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Articulate, energetic, with the kind of Kennedyesque profile to which men of a certain age aspire, Bremer has the look of a man used to success. But he has inherited a mess. His predecessor, retired General Jay Garner, is leaving Baghdad only 40 days after arriving. Garner insists that he always knew he would be replaced rapidly--he had told his wife that he would be home for his family's annual Fourth of July picnic--but everyone understands that the switch was accelerated because the first month went badly. Officials acknowledge that America's postwar planners made a central...
...stage, she made quick work of cleaning up the mess. First, she rescheduled the badly off-track symposium from the podium...
...That was a very messy affair,” remembers Paul S. Grogan, the former vice president of government and community affairs who arrived at Harvard shortly afterwards to help clean up the mess. “It exposed the fact that the University didn’t have the relationships in place...
...very annoyed that Mr. Weissbecker had landed us in that mess,” Fox says in reflection. “In another frame of mind, I would have said, ‘Why the hell did you do this to us,’ but given he had abandoned his position [on the issue], it seemed best simply to say: ‘how fortunate...
...constructed, fourth floor resident Devin C. Powell ‘03 explains, from “an old piece of pipe that was all nasty, that we found in a closet.” The pipe had a capacity of six beers at a time, creating an epic mess on the ground floor. “You’d walk into Pennypacker for weeks afterward and smell the stench from the puddles that were left there.” As a result of the third floor’s activities, the fire stairways in Pennypacker have been subsequently alarmed...