Word: dispatches
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...might seem good reasons to expect help in Iraq from two Asian friends. But last week, a day after the suicide attack in the southern Iraqi town of Nasiriyah that killed 31 people, including 18 Italians, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Japan was suspending plans to dispatch its Self-Defense Forces (S.D.F.) to Iraq by the end of the year. "We could send troops if the circumstances permit," he said. "But they do not." Around the same time, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun told his Cabinet to limit Korea's contribution to 3,000 soldiers...
...downside of the postcard's passing, however: it is frequently being replaced by the lengthy travel diary, in the form of a group e-mail, that your vacationing friends feel compelled to send from every Internet café they visit. Technology has suddenly made it all too easy to dispatch gushing, gee-whiz accounts of trips to the Pompidou or dives off the Great Barrier Reef, not to mention tediously unedited recollections of meals eaten on Brazilian beaches or at Bangkok street stalls. When several paragraphs about transport hassles and hotel mix-ups are tacked on, you start to realize...
...first big name pop music event—aside from an appearance by the Verve Pipe at Springfest 2002—in more than two years. But last night’s audience far exceeded the roughly 900 who attended that concert, an October 2001 performance by Dispatch in Sanders Theater...
Prior to the Verve Pipe, the last major concert at Harvard happened when Dispatch played at Sanders Theatre three years ago. Since then, the HCC has made multiple attempts to bring major musical groups to campus—all of which, until now, have ended in failure...
Ellen M. Foley, spokesperson for Independent Systems Operator New England (ISO), the organization in charge of the dispatch of New England’s power, said blackouts were not likely...