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...Before the war, there was a contentious debate about the role of Iraqi security forces once major fighting ended. The State Department and the CIA pushed hard for a strategy that would remove only the top layers of Iraq's army and keep most of the rank-and-file intact. They argued that the army was the country's most important unifying national organization, able to transcend ethnic and religious divides...
...Hansen's stately Mariette in Ecstasy, Mark Salzman's piercing Lying Awake--the story turns upon the riddle of where revelation ends and delusion begins. Guterson's Our Lady of the Forest (Knopf; 323 pages) leaves such questions and the purity and mystery of Ann's sightings largely intact. Instead the author concentrates on how her clear, white vision refracts into a rainbow of reflections, few of them exalted. His book is, in effect, a group of portraits of beat-up, lived-in lives that amounts to a group portrait of America today...
BURLINGTON, Vt.—Before Friday’s 6-4 win at Vermont, the left ankle of senior Kenny Turano was completely intact, fully functional and ready to go. Like every other part of his body, in every practice, and every game, he planned to put it to the test...
That isn’t to say those players aren’t capable, though. Stephanie Cochran, who assumes regular duties between the pipes this year, held Harvard to just two goals in the ECAC finals and the defense returns as a mostly intact unit, now one year older and wiser...
Drag Night doesn’t always foster the kind of freedom and diversity it purports to. Prince Charming may get some fake boobs to be beautiful for a few hours, but by the stroke of midnight, his stubble returns and he changes back into a man, his masculinity intact. So the question is, does Drag Night really allow us to play around with such entrenched categories as male and female? Or is it the kind of fun that only perpetuates these categories...