Mass Protests
Page A18
LAGOS, Nigeria, April 20 -- President Olusegun Obasanjo held a wide
lead over his main challenger today in early returns from a
presidential election marred by scattered violence and allegations of
fraud.
Six Dead In Israeli Raid in Gaza Strip
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64191-2003Apr20.html
Arafat and Abbas Spar Over Cabinet
By Molly Moore, Page A18
JERUSALEM, April 20 -- Five Palestinians, including a 15-year-old
boy, and an Israeli soldier on his first mission as a combat
photographer were killed early this morning during a tank and
helicopter raid into a refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip,
according to Israeli and Palestinian officials.
Korean Scientists Defect in China
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64760-2003Apr20.html
Report Says Top Nuclear Officials From North Helped by U.S., Others
By Doug Struck, Page A18
TOKYO, April 20 -- The United States and at least 10 other
countries helped arrange the defections of up to 20 top North Korean
officials, including key nuclear scientists, in an operation that
began in October, according to an Australian newspaper.
Pope Says Iraqis Should Decide Own Future
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64193-2003Apr20.html
Page A19
VATICAN CITY, April 20 -- Pope John Paul II said in his Easter
Sunday message that the Iraqi people should determine their future,
adding his views to the international debate in the aftermath of the
U.S.-led war in Iraq.
The War Back Home
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64554-2003Apr20.html
On Seventh Street in Shaw, the News From Iraq Has to Get in Line and
Take a Number
By Kevin Merida, Page C01
Everett Lucas watched the Iraqi war unfold on a 19-inch Magnavox
mounted above his cash register. Watched intermittently as he went
about his work ringing up chips and sodas, eggs and bacon, cigarettes,
flashlights, Katy Dids, lottery tickets, malt liquor. There isn't much
Lucas doesn't sell.
The Early, Early Show
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64550-2003Apr20.html
Next Month's Presidential Debate Off to a Sleepy Start
By Howard Kurtz, Page C01
Just as the media are showing signs of Iraq withdrawal syndrome,
nine Democrats and one network are trying to fill the void.
Run, Kim, Run!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64808-2003Apr20.html
On '24,' a Ludicrous but Alluring String of Perils
By Hank Stuever, Page C01
Lord love her, it's not easy being Kim Bauer.
The writers of television's "24" would tie her to train tracks if they
could, because there's nothing like a barely legal blonde in a tight
shirt getting herself in all kinds of trouble, is there, America? In
an action-adventure series...
Some FEC Members Seek Change in Financing Presidential Campaigns
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63973-2003Apr20.html
By Brian Faler, Page A04
Two senior federal election officials say Congress should kill or
overhaul the nation's system for publicly financing presidential
campaigns, arguing the current arrangement has not kept pace with the
soaring costs of running for the White House.
OPEC Meeting May See Iraq Group
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64761-2003Apr20.html
Ex-General Plans to Lead Delegation to Meeting in Vienna
Page A16
BAGHDAD, April 20 -- A former Iraqi general who says he is deputy
governor of postwar Baghdad said today he would head a delegation to
an OPEC meeting in Vienna this week.
Error Fuels Outsourcing Concerns
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63762-2003Apr20.html
Defense Contract Could Cost Taxpayers $30 Million, Inspector General
Finds
By Christopher Lee, Page A21
Bush administration officials say that forcing federal employees to
compete with the private sector for their jobs always saves money. But
a decision to outsource 650 positions at the Defense Department could
cost taxpayers $30 million, the department's inspector general found.
Gov. Bush, Sharing Load With DNC
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63761-2003Apr20.html
By Al Kamen, Page A21
S teve Norton , a junior at Upper St. Clair High School near
Pittsburgh, was looking for help with his honors class in American
history. His topic was the Electoral College. And he thought he knew
who could give him some sharp insights: Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R).
High Court to Reconsider Miranda Warnings
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3051-2003Apr21.html
The Supreme Court said Monday it will reconsider the scope of the
familiar police warnings that begin, "You have the right to remain
silent."
Officials Argue for Fast U.S. Exit From Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64457-2003Apr20.html
Confronting cost estimates of at least $20 billion a year and fears
that Iraq could become permanently dependent on a U.S. military
presence, some are questioning the administration's long-term plans
for Iraq's reconstruction.
Garner Arrives in Iraq for Reconstruction Effort
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A394-2003Apr21.html
Jay Garner, the retired U.S. general overseeing Iraq's reconstruction,
arrived today in Baghdad and promised to work all-out to repair the
damage caused by the war.
Arafat, Abbas Struggle Continues
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2395-2003Apr21.html
Yasser Arafat and his prime minister-designate, Mahmoud Abbas,
remained at loggerheads over the composition of the Palestinian
Cabinet on Monday, after all-night negotiations failed to produce a
compromise.
Opposition Says Hussein Is Still in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1483-2003Apr21.html
Saddam Hussein remains in Iraq and is moving around the country, the
leader of a U.S.-backed Iraqi opposition group said in an interview
broadcast Monday.
Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to
Assert
http://tinyurl.com/9ykx
By JUDITH MILLER
A scientist who claims to have worked in Iraq's chemical weapons
program for more than a decade has told an American military team that
Iraq destroyed chemical weapons and biological warfare equipment only
days before the war began, members of the team said.
Factory Is Too Close for Rich Russian's Comfort
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/international/europe/21RUSS.html
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Valentin L. Kovalevsky's shining silver Range Rover glided like a
hovercraft over the narrow, snowpacked road toward his country cottage
in the prestigious outskirts of this northern Russian town. Through
the pine trees on either side of the car, old wooden Soviet-era cabins
were interspersed with new palatial brick homes of Russia's nouveaux
riches.
A Muslim in the Middle in France
http://tinyurl.com/9zkh
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Dalil Boubakeur is the official face of Islam in France.
Serbia Cracks Down on Mobsters and War-Crime Suspects
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/international/europe/21BELG.html
By PETER S. GREEN
Almost every day, the evening news here shows Serbian officials
announcing more arrests of gangsters and criminals, with the police
confiscating arms and counterfeit cash, and often arresting a
complicitous policeman or two.
2 Russian Oil Companies Said to Be Near Merger
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/business/worldbusiness/21RUSS.html
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
The owners of Russia's largest oil company, Yukos, and the country's
No. 5 producer, Sibneft, are close to a deal on a merger, people
briefed on the talks said today.
Blair, Bolstered by the War, Is Facing Challenges at Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/international/worldspecial/21BRIT.html
By WARREN HOGE
Prime Minister Tony Blair's standing with the British public has risen
with the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, but the challenge he faces
now is turning that new favor to his government's advantage at home.
Rescued Soldier's Iraqi Doctors Doubled as Her Guardians
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/international/worldspecial/21LYNC.html
By ALAN FEUER
First, there was a huge explosion. Then, the helicopters filled with
soldiers landed on the hospital grounds.
Can an Old Leopard Change Its Silk Pajamas?
http://tinyurl.com/9zl2
By DAVID CARR
Playboy magazine, which once defined a certain kind of cool to
millions of young men, is in danger of being left behind.
As a Novel Rises Quickly, Book Industry Takes Note
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/business/media/21BOOK.html
By BILL GOLDSTEIN
The success of "The Da Vinci Code" by a little-known writer has caught
the attention of an industry mired in a dismal retail economy.
Satellite Radio Gains Ground With Right Mix of Partners
http://tinyurl.com/9zl7
By BARNABY J. FEDER
Hugh Panero built a reputation in cable and pay-per-view television as
a manager who could turn new entertainment technologies into
successful businesses.
maff
The bottom dollar
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,940757,00.html
George Monbiot: There is only one way to check American power and that
is to support the euro.
Masters of the dance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,940807,00.html
Matthew Engel: Given the weight of other news, you might not have
heard that the Maryland state legislature has finished its session,
having failed to pass the bill before it to designate apple oatmeal
cookies the Official State Cookie.
Saddam was a despot. True. This justifies the war. False
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,940762,00.html
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: The liberal arguments for war simply do not stand
up.
Labour's hypocrisy on race
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,940758,00.html
Imran Khan: Asylum laws neutralise the gains made since the Lawrence
inquiry.
Not so cool, David
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,940763,00.html
Zoe Williams: An appearance on yoof TV will not make up for Blunkett's
buffoonery over the Birmingham shootings.
Big, not clever
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,940698,00.html
Arnold Schwarzenegger has five. Mike Tyson has four. And they account
for a third of all car sales in the US. But now, says Gary Younge,
environmentalists are going to war against the SUV.
What Baghdad can learn from Bosnia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,941003,00.html
Paddy Ashdown has a better idea than most of how to rebuild Iraq - he
has already done it in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Here he explains why the
first priority is to restore the rule of law.
The outsider
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,940702,00.html
The highest court in Israel has appointed the first ever Christian
Arab to its ranks. But is it just a token political gesture, or an
omen of changes to come? By Conal Urquhart.
Easter messages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
"The uncertain future of Iraq dominated Easter sermons delivered by
Christian leaders," reported the Independent yesterday. The focus from
the pulpit was mirrored in the papers.
Taking sides
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/0,6957,177711,00.html
The anti-war movement accuses the BBC of having had a pro-war bias;
the government says it was too Baghdad-friendly. So who is right?
The view from Havana
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,940782,00.html
In the last few days, we have seen, with surprise and pain, at the
foot of some deceitful attacks on Cuba, the names of friends mixed
with well-known anti-Cuban signatures (Letters, April 19).
Buying Babylon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,940780,00.html
There is a piece of the wall of Babylon for sale on an internet
auction site. It was not looted last week but is advertised as
"brought back by father after the British occupation in the 1920s"
(The new dark age, Comment, April 19).
Where are the weapons?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,940767,00.html
The UN must lead the search.
US financials offer little hope of growth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,940883,00.html
The latest batch of financial results on Wall Street gave further
evidence that the much anticipated return to growth in corporate
America is faltering, at best.
Galloway denies Iraq cash link
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,941046,00.html
Labour MP denies report that he met a secret agent to raise cash from
Saddam's government for anti-sanctions campaign.
Blair reaps spoils of war
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/polls/story/0,11030,940893,00.html
PM's personal standing has recovered strongly in the past month,
according to April Guardian/ICM opinion poll.
British pledge on independent verification
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,940745,00.html
The government yesterday promised that any suspected weapons of mass
destruction found in Iraq will be independently verified.
Horticulture pioneers left to wither
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,9061,940910,00.html
Government funding dries up for scientists who have brought
innovations to gardeners and growers for 90 years.
Blunkett backed on asylum centres
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,940722,00.html
A leading leftwing thinktank has come out in support of David
Blunkett's plan to send all asylum seekers to processing centres
outside the EU.
Thinktank backs new model for public services
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/thinktanks/story/0,10538,940933,00.html
Ministers could improve some public services by setting up public
interest companies, the Institute of Public Policy Research will
propose this week.
Syria's stark choice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,940679,00.html
April 21: The Syrian president must purge prominent figures from his
regime or face renewed US wrath, writes Brian Whitaker.
Vive le Québec canadien
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,940662,00.html
April 21: The French-speaking province has for once elected a leader
not bent on independence, writes Anne McIlroy.
US troubleshooter fails to impress Iraqis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940821,00.html
US troubleshooter fails to impress.
The Parlour Maid and her lovers leave the FBI with a Chinese puzzle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940843,00.html
Her code name was Parlour Maid, and since the 1980s she had been
regarded as one of the most valuable assets in the FBI's Chinese
espionage network.
100 more Sars cases in Beijing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940834,00.html
Beijing yesterday added more than 100 cases to its Sars total, only
one day after the figure had been revised upwards 10 times in a
dramatic but belated recognition of the crisis.
