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...American entreaties to impose a solution and instead let the Iraqis thrash out their differences until they are desperate to compromise. As violence and political bickering threaten to fracture the country, Brahimi's strategy has its merits. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington, Stephan Faris/Karbala, Vivienne Walt/Baghdad and Phil Zabriskie/Tikrit
After receiving the ECAC regular season championship trophy from league commissioner Phil Buttafuoco on senior day, the No. 2 Harvard women’s hockey team skated awkwardly in celebration, unsure of what to do with the golden...
Princeton entered the third and final day of competition with a sizeable 79-point lead, but Harvard wasted little time shaving the deficit down to a manageable sum behind two of its three individual award winners, sophomore David Cromwell and senior Rassan Grant, who shared the Phil Moriarty Award as the meet’s high scorers...
...marital status of the Cheney daughters has myriad other consequences--Section 879 of Title 18 is just one of the 1,138 federal laws that apply to Americans who are married. Taken together, these statutes offer substantial lucre to anyone who weds. For instance, the law allows Phil to give his wife Liz all the money he wants, tax free--even if the money is part of a divorce settlement. But gays who get gifts from their partners (or exes) must pay taxes on the goods as though the partners were mere acquaintances. This disparity is most searing...
Consider the A-Rod deal a Dr. Phil-esque opportunity for national self-realization. Americans haven't been underdogs since 1812. We like to remember the Alamo because we fought long odds and had to give up an entire building; the Mexicans remember Texas. If ever a country's character demanded that it root against the underdog, it's ours. We are the country of crushing, monolithic corporations--of McDonald's, Wal-Mart and companies such as Aramark, Cendant and Sysco that are so powerful we don't even know what they do. We crush foreign dictators for looking...