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...officials -- and quite a few others -- knew of plans for a coup last weekend against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Unfortunately, Saddam seems to have been among the cogniscenti. Led by Wafiq Samaraii, who headed Iraqi intelligence during the Gulf War but later lost his post in a purge, the plot was to be carried out by major sections of the Iraqi military, with simultaneous attacks mounted in both northern and southern Iraq. First reported by The New York Times this morning, the coup would have united Iraq's main opposition group with army contingents and Kurd and Shiite forces throughout...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is a play for the cogniscenti, and those who have not read Hamlet and Beckett and a slew of other playwrights might not appreciate the humor and good performances in this production. But those who enjoy spoofs on the canon will love this bizarre amalgamation that has returned, successfully, to Leverett House...
That statement was made over a decade ago, but football cogniscenti have continually repeated their faith in Restic's coaching abilities by widely circulating rumors that he has received coaching offers from professional teams...
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