A secluded resort, fine for regime leaders looking to get away from it
all
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940732,00.html
The rumours started when an Israeli website, debka.com, claimed the
holiday complex had been booked - "prepaid and chartered" - by
Baghdad. The group staying at the hotel "may include Saddam Hussein or
his sons, but this is not confirmed," Debka said.
Breakthrough for scientists in fight against malaria parasite
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940991,00.html
Researchers have opened the way for new treatments of malaria, the
scourge that threatens 500 million worldwide and kills a child in
Africa every 30 seconds.
Religion and politics resurface as the new voices of Iraqi freedom
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940735,00.html
Jonathan Steele in Kerbala finds Iraqis on a possible collision course
with the US.
Russia demands UN role in weapons checks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940731,00.html
Scientist from fallen regime claims chemical and biological warfare
equipment was destroyed days before conflict started.
North Korea clears path for diplomacy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940805,00.html
Weapons talks back on after statement is amended.
US claims biggest regime scalp yet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940998,00.html
The hunt for Saddam Hussein's inner circle claimed its biggest success
so far last night when American military officials announced the
arrest of Mohammed Hamza al-Zubaidi, a former Iraqi prime minister who
was implicated in the suppression of Shia uprisings after the 1991
Gulf war.
Five cups of tea keep the doctor away
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940860,00.html
American scientists have found a way to tune up the immune system and
perhaps see off emerging cancer cells. The recipe: a small cup of tea,
five times a day.
Syria seals border with Iraq in nod to US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940729,00.html
Syria's foreign minister confirmed yesterday that his country's border
with Iraq had been sealed, signalling a shift towards cooperation with
the United States in bringing a postwar settlement to the region.
Kuwait offers $1m for news of missing in Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940733,00.html
Kuwait is offering $1m (£640,000) for information on people missing
since Iraq invaded the country more than 12 years ago, state-owned
television said yesterday.
Escaped lions shot dead by US troops
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940734,00.html
Four starving lions which escaped from Baghdad zoo were shot dead by
US troops after two of the animals charged at them.
Last Christian in city is always ready to run
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940746,00.html
It was not difficult to find Joseph Akaeredolu. The residents of Tudu
Wada were not sure what he was called or what he did but they knew
what he was: the neighbourhood's last Christian.
Opposition alleges ballot fraud in Nigeria
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940748,00.html
Early results showed President Olusegun Obasanjo sweeping to victory
in Nigeria's presidential election last night, but opponents denounced
the ballot as rigged.
Bill bans lawsuits against gun firms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940795,00.html
Sniper victims' families fight bid to give firearms industry immunity
100 killed as ferries sink in Bangladesh
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940801,00.html
About 100 people died yesterday when two ferries, one of them
dangerously overloaded and the other reported to be hosting a bridal
party, sank in Bangladesh rivers during a storm, witnesses said.
Honesty proves best policy for job hunter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940802,00.html
Tired of trying to impress potential employers with half-truths and
exaggerated accomplishments? Swedish job applicant Angelika Wedberg
has found a better way.
Light sentences for military killers of Papua campaigner
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940803,00.html
Seven members of Indonesia's feared special forces were convicted
yesterday of causing the death of Papua's pro-independence political
leader in November 2001, but only sentenced to a maximum of three and
a half years in prison.
Pro-Franco book a bestseller in Spain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940804,00.html
A controversial, revisionist history of the Spanish civil war which
claims it was sparked by a leftwing revolution and that Winston
Churchill was crueller than General Francisco Franco has proved a
surprise publishing success.
French Muslims angry at veil move
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940806,00.html
A move towards a partial ban on the wearing of veils by Muslim women
in France has caused an angry reaction from radical Muslims and
comparison with anti-semitic laws during the second world war.
Breakthrough for scientists in fight against malaria parasite
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,940856,00.html
Researchers have opened the way for new treatments of malaria, the
scourge that threatens 500 million worldwide and kills a child in
Africa every 30 seconds.
Stem cells help heart patients
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,940813,00.html
Fourteen patients with severe heart failure have been treated with
their own stem cells - and appear to be improving, according to
scientists.
Early influences
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,940582,00.html
Time spent at nursery may be hugely influential in a child's
education, and yet many staff feel they are undervalued and underpaid.
Joanna Moorhead reports.
The mafia effect
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,940596,00.html
Why are so many of the top-performing sixth-form colleges Roman
Catholic? Carmel Fitzsimons investigates.
Today's full links
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=399282
Weapons of mass destruction still haunt the Allies
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/michael_brown/story.jsp?story=399292
International law and British and American credibility can only be
restored if WMD are found
Crimes against culture are remembered for ever
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/philip_hensher/story.jsp?story=399294
The Muslim world will ask why US forces let the looting happen and
produce a simple answer: they hate Islam
The Iraqis' idea of democracy may differ from that of Mr Bush
http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=399304
From the start to the end of the war in Iraq there has been an
affecting simplicity, verging on naivety, about much of what President
Bush has had to say. His remarks over the Easter weekend were no
exception. The liberation of Iraq, he said, would make the world a
more peaceful place. With Saddam Hussein no longer in power, the Iraqi
people's lives would be much better. Finally, he offered: "Freedom is
beautiful. And when people are free, they express their opinions as
they could not do before."
Imperialistic USA
http://forums.indigital.co.uk/id-argument/messages/?msg=19762
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/22KRUG.html
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The administration's tax-cut obsession is indirectly destroying jobs
by preventing any rational response to a weak economy.
I Said That?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/22KRIS.html
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Since I complained vigorously about this war before it started, it's
only fair for me to acknowledge that many of the things that I worried
about didn't happen.
A Man Who Writes
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/22RIVE.html
By RAÚL RIVERO
In an essay written before he was sentenced by the Cuban government to
20 years in prison, the author says that he feels no guilt for writing
the truth.
The Loneliest Victors
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/22SCHI.html
By WOLFGANG SCHIVELBUSCH
Armed conflicts used to be concluded by the convening of the
adversaries to sign documents of armistice, but that was not the case
in Baghdad last week.
Washington's Man in Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/22TUE1.html
Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, who will be Iraq's top civilian administrator,
has his work cut out for him.
The Widening SARS Epidemic
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/22TUE2.html
SARS is almost certainly here to stay, and the only question is
whether it will become a global pandemic or a sporadic nuisance.
More Machinations From Yasir Arafat
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/22TUE3.html
Yasir Arafat is holding shut the doors to any chance of reviving the
search for peace in order to cling to what is left of his power.
Try Telling the Politicians in Maine That Tax Cuts Are a Great
Blessing
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/22TUE4.html
By FRANCIS X. CLINES
The chance of emergency federal help for deficit-bedeviled states
wanes as each new tax cut is sold in Washington.
Turning Back to the Home Front
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/L22BUSH.html
Democracy in Iraq: Questions for U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/L22IRAQ.html
A Killer's Helpers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/L22ABOR.html
Standards for Audits
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/L22AUDI.html
Deport a Teenager?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/L22DEPO.html
U.S. Overseer Vows Quick Restoration of Iraq's Services
http://tinyurl.com/a2ai
By JANE PERLEZ
Jay Garner, the retired lieutenant general the Bush administration
appointed to run Iraq, arrived to a muted reception.
Elated Shiites, on Pilgrimage, Want U.S. Out
http://tinyurl.com/a2as
By CRAIG S. SMITH
Iraq's long repressed yet dominant Islamic sect took part for a second
day in rituals at Karbala's holy shrine.
Billions in Aid From the U.N. Is in Limbo, Official Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/international/worldspecial/22NATI.html
By FELICITY BARRINGER
The oil-for-food program in Iraq has little prospect of releasing even
$1 billion of its aid, the program's director said.
In an Improvisational City Government, a Doctor Answers the Call
http://tinyurl.com/a2b3
By JAMES DAO
In much of Iraq, government is as improvisational as jazz. And in
Diwaniya the bandleader is Dr. Muhammad Abbas al-Shammary.
Syria Is Forced to Adapt to a New Power Next Door
http://tinyurl.com/a2b7
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
The toppling of Saddam Hussein may push the kind of political and
economic opening sought by critics of Syria's government.
Reported SARS Cases in Beijing Take Sharp 2-Day Jump
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/international/asia/22CND-SARS.html
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Reported cases in Beijing of SARS climbed by 249 to 588 as the
government continued its belated campaign to give honest figures.
Election Returns Show a Victory for Nigeria's President
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/international/africa/22CND-NIGE.html
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
With more than 90 percent of the votes declared, officials results
today showed President Olusegun Obasanjo holding an unbeatable lead
over his closest rival, Muhammadu Buhari.
As Their Leaders Wrangle, Palestinians Look Askance
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/international/middleeast/22MIDE.html
By JAMES BENNET
As their leaders clash over a new government, Palestinians have been
watching the political maneuvering with disgust.
In Remotest Kenya, a Supermodel Is Hard to Find
http://tinyurl.com/a2c2
By MARC LACEY
A scout for Elite Model Management discovered that it was a long way
from Bura, Kenya, to the nearest fashion runway.
Muslims' Unanswered Prayer: A Place to Worship
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/international/europe/22GREE.html
By FRANK BRUNI
Athens has yet to establish even one proper mosque for its growing
population of Muslim immigrants.
Payments for Fighting Cocks Bring Criticism
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/national/22BIRD.html
By BARBARA WHITAKER
Officials in California are destroying birds in an effort to stop the
spread of a deadly disease, and they are paying owners, including many
suspected of cockfighting, for their losses.
Ceremony Honors Veterans Not on Memorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/politics/22MEMO.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Nearly 400 Americans who died as a result of the Vietnam War but who
are not eligible to have their names inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial were honored.
Study Concludes Tea Helps Fight Infection
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/health/22TEA.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tea contains a substance that may be turned into a drug to protect
against disease, a study has found.
DNA Clears Louisiana Man on Death Row, Lawyer Says
http://tinyurl.com/a2cm
By RICK BRAGG
A skin cell, and a little spit, could save Ryan Matthews from
Louisiana's death row, and shift the blame for his crime to a man
across the prison yard.
Some Secret Documents in Terror Case Can Be Unsealed
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/international/worldspecial/22SUSP.html
By PHILIP SHENON
The government said that much of the secret court record in the case
against Zacarias Moussaoui, who conspired in the attacks on Sept. 11,
2001, could be made public.
Mail Hub in Tacoma Evacuated After Powder Is Found
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-White-Powder.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A mail facility was evacuated early today after a white powder was
found, but a federal source said tests showed no signs of any
biotoxins.
Texas Death Penalty Case to Get Supreme Court Review
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/politics/22PENA.html
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a death-row inmate's appeal in a case
that has become a focus of concern over the administration of the
death penalty in Texas.
For 2004, Bush's Aides Plan Late Sprint for Re-election
http://tinyurl.com/a2d2
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and RICHARD W. STEVENSON
President Bush's advisers have drafted a re-election strategy,
allowing Mr. Bush to begin his campaign near the third anniversary of
Sept. 11.
Rumsfeld Denies the U.S. Has Plans for Permanent Iraq Bases
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/international/worldspecial/22PENT.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said such an impression could
damage efforts to pacify and rebuild the nation.
White House May Reduce Plan for Dividend Tax Cut
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/politics/22TAX.html
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Bush administration officials said that they were considering scaling
back the president's proposal to eliminate the tax that individual
investors pay on stock dividends.
Vowing to Enforce, and Change, the Clean Air Act
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/politics/22POLL.html
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
This week, attorneys general from five states are sharing the
spotlight with the E.P.A. At the same time, three of those are suing
the agency.
