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...Victoria Beckham arrives at the Los Angeles airport...
...Spy” is telling. This is not a Spy Novel in the vein of Graham Greene and John Le Carré; it’s just a pedestrian novel that’s even less interesting than the hundreds of cookie cutter thrillers that crowd airport bookstores...
Like residents of Berlin during the airlift, inhabitants of Arbil--capital of the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq--get a little flutter in their hearts when they see a plane coming in to land. Built after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Arbil's international airport is a symbol to Kurds that their years of isolation as an oppressed ethnic minority are over and that the Kurdish region, unlike the rest of Iraq, is open for business. Passengers flying into Baghdad have to endure a corkscrew landing to avoid possible surface-to-air missiles. But a trip to Arbil...
Such is life in Iraqi Kurdistan, the last beacon of stability amid the wreckage of the U.S. enterprise in Iraq. Of course, stability is a relative term. True, the airport is putting in a runway long enough to accommodate jumbo jets, but for now it will be used mainly for U.S. military flights. That's because only one Western carrier--Austrian Airlines--is brave enough to land there. Other flights are run by off-brand charters with names like Flying Carpet and Middle Eastern carriers like Iraqi Airways. And even those are unreliable. Many of the officials at Iraqi Airways...
...match-ups, however, will be Mother Nature. The Crimson’s track record with her hasn’t been too impressive—the trip down to Ft. Myers for the Florida Gulf Coast Invitational in March was cancelled on account of snowy conditions at Logan Airport, and the season home opener against Holy Cross was postponed due to “unplayable conditions...