Wow!  Who would have thought that the New York Times, of all newspapers, would write something like this!  Some of the highlights include:

"The security improvements in most neighborhoods are real. …more Iraqis now drive between Sunni and Shiite areas for work, shopping or school, a few even after dark. In the most stable neighborhoods of Baghdad, some secular women are also dressing as they wish. Wedding bands are playing in public again, and at a handful of once shuttered liquor stores customers now line up outside in a collective rebuke to religious vigilantes from the Shiite Mahdi Army."

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