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...word came that the confirmation went beyond the local authorities, beyond the CIA and the Pentagon, down to the level of his scars and his cells, a DNA test. According to Senator Pat Roberts, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the U.S. had some of Saddam?s senior aides driven to Tikrit to view him and confirm it was him. A shopkeeper there named Basim al-Tikriti said, ?I am shocked. I cannot move my body. I feel like I am frozen...
Midnight: Driven by perfectionism, Rachel begins the slow process of rewriting everything...
This year at the Harvard-Yale game, I only spent a few minutes with my roommates because, even in New Haven, The Crimson called. I had offered to throw the first Crimson tailgate and driven a U-Haul down from Cambridge, with Liz and Rachel riding in the cab by my side. No one had asked me, a novice New York City driver, to host the tailgate and I could have spent a Crimson-free day basking in the sun and flitting around the final club tailgates with my roommates. Instead, I mostly stayed put at (and on) The Crimson?...
This spirit has driven the best and the worst in American history, and so it does in Angels. The resonant words of the angel to Prior Walter--"The great work begins!"--could just as well replace "In God We Trust" on the dollar bill. The accomplishment of this dazzling, poetic and hopeful Angels in America is that it shows us how brave and reckless that American sentiment is, how fearsome and splendid...
Second, we need to find the right mix of forces. Iraqi and allied forces must take over the more routine tasks like border patrol, so that U.S. forces can focus on running an agile, intelligence-driven campaign to root out the remnants of Saddam’s regime. And we need the help of Iraq’s neighbors to close the borders to the jihadists pouring into Iraq...