Bush Backs Greenspan for Another Term as Fed Chairman
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/business/22CND-GREEN.html
By DAVID STOUT
"Yes," President Bush replied when asked whether Mr. Greenspan rated
another four years at the Fed. "I think Alan Greenspan should get
another term."
Internet Is Losing Ground in Battle Against Spam
http://tinyurl.com/a2dr
By SAUL HANSELL
In the cat-and-mouse game of e-mail marketers and those trying to stop
them, the spammers are still winning.
A River Diverted, the Sea Rushes In
http://tinyurl.com/a2e5
By ERIK ECKHOLM
No one has fully measured the economic and environmental effects of
half a century of water developments on the Indus River.
'Slow Quakes' May Lay Ground Work for Big Ones
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/science/earth/22QUAK.html
By CAROL KAESUK YOON
This spring, as people in the Pacific Northwest have gone about their
usual drizzly business, an earthquake has been going on for weeks
beneath their feet.
Recipe for Car Power: Heat Vegetable Oil, Flip Switch and Go.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/science/earth/22FUEL.html
By CHRIS DIXON
With the faint smell of French fries, a simple vegetable oil can be
used to power an S.U.V.
New Collar Curbs Dogs, With Memories of Mom
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/science/life/22MUZZ.html
By MARK DERR
Many dog owners are turning to halterlike devices that teach even the
dogs that pull the hardest not to strain at the leash.
The Citizen-Scientist's Obligation to Stand Up for Standards
http://tinyurl.com/a1b7
By LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS
Confronting misconceptions is probably the single most important
factor driving progress in science, and in a broader sense society.
Hormone Studies: What Went Wrong?
http://tinyurl.com/a2es
By GINA KOLATA
How could two large high-quality studies come to diametrically
different conclusions about menopause, hormone therapy and heart
disease?
Likely Ban on Abortion Technique Leaves Doctors Uneasy
http://tinyurl.com/a2eu
By MARY DUENWALD
Many doctors say they remain confused about what will be included in
the ban on a procedure that opponents call partial-birth abortion.
New Test for Hearts at Risk: What It Can and Can't Do
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/health/22CONV.html
By LAURIE TARKAN
Dr. Thomas A. Pearson of the University of Rochester School of
Medicine and Dentistry helps clarify the recommendations for a new
indicator of heart disease.
5 Birth-Defect Cases Tell a Centuries-Old Tale
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/health/genetics/22GENE.html
By MINDY SINK
Five New Mexico children share a genetic disorder that might have
first occurred about 400 years ago, when Spanish settlers first
arrived.
Reducing Torment of PMS
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/health/womenshealth/22BOOK.html
By JOHN LANGONE
Premenstrual suffering is not to be dismissed or taken lightly. Two
new books offer serious advice.
Options for Protecting Bones After Menopause
http://tinyurl.com/a2f7
By JANE E. BRODY
There are safe ways to prevent osteoporosis, with enough alternatives
available to individualize treatment for every woman.
Options for Protecting Bones After Menopause
http://tinyurl.com/a2f7
By JANE E. BRODY
There are safe ways to prevent osteoporosis, with enough alternatives
available to individualize treatment for every woman.
Patterns: An Ugly Pair, Asleep or Awake
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/health/22PATT.html
Habitual snoring and chronic headaches appear to go together.
Stress: Gauging the Boss Factor
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/health/psychology/22STRE.html
By JOHN O'NEIL
Interpersonal conflict on the job can make blood pressure soar.
Sniffing New York's Air Ducts for Signs of Terror
http://tinyurl.com/a2fn
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
A team of specially trained National Guard soldiers has been testing
for biological agents in various buildings on a list of possible
targets.
Give Up Chase for Nazis? Not So Fast
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/nyregion/22NYC.html
By CLYDE HABERMAN
Simon Wiesenthal, the world's most famous pursuer of Nazi war
criminals, says his work is done. Not a chance, say federal
prosecutors in New York.
Nina Simone, 70, Soulful Diva and Voice of Civil Rights, Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/obituaries/22SIMO.html
By PETER KEEPNEWS
Nina Simone, a singer whose distinctively emotional style blended
elements of jazz, gospel, blues, European art song and other
influences, died yesterday.
Waging peace by slaking world thirst
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/112/science/Waging_peace_by_slaking_world_thirst+.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/a2gl
(4/22/2003)
During the third week of March, 10,000 delegates from around the world
met in Japan for the UN-sponsored World Water Forum.
Ending the Sanctions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6586-2003Apr21.html
Page A18
THE QUESTION of whether to lift United Nations sanctions on Iraq
ought to be beyond debate. The Security Council imposed the sanctions
in 1990 to force the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein to evacuate
Kuwait. Despite considerable anxiety about the suffering of Iraqis,
the sanctions were maintained for a dozen years in a failed attempt to
force the regime to give up weapons of mass destruction. Now, to the
relief and joy of most Iraqis, Saddam Hussein's regime has been
eliminated, meaning there is no longer a need for such international
punishment. That the Security Council is unlikely to agree on this
simple and happy conclusion at its meeting today -- and may, in fact,
spend weeks or months in bitter debate over it -- is further testimony
to the cynical diplomacy of Russia and France. But it is also a
reflection of the Bush administration's failure to pursue the
multinational partnership in postwar Iraq that the president
repeatedly promised.
China's Chernobyl
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6588-2003Apr21.html
Page A18
SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO this month, Swedish scientists first noticed
disturbingly high levels of radiation on their monitoring screens --
the first signs of the Chernobyl disaster. But although Western
scientists quickly pinpointed the source of the radiation in the
Soviet Union, the Soviet leadership was slow to respond. For 18 days
Mikhail Gorbachev, who had just taken power, said nothing. When he
finally spoke, he accused Western media of sensationalism but also
seemed genuinely affected by the suffering and illness. Within months,
Chernobyl had helped persuade him to launch glasnost, a policy of
greater honesty in Soviet public debate.
Affirming Exploitation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7974-2003Apr21.html
By Ruben Navarrette Jr., Page A19
DALLAS -- In deciding whether race and ethnicity may be considered
in college and university admissions -- the question at the heart of
two cases involving the University of Michigan -- the Supreme Court
should do a cost-benefit analysis.
A Media Empire's Injustices
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7962-2003Apr21.html
By Richard Cohen, Page A19
Since 1917 the Pulitzer Prizes -- named for their creator, the
19th-century press baron Joseph Pulitzer -- have been awarded to
encourage excellence in journalism. I happen to think that more could
be accomplished with a prize for the worst in journalism. It should be
called the Murdoch.
CEOs You Don't Want in the Cockpit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7973-2003Apr21.html
By Harold Meyerson, Page A19
It's a good thing that Donald J. Carty, the chairman and chief
executive of American Airlines, doesn't also pilot one of its planes.
If he did, and if the plane went into an uncontrolled dive and he
handled it the same way he's running the company, he'd bail out as the
plane fell to earth, drift dreamily down on a golden parachute, land
lightly amid the carnage and give himself a nice cash bonus for coming
through unscathed.
A Common Thread
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7959-2003Apr21.html
By Francis Collins, Page A19
This month marked the conclusion of a profound chapter in human
history, known as the Human Genome Project. Fueled by the vision and
hard work of hundreds of scientists around the world, the successful
international effort to sequence the human genome, which concluded on
April 14, can trace its roots back 50 years to an international
collaboration on a much smaller scale: the landmark description of
DNA's structure by Britain's Francis Crick and America's James Watson.
Triumph's Turning Point
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7969-2003Apr21.html
By E. J. Dionne Jr., Page A19
Triumph in war breeds triumphalism in politics at home. Victors see
their successes today as heralding their mastery far into the future.
Their critics are written off as permanent losers with little capacity
to regroup, rethink or recover.
Drug Shortages Pose Long-Term Health Threat
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8024-2003Apr21.html
Page A18
Marc Siegel's April 13 Outlook article, "Supply the Troops, but
Give Hospitals Fair Warning," raised some important issues about drug
shortages. However, drug shortages have been a serious problem for
hospitals since the late 1990s. The intravenous steroid needed by Dr.
Siegel's patient has been periodically unavailable for more than four
years. Whether preparations for Operation Iraqi Freedom exacerbated
this or other shortages is uncertain.
Garner Arrives in Iraq To Begin Reconstruction
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7610-2003Apr21.html
Retired General Upbeat Despite Skepticism, Damage
By Monte Reel, Page A01
BAGHDAD, April 21 -- Jay M. Garner, the retired Army general who
will direct the reconstruction of Iraq, arrived for the first time
today in Baghdad, where he visited a damaged hospital and idled sewage
station and called on Iraqis to join with his team of Americans to
restore their country's lost affluence.
Stem Cell Strides Test Bush Policy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7107-2003Apr21.html
Scientists Push for Use Of Newer Cell Colonies
By Rick Weiss, Page A01
A series of important advances have boosted the potential of human
embryonic stem cells to treat heart disease, spinal cord injuries and
other ailments, but researchers say they are unable to take advantage
of the new techniques under a two-year-old administration policy that
requires federally supported scientists to use older colonies of stem
cells.
Hunt for Iraqi Arms Erodes Assumptions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7310-2003Apr21.html
By Barton Gellman, Page A01
CAMP DOHA, Kuwait -- With little to show after 30 days, the Bush
administration is losing confidence in its prewar belief that it had
strong clues pointing to the whereabouts of weapons of mass
destruction concealed in Iraq, according to planners and participants
in the hunt.
Iraqi Artists Get A Clean Canvas
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7135-2003Apr21.html
Days of Censorship End, But New Threats Loom
By Anthony Shadid, Page A01
BAGHDAD, April 21 -- Soon after more than 100 of Baghdad's artists
gathered today at Hawar Art Gallery, its avuncular, irreverent owner,
Qassam Alsabti, lugged out a sprawling white board. He propped it
against the wall, and his helpers carted in cut-off plastic bottles
topped with paint. In a break with the past -- and all its weary
cliches and slogans -- nothing was scripted.
One Diocese's Early Warning On Sex Abuse
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7105-2003Apr21.html
'50s Records Reflect Bishops Taking Risks
By Alan Cooperman, Page A01
When he learned that one of his priests was preying on teenage
girls, Bishop Matthew F. Brady of Manchester, N.H., yanked the man out
of ministry. Then he wrote letter after letter -- at least 15 in all
-- warning other bishops not to let the priest back into parish work.
State-Defense Policy Rivalry Intensifying
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7581-2003Apr21.html
Gingrich to Urge Overhaul Of Powell's Department
By Glenn Kessler, Page A01
In the wake of the military victory in Iraq, the battle between the
State Department and the Defense Department for control over U.S.
foreign policy has intensified, U.S. officials said yesterday, with
skirmishes waged almost daily over policy toward North Korea, the
Middle East peace process and the reconstruction of Iraq.
The Heartland Wrestles With Biotechnology
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7480-2003Apr21.html
By Justin Gillis, Page A01
MANNING, N.D. -- In a bar in this hamlet on the great American
prairie, some wheat farmers gathered one night not long ago. They
drove for miles through blowing snow, and more than 50 of them packed
the Little Knife Saloon, doubling the regular population of Manning.
They came to ask questions about a new kind of wheat, and the more
they heard from a panel skeptical of the crop, the more their brows
knitted in worry.
Study: Thousands Give Up Children to Get Care
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6927-2003Apr21.html
Mentally Ill Youths Turned Over to Social Workers, Police Because It
Is Only Way to Obtain Treatment
By Shankar Vedantam, Page A02
Thousands of American parents are turning their children over to
social workers or the police because it is the only way for the
children to receive treatment for mental illnesses, a national report
concluded yesterday.
