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...down the Baath Party ladder to purge, know which tribal leaders were legitimate representatives of their people and which had been in Saddam's pocket? In a very real and horrifying way, the ransacking of government offices and power centers--all the resentment and retribution against the network of stoolies, spies and party apparatchiks--is part of the de-Baathification that both critics and proponents of the invasion had insisted would ultimately be necessary. There was no telling how many party leaders had escaped, whether they fled to Syria, as Rumsfeld suggested they had, or were holed up in Tikrit...
...retire. Anwar's continued detention - widely decried as politically motivated - sidelines the opposition's most charismatic leader in the run-up to general elections scheduled for November 2004. meanwhile in the U.S.... A Bit Premature CNN's slogan "Be the first to know" took on new meaning when the network's website accidentally posted mock-up obituaries for luminaries including Pope John Paul II, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan and Bob Hope - none of whom had actually died. CNN blamed human error, saying the obituaries were intended for internal review...
...into Harvard mainstream a capella, the group had to go through an arduous ritual. First, the Lowkeys had to become an officially recognized student group. With Harvard’s official seal of approval in Fall 2000 the group could then operate a website on Harvard’s network, get a student mailbox, be listed among other official student groups, poster on campus, and most importantly, use Harvard space for rehearsal and performance...
...that led the American military into Afghanistan after the World Trade Center attacks was of the “war vs. security threat” variety. Having watched hundreds of their fellow citizens come to a fiery demise, most reasonable Americans deemed it necessary to destroy the al Qaeda network, and the Taliban regime that harbored it, in order to prevent future terrorist attacks. No doubt, countless thousands of Americans—the friends and families—of September 11th’s victims sought retribution. This, I believe, was also a reasonable position. What I do not think...
...This was also the war of cable news, whose ratings jumped by triple digits while the ratings for network nightly news dropped slightly. Cable showed a war that was easy to see but hard to know, as 24-hour news took advantage of technology and access but often hurriedly picked up unconfirmable reports, albeit with caveats. "It's a hazard of the electronic-journalism game," says msnbc president Erik Sorenson. "My staff is so sick of me saying the word attribution." There is always the fog of war, but like smog trapped by a heat inversion, it was compounded...