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...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 on its favored Iraqi exiles. The CIA, meanwhile, was trying to warn that governing Iraq after the war would not be as easy as some of the exiles had thought...
...between high school and college. Stopping at the Taronga Park Zoo for a photo op with local wildlife, Harry struggled to get a safe grip on this echidna. Also bristling were some Australian politicians, who complained about the $400,000 it costs to guard his highness. Of course the boost in tourism dollars from schoolgirls and lurking paparazzi should help offset the bill...
...including his kid brother Ralf, who races for Williams - have won Grands Prix.) The result has been the best Formula One season since the 1980s. Driving legend Stirling Moss thinks the changes have made the difference. "What the fia did was excellent," he says; "it has given a great boost to the racing It helped, too, that the huge technical gap between Ferrari and the rest of the field in 2002 has since been narrowed by Williams, McLaren and Renault. In fact, Raikkonen and Montoya had something of an edge, the result of an unusually hot European summer: their Michelin...
...forces and the pro-Islamic government both realize that failing Washington again could endanger Turkey's economy, says Dogu Ergil, a political scientist at Ankara University. They also believe that Turkish interests in Iraq - especially Ankara's eagerness to prevent Kurds from establishing political autonomy there - will get a boost if Turkey sends troops. "There is an urgent need to restore peace and order," says deputy Suleyman Gunduz of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK). He voted no to the U.S. request before the war, but will back the current bill and expects many of his colleagues...
...latest boost to science at the College, the creation of an interdisciplinary Center for Systems Neurosciences will be officially announced in the next few weeks...