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...paying off. The President's attention span may be haphazard, but the immediate satisfactions are difficult to dispute. Saddam Hussein? Evildoer. Take him out. But wait, no WMD? No post-invasion planning? Deaths and chaos? Awful, but ... Freedom! Look at those Shi'ites vote! And now, after all that rapid-eye movement, who can say the Shi'ites and the Kurds won't create a government with a loyal Shi'ite-Kurd security force? And who can say the Sunni rebels won't-with some creative dealmaking-eventually acquiesce? The foreign-policy priesthood may be appalled by all the unexpected...
...there a new superstrain of HIV? It's too early to tell whether the virus was responsible for the New York City man's quick progression to full-blown AIDS or his immune system was particularly vulnerable to rapid decline. The fact that he was a crystal methamphetamine user may have also played a role...
...been given lodging by a teacher in Toronto, where he remains in a state of legal limbo. His case and those of most of his fellow resisters are on hold until Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board decides the fate of another deserter, Private Jeremy Hinzman, 26. Raised in Rapid City, S.D., and unsuccessful in two attempts to gain C.O. status, Hinzman arrived in Toronto with his wife and infant son at the beginning of last year, two weeks before his unit, the 82nd Airborne, was due to go to Iraq...
...band combines the energy of earnest hardcore vocals and rapid drum beats with mathematically precise, compressed guitar parts in the eight short songs of this one-sided LP. Their lyrics encompass both the angry screaming of those radically dissatisfied with politics (“…been told before this power is an unstoppable force to dictate a vision against its people / is what has been done before still out of reach? / vote, assassinate, impeach”) and the more tortured monologues of those alienated by mass culture and society...
...Keohane joins the Corporation on July 1, only two members of the Corporation—Conrad K. Harper ’62 and James R. Houghton ’58—will remain as holdovers from before Summers’ term, capping off a period of unusually rapid turnover on the governing board...