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The really worrisome part isn’t the shooting war. It’s the long, hard strategic struggle for Iraq’s hearts and minds. The whole idea of a peaceful transfer of power depends on winning the public’s support and cooperation. To see how that job is going, just look at the breathtaking disintegration of Iraq’s reconstituted security forces. Before the uprising, America had spent roughly $1 billion to recruit, equip and train some 100,000 Iraqi police, soldiers and civil-defense personnel....

A lot of people inside and outside Haiti would firmly disagree. The younger Duvalier left the country amid allegations of abject corruption and human-rights violations committed during his 15-year rule. No self-respecting politician in Haiti today professes any allegiance to him, and the Bush administration doesn’t want him to come back any time soon. “We would view the return of Jean-Claude Duvalier as a negative development for Haiti and the region,” said a U....

For three decades Coles, 65 – a child psychiatrist, author and Harvard professor – has collected the stories of people like Kristin. He won a Pulitzer in 1978 for his study “Children of Crisis,” a collection of personal narratives. With DoubleTake, an elegant – and at $10 an issue, pricey – new quarterly produced out of Duke University, he has turned his keen eye and ear to the magazine world....

The former NXT Women’s Champion was with the company from 2016 until 2021 and held several accolades during her time with the company. While working in the company’s developmental brand during its black-and-gold era, she notched up a Mae Young Classic Tournament win alongside a reign with the brand’s women’s title. After her main roster debut, she reigned as WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion alongside Asuka. Sane then worked as a brand ambassador for WWE when her time as an in-ring talent with the company came to an end....

I remember the first time they took me to see George Lucas with that ugly f—ing hairdo, and he looked at me and he said, “Well, what do you think?” I said, “It’s great!” I hated it, but I was afraid he was going to fire me and hire Jodie Foster. So I got new hair for “Star Wars”–and I also took shooting lessons. I used to make this horrible face whenever I shot a gun....

With the presidential election just two weeks away Biden may not have much time to dedicate to the World Series, but the upcoming contest between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays holds an element of intrigue for the former Delaware Senator. The Dodgers make a third trip to the Fall Classic in four seasons as they seek to end a title drought that stretches all the way back to 1988, a year which also marked the last time a former veep was elected president....

In this article, we’ll list and explain some of the most useful keyboard shortcuts in Windows Photos, so you can get the most out of them. All the Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows Photos The following keyboard shortcuts will help you use Photos more efficiently: 1. Play or Pause the Video The shortcut to play or pause the video in the Photos app is the Spacebar. Pressing this key will either start or stop a currently playing video, depending on its current state....

Last week a prominent Manhattan law firm agreed to pay a galling $41 million to settle a federal suit arising from its defense of Charles Keating and his Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. The government’s claim? The firm, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler–and three partners, including former managing partner Peter Fishbein–deceived federal banking regulators by withholding damning information about its client. Kaye Scholer’s response? It was being treated like Malesherbes, the counselor guillotined for representing Louis XVI before the revolutionary assembly....

Whether Smith & Wesson can survive the pounding is an open question. Smith has been signaling that it may try to back out if no other gunmaker signs on to the pact. But Shultz remains convinced that he is leading the industry where it has to go. In a reflective, three-hour interview at a corporate office in Nashville, Shultz offered an impassioned defense of the decision that blew a hole in the gun world....

It would be an appropriate metaphor. Twenty years after he faced down the Communist Party in the Gdansk shipyard, and a decade after he helped to engineer Poland’s epic transition to democracy, Walesa’s bid for a political comeback is sinking into oblivion. His campaign appearances, held in near-empty meeting halls, are greeted with apathy and sometimes even ridicule. Other candidates ignore him. Recent newspaper polls show that Walesa will attract just 1 percent of the vote in the Oct....

With so many versions of Ganondorf throughout the years, it can be easy to lose track of all of his misdeeds across the multiple timelines of Legend of Zelda. A deep dive into the villain’s history shows just how many times he has nearly brought Hyrule to its knees, from his first chronological incarnation in Ocarina of Time to his rumored return in Breath of the Wild 2. RELATED: Breath of the Wild 2 Could Start a Brand New Legend of Zelda Timeline...

No one fought harder against that than Ryszard Kapuscinski, the Polish journalist turned literary superstar who died last January at age 74. And nowhere is this more explicit than in his last book, “Travels with Herodotus.” Like many of his works, this is a collage of sorts, part travel writing, part self-reflection. But as befits a work that feels almost like a last testament, it’s far more of the latter....

While this would be a shocking turn of events for Kojima Productions, it does not seem impossible. The game could benefit from Game Pass as well as funding from Microsoft, and Kojima could take full advantage of the power provided by the Xbox Series X. However, there is one big downside that could be seen if Kojima leaves the PlayStation brand behind. If there is one clear advantage that the PS5 has over the Xbox Series X, it is the DualSense controller — and seeing someone as clever as Kojima being unable to make use of it would be a shame....

But that is the point: reading what must have been his personally painful and humiliating public account of his crashed sexual relationship with his wife, I was affirmed in my larger reading of this extraordinary man. There is nothing, I concluded-nothing-that can diminish his elemental dignity… not even this. Nelson Mandela is about many things, but to my mind he is above all about dignity. And for this reason he repays reflection, especially now when we are bogged down in our familiar quadrennial mud wrestle about leadership, vision, character, depth of conviction and the rest as they pertain or don’t pertain to the contenders for the presidency....

The boxes on which I perform my magic are not cardboard. I’m talking about corrugated board-single and double wall. To confuse board of that sturdiness with the stuff of pastry boxes is a horrid blunder. As with most things, there is a culture behind box making. It is the corrugated industry that I know, and in my memory it includes the deep scent of steamed paper, a vending machine stocked with orange Dreamsicles and my father’s slide rule....

Meanwhile, David Trimble–leader of the Ulster Unionists, Northern Ireland’s largest political party, and first minister in the suspended government–braved the Irish-American precincts of Boston to make the unionist case. While there, he spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Stryker McGuire:

TONY PUPKEWITZ WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA