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...Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian chief in Iraq, spoke with TIME's Vivienne Walt in his office in the former Republican Palace...
...Taiwan airliner makes the first civilian flight to the mainland since 1949. Chen, meanwhile, announces plans for a referendum on election day on March 20, 2004, to ask voters whether the island should increase its defense budget and engage in dialogue with Beijing
...Iraq. Americans can't have it both ways. Either we must be willing to undertake pre-emptive actions against governments and groups that are known to be inimical to our nation and might carry out acts of terrorism against us, or we must be willing to accept civilian casualties because we are unwilling to act against terrorists. DEAN EPPLER Houston...
...primary campaign has produced one of the more depressing political phenomena in memory: the rise of the citizen pundit. With Howard Dean gone from the race, the last traces of passion--and, I fear, conviction--have been leached from the electorate. Instead of voters, we have handicappers. Ask a civilian why she likes Kerry or Edwards, and more often than not, you get dime-store Capital Gang: "Kerry can match up with Bush on national security," or "Edwards can win in the South." This is a form of pragmatism, I suppose. Democrats are desperate to beat George W. Bush...
...they will be unable to restore the damage already done—in the last year the Iraqi countryside has begun to resemble a moonscape pockmarked by meteorites as looters have removed entire sections of valuable archaeological finds. In the wake of the U.S. invasion, civilian guards fled in the face of gun-toting mobs, and looters have since been digging with relative impunity. Archival reconstruction and international police cooperation have managed to return many of the pieces stolen from the Baghdad Museum, but the harm done to these archaeological sites is irrevocable. While U.S. damage control might again succeed...