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...fact, by September 2002, the White House had its own exercise under way. In August of that year, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had held contentious hearings on Iraq, focusing on the apparent lack of any postconflict preparation. Just after Labor Day, Rice summoned her top staff to an evening meeting and set up four working groups to try to coordinate inter-agency squabbling. State, as usual, was trying to find a multilateral approach to Iraq and to boost the status of opponents to the regime inside Iraq. The Defense Department was happy to go it alone and rely...
...news out of Iraq in recent months has been mostly dreary. Since the beginning of August, three major terrorist attacks have killed at least 115 people. Strikes on American troops continue, and the job of rebuilding the country seems overwhelming at times. Yet as the scorching temperatures of summer give way to the occasional cooling breeze of fall, there is a short but growing list of achievements worth noting. Traffic cops have tamed some of Baghdad's worst intersections, crews of cleaners are tidying the streets, and the power supply has slowly improved...
...running domestic policy while President Jacques Chirac plays diplomatic chess with George W. Bush - to be feeling a little anxious himself. It's not just his popularity that's taking a beating. The French government recently announced that the economy shrank by 0.3% in the second quarter, and in August unemployment figures started creeping up again. The government is still reeling from accusations that it bungled the response to the summer's heat wave, which left nearly 15,000 dead, and it faces condemnation from the European Commission for flouting the E.U.'s ceiling on budget deficits. In the Paris...
...most publicized critique came in August, when Fox News sued Franken on the grounds that the term “fair and balanced,” which appears in the title of Lies, resembled the network’s own slogan too closely...
Hammond’s work in Cambridge this summer also kept her close to Season, who, when Hammond was a freshman, used to come to the Yard for sleepovers. In August, Hammond did what she’d always talked about doing: she took Season home to Brooklyn for a weekend. It was a trip Season had been begging to take, but Hammond too had come to expect that, sooner or later, she would show Season the place where she grew up. “She had a Brooklyn jersey dress,” recalls Hammond, laughing...