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...first flew into Iraq just about the time Jerry Bremer took over as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, or CPA, during the third week of May 2003. I took a helicopter ride with Jerry right over Baghdad. It was daylight. The helicopter door was wide open, and I was looking out as we flew. On the ground, the environment was strikingly permissive, considering that a foreign army had just invaded the capital and deposed the country's long-term dictator. People were going out, eating in restaurants. You half expected to see double-decker buses rolling down the main...
...When I returned to Iraq in February 2004, the environment had changed dramatically. We flew into Baghdad at night, because you couldn't come in during the day. The C-17 bringing us there made a full-combat landing-a steep dive, quick on the ground. I was seated far forward, wearing flak jacket and helmet. There was no sightseeing this time. In those intervening ten months, Iraq had become a very different place, but not at all in the way that the U.S. government had intended. How did it get that way? Through a series of decisions that...
...Valenti, who died Thursday at 85 from complications of a stroke, seemed a good fit for that antique era. A hardscrabble Texas kid who at 14 had worked as "an usher in a second-run theater in Houston called the Iris," he flew 51 combat missions for the Air Force in World War II, got a Harvard M.B.A. on the GI Bill and hooked up with a back-home politician named Lyndon Johnson. Valenti was the Vice President's press rep on a trip to Dallas in November 1963 and stood next to him on the flight back to Washington...
...least, most of the time. The show was filled with jokes, repeated jokes, diversionary jokes, and they worked about two-thirds of the time. Although Fitzwilliam’s jokes flew much more often than Steve’s did, a given joke’s success or failure did not necessarily depend on who delivered the punch line...
...team free of back-stabbing members. In fact, Cahow noted about Ruggiero’s performance that “She wasn’t there to make enemies and wasn’t willing to sell her soul,” which may be why she flew under the radar for much of the season. When producers urged her to go after a teammate in the final boardroom scene, Ruggiero couldn’t bring herself to do so without knowing who had sold the least—and so took the blame for a faulty concept.While Ruggiero might...