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majority leader Harry Reid has claimed up to a dozen Republicans who could join Democrats in votes opposing the surge of troops into Iraq.It's possible that you could see 12 Republicans split with the president, says Jennifer Duffy, who covers the Senate for the Cook Political Report. They're in the minority now, Bush is a lame duck, and Republicans think that Iraq played a big part in losing their majorities. It's become every man for himself.GOP leadership aides say that the size of the defection will depend on the precise wording of the resolution, which has yet to be finalized. Should Democrats go too far in their criticism of the commander in chief at a time of war, it could pu
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 ly humorous, intensely observant, and humanely unsentimental.One would imagine that it would be hard for Stewart to find an equally bracing topic for his second book. Not at all. In fact, by comparison to the task Stewart takes on in The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq, walking across Afghanistan in winter seems a rather minor accomplishment.In 2003, after coalition forces invaded Iraq, Stewart was asked by Britain's Foreign Office to be the chief administrator of Maysan, a province in the marshlands of Iraq. It was a daunting assignment, particularly for a 30yearold who spoke no Arabic, even one who had served both in the British military and
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 a strong expansion is under way and threatening to step up the inflation rate, the Fed may not tighten money and raise interest rates substantially for fear of choking off the recovery just before an election. Also, higher interest rates are politically unpopular.Mr. Hoskins was, until he joined the Pittsburgh bank four years ago, an economist with the Fed for 10 years. As chief economist with the Fed branch in Philadelphia, he often sat through meetings of the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). He never heard any of the seven governors or 12 regional bank presidents attending those meetings every five weeks speak of the desirability of taking monetary action for pol
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 , he adds, All the government bodies  the CIA and the State Department, for example  are desperate for Middle East expertise and Arabic speakers. So students see they can get a good job  if they can just learn this language.That remains a big if. Learning Arabic means learning to read and write a whole new alphabet that includes sounds notoriously difficult for English speakers. It also means learning to distinguish between fusha  modern standard Arabic used in the media across the Arab world  and amiya  the spoken dialect of daily life, which varies widely from country to country.You could learn three European languages in the time it takes to learn Arabic, says Landis.But while ta
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