Officially, there is no war and life is better. In reality, chaos ...
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It is the war Moscow pretends no longer exists. Hundreds of miles south of the shredded wrecks of two airliners, blown out of the sky by suicide bombers on Tuesday night, human life is at its cheapest in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
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It is safe to say that almost no one in this country seems happy with the way things are right now. But one proposed &quot;solution&quot; could be even worse than the current wave of riots, floods and homelessness.
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HOUSTON  War in Iraq. Instability in Venezuela. Civil unrest in Nigeria. Governmental wranglings in Russia. With so much uncertainty in so many of the world&#39;s leading oil-producing ...
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AT the moment, the future is murky. That, it seems, is a good thing.
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Beneath the ominous calm that has settled since the recent uprising is anger, uncertainty and hopelessness.
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War lives on long after the last clods of dirt turn over a soldier&#039;s grave. It hangs from the faces of husbands and wives &amp;#151; mostly wives &amp;#151; whose lives crumble after foreign horrors take their spouses.
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Things aren't as bad as you think heading into the new year.
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A young artist proudly displays her latest painting, an abstract of scattered body parts. It's a reflection of reality in Baghdad, she says. Residents tell CNN's Arwa Damon the surge has reduced daily violence, but it's done little to shake the horror they've witnessed. "Here, there are no guarantees," a girl says.
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Feeling much better today. Health is beginning to return. I owe it all to patience, lots of sleeping, drinking fluids, and not trying to be healthy before I actually am. Today I'm going to take a 20 minute easy walk in the sun.  Watching General Petreus testify today. The Dems are very polite. Sorry I still think we should get the hell out of Iraq. I don't think any more Americans should die there.  Elizabeth Dole is speaking now.
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Nobody's perfect. It might be best to pick your battles.
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We are at war with Iraq. We have always been at war with Iraq.  This is the first time I've read 1984 all the way to the end, and I finally understand it, and why it's so important. Winston lost entirely, and it was the most complete loss that is possible. This was important, because it sticks in the mind.  Ironically, Orwell understood how to manipulate people's emotions, but he used this knowledge for the good of us all.
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Rarely in history has a political movement been so deliberately set by its founder on a course towards chaos. Arafat not only left no successor, but also no order.
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In a world in which we arrive without choice, it is perhaps only fitting that all of us inevitably experience a weird melange of joy, sadness, boredom, health, sickness, love, loneliness, despondency
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No chemical weapons. No biological weapons. No nuclear weapons. No facilities for producing them. No imminent threat to the United States or any other country.
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You never know when disaster will strike.
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Forces of war, nature, economic crisis and regional tension converge with a vengeance on populace.
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: To arm Sunni gangs smacks of desperation. America seems not yet to have learned that it will never win by arms alone.