GAO Criticizes USPS Delay on Anthrax Test
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6876-2003Apr21.html
By Christopher Lee, Page A02
The U.S. Postal Service violated federal regulations and undermined
management's credibility when it failed to disclose anthrax test
results promptly to workers at a contaminated Connecticut mail
facility, the General Accounting Office charged in a report released
yesterday.
Crackdown Urged On Coal Pollution
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7331-2003Apr21.html
Panel Criticizes Administration on Clean Air Rules
By Eric Pianin, Page A04
A congressional advisory panel yesterday called for a crackdown on
pollution by aging coal-fired power plants and criticized efforts by
the Bush administration to weaken clean air enforcement rules
governing utilities, refineries and industrial plants.
Justices Take Case On Scope of Miranda
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6838-2003Apr21.html
Issue Is Evidence Gleaned Before Rights Are Read
By Charles Lane, Page A04
The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will review a
Colorado case that could help further define the constitutional ban on
forced confessions. At issue is whether physical evidence that
authorities discovered because of what a suspect told them before
being fully informed of his rights should have been admissible in
court.
Supreme Court to Review Inmate's Death Sentence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7263-2003Apr21.html
By Charles Lane, Page A04
A Texas death row inmate who says he did not commit the murder of
which he was convicted 21 years ago will get one more chance to make
his case, the Supreme Court announced yesterday.
Santorum Angers Gay Rights Groups
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7390-2003Apr21.html
By Alan Cooperman, Page A04
Gay rights groups called yesterday for Senate Republicans to
repudiate remarks by Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) comparing
homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery.
Academic Research a Study in Politics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59819-2003Apr20.html
Scholars and Stars Square Off, With Educational Policy on the Line
By Jay Mathews, Page A07
At 6-foot-3, educational researcher Mark Dynarski is taller than
movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, but he doesn't have nearly as much
muscle or fame.
Study Decries Tort Reform Efforts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7125-2003Apr21.html
Advocates of Change Challenge Report's Accuracy, Findings
By Avram Goldstein, Page A07
Doctors fighting for tort reform in the District have created a
false sense of crisis surrounding medical malpractice insurance rate
increases, according to a study to be released today by a national
consumer group that is against medical liability legislation Mayor
Anthony A. Williams (D) is considering.
Report: Interior Hid Computer Failure From Judge
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9731-2003Apr22.html
Page A08
A federal judge was kept in the dark about failures in a computer
system created to help track royalty payments that were owed to Native
Americans, a court-appointed investigator reported yesterday.
Looming Strike Threatens Upscale Living in New York
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8097-2003Apr21.html
Page A08
NEW YORK, April 21 -- More than a million New Yorkers used to life
in luxury apartments could be taking out their own trash, fixing leaks
and hailing cabs if doormen and handymen strike, as threatened, this
week.
1,140-Year Term for Sex Abuse Overturned
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8101-2003Apr21.html
Page A08
CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 21 -- The West Virginia Supreme Court
overturned a prison sentence today that called for a man to spend at
least 1,140 years behind bars for sexually assaulting his 7-year-old
daughter.
Thanks for Ousting Hussein, 'Now Please Go Home'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7115-2003Apr21.html
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Page A09
BAGHDAD, April 21 -- When Marines helped pull down a bronze statue
of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad 12 days ago, Rafeh Mohammed took
to the street and cheered the legions of American troops pouring into
the city to end Hussein's three-decade rule.
Private Groups Delivering Aid in Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7116-2003Apr21.html
Specialists Hope Independent, Small-Scale Work Jump-Starts U.N. Relief
By Peter Slevin, Page A09
KUWAIT CITY, April 21 -- Private humanitarian relief groups are
moving from city to city in southern Iraq for the first time since the
war began, delivering medical supplies and preparing base camps as the
impoverished region's security situation continues to improve.
U.S. Won't Seek Bases in Iraq, Rumsfeld Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7264-2003Apr21.html
By Bradley Graham, Page A11
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday the United
States is unlikely to seek any permanent or "long-term" bases in Iraq
because U.S. basing arrangements with other countries in the region
are sufficient.
Young Soldier, Husband, Son Laid to Rest
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6590-2003Apr21.html
Private Killed by Friendly Fire Had Just Celebrated His First Wedding
Anniversary
By Leef Smith, Page A11
Army Pfc. Jason M. Meyer, 23, and his wife, Melissa, 20, marked
their first wedding anniversary long distance March 30. He was in
Iraq, she was in Georgia.
A Prosaic Description of Unspeakable Torture
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7114-2003Apr21.html
Iraqi Impassively Details Vicious Acts Committed in Uday Hussein's
Militia
By Peter Baker, Page A12
BAGHDAD -- Ali fell to his knees and said this is how it was done:
Kurds in a New Iraq Must Find an Identity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6905-2003Apr21.html
By Karl Vick and Daniel Williams, Page A12
SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq -- As Pasar Sherko tells it, his first memory of
the Iraqi government came at the age of 4, with a ground-level view of
an attacking MiG fighter-bomber. Iraqi armed forces were dropping
chemical weapons on Iraq's Kurds and his family was fleeing toward
safety in Iran.
Former Prime Minister Now in U.S. Custody
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7443-2003Apr21.html
Zubaydi Is Highest-Ranking Ex-Official Apprehended
By Walter Pincus, Page A12
While the search for former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein
continues, U.S. forces announced they had in custody the
highest-ranking former leader of the country to date, Muhammad Hamza
Zubaydi, a former prime minister who led the bloody crackdown on the
Shiite uprisings in the south in which tens of thousands were killed
after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Security Council Set To Debate Blix Role
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7443-2003Apr21.html
By Colum Lynch and Walter Pincus, Page A13
UNITED NATIONS, April 21 -- Russia, Germany and France will urge
the United States at a Security Council meeting Tuesday to preserve a
key role for the chief U.N. weapons inspector, Hans Blix, in
certifying the disarmament of Iraq, according to council diplomats.
Canada Widens Inquiry Into Spread of SARS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7426-2003Apr21.html
Authorities Seek Hundreds Possibly Exposed to Disease by Health Care
Workers Who Broke Quarantine
By DeNeen L. Brown, Page A14
TORONTO, April 21 -- Ontario public health officials expressed
concern today they could lose the battle to contain the spread of
SARS, because some people with symptoms are breaking quarantine to
wander about in public.
Epidemic Is a 'Test' For China's Leadership
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7272-2003Apr21.html
By John Pomfret, Page A15
BEIJING, April 21 -- With the removal of two senior officials for
mishandling the SARS epidemic, China's new government has broken with
past practice, pledging to deal seriously with an issue that threatens
public health, the economy and the nation's image around the world.
S. Korean Leader Assailed for Exclusion From Talks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7351-2003Apr21.html
By Joohee Cho and Doug Struck, Page A15
SEOUL, Apr. 21 -- The exclusion of South Korea from talks later
this week on the North Korean nuclear problem has caused an uproar
here, with much of the criticism directed at the newly inaugurated
president, Roh Moo Hyun, who had promised that his government would
not take a back seat on key issues of the Korean Peninsula.
Illness Forces Cancellation Of Study-Abroad Programs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7233-2003Apr21.html
By Amy Argetsinger and Phuong Ly, Page A15
For more than six months, Hadi Irvani had been planning his
vacation around his latest intellectual fascination -- Confucianism
and its influence on modern Chinese politics.
Australia Charges N. Korean Ship's Crew in Drug Case
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6839-2003Apr21.html
By Jamie Tarabay, Page A15
SYDNEY, April 20 -- Australian authorities today charged the
captain and crew of a North Korean cargo ship with aiding and abetting
the delivery of $48 million worth of heroin that police said was
brought ashore near Melbourne by dinghy.
Spate of Scandals Sullies Chile's Squeaky-Clean Reputation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7136-2003Apr21.html
Accusations Involving Central Bank, Legislators, ex-Cabinet Minister
Threaten to Bring Down Government Coalition
By Jon Jeter, Page A16
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Carlos Massad sat down at his desk on a Monday
morning in early February and stumbled upon a glitch in his computer.
Tribunal Convicts Indonesian Soldiers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6563-2003Apr21.html
By Ellen Nakashima, Page A16
JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 21 -- Seven Indonesian soldiers were
convicted by a military court today in connection with the killing of
a man seeking independence for Papua province in November 2001.
Secretive Agency's Maps to Pave Way for Iraqi Relief
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8184-2003Apr21.html
High-Tech Details That Aided Military To Be Released
By R. Jeffrey Smith, Page A17
Relief workers encountered rough conditions during their first week
inside Iraq, including gunfire, looted offices, a shortage of supplies
and a lack of telephone service and electricity. But they will soon
have a new, valuable tool: detailed maps of major Iraqi cities,
courtesy of some high-tech work and a policy of increased openness at
the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
An Answer? Out of the Question
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7981-2003Apr21.html
By Dana Milbank, Page A17
It was, perhaps, inevitable, and it happened late last week: The
White House went completely incommunicado.
92 Dead in Bangladesh Ferry Accidents
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6552-2003Apr21.html
Page A20
DHAKA, Bangladesh, April 21 -- A river ferry carrying more than 300
passengers sank during a tropical storm today near the Bangladeshi
capital. At least 90 bodies were recovered.
GAO Criticizes USPS Delay on Anthrax Test
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6876-2003Apr21.html
By Christopher Lee, Page A02
The U.S. Postal Service violated federal regulations and undermined
management's credibility when it failed to disclose anthrax test
results promptly to workers at a contaminated Connecticut mail
facility, the General Accounting Office charged in a report released
yesterday.
Supreme Court to Review Inmate's Death Sentence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7263-2003Apr21.html
By Charles Lane, Page A04
A Texas death row inmate who says he did not commit the murder of
which he was convicted 21 years ago will get one more chance to make
his case, the Supreme Court announced yesterday.
Justices Take Case On Scope of Miranda
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6838-2003Apr21.html
Issue Is Evidence Gleaned Before Rights Are Read
By Charles Lane, Page A04
The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will review a
Colorado case that could help further define the constitutional ban on
forced confessions. At issue is whether physical evidence that
authorities discovered because of what a suspect told them before
being fully informed of his rights should have been admissible in
court.
Garner Meets With Kurdish Leaders
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13259-2003Apr22.html
The retired Army general overseeing the postwar reconstruction of Iraq
met with Kurdish leaders in the north today while hundreds of
thousands of Shiite Muslims crowded two holy cities in a religious
pilgrimage that had been banned for decades under Saddam Hussein.
Justices Clarify Company Obligations to Disabled
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13864-2003Apr22.html
The Supreme Court tried Tuesday to clarify when small companies are
exempt from a law requiring wheelchair ramps and other accommodations
for the disabled.
Security Council Set To Debate Blix Role
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8139-2003Apr21.html
Russia, Germany and France will urge the United States at a Security
Council meeting Tuesday to preserve a key role for the chief U.N.
weapons inspector, Hans Blix, in certifying the disarmament of Iraq,
according to council diplomats.
Nina Simone, A Voice to Be Reckoned With
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8085-2003Apr21.html
By Richard Harrington, Page C01
Nina Simone, who died yesterday at age 70 at her home in the South
of France, never hid her intense rage, or her immense passion.
Onstage, she was the embodiment of the combustible artist, ready to
rail at inattentive audiences, inarticulate critics, deceitful
promoters and thieving label owners. In performance, and on her many
albums, Simone offered shimmering testimonials to the power of love as
well as blistering social commentaries, most but not all of them
rooted in America's shameful legacy of racism.
