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...plan to drop yellow food packages along with all the ordnance was designed to reinforce the message that this was not a war on the Afghan people. Some Islamic extremists took to the street and torched effigies of the President, but by and large the Arab world, not to mention Saddam Hussein, was quiet. Bush, however, was impatient. The special forces charged with pinpointing targets for bomber pilots were slow to take up their positions. And the Northern Alliance, on which the CIA's Tenet had staked so much of his plan, looked as if it was flaking...
...society merger. F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a retrospective piece on the early 20s, noted that at that time "society and the native arts had not yet mingled - Ellin Mackay was not yet married to Irving Berlin." The two wed in 1926 and honeymooned abroad. The Social Register refused to mention the couple's return to New York because "Irving Berlin has no position in Society...
...environmental regulation: Charging companies for the pollutants they emit. Cost-benefit-obsessed Bush regulatory chief John D. Graham can take care of the calculations, and together they push the dirtiest industries to clean up out of self-interest and put market forces to work for cleaner technologies. Not to mention bring the EPA - and the government - a whole new revenue stream...
...lacing of her bodice neatly echoing the blues of the far sky and the trees and water in the middle distance. Her blond hair frames her face in fine, tight ringlets. The painting prefigures Leonardo's later obsession with studies of the movement of water and air, not to mention his fondness for the similar hair of a future male lover, Salai--"beautiful hair, rich and curly," as he jotted on a page of his notebook...
...dramatic scene had transpired. State television broadcast orderly scenes from the funeral procession, showing supporters in the unlikely pose of hoisting photos of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who sent a message of condolence to Shirazi's family. Iranian newspapers reported nothing of the disturbance in Qom, and made no mention of the cleric's views in obituaries. The total news blackout, along with the refusal of officials to comment, reveals just how threatened the establishment feels by even the quiet resistance of clerics. The desecration of Shirazi's corpse is a monumental embarrassment for the regime, not least because...