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...Last week the President restated the obvious: retreat is not an option. Iraq cannot be left an anarchic, terrorist state. Every major Democrat running for President, including Howard Dean, agrees-and most go further than Bush, asserting that more money and manpower are needed to secure the peace. But the President has stubbornly resisted sharing with the American people a detailed assessment of the situation in Iraq: the fact that we may still be there a decade from now at a cost of hundreds of billions. The Pentagon-the civilian leadership of the Pentagon, that is-stubbornly insists that...
University President Lawrence H. Summers and the deans of Harvard’s schools heard the plan at their annual retreat at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...have the ultimate spa for kids here in our town. It features 100% natural mud treatments, floral and herbal aromatherapy and even a special oxygen-enhanced relaxation area. The name of this secret retreat for the junior set? Our backyard. Amanda Uhry Ridgefield...
Brennan was on a retreat in New Jersey this week and could not be reached for comment. When he returns, Sheehan said, he will travel for a couple of weeks before leaving for Rome in early September...
...north of the Gulf of St. Tropez, Jean-Louis had his house hewn out of a rock cliffside so fire would pass over it. But after the fires of the past 10 days, that troglodyte house is all that is left of the Vérets' summer retreat. Flames laid waste to everything, leaving only the skeletons of a few cork oaks and the aluminum kitchen sink from a trailer where their vacationing daughter and grandchildren had been staying. "It looks like Verdun in 1916," she says. "The devastation is terrifying." Five dead tourists, 19 wounded firefighters, 30,000 hectares...