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He notes that because of the change in publishing schedule brought about by last week's Memorial Day weekend, this issue containsa roundup of the past three weeks' good news from Iraq rather than the usual two.

"You can't fix in six months what it took 35 years to destroy." These words, spoken by Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Iraq's first democratically elected Prime Minister in half a century, should be inscribed in three-foot tall characters as a preface to all the reporting from Iraq. Sadly, the underlying reality all too often seems to escape many reporters caught in the excitement of "now".