The Spoils of Antiwar
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7229-2003Apr21.html
For Some Celebrities, a Dissenting Role Has Turned Into a Good Career
Move
By Paul Farhi, Page C01
Janeane Garofalo sounds energized about her whole antiwar thing: "I
knew when I started speaking out that it was going to be unpleasant,"
says the actress-comedian, "and I've taken my punches. But the
positives have far outweighed the negatives."
A Matter of Life and Limb
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8088-2003Apr21.html
The Earth Firsters say they maintain a strict code of nonviolence. But
to an onlooker, it all appears to be incredibly dangerous. For
everybody. Which is the point. - By William Booth
Short Attention Spans?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12086-2003Apr22.html
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 22, 2003; 8:46 AM
After an enormously controversial war that toppled Saddam Hussein, an
American general arrived in Baghdad to begin overseeing the country's
reconstruction.
Bush Wants Fed Chief to Stay
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13495-2003Apr22.html
Greenspan, 77, who has served since '87, will be tapped for another
term.
SARS Also a Political Threat
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12279-2003Apr22.html
The widening epidemic undermines the credibility of Asian
bureaucracies.
France Calls for an End to U.N. Sanctions on Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13794-2003Apr22.html
In a surprise move, France on Tuesday proposed immediately suspending
U.N. sanctions targeting Iraq civilians, an important step toward the
U.S. goal of ending trade embargoes that have crippled the country's
economy.
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Just say no to a drugs policy that doesn't work
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,941536,00.html
Polly Toynbee: UN and American attempts to enforce total prohibition
are sheer folly.
The real significance of Kerbala
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,941535,00.html
Kamil Mahdi: Religious leaders are legitimising Iraqi resistance to
occupation.
The weakest link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,941534,00.html
David Clark: Blair's 'wait and see' position on the euro is putting
Britain's role in Europe in serious danger.
BBC fought a good war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,941439,00.html
Richard Sambrook: The BBC has not argued that because it is criticised
by all sides it must be right (Comment, April 22). Rather, we have
suggested that it shows that the case from either side is not
straightforward.
'A woman on fire'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,941680,00.html
Nina Simone, who died on Monday, was not just a great singer. She was
also seriously involved in the civil rights movement of the 60s. In
this extract from her autobiography, published in 1992, she describes
how she got involved with Stokely Carmichael and Louis Farrakhan
'The union lives only to strike'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/0,12916,,00.html
Teachers threaten action over class sizes and testing.
Star turn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,940948,00.html
Is it patriotic? Subversive? Both? Jonathan Jones on how Jasper Johns
made a provocative masterpiece out of the American flag.
Saints and sinners
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,941442,00.html
I have just returned from Shanghai on a flight which connected through
Germany and the only screening I underwent was being asked at Shanghai
airport if I possesed any symptoms (100 more Sars cases in Beijing,
April 22).
Cold turkey
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,941440,00.html
You counsel us not to allege prematurely we have been "sold a turkey"
on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (Leaders, April 22).
Bitter taste left by sugar industry's attack on the WHO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,941441,00.html
Few readers will have been surprised at the vehement opposition from
part of the food industry to the World Health Organisation's proposed
new guidelines on healthy eating (Sugar industry threatens to scupper
WHO, April 21).
Baghdad's secret files
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,941462,00.html
Transparency is Galloway's only option.
Fed chief should get a fifth term, says Bush
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,941616,00.html
Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, seemed certain to be
running US monetary policy into his 80s last night after President
Bush said the 77-year-old deserved another four-year term.
Telegraph defends story
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,941771,00.html
9.45am: Paper publishes what it calls 'damning new evidence'.
Galloway: I'll sue over Baghdad cash claim
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,941600,00.html
George Galloway, the Labour backbench MP, was locked in a battle to
save his controversial political career as he launched a libel action
against the Daily Telegraph last night.
Rebel faces expulsion from party
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,941484,00.html
George Galloway's future as a Labour MP last night looked increasingly
precarious after Ian McCartney, party chairman, announced he would be
investigated by the party's disciplinary committee over the "extremely
serious" allegations that he took money from the Iraqi regime.
How the evidence stacks up
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,941527,00.html
A discovery in Baghdad, what it contained and what it might lead to
War launches cabinet stars
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/polls/story/0,11030,941610,00.html
The Iraq war has boosted the personal ratings of Jack Straw and Geoff
Hoon.
Cook's private letter to MP surfaces in Baghdad
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,941620,00.html
A copy of a private letter from Robin Cook, then foreign secretary, to
George Galloway, still lies on the seventh floor of the Iraqi foreign
ministry in Baghdad.
All heart or a pain in the neck
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,941507,00.html
A maverick reviled by party hierachy but admired by Glasgow
constituents.
Galloway agrees to open appeal fund books
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,941480,00.html
George Galloway's refusal to be open about the finances of the Mariam
Appeal has long attracted criticism.
Arab go-between rejects claims
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,941469,00.html
The Jordanian businessman accused of acting as George Galloway's
intermediary yesterday dismissed allegations against the Labour MP as
"silly nonsense".
What the register says
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,941496,00.html
An edited list of George Galloway's entries in the latest House of
Commons register of members' interests :
To vote, abstain or spoil?
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/elections/story/0,13008,941670,00.html
There are times when a politician's rewriting of history is
breathtaking.
Blair joins last push for Palestinian cabinet
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,941557,00.html
Tony Blair has urged Yasser Arafat to do whatever he could to help his
prime minister designate form a cabinet.
Dying to belong
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,941202,00.html
April 22: Thousands of foreigners join the US army to speed up their
citizenship applications, writes Duncan Campbell.
Secret world behind the blackened walls of Baghdad's bureaucracy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,941602,00.html
In the wake of yesterday's allegations about George Galloway, half the
British press corps in Baghdad was crunching up darkened stairwells
tripping over files and pamphlets.
Blix attacks 'shaky' intelligence on weapons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,941514,00.html
The UN chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, yesterday condemned the
prewar efforts of British and American intelligence to show that Iraq
had weapons of mass destruction, and insisted that, without UN
verification, their postwar inspections lacked credibility.
Shia Muslims free to mark martyrdom after 30 years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,941516,00.html
Hundreds of thousands of Shia Muslims brought the central Iraqi town
of Kerbala to a standstill last night in the biggest celebration yet
of the downfall of Saddam Hussein.
Bush election drive to tap September 11 memories
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,941523,00.html
The Republican party has scheduled its 2004 party convention unusually
late in the year so that the climactic moment when President Bush's
re-election campaign begins will nearly coincide with the third
anniversary of the September 11 attack, according to a report
yesterday.
Put sanctions on hold, says France
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,941518,00.html
France startled British and American negotiators in the UN yesterday
by calling for an immediate suspension of sanctions on Iraq - even
though inspectors have not yet declared the country free of weapons of
mass destruction.
Kurds give Garner a warm welcome
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,941515,00.html
Jay Garner, the retired US general given the task of overseeing the
rebuilding of postwar Iraq, began a two-day trip to the
Kurdish-controlled north yesterday, praising local residents for
helping get rid of Saddam and holding up their 12-year experiment in
self-rule as "a model of leadership and freedom" that "should spread
through all Iraq".
China plays key role in Korea talks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,941461,00.html
Bringing America to table raises profile of Asia's economic power.
Nigerian opposition rejects election result
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,941522,00.html
Nigeria's main opposition party yesterday rejected President Olusegun
Obasanjo's victory in the presidential election and said it would not
recognise his government.
Vanishing act by family in Alpine village
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,941593,00.html
The dinner for a family of five remains on the stove at their luxury
Alpine chalet near the ski resort of Le Grand Bornand. But the house
is empty and no one has heard from Xavier Flactif, 41, his wife,
Graziella, 36, or their three children for nearly a fortnight.
Five 'admit murdering journalists'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,941520,00.html
Five men suspected of killing four journalists in Afghanistan have
been captured and will be put on trial, according to reports from
Kabul yesterday.
Fatal fallout
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,7843,941107,00.html
The suicide rate among veterans of the first Gulf war is almost five
times higher than the number of deaths in combat. Yet the NHS has no
extra funds for specialist mental health treatment after the latest
conflict in Iraq. Alison Benjamin reports.
Giving it away
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,7843,941115,00.html
The Funding Network's donation days bring together charities and the
'new philanthropists'. Sophie Unwin goes along.
Another casualty of the war - global prosperity
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/hamish_mcrae/story.jsp?story=399522
Every time the odd McDonald's is trashed, expect other US companies to
reconsider their operations there
I'd rather it was money than belief that made George Galloway support
Saddam
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/johann_hari/story.jsp?story=399518
If you cheered Galloway at the anti-war rally, now is the time to
pause and ask yourself: what did I do?
Rupert Cornwell: Don't believe all the patriotic fire on American TV
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=399525
Contrary to the impression put about by foreigners, the American
public can think for themselves
Charles Arthur: Why do we expect so much from science?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=399526
23 April 2003
DNA is often called the blueprint of life but it would be better to
call it a recipe
James Watson
http://tinyurl.com/a4fg
Francis Crick
http://tinyurl.com/a4fn
Maurice Wilkins
http://tinyurl.com/a4fx
Rosalind Franklin
http://tinyurl.com/a4g7
Today's full links
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=399509
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Chest Banging, Here and There
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/23DOWD.html
By MAUREEN DOWD
Even as they stifle their Pax Americana impulses in Iraq, the
imperialists swagger with a Pox Americana at home.
Regime Change, Part 2
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/23FRIE.html
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
America, Europe, Israel and the Arab states should all help in the
effort to oust Yasir Arafat.
Why the Mullahs Love a Revolution
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/23HIRO.html
By DILIP HIRO
If the Bush administration truly hopes to see a "liberated" Iraq,
stepping down as power broker might be the only option.
Banishing Hans Blix
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/23WED1.html
Hans Blix may not dance to Washington's tune, but that is precisely
why his word on the presence of unconventional weapons in Baghdad is
so valuable.
Another Senseless Tax-Cut Attempt
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/23WED2.html
While the federal deficit and national-debt ceiling hit the roof,
Congress and the White House are locked in a suicide pact of another
tax cut.
Simon Wiesenthal Bows Out
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/23WED4.html
The Holocaust survivor who devoted his life to tracking down fugitives
responsible for the slaughter of Jews in World War II is closing his
files.
Senator Santorum Sounds Off
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/opinion/23WED5.html
Senator Rick Santorum offers gratuitous guidance to the Supreme Court
in the form of an ad-hoc ruling that equates homosexuality with
bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery.
Turning War Into Peace in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/L23IRAQ.html
A Bush Campaign, a 9/11 Anniversary
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/L23BUSH.html
Antiquities Trafficking
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/L23ANTI.html
Everglades Tale: Beware of Homo Sapiens
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/L23EVER.html
Taking Risks in Mideast
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/L23ISRA.html
'Overreacting' to Terror? The Threat Persists
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/L23FRIE.html
SARS and Drug Makers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/L23SARS.html
Immigrant Health Care
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/L23IMMI.html
Election Blues
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/L23DEMS.html
Oil Begins Flowing in South as Some Power Returns in Baghdad
http://tinyurl.com/a5of
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oil from Iraq's southern fields began flowing through pipelines today
for the first time since the war, and power at last was restored to
parts of the capital.
As Baghdad Awaits Aid, Feeling Grows Against U.S.
http://tinyurl.com/a5om
By JANE PERLEZ with MARC LACEY
Islamic passions suppressed under Saddam Hussein escalated in Karbala.
In Baghdad, Iraqis awaited material help from the U.S.
