SOUNDS OF SILENCEWhile waiting for the seven-year-old to come downstairs. . . Ethnic cleansing in Baghdad (is there another word for it?)http://www.needlenose.com/node/view/3676[NYT] As the United States debates what to do in Iraq, this country’s Shiite majority has been moving toward its own solution: making the capital its own.Large portions of Baghdad have become Shiite in recent months, as