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...south, like Basra, conditions are much better than they are in Baghdad, in part because they are smaller and more manageable and in part because they are areas that were less sympathetic to Saddam and the Baath. There has been some progress in Baghdad too. Iraq's patchwork power grid last week managed to pump more than 1,000 MW of electricity into the city for the first time since the main fighting ended--though that was still less than half of prewar levels. But disorder still prevails in the capital. "There's no doubt in my mind that crime...
...Crimson attack took shape in much the same way it had in each of the two previous seasons—Shevchik and junior John Cole paved the way by dominating their events with a patchwork of victories and top finishes by several of Harvard’s other swimmers supplementing the point total and sealing the victory...
...Crimson attack took shape in much the same way it had in each of the two previous seasons—Shevchik and junior John Cole paved the way by dominating their events with a patchwork of victories and top finishes by several of Harvard’s other swimmers supplementing the point total and sealing the victory...
Currently, the University’s acreage in Allston more closely resembles a patchwork of run-down commercial properties than a college campus—the parcel Harvard is most likely to build on first is currently crossed by railroad lines, dotted with gas stations and dominated by a large trucking facility...
...That leaves most of the country outside of the capital under the de facto control of a patchwork of often feuding warlords whose links to Kabul are often tenuous and many of whom have reverted to extortion, drug production and other illicit revenue streams. Even in Kabul itself, Karzai finds himself a virtual prisoner in the palace, guarded by U.S. personnel because the Northern Alliance troops of his defense minister, General Mohammed Fahim, may not be sufficiently trusted with Karzai's life. Fahim, of course, is quite happy for the affable Pashtun president in the coat of many colors...