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...main palace on the Tigris is fortified with concrete blocks, but it appeared to have been temporarily deserted by famished troops one evening last week at the time of the iftar. There have been no runs on the banks, no reports of hoarding of food. Iraqis are even relatively calm on the subject of America. Many, of course, are bitter over the 12-year-long U.S.-supported embargo, which Baghdad claims has led to thousands of infants and elderly people dying from preventable diseases. Ammar Shamal, 21, an engineering student, could muster only this lament: "I don't know what...
...life and love. And when men have triumphed in their arguments with women, the women play their ace: they say, as Molly Bloom did, "Yes." This is the last word of the first and third "Utopia" plays; in each case it is spoken indulgently, as a mother would to calm a child's questing, questioning spirit. The political theories of Bakunin, Herzen and their coteries were expressions of a dream for universal betterment. As Shaw and Stoppard know, men are the dreamers, women the realists. Women are the land men return to when Utopia has faded or their ship foundered...
...fatigue and miscalculations in the salvage effort. The Dutch salvage firm Smit, which handled the attempted rescue of the ship, is locked in a battle of words with Spain. "We asked to tow the ship to a safe place on the Spanish coast, where we could repair it in calm waters," says a Smit spokesman. "But the Spanish authorities refused." The Spanish say they feared damage would be greater if the leaking vessel - chartered by Swiss-based Crown Resources AG, part of the Russian-owned Alfa Group - was brought closer to shore. The breakup and sinking of the Prestige - after...
With so much news buzzing around the team, the Crimson is remarkably calm about its season-opening tournament, the East Stroudsburg Invitational...
This Boston businessman speaking in awfully calm tones about what could potentially be a business disaster. While other college campuses like Penn State have banned kegs from football tailgates, Gomes says he’s never heard of a similar situation in his business district...