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Though U.S. officials blame Saddam for creating the mess they have inherited, Washington is in fact digging itself out of a self-imposed hole. Military officers and officials involved in planning the governing of postwar Iraq say the Administration never devised a strategy for running the country and ignored warnings about some of the maladies--such as widespread looting and collapse of the country's infrastructure--that continue to plague the nation-building effort. "The war plan was there in spades," says Ron Adams, who served as deputy to Jay Garner, the retired lieutenant general who briefly preceded Bremer...
...SCOTT HUBBARD, Columbia Accident Investigation Board member, after a test in which a chunk of foam insulation fired at shuttle wing parts blew open a 40-cm hole...
...would have a billion dollars and the war would still be going on? I would have wiped these guys out the first three months. A billion dollars, and no one can find the money... Where does any human being on this earth hide one million dollars? In a hole someplace? Come on, not in a banking institution anywhere in the world. Come on. It's a sad, sad case...
...motif, starting with the opening scene. As a boy Craig must share his bed with his younger brother Phil, causing an argument over the blankets. Their stern father thumps up the stairs and looms over them like a giant, forcing Phil to spend the night in the dreaded "cubby hole" under the stairs. The guilt that Craig feels over not protecting his brother becomes even more acute when a neighborhood boy who baby-sits them molests both boys. Childhood seems made of woe for the sensitive boy who suffers impoverished discomforts at home and ridicule at school. Craig finds escape...
...Phil is taken to the "cubby hole" while Craig cowers...