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...isolated Secretary of State, Colin Powell, and the hard-line Pentagon boss, Donald Rumsfeld. Though the two men make nice in public, they have fought over almost every aspect of U.S. foreign policy--from China to North Korea to Russia to, of course, Iraq. Rumsfeld and Powell last week broke several months of public comity, and it was no coincidence that the mortars started flying just when U.S. troops arrived at Baghdad's city limits...
When the war first broke out, people saw it panoramically. They discussed it in terms of "issues" and "perspectives." Hard and fast distinctions ruled the day--between civilians and soldiers, hawks and doves, conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction, secularists and Islamists. Life was simpler then. Events fit into stable categories, and the major players wore uniforms that allowed them to be identified from a distance. The armies were in Iraq to fight, the embedded reporters to report and the women and children to stand aside. The battlefield was defined in terms of boundaries--the southern oil fields...
...reassuring dress codes broke down first. Masquerading as passersby and taxi drivers, Iraqi soldiers brought a grim new meaning to the old term "theater of war." Surrendering conscript or armed militia member? Distressed pregnant woman or canny suicide bomber? The difference between combatants and noncombatants was in the eye of the beholder, suddenly. For a coalition sentry manning a checkpoint, the penalty for guessing wrong was death--his own death if he failed to fire in time or that of an innocent if he fired too hastily...
...what if yours is not a hardship case? What if an aid package is just not attractive compared with those from other schools? It's still a good idea to present new information, says Kalman Chany, author of Paying for College Without Going Broke. You might make the case that you face a higher-than-average cost of living in your area, then send the numbers and a budget to the school along with copies of more generous offers from schools of similar quality. Don't delay. You have the most leverage after being accepted but before committing to attend...
...vulnerable bow position, Pommen was the only rower to suffer significant injury, though the No. 2 seat hit his head and the Light Blues broke three oars. The boat had been warming up to do practice starts on the busy Thames River...