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...late 1970s, writes in an e-mail. “We were asked to sell all of the stock of all the scores of companies which did any business in South Africa. We never agreed to that demand. We did decide to sell a few stocks, amounting, I would guess, to only half a dozen companies...
...During the Clinton impeachment process, I was back to sex and the media,” he quips. “I wrote an enormous number of articles about how far is too far for the media to go in reporting this kind of thing, so I guess some of that began at Harvard...
...well-laid plans, accede to political pressure and abandon some first principles--including his original intention to appoint a new Prime Minister untainted by association with the U.S. Though the pieces of Iraq's first post-Saddam government may fall into place this week, it's anyone's guess how long it will hold together. "It's a very complicated business," Brahimi told TIME. "And we're doing that against a background of very little communication between the people of Iraq themselves...
Then again, maybe I just wasn't in much of a mood to listen to speechifying about the international mess last week--certainly not to grand expositions of doctrine and principle tethered only vaguely to the horrors on the ground. My guess is, you're losing patience with being orated at as well. Some evidence: An ABC News/Washington Post poll tracked "emotional responses" to the situation in Iraq. The "emotions" measured sounded like a Postmodern parade of Snow White's dwarfs: Angry, Hopeful, Proud, Worried and Frightened. Angry had almost doubled, from 30% to 57%, since March. Hopeful and Proud...
...bills and save for his son's college education. He lasted just 4 1/2 months--until Iraqi insurgents bombed his truck and nearly killed him at gunpoint. "KBR said it would get better, but people started getting hurt bad," he says. "They'll find new meat. I guess that's the way it is in the money world. If it makes 'em money, they don't care if it costs them a life." In Ruby, S.C., John Shane Ratliff, 32, says he was attracted to the KBR job by the promise of as much as $120,000 a year...