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...sniping was almost as fierce in the corridors of the United Nations as in the streets of Mogadishu. Without bothering to notify Rome, Kofi Annan, the U.N.'s chief of peacekeeping operations, ordered General Bruno Loi, Italy's military commander in Somalia, to be "rotated back home" for insubordination. Annan denounced Loi for meeting with armed clansmen of Mohammed Farrah Aidid and refusing to carry out orders in the increasingly violent campaign to capture or kill the warlord. "Only the Italian government has the competence to decide who should lead our soldiers," responded Foreign Minister Beniamino Andreatta. The Italians, retorted...
...actually only very excited, overstimulated men on very short sleep, together with all the toys of supersecrecy and the helicopters and the special passes, that inevitably produce irrational behavior. But those people, when they began, were ordinary guys; they were like us. Noel Annan, who was in British intelligence for years, said nobody should be allowed to do it more than three years, that one way of keeping an intelligence service sane is to have it run entirely by temporary people...
...repeatedly indicates, artists have contributed little to the design of the automobile itself. Architects, though, have occasionally gone to the drawing board to produce their visions of a well-designed vehicle; in 1928 Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret proposed a clever small car that was never produced. In the Annan's Parking '30s Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius designed various solid-looking bodies for Adler luxury convertibles. American artists instead used standard models as a kind of canvas or armature. Examples: the aggressive Pegasus by James Croak, featuring a stuffed horse with paper wings crashing through the metal roof...
...production, and, in fact, later that fall several Faculty members participated in a debate with ART personnel at a Monday night forum at the Loeb over how Shakespeare ought to be produced. The preoccupation of that debate--fidelity to the text--was echoed this spring by Noel Lord Annan of the University of London, invited here by the English Department. Faculty here, directly, and Annan, indirectly, were criticizing Brustein and his theater for abandoning their duty to the author in orgies of directorial license...
...choice tale to death. Last month the paper reported: "A young woman was apparently made pregnant by a flying bullet -which tore off the testicle of a Civil War soldier and then passed through her abdomen!" Many celebrity stories are also difficult to verify. Admits Chief of Research Ruth Annan: "Gossip is gossip." Critics argue that at the Enquirer, getting sources is just a matter of finding some informant to say what the paper wants to hear. "It's worth a lawsuit just to find out who the insider is," says Lynde, who is suing the paper for reporting...