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...waiting. War planners had hoped that some resistance hero might surface during the fight or that top army officers would defect to form the nucleus of a new regime. Neither happened, and now dozens of powerful tribes, religious organizations and ethnic groups, as well as exiles, are jockeying to fill the vacuum. The U.S. has to be careful. It's just possible that the worst thing Washington could do is handpick a winner, who would be tainted as an American puppet. The dangers of that were apparent in Najaf, where the mob murder of a pro-American Shi'ite cleric...
...least cigarette smoke. Then the man up onstage begins his ritual call: "One and two, 12. All the sixes, 66 ?" Suddenly, the place is alive with movement - hands zipping back and forth, dabbing at the cards with sniper-like precision. Everyone racing to be the first to fill a row, two rows or a full house. Racing to win. Okay, so granted that bingo, a favored pastime of Britain's comfy slipper set, will never pass for an extreme sport. But recently the industry has been working hard to shake off its old-age image. With some success...
Pending approval by the university’s Board of Trustees, Nicholas Lemann ’76 will fill the post charged with redefining the mission of Columbia’s journalism school—and journalism programs across the country...
...submitted a form and didn’t know what we were going to do,” she says of the green slips of paper prospective wall-painters had to fill out in the weeks preceding the painting...
...After Saddam Who will step in to fill the void...