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...African peacekeeping isn't easy. On the one hand, the British experience in Sierra Leone showed that a relatively small force of well-trained and organized troops can quickly put to flight much larger rag-tag rebel armies. But political institutions in Liberia are weak, and in a region where war has become a way of life for so many young men, it may have a nasty habit of recurring. And as he's pressing the case for more action against al-Qaeda and regional warlords and demagogues (primarily Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe), President Bush is likely to hear...
...paintings were exhibited in New York in 1965, the fashion world seized on her style and sprayed deformed checkerboard patterns all over ties, dresses and lamp shades. It was hip to be Op, as Riley's approach was called, but she complained her work had been "vulgarized in the rag trade." Another artist might have abandoned the style, but Riley never veered from her path and soon transcended the merely trendy. Today, at 72, she is one of the U.K.'s most celebrated artists, respected for a life spent pursuing her own singular vision. The first-ever overview...
...friend’s first experiences in the service, Wagner said, involved picking up and carrying corpses with such severely broken bones that they drooped like rag dolls...
...weekend before last was a spectacle of discussion. Here at Harvard, everybody’s favorite conservative rag, The Salient, arrived in dining halls and distribution centers. I expected the issue, entitled “Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Towards a dispassionate look at homosexuality,” to light up the open e-mail lists...
Tell people you write for a big media organization, and one of the first things they do is ask you for the news. No, not the news you published in your rag last week--the real news. The stuff you can't tell everyone. When's the war going to start? Who's gay in Hollywood? What kind of deal did Bush cut to get into the White House...