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...easy to defeat an incumbent President under the best of circumstances, and the Democrats have cause to worry. This particular model Bush is a deft politician with big ideas and with the guts to take risks that can yield great victories. He is also one brazen dude: he traveled last week to Missouri and came very close to using the V word - victory - even though most of Saddam Hussein's inner circle had effectively disappeared and even though no weapons of mass destruction had yet been found and even though U.S.-controlled Iraq remained a chaotic mess (and even though...
...Arab psyche took a direct hit last week when American forces toppled Saddam's regime. Not since Israel's devastating defeat of its Arab neighbors in the 1967 Six-Day War has military action left the Middle East in such a state of alternating shock, shame, denial and depression. Crazy rumors, wishful thinking and conspiracy theories--Saddam and his sons committed suicide in a secret bunker so the West would never know if they were dead or alive--are running rampant. If Washington hoped the initial scenes of Iraqi jubilation over Saddam's fall would ameliorate Arab antipathy toward...
...broke out once Saddam's regime crumbled, but TV watchers were not interpreting it as viewers did in the West. "The people don't really know what they're doing," says Amman sociologist Sari Nasir, explaining away the joy. "It's collective behavior." Others expressed humiliation at the walloping defeat of the Iraqi forces, as well as scorn for those who welcomed foreign tanks into the city. "To see our dignity wiped out like that, I am ashamed to be an Arab," says Cairo physician Khaled Ragab...
Pirsu enters this weekend coming off a dominant 6-0, 6-0 victory over Yale’s Elizabeth Kaufman, who Bergman lost to in a third-set tiebreaker last week in her only Ivy defeat this season...
...Harvard does win the Ivy title, Bergman insists that the Crimson will celebrate with class—something she feels Penn lacked a year ago. She recalls in last year’s defeat at Penn, the locals started blasting Queen’s “We are the Champions” over the speaker system while Harvard was still on the court. Also, Penn was still three Ivy matches away from clinching the league title at the time...