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...struggling paper. The Independent sells only around 100,000 copies in the U.K. on a typical weekday, trailing London's four other quality dailies - the Daily Telegraph, Rupert Murdoch's Times of London, the Financial Times and the Guardian - and consistently loses about $15 million a year. Lebedev, whose first experience in London was as a KGB agent in the 1980s, offered a characteristically enigmatic response: "Well, either I am a Russian spy, or I am mad, or I believe you can make money out of newspapers...
Brown is likely coming into the game with the same mentality, coming off a nail biting 8-7 loss to Yale. The Bears fell off a goal scored with seven seconds remaining, leaving Brown still searching for its first...
...Obama Administration's three-act drama to keep the President's campaign pledge to lift the ban. The first act came last month when Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told Congress he had no problem with gays in uniform. With Mullen's backing, Gates on Thursday took the next step by relaxing enforcement of the ban. The final act - getting Congress to repeal the law - is months, if not years, away...
Appointed Prime Minister of Iraq's first post-Saddam government in 2004, Allawi headed a corrupt, inept administration that set a poor tone for Iraq's fledgling democracy. As an American appointee, he lacked street cred. He projected himself as a democratic strongman - a contradiction in terms that convinced few of his countrymen. Although a Shi'ite, he alienated many among the majority sect by espousing a secular view of Iraq. Many Iraqis were suspicious of his ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, even though Allawi had left the party in 1975 and had survived an assassination attempt ordered...
When elections were held for a transitional government at the end of 2005, Allawi was easily trounced by a coalition of Shi'ite religious parties. Nor did he fare much better in the first full general election, in 2006. He then went into something of a funk. Even though he was an elected member of parliament, he showed no interest in playing a constructive role in opposition. Indeed, he was rarely in Baghdad at all, spending most of his time in Jordan and other Arab states. When I asked him about this in 2007, he cited concerns about his security...