Word: reconstructionism
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Before they arrived in Athens, the two swimmers were known for their struggles rather than their successes. Petria Thomas, 28, had spent a long stretch of her career wrestling with a body that kept letting her down; if she wasn't recovering from another shoulder reconstruction she was seen as...
Orr co-directed a bipartisan commission on post-conflict reconstruction for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, acted as director of the Washington office of the non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations and was selected as one of six members of a bipartisan commission sent to Iraq...
WELL, WASN'T IT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION THAT DISBANDED THE IRAQI ARMY? Actually, the Administration didn't disband it--it melted away. It's a blessing when an army melts away rather than dying in place. On the other hand, if what we're after is to get reconstruction going...
Meanwhile, the violence persists: as conference organizers worried about where to house 1,000 people who would present a tempting target to insurgents, a massive car bomb in Baqubah killed 70 people?the worst attack since the June 28 handover. Insurgents also kidnapped a fresh batch of captives, leading some...
The authors of The 9/11 Commission Report hope they have sounded a call to battle. In official Washington, the arrival of the tome was greeted with a grim solemnity that reflected the panel's decision to apportion blame across dozens of agencies spanning two presidencies. Meticulous in its reconstruction of...