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Matt Damon and George Clooney come back together for political thriller Matt Damon and George Clooney, who are currently working together on Steven Soder-bergh's Ocean's Eleven sequel - Ocean's Twelve, will reteam for the Stephen Gaghan-helmed political thriller Syriana. In addition, Amanda Peet is in final negotiations to join the project. Set up at Warner Bros., Clooney and Soderbergh's studio-based Section Eight will produce the project with shooting slated to begin during the summer. Gaghan adapted the script, which is loosely based on the Robert Baer non-fiction novel See No Evil: The True Story of a Foot Soldier in the...

(Excerpt from the Daily P.O.S) Imagine the following scenario. You are at home alone at 8:00 on a Friday night. You are 8 weeks pregnant. All of a sudden, you begin to experience heavy cramping and bleeding. You realize with shock and sadness that you are probably experiencing a miscarriage. You are overwhelmed with grief and surprised by the intensity of physical pain involved. When your partner comes home, you break the sad news to him. Over the next few hours, you suffer pain, cramping, and intermittent bleeding. Exhausted, you finally fall asleep in your partner's arms around 4 AM....

Chief of the (Australian) Defence Force Peter Cosgrove denies the coalition has made a strategic error in the number of troops it has used in initial attacks on Iraq. The Pentagon says plans are underway to send in at least another 100,000 United States soldiers. But Gen Cosgrove has told Sky television the reinforcement does not mean there has been a lack of planning. "I mean you look at the marvellous rapidity of the campaign to date and the relatively small loss of life on all three sides," he said. "And by that I mean coalition forces and Iraqi military...