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New ESPN doc shines a light on Muhammad Ali trip to Iraq [video]
Once relegated to a dusty corner of film festivals, shorts have started to take on a more central role in the age of digital video. Can they get a boost from compelling sports stories? ESPN, which has drawn plaudits for its “30 for 30”...Tags: Human Interest, Academy Awards, Arnold Palmer, Muhammad Ali, Media Industry
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Lawsuit challenges ban on women serving in combat positions
L.A. NOWThe American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense, challenging its policy that since 1994 has categorically excluded women from most direct combat positions. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in... -
Bombings rip through Iraq, reportedly killing at least 25
More than two dozen people were reportedly killed Monday in a string of bombings across Iraq that appeared to include sectarian and anti-government attacks. The deadliest of the bombings occurred in the village of Mouafaqiyah, northwest of Baghdad,...
Tags: Elections, International Military Interventions, Government, Al-Qaeda, Exxon Mobil Corporation
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Statehood for Kurds?
The Baghdad newspaper Sabah published a surprising article a few weeks ago. Its editor, Abd Jabbar Shabbout, suggested it was time to settle the "age-old problem" between Iraq's Arabs and Kurds by establishing a "Kurdish state." Never before had I heard...
Tags: Government, Iran, Nouri Maliki, World War I (1914-1918), Bashar Assad
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Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78
Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf...Tags: United Nations, Pakistan, Prostate Cancer, White House, The Pentagon
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Manning held improperly in brig, Marine official testifies
An Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks was wrongly kept on suicide watch for at least seven days of his nine months' confinement at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., the Marines'...
Tags: United Nations, Medical Specialization, Punishment, Witnesses, Psychiatrists
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Psychiatrists recommended easing of Manning custody, official testifies
The former commander of the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Va., told a military court on Tuesday that accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning was held in highly restrictive "prevention-of-injury" custody even though psychiatrists recommended the conditions...
Tags: United Nations, Medical Specialization, Witnesses, Psychiatrists, Military Justice
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Accused WikiLeaker Manning says he was punished before trial
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is due back at Fort Meade this week, where lawyers for the alleged WikiLeaker plan to argue that he was punished at a military brig before his case had been heard — grounds, they say, to dismiss all charges against him. By...
Tags: United Nations, Barack Obama, The Pentagon, Litigation, Espionage Act of 1917
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Foreign film series wraps up this weekend
This year’s Global Lens film series will wrap up this weekend with films from Iraq and Turkey. “Quarantina,” the Iraqi film, runs Friday and Sunday at the Capitol Theater, 415 S. Main St. “Toll Booth,” the Turkish film,...
Tags: Entertainment, Film Festivals, Arts and Culture, Movies, Drama (genre)
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Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Armed Conflicts, Jihad, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Explosions
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Iraqi man, once marked for death, reunited with family at LVIA
Have you ever tried to put yourself in someone else's head, imagining what he's thinking, what he's feeling? That's what I found myself doing late Tuesday night as Iraqi refugee Abbas Hameed Khalaf paced the sidewalk outside Lehigh Valley International...
Tags: Human Interest, Allentown, Refugee, Israel, Charlie Dent
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Recommendation Letter
Here is a portion of the Aug. 10 letter, slightly abridged and edited, written to U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent by Will Miller, then Catholic Charities refugee resettlement director, to urge Dent's support for helping getting Abbas Hameed Khalaf's family out...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Refugee, Christianity, Israel, U.S. Embassy
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