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...members, said Democratic Senator Joseph Biden last week, "believed we would find an oil-rich, functioning country, that we'd be met by cheering crowds, that all we had to do was sweep out the top Baathist layers, implant our favorite exiles and watch democracy take root as the bulk of the troops returned home by Christmas." Allowing for Bidenesque hyperbole, that is not far off the mark. Bureaucratic infighting, wishful thinking and--at least according to his many rivals--an undue influence in Washington exerted by Ahmed Chalabi, the exile leader who is the darling of the neoconservative faction...
...Publishers say that black marketeers simply stroll through bookstores in Delhi, the center of India's book trade, and buy best-selling novels and expensive educational textbooks, which they then photocopy and print in bulk in nearby cities such as Meerut. Production costs for paperbacks can be as low as 11? per copy?cheap enough to enable pirates to profit while undercutting cover prices of genuine versions by up to 70%. Though some pavement booksellers stick to selling legitimate books, others like Kumar say the knockoff trade is hard to resist because it's lucrative, demand for cheap reading material...
Harvard is like a new campsite, only the sleeping bags and plastic tarps are replaced by extra-long beds and red brick facades. Just as Annenberg fare is more or less equivalent to backcountry food cooked in bulk, the Harvard community is comparable to a FOP group on a larger scale. Your entryway, your tutorial, your Expos class and even Justice are places where you and your fellow students can come together over a common goal. There are opportunities at every turn to make Harvard your home. It is tough to find a niche in a group...
...bulk of Grasso's payout--$91.6 million--comes from deferred retirement benefits and savings, and he enjoyed an 8% guaranteed return on one-tenth of his total compensation. "That's a little unusual," Jensen says, because most executive retirement plans peg their returns to vary with interest rates. Fink says the board will be reviewing all aspects of senior executive benefits in October...
Zewinski and other officials met with residents of the Agassiz neighborhood—the area just north of Harvard Yard where the bulk of FAS science resides—on Saturday morning over coffee and bagels to answer questions about the construction and impact of the project...