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...Baker-Hamilton commission who had served the first President Bush as head of the CIA, the psychoanalysis rampant in the media about Daddy's team coming back to save the prodigal son steamed everyone at the White House, from the President on down, and led the Administration to dig in its heels. Says a Baker confidant: "Everything that happened on Election Day made for extra work." It wasn't long before senior Administration officials were whispering that the diplomatic proposals coming out of Baker's shop would never fly. Realizing that with Gates moving to the Pentagon, the study group...
...rival in a 9-2, 9-3, 9-4 victory. The only match the Crimson lost proved the most exciting of the night. Competing in the seventh spot for the team, freshman Johanna Snyder won the first two games of her match, but allowed freshman opponent Libbey Brown to dig herself out of the hole and tie the match at two games apiece. With all of other players having already finished their matches and with the men’s match nearly complete, the entirety of the Harvard and Dartmouth teams crowded around to watch the culmination of Snyder?...
...Dig in. Although the military and political establishments are desperate for a new approach in Iraq, it's also possible that little will change. If the Baker commission falters or political stalemate ensues after the group reports, the U.S. may well keep troop levels the same, continue training Iraqis--and hope for the best. Sticking it out is the preferred course not just of the Commander in Chief but also of many of the top generals who report to him. To them, Iraq remains a fight that can be won--as long as political support for the enterprise doesn...
What sort of Christmas presents do the partners who have everything buy for each other? A tropical island? A racehorse? For lovers so rich they've lost count of all the zeroes and who dig Marie Antoinette-style extravagance, there is the Mandarin Oriental's[an error occurred while processing this directive] FANtastic Jet Set Journey, an over-the-top 10-day tour of three big U.S. cities with private jets, lavish suites and limousines. From New Year's Day through May 31, for a whopping $220,000 per couple (but hey, tax is included), luxury junkies can be waited...
...suck the dread out of war,” Rees says. “You start talking about these lofty ideals and it’s just to obscure what’s actually going to happen on the ground.”“I wanted to dig underneath the language and figure out what really was going on,” Rees says. “I was reacting against the rhetoric coming out of the White House and the whole pop culture reaction to it.”Sometimes, as in a strip from...