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...most Iraqis had, as the hawks predicted, embraced U.S. soldiers as liberators; if the number of U.S. troops required there had been low and the duration of their stay short; and if the Iraq war had been a relatively low-cost affair it's likely that nobody would even be asking questions about the evidence against Saddam. Unfortunately, the hawks' postwar scenarios have proved hopelessly na?ve. Which could mean the revisiting of prewar intelligence has only just begun...
...been lucky," she says in her last film, Love Affair. "I always knew what I wanted." She got it, on her own terms. And, being Kate, she gave us so much more...
...closest he'll get to his beloved Italian food could be at Hanover's festival of gourmet Italian chefs. Berlusconi's laconic reaction to Schröder's decision to stay at home: "Too bad for him." Well, too bad for everybody. What has been demonstrated in this ridiculous affair is that opportunistic politicians can still make political hay out of ugly national stereotypes. Berlusconi finally, reluctantly, forced an unrepentant Stefani to walk the plank Friday night, but the damage had been done. Schröder may not feel the Adriatic breezes wafting through his naturally brown hair this summer...
POLLY STEVENSON: A SECOND DAUGHTER When Franklin returns to Britain in 1757 as a political agent of the American colonies, he moves into a four-story town house near London's busy Strand. Its owner: a solicitous widow named Margaret Stevenson, with whom he may have had an affair during his 15 years under her roof. But Franklin's real interest is her brainy daughter Mary, who went by the nickname Polly. Only 18 years old when she first enters his life, she shows such an eagerness to learn that it stirs all his strong mentoring instincts...
...morale problems at the New York Times that began with the Jayson Blair affair [PRESS, June 16] are familiar to those who work at daily newspapers in an era of takeovers by large corporations. New management teams move in, and newsroom decisions are driven largely by a system that rewards those who embrace the corporate leadership. In too many cases, the changes result in a loss of newsroom morale and the departure of many journalists. That is a bad thing in itself, but a greater loss is the decreased coverage of events in the newspaper's community and the damage...