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Rapier, who would not call the timetable change a delay, said yesterday that Harvard will launch the campaign’s public phase “when the timing is right...
...insurgency enters a violent new phase as a car bomb explodes at the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, killing 19 people; 12 days later, a truck bomb explodes at U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing 23, including Special Envoy to Iraq Vieira de Mello...
Saddam was captured on Dec. 13, 2003, in a spider hole on a farm near Tikrit. His briefcase was filled with documents identifying many of the former Baathists running support networks for the insurgency. It was the first major victory of what the U.S. called the postcombat phase of the war: in early 2004, 188 insurgents were captured, many of whom had been mentioned in the seized documents. Although Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, Saddam's former No. 2, narrowly evaded capture, much of his Mosul and Kirkuk apparatus was rolled up. Baathist financial networks were disrupted in several provinces...
...money flows into the Gulf States faster than water is pumped out of New Orleans, it's safe to say the recovery from Hurricane Katrina has entered a new phase: the financial free-for-all. The President was careful not to get specific about what the "generosity of a united country" might cost, but economists estimate that Katrina's final price tag could easily top $200 billion. While frugal Republicans like Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Arizona Representative Jeff Flake (one of 11 members of the House to vote against the President's relief bill) instinctively called for budget...
...advance production of digital films, games, special effects and animation--something Lucas has done for decades yet Hollywood hasn't quite caught on to. "We make films for half or a third of the cost," Lucas told TIME. "The film industry still has to go through the Internet phase." Lucas and his colleagues pioneered the first nonlinear digital-editing systems, started Pixar in 1983 and developed the first computer-animation systems, which led to breakout hits like Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Hewlett-Packard plans to deliver 1,000 workstations and high-end storage equipment for producing video games...