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...about to say? Deep in his 5,400-word speech was a single sentence that had already been the subject of considerable internal debate for nearly a year. It was a line that had launched a dozen memos, several diplomatic tugs of war and some mysterious, last-minute pencil editing. The line--"The British government has learned that...
...Though Iraq is mess right now, the U.S. does have a significant trump card in the country's divided political geography - a situation for which the Bush administration can thank the French (and the British). Iraq, like most of the nation-states conjured up with pencil and ruler on mapping tables in European capitals during the colonial era, comprises three distinct and often hostile ethnic groups. The Europeans did this to make such entities easier to rule from the outside and hobble their ability to unite against the colonial authorities. And the same dynamic may help the Americans...
DIED. FREDDIE BLASSIE, 85, early villainous hero of professional wrestling during the 1950s and '60s; in Hartsdale, N.Y. He helped propel his TV celebrity by jeering the crowds, biting opponents in the ring and calling foes "pencil-neck geeks." In 1983 he appeared with the late comic Andy Kaufman in My Breakfast with Blassie, a film parody of My Dinner with Andre...
...hunks of automobile metal, cut and welded, crushed and painted, build multicolored bridges between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. Not far from his galleries, there's a mini-show of Agnes Martin's delectable paintings, broad washes of color over a rectangular gridwork of lines drawn with a slightly trembling pencil. Something sings across those shivering wires. Dia also has the space to present some of the weightiest and most forceful postwar American art. The sheer tonnage of Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses, 1996-97, or Michael Heizer's North, East, South, West, 1967-2002--four massive holes, each a slightly...
...Janabi, who still has close ties with remnants of the old regime, has returned from Hemet, Calif. (where his wife Lori Van Arsdale is mayor), to his family home, now frequently visited by Americans, in the Mansour area of Baghdad. Al-Janabi, a well-heeled Arab with a pencil-thin mustache and an affinity for American slang, describes Garner as "my homie...