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...trash can in their common room. Ever the attentive party hosts, Shlomo and Dirty were at odds as to whether a heap of crap is the sign of a successful party. Says Shlomo optimistically, “The party was so fun people couldn’t contain themselves.” “I don’t know,” says Dirty, “we could have probably gotten some better beer,” as he surveyed the words “Pabst Blue Ribbon,” scrawled angrily in human feces across...
Since the presidents’ public statements contain little in the way of a reason for their verdict, I think it’s worthwhile to speculate about what the true causes...
They talk guardedly on walkie-talkies, using code names. No logos mark their cars. Their office buildings contain no names that would give away their business. These are not intelligence operatives or criminals. These are Western relief workers, and this is how they have been forced to work in Iraq, where they have been targeted dozens of times since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime in April. The suicide car bombing at Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad last week, which took the lives of 12 victims, was particularly distressing to aid workers worldwide, who have come under assault...
Andy later explained to us that since the formula did not contain gums and chemical chelating agents, it would spoil in a short time; he urged us to add some of the chemicals that would fix its longevity. We refused. But to Andy's surprise, after testing, his chemists concluded that since Paul's dressing consisted of oil and vinegar and contained mustard, those elements combined to form a natural gum. We were elated with this lucky happenstance, but Andy presented us with another problem. We did not have EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) in our formula, which was thought...
...autonomous component of an Iraqi federation (the consternation of neighboring Turkey). Right now there's substantial disagreement over how a constitution should be adopted - the key Shiite religious authorities have insisted that only a democratically elected body can legitimately adopt a constitution - much less what it should contain. Accelerating the timetable for elections, some analysts warn, runs the risk of empowering either a weak central government without demonstrable popular support, while others suggest a rush to the polls could work to the advantage of radical demagogues such as the Shiite militant Moqtada al-Sadr...