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Eleven Iraqi exiles, as well dressed as they are well connected, flew into Washington late last month for a private two-day meeting at a nondescript downtown hotel. The Iraqis--engineers and economists invited by U.S. officials and intimately familiar with their country's oil industry--spoke in English, not Arabic, for the benefit of American observers. Most of the Iraqis insisted on keeping their identities secret to avoid retaliation from Baghdad. But there was no mystery as to their purpose: the men had gathered to prepare for the struggle over Iraq's oil riches that will start...
National elections were completed last month, and Uncle Sam just now finished his housing rearrangement—he swept a couple Republicans under the rug, moved a lot of nondescript Democrats back into storage, and reclined in his White House. He must have laughed at the C-Span junkies yelling something indecipherable about Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) express train heading back to Arizona. Yet as amusing as this good old American election drama is, there is something sinister and insidious lurking beneath Uncle Sam’s contented conservative front. It is the same unsettling force...
...this quote? John Harvard as a beneficiary, as a mascot of sorts, sure, but who thinks of him as a role model? Had he ever chosen a good name over great riches, or love over wealth? His one claim to fame—mysterious, nondescript historical figure that he is—seems to be that he accumulated wealth over his lifetime and decided to donate a large portion of that wealth to Harvard upon his death...
...with the sniper perch built into the trunk. They must have slept soundly, since they didn't hear federal agents and police creeping up on all sides, armed with submachine guns. Appropriately, they were seized in the same benign setting in which they had allegedly stalked their victims--a nondescript parking lot off a highway outside Washington. It is hard to imagine what castles of delusion came crashing down when the tactical team smashed in the windows of the Caprice and dragged the two out into the nighttime chill. The air was filled with screams, but witnesses could not discern...
That’s where Harvard’s nondescript offensive and defensive linemen were milling—nondescript not only because of the nature of their position, but also because they’re almost entirely...