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...Suddenly a middle-aged man in a checked shirt elbows his way in and announces his support for the regime. "If Saddam is going to fall, there are thousands of Saddams to replace him," he declares. Then he reaches down with his hand and smears some dust from the floor with his fingers. "Foreigners are not worthy to step on even a single speck of sand of Iraq." Then the men, who only seconds before had been happily bantering with foreign journalists, suddenly turn hostile and unwelcoming, afraid to be viewed as being friendly with the infidels...
...senior Administration official replied confidently, "Fifty miles to Baghdad." Translation: After the war, the chances could improve. In private, though, Administration officials say they will take the largest number they can get and declare victory. As a Bush aide points out with satisfaction, "Now $350 billion is the absolute floor. Look how far we've already come." --By James Carney and John Dickerson
...Breathe”—the vignette which capped the evening—was choreographed by Jodi Leigh Allen and set to a Cantata Mundi by Karl Jenkins. The stage floor was laid bare for this performance and the lights focused in on the dancers. The piece was the largest of the compilation with ten dancers dressed in minimal tarzan-like costume. Elements of the wild were revealed elsewhere in the dancing, particularly when the dancers were grouped close to each other and moved in unison in an almost mob-like fashion. Elemental in its simplicity...
...faculty? Well, not really. Between calls for defense divestment and prominent speeches at walkouts, Harvard’s professors have made their strong opinions on military action well-known. No, the deafening silence on this most timely of issues comes from an unlikely place: the first floor of Mass. Hall...
...main entrance and first floor of Widener Library will open to the public today six months after they were closed for cleaning and construction...