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...brought in, snaking a tube down his throat to clear the blood. Before the night was over, he was dead, and doctors held out little hope that the boy would survive. In a city with no law, the innocent and the guilty face the same harsh fate. --By Brian Bennett and Michael Weisskopf with Terry McCarthy/Baghdad
Predictably, the more austere critics have walloped the director for selling out to sentiment. But maybe Chen has done something daring. Here is a story with no villains. The five main characters are basically good folks, and fate doesn't bother to conspire against any of them. People make their own luck, their own troubles...
Maybe it was fate. Just as we seniors pack our belongings for good and reflect on our experiences at Harvard, a new dean will arrive in town promising to focus on improving undergraduate social life. As reported in The Crimson recently, incoming Dean of the College Dean Benedict H. Gross ’71 will take on the issues of social space and alcohol next year...
...adopting an attitude of "you-broke-it, you-own-it" - an expectation that Washington's ill-starred efforts thus far to manage the postwar transition and the mounting danger of chaos may yet produce a costly lesson for the occupying powers who have demanded sole responsibility for Iraq's fate...
Secretary of State Colin Powell flew to the Middle East last weekend in an effort to kick-start the U.S.-backed plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. But its fate may depend largely on one leader Powell did not plan to meet: Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian chief last month grudgingly turned over power, at least in theory, to a newly installed Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas. But top Palestinian officials tell TIME that Arafat is still fomenting opposition to the new PM. Arafat met last week with several local leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization's Fatah faction (to which Abbas also...