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Some Houses worry that they will be overwhelmed with diners should they lift restrictions. Even if the numbers of diners at certain Houses increased slightly, however, it would be easy enough to respond to an increase with necessary changes. Quincy House has done exactly that. As the only centrally-located river House with no restrictions, Quincy has become the default dining hall for group meetings and for friends from different houses to get together. Because Quincy welcomes visitors, rather than imposing restrictions on them, the dining hall staff has attempted to combat long lines and overcrowding caused by the influx...
...Security Council is probably the last place many would expect the Bush administration to go to discuss the next step in Iraq. But the White House wants international sanctions against Iraq lifted immediately, in order to free up Iraqi oil revenue for reconstruction. And the UN Security Council is not only the sole body legally empowered to lift those sanctions; it is also legally in control of Iraq's oil revenues right now. That's why the U.S. plans next week to take its call for lifting sanctions to the same Security Council that failed to authorize its invasion...
...Iraqi phone conversations monitored after the U.S. struck at Saddam the night of March 19 indicated that medical help was being requested for him. U.S. intelligence officials say that since then, they have not once picked up Saddam's voice issuing orders. Doubts about whether he survived seemed to lift last Friday, when he appeared on television reading a speech in which he praised the farmer who Iraqis say downed a U.S. Apache helicopter. The helicopter incident occurred March 24, indicating that the Iraqi leader lived at least that long...
...leather jackets. But the temperature had been in the 60s the week before. In the end, U.S. intelligence analysts seemed to agree that Saddam was alive. Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV, which aired the tape across the Middle East, called the appearance a brave move by Saddam to lift Iraqi morale...
...testament to his hectic schedule, Fried tells the story of one day last spring when he woke up at 5:45 am to lift weights, returned to the rink at 3:00 pm after class, and then sprinted over to the lacrosse field for a 5 o’clock practice...