France Urging U.N. to Suspend Iraq Penalties
http://tinyurl.com/a5ot
By FELICITY BARRINGER with ELISABETH BUMILLER
The suspension of most sanctions would fall short of President Bush's
call for the Security Council to lift all sanctions.
In a Hotbed of Shiite Passion, Clerics Jockey for Leadership
http://tinyurl.com/a5p0
By CRAIG S. SMITH
Clergy are defining political divisions among the religious groups
competing for leadership of Iraq's Shiite majority.
Iran Is Said to Send Agents Into Southern Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/international/worldspecial/23IRAN.html
By DOUGLAS JEHL
Iranian-trained agents have crossed into Iraq and are working to
advance Iranian interests, according to U.S. officials.
'No Fly' List Is Challenged in a Lawsuit
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/international/worldspecial/23TERR.html
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Civil rights advocates want the government to explain how people wind
up on a list used to prevent those suspected of having terrorist links
from boarding commercial flights.
Judge Rules U.S. Must Provide Statements From Qaeda Leaders
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/international/worldspecial/23SUSP.html
By PHILIP SHENON
The Justice Department has been ordered to provide defense lawyers
with any statement made by captured leaders of Al Qaeda that would
tend to exonerate Zacarias Moussaoui.
Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/international/middleeast/23GORDON.html
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Saddam Hussein expected to ride out the war in bunkers and to return
afterward to his former life of splendor.
Despite Birth Bonuses, Zoroastrians in India Fade
http://tinyurl.com/a5qk
By AMY WALDMAN
In a sign of demographic desperation, Parsis are paying their members
to have more children.
Peronism's Demise? Don't Bet Your Shirt on It
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/international/americas/23PERO.html
By LARRY ROHTER
Every time Argentina is plunged into a period of trauma, it
instinctively looks to Juan Perón and his heirs for salvation.
Palestinians Present New Cabinet, Keeping Peace Efforts Alive
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/international/middleeast/23CND-MIDE.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Prime Minister-designate Mahmoud Abbas presented a new Cabinet to
Yasir Arafat, ending a long standoff with the Palestinian leader over
its composition.
Beijing Posts Surge in SARS Cases as Infection Fears Mount
http://tinyurl.com/a5rh
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Reported cases of SARS in Beijing surged by 105 new cases today as the
threat of infection suddenly became the main topic of conversation.
A Promise of Education and Its Lasting Legacy
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/education/23EDUC.html
By MICHAEL WINERIP
A program that promised a free college education to students at
several Kansas City, Kan., schools had its successes, but had to make
a lot of changes along the way.
Release Set for Man Accused of Spying for North Korea
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/national/23AGEN.html
By CALVIN SIMS
A California businessman was scheduled to be released on bail on
Wednesday after he was arrested two months ago and accused of being an
agent for North Korea.
Gun Maker Found Liable in Shooting Accident
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/national/23GUNS.html
By FOX BUTTERFIELD
An Oakland jury has found a California gun maker, its designer and its
main distributor partly liable in an accidental shooting that left a
7-year-old boy a quadriplegic.
Bush Backs Greenspan for Another Term at Fed
http://tinyurl.com/a5rv
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
The president in effect left to Alan Greenspan the decision of whether
to remain as head of the central bank.
Pentagon Reports Raising $1.7 Billion to Assist Relief Effort
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/international/worldspecial/23DONO.html
By THOM SHANKER
The Defense Department said about $1.7 billion in financial
assistance, food, medicine and other relief products had been raised
for Iraq from various countries.
A Dark Horse Fights the Odds Again
http://tinyurl.com/a5s2
By CARL HULSE
Having been both boy wonder and political exile before serving four
terms in the House, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich is now running for
president.
Persistent Conflict for Gays and G.O.P.
http://tinyurl.com/a5t0
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Senator Rick Santorum - who made remarks equating homosexuality with
polygamy and incest - is writing a new chapter of the long and
conflicted history between gays and Republicans.
Limited Public Tours of White House Will Resume
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/politics/23TOUR.html
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Bush administration said that it would resume limited public tours
of the White House in early May.
Experts Say U.S. Hasn't Planned for Iraqi Oil Market
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/international/worldspecial/23OIL.html
By NEELA BANERJEE
The United States, which is counting on oil to finance Iraq's
reconstruction, is expected to announce its plan for the oil industry
in the next few days.
Reflecting on TV's Pensive Portrayal of Vietnam
http://tinyurl.com/a5te
By JULIE SALAMON
The Museum of Television and Radio in Manhattan will show six
documentaries from the Vietnam era in a television documentary
festival.
Brazil Finds a Market for Exports and a Friend in China
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/business/worldbusiness/23BRAZ.html
By TONY SMITH
In Portuguese, "business from China" means a deal sent from heaven, a
once-in-a-lifetime chance to get rich. So it should be no surprise
that Brazilian business is suddenly looking east.
Supreme Court Examines Free Speech Rights
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Scotus-Free-Speech.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Any gadfly with a beef against corporate America could silence
important national debates about business practices or other topics if
the Supreme Court rules against athletic shoe maker Nike Inc. in a
novel free speech case, the Bush administration argued Wednesday.
Want to Beat the Enemy? Win the Information War
http://tinyurl.com/a5tv
By MICHAEL O'HANLON
Bruce Berkowitz has produced a readable and well-informed study of
information technology and its implications for future warfare.
From a Deep-Fryer in a Garage to an Indian Food Empire
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/dining/23INDI.html
By JOAN NATHAN
The Amin family of Bernardsville, N.J., is responsible for much of
America's Indian food market.
A Mermaid Made to Cover Up Settles With City for $10,000
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/nyregion/23TOPL.html
By THOMAS J. LUECK
The city has agreed to settle a false arrest lawsuit filed by a woman
who was detained at the 2001 Mermaid Parade because she exposed her
breasts.
Dude, Where's My Spice Grinder?
http://tinyurl.com/a5ur
By AMANDA HESSER
On college campuses across the country, students are flocking to the
main course: good cooking. So long, microwaved burritos.
New Ammunition for Backers of Do-or-Die Exams
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/education/23RESE.html
By GREG WINTER
Two new studies make the case that do-or-die exams - which decide
whether students graduate or schools are shut - have brought about
some academic progress.
No New Wars
http://www.msnbc.com/news/903717.asp?0cv=KA01
President Bush gives his reassurance that there will be no impending
military action
Fineman: Dubya's Next Shot
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902741.asp
The war may be winding down, but the political battles are just
beginning
Alter: Smugness Is Our Greatest Enemy
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902679.asp
Today, many Democrats are playing Charlie Brown to Bush's Lucy. Just
as they were talking about a quagmire, the war was won
Hail to the Chief
http://www.msnbc.com/news/892568.asp
In a new NEWSWEEK poll, the president logs a 15 percent jump in his
approval rating. And more than half of Americans say they'll continue
to support military action in Iraq—even if it lasts several months or
more
The Saddam Files
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902240.asp
At the Iraqi Intelligence Service, a man walked up with a grimy sack
of documents and tapes. ‘Tell the world what happened here,' he said
The Road to Damascus
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902723.asp
The Syrians know well the black art of terrorism. But they've also
been key allies against Al Qaeda
The Iranian Connection
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902734.asp
Tehran's agents have poured into southern Iraq, where anti-American
sentiment is spreading among the Shiites
Is This Axis Evil?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902696.asp
The big economic success stories of the 1990s are merging into one
global force, driving down prices and, perhaps, raising the risk of
deflation
Reining in the Warlords
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902698.asp
As the United States begins to plan the rebuilding of Iraq,
Afghanistan remains a powerful reminder that the task of
nation-building is easier said than done
A Hollow Triumph?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902704.asp
Africa's most populous country is set to return a civilian government
to power. But its reform effort remains lax
Divided They Stand
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902695.asp
The European experiment has entered a new phase. Forget ‘ever closer
union'-the real rifts are now about to appear
Cry for Me, Baghdad
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902666.asp
Postwar Iraq is in a deep, dark emerging-market crisis that makes
Argentina look normal by comparison
Slow Progress
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902690.asp
Basra suffered little war damage, and was the first Iraqi city to be
freed. So if the reconstruction process is this hard here, the rest of
the country should be worried
Chirac's Great Game
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902689.asp
France is in a diplomatic pickle, wanting both to heal the rift with
America and to play up the nation's newfound prominence. How will its
president balance the two desires?
A Frosty Friendship
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902686.asp
The U.S. and Russia try to mend their frayed relations
Disturbing the Peace
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902671.asp
Cheating on both sides is pushing Aceh to the brink of war
‘They Want to Up the Ante'
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902670.asp
Seoul's new man in Washington was there the last time the North staged
a crisis. His take on Pyongyang's tough talk
Second Guessing
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902665.asp
Another provocative statement out of Pyongyang is raising questions
about what the North is up to now
The Last Word: Ayatollah Al Hakim
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902663.asp
Speaking for The Majority
Lessons of Cambodia
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902301.asp
Nation-building is more complicated than it seems
A New Love For the Local
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902703.asp
Chinese consumers have long shunned traditional style for all things
Western. Tastes are changing
The World of the Gulag
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902629.asp
A definitive account portrays the Soviet Union not as a noble
experiment gone awry but as a system of murder
Letter From America: No Smoking! It's the Law!
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902308.asp
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has just signed the toughest anti-smoking law
in the world
Partnoy's Complaint
http://www.msnbc.com/news/901229.asp
A new book explains what brought down corporate giants like Enron and
WorldCom and warns that if legislators and regulators-and
investors-don't pay more attention, we may pay the price again
Next Frontiers: Facing the Future
http://www.msnbc.com/news/NW-FACINGTHEFUTURE_Front.asp
Is your company ready?
My Turn: Whatever Happened to Vive la Difference?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902633.asp
The protests may be silly (the Belgians invented french fries!), but
none of us should be laughing
The Politics of Vengeance
http://www.msnbc.com/news/902681.asp
The environmental movement is resistant to good news, and Inhofe is
not in a Rodney King ‘can't we all just get along?' mood
Next Stop: Syria?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030428-444988,00.html
The Bush Administration applies the screws to another "rogue nation."
What's behind the sudden indictment - and how scared should Damascus
be?
The Taking of Iraq's Heritage
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030428-444984,00.html
Could the U.S. have stopped the looting of the country's priceless
antiquities? The answer is not that simple
The No.1 Killer of Women
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030428/
Liu Binyan
http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/heroes/liu_binyan.html
Fearless and incorruptible, China's conscience speaks the truth
Gulla Jan Hairran
http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/heroes/gulla_hairran.html
Kabul's Prometheus
How To Rebuild Iraq
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,444872,00.html
The work to remake the country will be long, expensive and difficult.
An assessment of how much it will cost - and who will pay
Weekend Getaways: Indonesia
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030414-441238,00.html
Long a runner-up to Bali's attractions, the island of Lombok is coming
into its own
Tools That Change Lives
http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero/fishermoon.html
When Martin Fisher arrived in Kenya in the mid-1980s, profit had a
dirty name.
Surgical Strike For Peace
http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero/abuajaima.html
When the ambulance brought a critically injured Israeli settler to
Hebron's dilapidated Alia Hospital on a sunny November day in 1997,
Khaled Abu Ajamia could have - should have - refused to operate.
