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...with Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller, whose troops make up the third largest contingent in the occupying force in Iraq. The two days of meetings in Washington that followed turned out to be fateful. Although Bremer was not directly blamed for the occupation's troubles in Iraq, it was plain that his halo had slipped. The message that Bush gave his fellow gym rat last week, says a senior official, can be reduced to five words: "Let's get on with it." "It" turns out to be a thorough reworking of Bremer's plan to turn power over...
...district, next to the house U.S. forces bombed back in April in the belief that Saddam was hiding there. Happily, the restaurant emerged unscathed. Sa'ah serves pan-style pizzas ($2.50 for a large pie) that have plenty of cheese but seemingly no tomato paste. "This one's too plain," says Sergeant Tolo Gbassage, 23, taking a break from his duties at an American military checkpoint. "They never put enough tomato sauce on these things." But Hamid Abdul Latif, 50, a clerk in the Iraqi Ministry of Justice, appreciates the unadorned flavor. "I like it plain," he says, "but that...
...don’t pick Goliath over David. You didn’t want to see the Yankees win the World Series this year, even if you found the Marlins as appealing as plain yogurt and even if you stopped watching in disgust after the League Championship Series (unless you are of that mutant breed known as Yankees fans...
Some of the t-shirts out there are also just plain arrogant. Dartboard almost bought one when she read the text: “What do Harvard and Yale students have in common? They both got into Yale!” The kid next to Dartboard mumbled, “Well I sure didn’t.” Several others confessed that they too had received Yale rejection letters. Is the t-shirt meant to make us appear conceited, or sarcastic...
...working at Origins—‘make me over. I’m a Dior girl,’” he recalls. “I was sitting there thinking, what am I going to do with her eyes? She’s an uncommonly plain woman, you know, but so engaging that you forget...