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...snobbishness. But today, Baghdad is neglected. There is no sanitation and there are no garbage cans on the street, so waste is tossed generously throughout. The entire city is coated with a sandy yellowish film, deposited by dust storms and left unwashed. The most vivid color comes from the brilliant red sunsets that shimmer on the water and the mosque domes...
...leaders would do well to study. In 1985 a massive earthquake shook Mexico City. At the time, Mexico was, in effect, a one-party state, governed by a deeply corrupt and softly totalitarian regime whose leaders were beggaring the country. But within the bureaucracy was embedded a generation of brilliant technocrats who were trying to open the nation and its closed economy to the world. The crisis of legitimacy posed by the earthquake was a catalyst; it convinced the Mexican public and many of the technocrats that Mexico had to change in a fundamental way--that its society and politics...
...wartime leaders usually do"? If Bush had another handicap, such as being blind, Klein would surely not point out in the middle of a war that the President is still blind. Inarticulateness does not keep Bush from leading the country, nor does it prevent him from surrounding himself with brilliant, focused men and women who are quietly getting the job done. MARSHA D. O'CONNOR New Orleans...
...encore of her 12-inning performance against Princeton last weekend, Brotemarkle turned in her second consecutive brilliant start with 10 shutout innings and 11 strikeouts on Saturday. McAteer pitched the last two innings to earn the victory...
...also conjures up the thoughts of the admitted and since convicted ringleader, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, on the restless night before he sprung his trap on Pearl. Sheikh, Lévy finds, is a "perfect Englishman" of Pakistani origin, a chess player and champion arm wrestler, a brilliant student at the London School of Economics who embraced radical Islam during a stint in Bosnia in the early 1990s. Lévy knows from court testimony that Sheikh shaved his beard and bought Gucci shoes, a Breitling watch and Ray-Ban sunglasses to disguise himself before meeting Pearl...