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Back in Washington, the Pentagon has been grooming some useful backup for Chalabi. Two subway stops from downtown, upstairs from a McDonald's, are the offices of the seven-week-old Iraq Reconstruction and Development Council. A pet project of Wolfowitz's, the organization consists of a group of exiled Iraqi technocrats sympathetic to Chalabi who have been feverishly planning how to restart everything from irrigation to trash collection to oil production as soon as the fighting stops. When they get the word from Garner, they will deploy as liaisons between his temporary American ministers and those Iraqis deemed salvageable...
...entered on Monday. There were claims that Saddam was whisked to his hometown, Tikrit, or that he was on his way to Syria for medical care, that he was hiding in the Russian embassy or in a mosque or was seen rising from the sunroof of his limo in downtown Baghdad, come to let the crowds kiss his feet. No one in Washington could be absolutely sure whether they had got him this time. But they were sure they had his airport, his palaces and, by Wednesday, his power...
...time the 3/4 Battalion arrived downtown at Paradise Square, Iraqis were picking yellow flowers from the gardens and handing them over for the Leathernecks to stick in their helmets. Lieut. Colonel Bryan P. McCoy saw the large picture of Saddam above the entranceway to the Palestine Hotel. "I want that down," he said. Another Marine pointed out the huge statue in the square. "And that," said McCoy. A Marine noted that U.S. forces were not supposed to pull down statues. "Get your 88 and pull it down," McCoy said, referring to a powerful tank-recovery vehicle. And with that...
...historic Charlestown neighborhood, this towering obelisk commemorates the site of the first major battle of the Revolutionary War when colonial militia men valiantly defended the strategic hilltop against the Red-coat invaders on June 17, 1775. Climb up the 294 steps inside the monument for a great view of downtown Boston. The Bunker Hill Monument provides irrefutable proof that prudish Bostonians appreciate a patriotic phallus as much as the average American...
Although many high schools denied her entrance because she was truant, in 1997 Murray enrolled at the Humanities Preparatory School, a new progressive public school in downtown Manhattan...