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...Just as important, there is no doubt that the leaders of the main political groups understand this necessity for a coalition perfectly well. The trouble is that have they no reason to strive hard to implement such an arrangement right now, as they are unable to control their followers outside Baghdad’s Green Zone, where they live, and uncertain regarding the terms and conditions under which the American military will choose to leave. To make matters worse, the presence of American military power makes the job of the central government more difficult still; U.S. military commanders...
...year stint at Versace and a namesake shoe line that draws raves from Hollywood, Atwood knows a thing or two about glitz. As Bally's first creative director since 2002, he's also got his mind firmly focused on giving the brand a new look. "Desirability is the main focus," says Atwood. To begin, he dipped into the 157-year-old company's archives of some 13,000 pairs of shoes for inspiration. After pulling ideas to meld into new designs, Atwood set to work creating special pieces for the modern woman. "It's a very fast-moving consumer...
...just look at Governor Spitzer. Or Ellen Degeneres. Both require spending time on the road meeting strangers who often have the desire to throw things at you. Both are difficult, if not impossible, to do all alone. And both rely heavily on personality. In an era when our main exports are entertainment and democracy, comedy is practically a function of the presidential office. George W. Bush has dutifully, if not intentionally, provided Americans with laughs for nearly a decade. He has also made them cry, sometimes for the same reason. Americans have many bizarre criteria by which they select their...
...evening, I visit the main commercial district: the oft-bombed Karrada. It straddles two broad avenues - Karrada In and Karrada Out - lined with shops selling everything from color TVs and furniture to vegetables and fruit. The two avenues are separated in some places by a single city block, and one is easily confused for the other. Now they seem worlds apart. Karrada In is buzzing: several new kebab restaurants have sprung up, and many shops have expanded. Karrada Out is the opposite, dark and empty, with most of the shops shuttered. Why? One explanation is that many of the businessmen...
...answers to those questions are elusive. The literarily inclined might date the beginnings of the change all the way back to Sinclair Lewis and Main Street. The aging moviegoer might cite King's Row, wherein cheerful Ronald Reagan lost his legs to a sadistic doctor. Me, I'd probably pick something like Boys Don't Cry, for which Hillary Swank won her first Oscar playing out a transgender tragedy on the flat and (as the camera saw them) fallow plains of Nebraska...