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...Though Iraq is mess right now, the U.S. does have a significant trump card in the country's divided political geography - a situation for which the Bush administration can thank the French (and the British). Iraq, like most of the nation-states conjured up with pencil and ruler on mapping tables in European capitals during the colonial era, comprises three distinct and often hostile ethnic groups. The Europeans did this to make such entities easier to rule from the outside and hobble their ability to unite against the colonial authorities. And the same dynamic may help the Americans...
...mother's home in Buffalo, N.Y., Carmack sent an impressive 857,500,000 unsolicited e-mails in one year, something that is perfectly legal in New York State. But Carmack crossed the line, according to EarthLink, his Internet service provider, when he set up 343 accounts using stolen credit-card numbers to send these e-mails...
...taken an even more creative approach. When he wanted to sue a company that refused to stop sending him spam for a penis-enlargement kit but couldn't pin down its real-world address, he simply ordered the $90 kit. The address showed up on his next credit-card statement. "You can hide on the Internet," he says, "but you can't hide from American Express." The offending company eventually settled...
...with a purpose. She knew she'd have to show a little ankle to justify such a huge advance. She also knew the book would allow her to set in stone (or print) the parts of the fiasco that had proved so useful. Indeed, Hillary plays the victim card to perfection, shrouding her lawyer-like efforts to set the record straight. If Hillary had initially been an involuntary victim, she now reprises the role voluntarily. It worked once; it is working again...
Fans and detractors alike say that Gilligan changed the world of psychology to make women card-carrying members...