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...much as people outside of Harvard dismiss the rivalry as irrelevant or even myopically elitist—the passions still burn strong among Harvard undergraduates...
...elected Iraqi government. To achieve that, a new constitution must be adopted, and elections held - a process for which the U.S. is setting an ambitious timetable. Secretary of State Colin Powell recently suggested that the IGC should finalize a new constitution within six months, but Iraqis were quick to dismiss Powell's timetable as hopelessly optimistic. Some of Iraq's most important leaders - the moderate Shiite clerics at Najaf - have insisted that an Iraqi constitution can be drawn up only by an elected body, not by the IGC, which was handpicked by Bremer...
...admit that I looked a little clueless at times, and I am known for eating chocolate. But before you dismiss me entirely, understand that I met with many newspapers along my path, many of whom thereafter changed their tune to support the passage of campaign finance reform. Also, in the last miles, several thousand people were walking with me into Washington, including several dozen members of Congress, and we had lots of “Good Morning America” and NPR stories to raise the profile of the reform bill as it hit Congress. Gump had none of that...
...they were influential. A year ago, Tom Warrick, a career State Department official, assembled a Future of Iraq project that brought together more than 200 Iraqis in working groups with U.S. officials observing. The I.N.C. joined only one of the working groups. Chalabi's people dismiss the whole exercise as absurd. "We just thought it was a joke," says an I.N.C. official. Says another: "The idea that there was a well-organized project at the State Department that was producing sophisticated postwar planning is ridiculous. The scholarship was at the high school--essay level." Others believe I.N.C. and its allies...
These tales are tempting to dismiss as scripts recited by practiced liars who had been deceiving the world community for years. These sources may still be too frightened of the possibility of Saddam's return to power to tell his secrets. Or it could be that Saddam reconstituted an illicit weapons program with such secrecy that those who knew of past efforts were left out of the loop. But the unanimity of these sources' accounts can't be easily dismissed and at the very least underscores the difficulty the U.S. has in proving its case that Saddam was hoarding unconventional...