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...potatoes and Western clothes. War with Iran brings increased state propaganda and a clampdown on dissent that makes Iraqis distrustful of neighbors. Then, in 1990, international sanctions bring food shortages and ration lines. Operation Iraqi Freedom seems a godsend, but optimism fizzles when there's no new order to fill the post-Saddam vacuum. By 2005, the women are all but trapped in their own homes, depressed, often without electricity, scared of random violence and of violence targeted at foreigners, and terrified that their family members will be kidnapped for ransom. Pauline's days, writes O'Donnell, "were punctuated with...
...enough. The problem isn't the supply of news. The problem is the demand for news. The news maw is expanding exponentially, and the news just can't keep up. It used to be almost a law of nature that a political story would expand to fill the media space available for its exposure. But that was before a couple of recent developments. One is the endless campaign. The day after every presidential election, the media take the pledge. They say, O.K., that's it. People deserve a break. Next time we are not going to let the presidential campaign...
...recall "the public always assumes that the crisis is being mishandled, that the company is holding something from the public," Dezenhall says. "The reality is the company under siege may not know what's causing the problem." If it doesn't provide information, though, speculation and commentary fill...
...then there was that time last spring, when Harvard’s presidency was up for grabs and I suggested Donato fill the post, quoting one of his players: “Half of Harvard’s presidents have been bald, so I think Coach fits in well...
...We’re not trying to fill up space if it’s going to be unused,” he said...