What Makes A Hero?
http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero/
Asian Heroes 2003
http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/heroes/sars_doctors.html
North Korea's Choices
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18329-2003Apr22.html
Page A34
THE UNITED STATES and North Korea are due to take a welcome step away
from a dangerous diplomatic impasse when they begin talks today, with
China as host. Since the last formal contact between the Bush
administration and the Pyongyang regime of Kim Jong Il eight months
ago, North Korea has been moving rapidly toward producing an arsenal
of nuclear weapons, while insisting on bilateral negotiations with
Washington; the often-incoherent response of a chronically divided
administration has ranged between passivity and insistence on a
multilateral solution. The new Chinese government of Hu Jintao
deserves credit for breaking the deadlock by offering to join the
talks -- thereby providing a multilateral patina -- and by using its
considerable economic leverage to gain North Korea's assent. Yet any
chance for agreement, and an end to the grave threat North Korea
poses, will depend on the willingness of all three parties to make
hard choices they have avoided so far.
Rights and Wrongs for Victims
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18331-2003Apr22.html
Page A34
THE SENATE JUDICIARY Committee recently held a hearing on a
constitutional amendment designed to ensure rights in criminal
proceedings for victims of violent crime. This is a bad idea whose
time, unfortunately, may have come. The proposed amendment -- promoted
by Sens. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) -- has been
kicking around for years in various forms. All of these had grave
problems, and the current version is no exception. But it has strong
support from the Bush administration, and who is going to speak up
against victims? Unless senators are willing to stand on principle,
this could be the year a dangerous amendment gets sent to the states
for ratification.
Snob Journalism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18346-2003Apr22.html
By Robert J. Samuelson, Page A35
We in the news business have many problems: a declining appetite
for news among the young; a breakdown between "news" and
"entertainment" values; public mistrust over our power and
objectivity. But now we have a new problem or, rather, a new nuisance:
Lee Bollinger. As president of Columbia University, home of the
Pulitzer Prizes and the Columbia graduate school of journalism,
Bollinger imagines himself as journalism's great redeemer. He's going
to uplift us all by overhauling his graduate school curriculum and
providing an inspiring example for everyone. Spare us.
Preemption Is Not The Model
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18343-2003Apr22.html
By Mohamed ElBaradei, Page A35
The threat of weapons of mass destruction is back, in this new
century, as the most serious challenge to international peace and
security. Current reports cite 10 to 15 countries as either having or
seeking to acquire such weapons. Is Iraq unique, or is the war in Iraq
the new model for solving nonproliferation concerns? Is there still
hope for alternatives less unpredictable in outcome and less costly in
terms of human life?
Bush's Confusion, Baghdad's Mess
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18344-2003Apr22.html
By David Ignatius, Page A35
BAGHDAD -- Who's in charge here? That's what exhausted Iraqis
increasingly are wondering. But unfortunately, an unresolved political
quarrel back in Washington about who should lead postwar
reconstruction seems to be hampering U.S. strategy for the recovery of
this battered nation.
The End Is Not Near
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18342-2003Apr22.html
By David S. Broder, Page A35
America's viceroy in Baghdad, retired Army Lt. Gen. Jay M. Garner,
told my Washington Post colleagues Peter Slevin and Monte Reel last
week that he does not anticipate great difficulty in managing Iraq's
transition to democratic self-government.
After the Card Game
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18341-2003Apr22.html
By Anne Applebaum, Page A35
To date, American troops have picked up the five of spades (Saddam
Hussein's half-brother) as well as the queen of spades (a former Iraqi
prime minister). The ace of spades, Hussein himself, is still at
large, however. So too are the ace of clubs (his son Qusay) and the
ace of hearts (his son Uday). When U.S. military authorities issued a
pack of cards featuring the faces of the 55 "most wanted Iraqis," they
literally turned the hunt for Iraq's leaders into a game. That's all
very well -- so long as everyone recognizes that the real work will
begin only when the hunt-and-capture game ends. If it is to succeed at
all, the "de-Baathization" of Iraq has to include not merely the
arrest of a handful of bad guys but also the revolutionary
transformation of the Iraqi political class, and probably the Iraqi
economy too. To see what I mean, look around the world at the
successes and failures of South Africa, Chile, Nazi Germany, Serbia
and the Soviet Union, among others. From their experiences, we can
draw up a very few, very broad rules of thumb.
Truth, Lies and Videotape
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18222-2003Apr22.html
Page A34
In his April 19 op-ed column, Colman McCarthy wrote: "George W. Bush
lectured the world that you're either with us or against us. America's
[TV] networks got the message: They're with. They could have said that
they're neither with nor against, because no side has all the truth or
all the lies and no side all the good or evil. But a declaration such
as that would have required boldness and independence of mind."
Reviving the United Nations
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18220-2003Apr22.html
Page A34
Anne-Marie Slaughter made a persuasive case for reforming the United
Nations [op-ed, April 13]. But melding the organization's human rights
and security functions might not achieve the result she desires.
France Proposes U.N. End Sanctions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17946-2003Apr22.html
Iraq Disarmament Must Be Certified, Country Insists
By Colum Lynch, Page A01
UNITED NATIONS, April 22 -- France today proposed the immediate
suspension of all civilian U.N. trade sanctions against Iraq but
insisted that the 13-year-old embargo could not be formally lifted
until U.N. inspectors certified Iraq's disarmament.
Sinking Revenue Alarms Charities
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17845-2003Apr22.html
Fearing No Relief, Local Nonprofits Close Some Doors
By Jacqueline L. Salmon, Page A01
For local charities, these are some very tough times. Plunging
donations and grants, reduced government funding, a troubled
Washington area United Way and increased demand for services have some
area nonprofit groups on the ropes and others wondering if they'll be
next.
U.S. Planners Surprised by Strength of Iraqi Shiites
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17886-2003Apr22.html
By Glenn Kessler and Dana Priest, Page A01
As Iraqi Shiite demands for a dominant role in Iraq's future mount,
Bush administration officials say they underestimated the Shiites'
organizational strength and are unprepared to prevent the rise of an
anti-American, Islamic fundamentalist government in the country.
A Tradition of Faith Is Reclaimed on Blistered Feet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17794-2003Apr22.html
By Anthony Shadid, Page A01
In a spectacle unrivaled in decades, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi
Shiite Muslims have flocked to Karbala, the resting place of a
grandson of the prophet Muhammad whose death in battle weaves their
faith's central narrative.
As the Lights Come Back On, Gunfire Has a Different Ring
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17442-2003Apr22.html
By Carol Morello, Page A01
BAGHDAD, April 22 -- In a milestone of sorts, Baghdadis have begun
shooting their automatic rifles in celebration rather than anger as
electricity is gradually restored to one neighborhood after another in
a darkened city noisy with generators.
CDC Issues Warning on SARS for Toronto
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17882-2003Apr22.html
By Ceci Connolly, Page A01
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday it
will begin issuing health warnings to everyone who enters the United
States from Toronto, the epicenter of an outbreak in Canada of the
deadly respiratory disease known as SARS, which has killed 14 people,
infected 324 others and forced about 7,000 into quarantine.
Bush Legislative Approach Failed in Faith Bill Battle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18081-2003Apr22.html
White House Is Faulted for Not Building a Consensus in Congress
By Dana Milbank, Page A01
On April 9, the day Baghdad fell to American troops, one of
President Bush's signature domestic initiatives collapsed in similar
fashion in the U.S. Senate.
Judge Rules Boy, 4, Can't Take Peyote
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18395-2003Apr22.html
Page A02
WHITE CLOUD, Mich., April 22 -- A family court judge ruled today
that a 4-year-old boy cannot take peyote at American Indian spiritual
ceremonies.
Hookah Bars Enjoy a Blaze of Popularity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17139-2003Apr22.html
Despite Health Risks, Middle Eastern Pastime Attracts American Fans,
Especially College Students
By Kimberly Edds, Page A03
LOS ANGELES -- Scott Nelson leans back in his chair as he blows
smoke rings in the air. The smell of apple and peach tobacco inside
the Gypsy Cafe, located just steps away from the University of
California at Los Angeles campus, is so thick you can almost taste it
as it escapes from the tall water pipes on top of nearly every table.
U.S. Sugar Industry Targets New Study
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17583-2003Apr22.html
Lawmakers' Aid Sought In Halting WHO Report
By Juliet Eilperin, Page A04
The sugar industry has launched a vigorous campaign to discredit a
World Health Organization report on healthful diets, questioning why
the Geneva-based group would urge people to derive no more than 10
percent of their daily caloric intake from sugar additives.
N.H. House Passes Abortion Bill
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17584-2003Apr22.html
Restriction That Breaks With Tradition Heads for Senate
By Pamela Ferdinand, Page A05
BOSTON -- New Hampshire, with its historic mix of fiscal
conservatism and social liberalism, has long resisted any attempt to
regulate abortion.
Environmental Groups Target Bush Record
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17767-2003Apr22.html
Advocates Feel President Vulnerable Despite Major Administration Moves
By Guy Gugliotta and Mike Allen, Page A06
Advocates for everything from clean air to wildlife protection said
yesterday the environment remains a major political vulnerability for
the Bush administration and a ready tool for Democrats to exploit in
next year's presidential election.
Sharpton Announces His Candidacy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17140-2003Apr22.html
Page A08
Al Sharpton, under fire for failing to file a quarterly campaign
finance report, acknowledged yesterday that he is a candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomination, and said he will file a detailed
fundraising report with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.
Scholar Criticizes Bush's Characterization of Islam
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18277-2003Apr22.html
Page A08
A scholar nominated to a federal think tank on peace over the
objections of Muslim groups said yesterday that President Bush should
not have characterized Islam as a peaceful religion after the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks.
U.S. Admonished in Terror Case
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18473-2003Apr22.html
Government Must Give Moussaoui Relevant Material, Judge Says
By Jerry Markon, Page A09
A federal judge in Alexandria reminded the government of its
obligation to provide Zacarias Moussaoui with any statements made by
al Qaeda detainees that might help the alleged Sept. 11 conspirator's
defense, according to a court order unsealed yesterday.
Building Limits Set Around Bush Ranch
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17141-2003Apr22.html
FAA Cites Safety of President
By Brian Faler, Page A09
Talk about stringent building codes.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced yesterday that anyone
building or altering any "object" more than 50 feet tall and within
three nautical miles -- about 3.5 miles -- of President Bush's ranch
in Texas must file notice with the agency.
Muslim Charity Fights Closure
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17142-2003Apr22.html
Appellate Panel Is Told That Holy Land Foundation Didn't Fund Hamas
By Neely Tucker, Page A10
The nation's largest Muslim charity, shut down after the Bush
administration designated it a sponsor of terrorism, yesterday asked a
federal appeals panel here to overturn a lower court decision
upholding that action.
Indonesia Arrests 17 Militants
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19585-2003Apr23.html
Detainees Reportedly Belong to Group Tied to Al Qaeda
By Ellen Nakashima, Page A11
JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 23 (Wednesday) -- The national police
have arrested at least 17 members of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic
militant group Jemaah Islamiah, including the leader of a cell that
operates in the southern Philippines and northern Indonesia, police
sources said today.
No Terror Charges In Suspect's Plea
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17774-2003Apr22.html
U.S. Had Alleged Ties to Al Qaeda
By Robert E. Pierre, Page A11
A Chechen native who had been jailed for more than nine months as a
terrorism suspect has pleaded guilty in Detroit to possessing $12
million worth of counterfeit cashier's checks.
Smelling The Coffee At Issue In Brooklyn
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18392-2003Apr22.html
Page A16
NEW YORK, April 22 -- In what could be the end of an aromatic era,
one of the United States' oldest coffee merchants might have to pull
the plug on its state-of-the-art roaster after the city fined it for
polluting the air with coffee odors.
