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...alone if you've stopped keeping track of the 9/11 investigation--the FBI's largest ever, as we've been told. But last week Washington insiders found a single thread in the giant investigation tapestry and began pulling--and in doing so created what could become a diplomatic mess with a key ally, just as the U.S. is trying to maintain support for its hard line on Iraq...
...this game of make-believe that created the whole Miss World mess. The pageant’s organizers and the Nigerian government were both involved in a great fantasy that the pageant would work fine in Nigeria, ignoring a lot of facts and a lot of common sense. Nigeria’s large Muslim population would not act its part in this charade. It was not ready to accept an international beauty pageant, which one Islamic leader poetically described as a “parade of nudity.” When the riots began last week, the fantasy finally collapsed...
...Islamic countries?aimed at boosting tourism from the Middle East?has yet to see any substantial changes) may ironically provide it some measure of protection against terrorism. The diplomat comments: "These people are not stupid. They've got a good thing going in Malaysia. They don't want to mess that up by bombing some expat hangout." By Simon Elegant/Kuala Lumpur...
...There was way more of a mess,” said Leverett HoCo Co-Chair Miriam S. Udler ’03, comparing this year’s tailgates to the ones two years...
...between all the scoring, things turned ugly, as the teams combined for a mess of 15 third-period penalties, including a bench minor to Harvard at the 16:23 mark...