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...small. Only on Jan. 20 did the Defense Department take charge of postwar operations in the new Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, naming Jay Garner, a retired Army lieutenant general and a friend of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's, as peace boss. State's top Iraq expert, Ryan Crocker, tapped to go to Baghdad as ambassador, may not take the job because so much postwar power would reside at Defense...
...dirt road. As you would expect from a successful writer whose books are full of cherry cobbler and sliced elk, she has one of those restaurant-quality stoves that in a pinch could double as an armored car. But on the whole, Proulx is more Annie Oakley than Betty Crocker. She can handle an ax and a canoe. Her hair looks as if she cut it herself with a hunting knife. Do not doubt that...
...grieving brother, who becomes a blood-sucking vampire. This family makes the House of Atreus seem like the Partridges. By the time Granny?s birthday cake is served - and one of the guests notices too late that it?s full of worms, cuing her to vomit the Betty Crocker Maggot Mix on the floor ? you may want to follow the advice of this patch of ?Devil Fetus? dialogue: ?How do you feel?? ?I feel disgusting.? ?Then lie down for a while...
...climbed the corporate ladder at Crocker National Bank and Pacific Bell before the office culture began to wear him down. Again he took a look at cartooning. "I had always been a doodler, and people were looking at cartoons that I would draw on my whiteboard at work," he recalls. "People said, 'You should try to get that published.' I was just playing the odds. It seemed like the corporate life was safe and cartooning was wacky. But wacky started looking better." He sent samples to a syndicator and hit the jackpot...
...Neither Crocker nor Cheney’s office returned phone calls from The Crimson yesterday...