Arabs Feel Sting Of Yet Another Bitter Setback
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17202-2003Apr22.html
Fall of Baghdad Seen as Part Of a Long Chronicle of Defeat
By Alan Sipress, Page A17
AMMAN, Jordan, April 22 -- First, Amer Ahmed recalled, came the
television pictures of Iraqi fighters resisting U.S. soldiers in the
sleepy port of Umm Qasr, unlikely Arab heroes pinning down the
invaders as soon as their boots stepped onto Iraqi sand.
Baghdad Figure Won't Vacate Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16995-2003Apr22.html
Citing U.S. Military Contacts, Self-Proclaimed Governor Pledges
Cooperation
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Page A17
BAGHDAD, April 22 -- A former Iraqi exile who claims to be
Baghdad's governor insisted today that he would continue acting in
that role despite some U.S. officials' refusal to recognize his
authority. But he also said he was "fully ready to cooperate" with the
U.S. diplomat who has been appointed administrator of the Iraqi
capital.
Iraqi Oil Said to Enrich British Lawmaker
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17210-2003Apr22.html
Baghdad Documents Allegedly Show War Critic Profited From Secret
Contracts
By Glenn Frankel, Page A18
LONDON, April 22 -- A British newspaper reported today that it had
uncovered Iraqi intelligence files showing that the government of
deposed president Saddam Hussein gave a British lawmaker who is an
outspoken member of the antiwar movement secret oil contracts that
brought him at least $600,000 a year.
Iraqi Town Becomes Test for Reconstruction, Aid
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17211-2003Apr22.html
In First Area to Be Declared Safe for Humanitarian Efforts, Progress
and Obstacles Are Evident
By Peter Slevin, Page A19
UMM QASR, Iraq, April 22 -- A new town council is at work in this
forlorn port city on Iraq's southern edge. Delegates assemble in a
requisitioned hotel to proclaim their faith in a democratic future and
adopt such portfolios as education, trade and industry, public works
and security. They wear laminated name badges worthy of any Western
bureaucracy.
In Afghanistan, Iraq, They 'Gave All'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18464-2003Apr22.html
At Arlington Cemetery, Airman, Soldier Praised for Their Sacrifice
By Patricia Davis, Page A25
There are yellow ribbons tied around every pole in downtown
Pageland, S.C., and American flags fly at half-staff. But the anguish
the tiny community feels may be spelled out best in the banner that
stretches across Main Street: "Thanks for everything. In memory of
Jason Hicks."
Canada Seeks Help From CDC in Fighting Virus
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17730-2003Apr22.html
Health Workers Infected by SARS
By DeNeen L. Brown, Page A26
TORONTO, April 22 -- Canadian health officials said today they
sought help in fighting the SARS epidemic from their counterparts in
the United States after several health care workers contracted the
disease despite taking precautions.
Virus Is Mutating Rapidly, Genetic Sequencing in China Indicates
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17363-2003Apr22.html
By John Pomfret, Page A26
BEIJING, April 22 -- Chinese scientists have deciphered the genetic
code of a number of samples of the SARS virus and say their research
could provide important clues as to whether the microbe will weaken or
increase in severity over time.
Fox Predicts No Prolonged Fallout From War Stance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17373-2003Apr22.html
Mexican President Says Relations With U.S. Will Advance Despite
Opposition to Attack on Iraq
By Kevin Sullivan, Page A28
MEXICO CITY, April 22 -- President Vicente Fox today said he
expected no long-term fallout in U.S.-Mexican relations from his
government's opposition to President Bush's decision to wage war
against Iraq.
Russian Merger Creates a New Oil Giant
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17375-2003Apr22.html
YukosSibneft Will Be 4th-Largest Private Producer but Rank No. 1 in
Proven Reserves
By Sharon LaFraniere, Page A30
MOSCOW, April 22 -- Russia's biggest oil company, Yukos, today
announced a deal to buy another major Russian oil firm, Sibneft, a
move they said would create the fourth-largest private oil producer in
the world.
Nigerian President Reelected
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18364-2003Apr22.html
Election Marred by Violence and Accusations of Fraud
By Glenn McKenzie, Page A31
LAGOS, Nigeria, April 22 -- President Olusegun Obasanjo won an
overwhelming victory in Nigeria's presidential election, officials
announced tonight, but opposition groups protested that the ballot was
rigged and threatened mass demonstrations.
Chernobyl Structure Criticized
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18327-2003Apr22.html
Russian Warns Roof Could Collapse
Page A31
MOSCOW, April 22 -- The concrete and steel sarcophagus containing
the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine is in danger of
collapsing, Russia's atomic energy minister said today.
Shiite Muslims in Saudi Arabia Emboldened by Hussein's Fall
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18412-2003Apr22.html
By Nora Boustany, Page A32
In an unprecedented move that suggested new assertiveness by Saudi
Arabia's Shiite Muslim minority, a coalition of prominent Shiite
clerics from the kingdom's Eastern Province issued a joint public
statement Friday welcoming the demise of an Iraqi government that
caused Shiites there to suffer for three decades "in the shadow of a
bloody dictatorship, with a mixture of patience, pain and struggle."
Rumsfeld Urges Overhaul of Pentagon Civil Service
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17789-2003Apr22.html
Pay for Performance, Shift of 320,000 Jobs, Other Major Powers Sought
in Legislation
By Christopher Lee, Page A33
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld wants to implement sweeping
changes in the way civilian employees are hired, paid and promoted in
the Defense Department.
Sales Soaring on Talking War Heads
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17150-2003Apr22.html
By Al Kamen, Page A33
Loop Fans have been inquiring as to the welfare of Iraqi
Information Minister Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf , hoping that sketchy
reports of his death will prove untrue and that he can regain his job
once interim Information Minister Robert Reilly , former Voice of
America director, leaves.
1.7 Tons of Cocaine Seized Off Colombia
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17753-2003Apr22.html
Page A36
BOGOTA, Colombia, April 22 -- The U.S. Coast Guard seized 1.7 tons
of cocaine packed into a speedboat traveling off Colombia's Pacific
coast and arrested 13 people, the Colombian navy said today.
Mont. Balks at Ban on Open Liquor in Cars
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17776-2003Apr22.html
Legislature Prepares to End Session Without Heeding Call for Tougher
Driving Rule
Page A12
HELENA, Mont., April 22 -- Montana lawmakers are about to go home
for the year without banning open liquor containers in cars and
trucks, a decision one activist against drunken driving blames on the
state's cowboy culture.
School Bus Fees Anger Kids' Parents
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17777-2003Apr22.html
Strapped Districts Say Jobs at Stake
By Ken Maguire, Page A13
BOSTON, April 22 -- Lawmakers and school officials have a stark
message for parents who think their taxes already pay for school bus
transportation: No more free rides.
A Tradition of Faith Is Reclaimed on Blistered Feet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17794-2003Apr22.html
By Anthony Shadid, Page A01
In a spectacle unrivaled in decades, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi
Shiite Muslims have flocked to Karbala, the resting place of a
grandson of the prophet Muhammad whose death in battle weaves their
faith's central narrative.
Indonesia Arrests 17 Militants
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19585-2003Apr23.html
Detainees Reportedly Belong to Group Tied to Al Qaeda
By Ellen Nakashima, Page A11
JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 23 (Wednesday) -- The national police
have arrested at least 17 members of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic
militant group Jemaah Islamiah, including the leader of a cell that
operates in the southern Philippines and northern Indonesia, police
sources said today.
Arabs Feel Sting Of Yet Another Bitter Setback
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17202-2003Apr22.html
Fall of Baghdad Seen as Part Of a Long Chronicle of Defeat
By Alan Sipress, Page A17
AMMAN, Jordan, April 22 -- First, Amer Ahmed recalled, came the
television pictures of Iraqi fighters resisting U.S. soldiers in the
sleepy port of Umm Qasr, unlikely Arab heroes pinning down the
invaders as soon as their boots stepped onto Iraqi sand.
Baghdad Figure Won't Vacate Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16995-2003Apr22.html
Citing U.S. Military Contacts, Self-Proclaimed Governor Pledges
Cooperation
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Page A17
BAGHDAD, April 22 -- A former Iraqi exile who claims to be
Baghdad's governor insisted today that he would continue acting in
that role despite some U.S. officials' refusal to recognize his
authority. But he also said he was "fully ready to cooperate" with the
U.S. diplomat who has been appointed administrator of the Iraqi
capital.
Iraqi Town Becomes Test for Reconstruction, Aid
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17211-2003Apr22.html
In First Area to Be Declared Safe for Humanitarian Efforts, Progress
and Obstacles Are Evident
By Peter Slevin, Page A19
UMM QASR, Iraq, April 22 -- A new town council is at work in this
forlorn port city on Iraq's southern edge. Delegates assemble in a
requisitioned hotel to proclaim their faith in a democratic future and
adopt such portfolios as education, trade and industry, public works
and security. They wear laminated name badges worthy of any Western
bureaucracy.
Guts Get Some Overdue Glory
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18530-2003Apr22.html
Chitlin Merchant's Gift Feeds Museum's Plans
By Jacqueline Trescott, Page C01
Some considered swine innards trash. Others took the intestines of
the pig and boiled them into a staple, and, eventually, into a
notorious delicacy.
Madonna: Rebel Without Claws
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18531-2003Apr22.html
By David Segal, Page C01
It sure seems as if Madonna's zeitgeist radar went fabulously
haywire when she chose the look for her new album, "American Life."
There she is on the cover, decked out in jungle-combat fatigues,
scowling in a rebel's beret with a look that says You capitalist pigs
are doomed! There's a little bit of Che Guevara in that glare, and
hints of Patty Hearst in the inside sleeve art, where our glowering
urban guerrilla poses with a machine gun perched on her hip, like
she's about to knock over a bank.
Sept. 11, Seen Through the Looking-Glass
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18529-2003Apr22.html
By Peter Bergen,, Page C01
DREAMING WAR
Blood for Oil
And the Cheney-Bush Junta
The Disappearing Treasure of Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18527-2003Apr22.html
Experts Keep Watch for Looted Artifacts
By Roger Atwood, Page C01
Nearly two weeks after looters rampaged through Iraq's National
Museum of Antiquities, stealing thousands of artifacts dating from the
dawn of civilization, art dealers and law enforcement people around
the world are asking the same question.
Arafat, Abbas Agree on New Palestinian Cabinet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21981-2003Apr23.html
Yasser Arafat and his nominated prime minister agreed today on a new
cabinet after weeks of intense international pressure to initiate the
reforms that President Bush demanded before he would release a
proposed Middle East peace plan.
Venezuela, Colombia tackle trade, border troubles
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24043-2003Apr23.html
Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Alvaro Uribe of Colombia,
ideological opposites and uneasy neighbors, met Wednesday to try to
settle a war of words over border security and salvage faltering trade
ties.
Refining OPEC's Quotas
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17690-2003Apr22.html
Facing Oversupply, Cartel to Weigh Production Cuts
Muslim Cleric's Trial Opens in Indonesia
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24280-2003Apr23.html
Trial Is Test for President Megawati Who is Trying to Clamp Down on
Militants
Santorum's Stumble
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21423-2003Apr23.html
At least Trent Lott had the good sense to apologize.
U.S., N. Korea Convene Talks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20851-2003Apr23.html
Envoys meet face-to-face in Beijing to try to resolve nuclear
standoff.
Gephardt Issues Bold Plan on Health Care
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22621-2003Apr23.html
Presidential Candidate Seeks Early Initiative in '04 Campaign
Greenspan: Will Accept Another Fed Term
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24570-2003Apr23.html
Alan Greenspan, expressing appreciation for President Bush's
confidence, said Wednesday he would accept a fifth term as chairman of
the Federal Reserve.