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...sound so confident. Weren’t you ever nervous to tell people you went to Harvard...
...South Africa, Gay W. Seidman ’78 confronted riot police and snarling dogs blocking the entrance to the headquarters of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. The University of California at Berkeley graduate student, already nervous about doing research on the South African labor movement under the noses of the oppressive apartheid regime, turned the corner and watched through a fog of tear gas as police arrested and beat the workers inside. She, too, was almost apprehended before the officers relented at the behest of a lawyer for the labor movement. As she puts it, her nearly...
...last minute. Many were simply out of position when the Americans arrived. The day before Baghdad fell, this source recalls, Qusay held a meeting with his top generals. Qusay would ask a question, get an answer and then repeat the question five minutes later. "He looked nervous," he says. "He wasn't stable." By contrast, Uday's Fedayeen Saddam were Iraq's best fighters in Gulf War II. They confronted the U.S. troops and slowed their march to Baghdad. Their attacks were often suicidal, but that was their intent...
...Whatever challenges confront the new press secretary - who is likely to be Fleischer's deputy, Scott McClellan - they will all be framed in the context of the approaching 2004 election. Always nervous that the president's official duties will seem politically motivated, the White House wants to conceal any outward appearance of striving for victory while working robustly behind the scenes to do just that. No one will have to maintain this balance more than the new resident behind the podium. In 2000, Bush's team tried to keep the press at bay, much as it does in the White...
...crime. Carjackings, lootings, robberies, arson and rapes have become the order of the day--and night. Automatic gunfire provides an unsettling sound track for daily life. The threat of violence makes parents afraid to send their kids to school, merchants wary of opening their stores and law-abiding Iraqis nervous about going out after dark. The Americans have tried to blame pro-Saddam saboteurs for the collapse of order. Lieut. General David McKiernan, head of the U.S. land forces in Iraq, said last week that Baghdad's breakdown was largely the result of an organized resistance engineered by Saddam loyalists...