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Tough talk is cheap in Baghdad. But if the new interim government in Iraq is going to prevail in what Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vows will be a "showdown" with the insurgency ravaging the country, it will need to put serious muscle behind the bluster. That's where General Mohammed Abdullah al-Shahwani, the recently named boss of the newly formed Iraqi Intelligence Service, comes in. As Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh says of him, "Terrorism is fought best with intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: After The Hand-Off: Taking Back The Streets | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...which are under your control. On the other hand, if all you have is empathy and ambiguity and you don't know when to stand and fight and when to say no, then in the end all the sand will run out of the hourglass before you really can prevail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Side of The Story | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...says. “I had a great time as an undergraduate and I couldn’t think of a place where I’d rather study law.”Frank published a book, Net Worth: Successful Investing in the Companies That Will Prevail Through Internet Booms and Busts...

Author: By Yailett Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two-time Orator Will Call For Fighting Injustice With Education | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...gossip alone will help keep this on playlists through September. It's also a perfectly acceptable bit of I'm-so-sorry-baby R. and B. It'll have chart competition from U Saved Me by the unkillable R. Kelly, but Usher should have enough momentum to prevail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The 12 Songs Of Summer | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...county building anyway, and they ended up in the office of county attorney Sowle. Even though Sowle had decided that Multnomah must grant same-sex marriage licenses, she did not provide one. Instead, she obfuscated. "I said, 'You know, I'm working on this opinion, and if I could prevail on you to wait a couple of days, I would appreciate it a lot. It would be a very good thing,'" she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Oregon Eloped | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

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