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Forty-five minutes later, the Kurds began firing rockets into the Iraqi zone. Shortly afterward, a B-52 trailing four white vapors laid a carpet of perhaps a dozen bombs on the Iraqi trenches. Black clouds boiled up as the peshmerga whooped from their hilltop trenches that hours before had been occupied by the Iraqis being bombed. "This attack is a sacred thing," said Ismael Mohammed. He was fighting to return to the home in Kirkuk he had been driven out of seven years before. Kurdish commander Mam Rostam, a nom de guerre meaning Uncle Rostam, reveled in the momentum...
...center,” is more like a home. Inside visitors find an old-fashioned parlor to their right. On the left is the dining room, closed from view by white double-doors that are only opened during meal time. In the parlor, a worn carpet and aged armchairs make Elmbrook feel, in Keefe’s words, like “a time warp.” Keefe remembers, laughing, that his father, who visited Elmbrook when he was at Harvard, said the same ornaments decorated the house when he was a student. Only one framed picture...
...announcement on HUDS’ table tent (“Weekly Slice for March 10, 2003”) offered an explanation: “RED CARPET BRUNCH,” the tent proclaimed in HUDS’ signature hyperbolic prose. “Sunday, March 16. Come work the red carpet and cast your ballot for this year’s Oscars. Take a walk among the stars and enjoy a feast fit for a diva who has just captured the coveted golden statue. Catch up on some films past and present, and be sure to enter your guesses...
...writing papers for the think tank that advocate brinkmanship and "the political uses of madness" in the cold war. In 1964 his work takes him to the Pentagon, where he sees madness in action. He learns that the entire war policy, in effect, is a mess swept under a carpet of inflated enemy body counts. Asked to help write a history of the war effort, he finds that the U.S. has remained hopelessly entangled because no President wanted to be the first U.S. leader to lose a war. The 7,000-page report is quickly suppressed until, in 1971, Ellsberg...
Cross-legged on the carpet, Maribel Hernandez ’04 is flipping through photo albums, searching for a picture to run with her FM profile. There’s a preteen Hernandez with her family just after they emigrated from Mexico, and Hernandez smiling beside Madeline Albright. That’s Hernandez grinning wildly, her face painted red and white with high school spirit, and her with Bill Clinton last spring. She says her family in Mexico was the most excited about Clinton. “They still talk about it,” she says, laughing...