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Total US troop deaths in Iraq to date (09/01/07) since 03/20/03: 3739

From 05/02/03 through 06/28/04: 718

From 06/29/04 through 01/30/05: 579

From 01/31/05 through 12/14/05: 715

From 12/15/05 through 01/31/07: 933

From 02/01/07: 653

(Sources: US Dept. of Defense, Iraq Coalition Casualty Count)

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Thursday, June 03, 2004

RUTH IS STRANGER THAN DAVID: Two days ago, Michiko Kakutani laid into David Foster Wallace's new book, Oblivion (free registration required), and perhaps a bit unfairly; I haven't fully read Oblivion yet but have read at least three of the stories contained in the collection, as they appeared in magazines previously, and while I have my problems with Mr. Wallace, I find his work can't be dismissed so off-handedly, certainly not for the squeamish reasons given by Kakutani. Case in point: the same Monday edition of the New York Times in which the book review was printed also ran this article about a peculiarly-named Princeton senior who fed almost a decade's worth of New Yorker fiction into a database in order to detect statistical trends in that mag's editors' publication habits, and if that ain't an instance of a DFW-style OCD missing-the-spirit-for-the-forensic-details character breaking into real life, then I don't know what is.

posted by Red at 9:36 AM