Taliban Resume Attacks in Swat Valley
Taliban militants driven from the Swat Valley by Pakistan's army in recent months are again infiltrating the region's towns and villages, kidnapping and beheading perceived enemies and ambushing soldiers, as hundreds of thousands of refugees return home. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
Another grammatical peeve. This headline would be perfectly correct in the U.K. where they see an organization or sports team as a collection of individuals and therefore use the name of an organization as a plural noun. In the U.S., however, we use the same term as a singular noun with a corresponding number in the associated verb--in this case "resumes." I was not aware that the WSJ had adopted British English as their standard. They don't appear to have in other cases.