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Kasim al-Falahi, a former Iraqi ambassador to Lebanon who headed the mukhabarat in southern Iraq from 1996 to '98, was a typical victim. Last month, on a morning when the power was out, he was sitting with his cousin Shahab Ahmed Hamid, catching a cool breeze on the front porch of the office of their Baghdad transportation company. Three men appeared in an old government truck. According to Hamid, the men initially said they wanted to discuss a business deal in Basra. But they soon pulled out pistols, hustled al-Falahi into a waiting black BMW and drove...
...will be sold exclusively at Kohl's department stores. Most industry observers expect William to take over the corporate helm, but Aerin, with her impeccable style, social presence and marketing know-how, is already the family's most public persona, as her grandmother once was. "Aerin's a terrific ambassador who focuses on brand image," says Wendy Nicholson, a financial analyst for Smith Barney...
...recent column (“Glass Ceilings and Hypocrisy,” Nov. 21): “relentless gender politicking” has overshadowed Carol Moseley Braun’s presidential campaign. However, it is the media, Larson included, that has engaged in this unceasing emphasis on gender. Ambassador Braun has brought her innovative and exciting message for a better America through single-payer health care, sweeping civil rights advances, logical tax policy, and a global, cooperative foreign policy across the country. The media, however, has largely disregarded her candidacy and the issues she rightly raises, and instead focuses...
Carol Moseley Braun is not running for president because she is a woman. It is true, however, that Ambassador Braun has consistently spoken of her gender as it relates to the importance of broadening the range of participants and perspectives involved in American government. As Braun said during her Hardball interview, “If you can tap the talents of 100 percent of the people, you have a better chance of a better outcome than if you can just tap the talent of half of the people...
...Still, the hope in Washington is that U.S. troops in Iraq after July 1 next year will be there at the invitation of a sovereign Iraqi government, which is to be installed on that date. The administration sees the hand-over of political power from Ambassador Paul Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority to an Iraqi provisional government as the essential step in getting Iraqis to assume a greater share of the security burden and defeating the insurgency...