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...prior to his hanging, Saddam had become something of an afterthought. The nightmare of his tyranny has been replaced by the new plagues of terrorism and sectarian carnage. Many Iraqis--not all of them Sunni--hark nostalgically back to the dictatorship, pointing out that for all the terrors Saddam visited upon his people, at least there were no suicide bombers and death squads roaming the streets. But once his trial began, even his most ardent followers conceded he would never return to power. The Sunni Baathist insurgents have long since stopped fighting for him. Many have recast themselves...
...outside the courtroom, as Iraq went from chaos to a bloody civil war, I would occasionally hear an Iraqi hark nostalgically back to the Saddam era, pointing out that for all the dictator's faults he was at least able to keep his country's sectarian demons in check. As the violence worsened, some argued that the only way to exorcize those demons would be to ditch the democratic process and hand the country back to a Saddam-style strongman. But nobody seriously suggested that Saddam himself be sprung from jail and restored to power. He had become too emasculated...
...years, Senior Choir Secretary Michael T. Wilson ’07 describes first-time participation in the carol services as exhilarating. “I still remember the end of my first carol service, four years ago, with the choir singing the final verse of ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,’” Wilson writes in an e-mail. “The organ amplified the sheer emotional intensity of the moment and the beautiful, soaring descant made me realize that this moment would be how I remembered my freshman year?...
...couturier who influenced me the most," says Christian Lacroix, who this season showed somber, voluminous coats that hark back to Balenciaga's work in the 1950s. "His use of materials, the graphic silhouette, the use of black and the influence of the Spanish Renaissance, lace, the pure opulence...
...career she will encounter a patient's stunning recovery or well-timed premonition that can only be explained by a higher power. So I answered my daughter by asking her the question, "What do you think?" She seemed to have no such reservations, responding with a vigorous rendition of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing...