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American and British forces could still confront fearsome resistance if the Republican Guard units defending Baghdad are ready and willing to fight. No one expected Iraqi forces to put up much of a struggle in the barren, Shi'ite-dominated south, where support for Saddam's regime is soft. "We figured they would cave," says a Pentagon official. "They aren't the Republican Guard." But Saddam's most loyal fighters remain entrenched farther north, outside the capital and in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. While their numbers are dwindling by the day--from desertions if not from U.S. bombs...
Question 1: Does the original Cambridge provide more fertile sexual soil than the barren Wasteland across the pond...
...Matthijs Maris, Anton Mauve and their Barbizon-School cousins Charles-François Daubigny and Millet. This makes for a wonderful triple play here, cloud-filled skies sweeping over broad plains painted by three generations: Ruisdael's pastoral View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds, Georges Michel's barren and stormy Three Windmills and Van Gogh's powerhouse Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, a swath of chartreuse and emerald green beneath a bolt of cobalt and pale blue. Millet was second only to Rembrandt in Van Gogh's pantheon, and he copied the older artist's works throughout his short life, working from...
...Coming to Harvard is an honor in itself,” Nyarota says, looking at the barren walls of his temporary home, a small apartment near the Quad. “But coming at this particular time, it is a blessing...
...that the forts, many of which are clustered around small settlements between Basra and the town of Arama, are crude constructions. They don't look particularly durable, and seem unprotected from aerial attack. Nonetheless, they will likely play an important role in any land war. In a flat, barren landscape, they offer the only high ground...