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...Whenever you decide to take the country to war, you have to know not only that you can defeat the enemy militarily but that you have a very clear game plan that will allow you to keep the peace. There was never any doubt that we would defeat the Iraqi military. What we did not have was an integrated and open process in Washington that was organized to keep the peace, nor did we have unity of purpose and resources on the ground. Quite simply...
...however. Though Sarkozy enters the frantic push toward the runoff as the favorite, he must now make a turn to the center, which may prove to be treacherous territory. Bayrou's surprisingly strong showing means he has replaced Le Pen as the nexus of French discontents, but in defeat Bayrou has given his voters no explicit guidance on how they should vote in the second round. Sarkozy calls himself the "candidate of work" and courts the France that gets up early: he wants simpler labor laws, lower taxes and a leaner public service. Much of that ought to resonate with...
...summer the season of movie superheroes? No: supervillains. They get the plot spinning toward catastrophe; its their lurid schemes the hero must rise to defeat. Especially in sequels, which will dominate the box office this summer, all the ingenuity not expended on special effects goes into the creation of really nasty villains. Greed was good to villainous Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. To the producers of this summer's would-be blockbusters, bad is great...
...quite literally.The sports these two compete in aren’t just run-of-the-mill, low-pressure athletic programs. Brine was a leading member of a women’s hockey team that battled all the way to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals, before suffering a quadruple-overtime defeat, and Finelli was a key component to the women’s basketball team’s successful campaign for the Ivy League championship. So what enables these two outstanding athletes to achieve success through extraordinary means?“I definitely don’t think only a Harvard student...
...forces. It remains to be seen whether the dozens of other combat outposts popping up around Iraq amid the surge will come to face similar attacks aimed at sending U.S. troops back into heavily fortified compounds and, in the hopes of insurgents, ultimately home to the United States in defeat...