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...fill up with an assortment of Green Zone archetypes: broad-shouldered security contractors walk in with dates in tight tops and high heels; a handful of diplomats mingle in blazers; a construction worker wearing a fishing vest that reads BAGHDADDY meets his friends at the end of a 12-hour shift. The guards at the gate require that patrons surrender their guns, ammunition, grenades and flash bangs before entering. You get your weapons back at the end of the night...
Responsibility for coordinating this Tower of Babel still lies with the coalition forces. But in the coming year, more territory within the Green Zone, as in the rest of Iraq, is slated to be turned over to Iraqi government control. Manikas is part of the crew logging 12-hour days to build the new $592 million U.S. embassy, a small city of low-slung, thick concrete buildings with small windows on the banks of the Tigris. When it's finished this fall, the new compound will be the largest embassy ever built. Nearly all U.S. personnel will move...
...political campaigning in SL isn’t just a French hobby to fill the hours leftover from the 35-hour workweek. Indeed, SL may be the frontier of Internet campaign advertising in the U.S. too. Supporters of the Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards campaigns have already set up de-facto headquarters and social organizations for their respective camps. Recently, a virtual Capitol Hill was also constructed to encourage civic discussion...
Discontent over these items resulted in the entire grants package being voted down more than an hour into the meeting. The package was not passed until it was agreed that the Eleganza grants would be considered independent of the other grants next week...
...Yeltsin had moments that made one believe Russia could shed its authoritarian impulses and emerge as something of a Western-style democracy. His finest hour, really his defining moment, was in August 1991. The leader of the country, Mikahil Gorbachev, was in the Crimea on summer vacation, and dark forces opposed to Gorby and his stop-start reforms tried to stage a coup...