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...early as June 2003, the CIA told Bush in a briefing that he faced a "classic insurgency" in Iraq. But the White House didn't fully trust the CIA, and on June 30, Rumsfeld told reporters, "I guess the reason I don't use the term guerrilla war is that it isn't ... anything like a guerrilla war or an organized resistance." The opposition, he claimed, was composed of "looters, criminals, remnants of the Baathist regime" and a few foreign fighters. Indeed, Rumsfeld could claim progress in finding and capturing most of the 55 top members of Saddam's regime...
With a look that's classic, colorful and once again hip, its polos are go-to shirts for almost anyone. Since Siegel became CEO of Lacoste USA in January 2002, sales have grown 800%, and Lacoste worldwide has developed into a $1.8 billion brand globally. In 2004, U.S. sales increased a whopping 125% over the previous year, and by 2005 the U.S. had become Lacoste's top market. According to Siegel, 2005 is set to be Lacoste USA's most profitable year yet. "I credit the whole company for this success," says Marshal Cohen, chief analyst at the NPD group...
...tape of my appearance on Oprah, he was displeased. I guess his hope had been that maybe I believed his son didn't do it, which I'd never suggested to him. Obviously, on Oprah, I said that I think he had absolutely did it, and he's a classic sociopath...I would have loved to interview him. I still would like to interview him. It's my deepest hope that he would read this book and say something...When I wrote this book, my caution to myself in my mind in order to make it as compelling and true...
...good historical films come out of India. Movie buffs remember Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players, a classic in which the British seize the Indian kingdom of Avadh, and Lagaan, a crowd-pleaser nominated for an Oscar in 2002, in which the Indians thrash the British at cricket. But these are the exceptions. Most Bollywood films focus predictably on ishq?love?and little else. The travails of The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey, India's most ambitious historical movie in years, show...
...school girls. Buffy the Vampire Slayer exterminated ghouls for seven seasons in the U.S., and now with the new series Blood+, Japanese TV has its own miniskirted demon killer, Saya, who speaks softly and carries a wicked samurai sword. This being anim?, however, she won't be hunting your classic Bram Stoker-style vampires, but rather vicious, blood-sucking anthropoids that devour humans whole. Right now, your inner 11-year-old should be getting really excited...