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Nearly every day now, working from the stand-up desk in his spacious Pentagon E-Ring office, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pores over a secret document known only to a tight circle of U.S. officials: Deployment Order No. 177. Although it might sound like a one-pager that needs only a quick review, No. 177 is a series of documents, each 10 to 20 pages long, detailing exactly when, how and where Army and Marine battalions, Navy carrier groups and Air Force fighter wings are to be shipped overseas or redeployed for war in Iraq...
Yesterday morning, I was summoned from the depths of post-Senior Bar slumber by the earsplitting ring of the red phone in my common room and a persistent knocking at the door. Waiting for me there, in a full coach’s uniform of sweats and sneakers, was my House intramural representative. I was in pajamas, possibly still intoxicated, and late for crew practice...
...each paired with a brief critical essay, has all the passion and eloquence of the volume’s title. The phrase “break, blow, burn” is drawn from a sonnet by the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, but here it has a decidedly contemporary ring...
...Wuergeengel 122 Dresdener Strasse, wuergeengel.de A Kreuzberg institution, this old-fashioned, wood-paneled bar trumps the pretentious chic often found in new locations in the former East Berlin districts of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. It's elegant drinking in a rough part of town. Green Door 50 Winterfeldtstrasse, greendoor.de Ring the bell on the aforementioned door to get in, and sit at either the long wooden bar or in the dimly lit lounge. Green Door's aim is to weed out the beer guzzlers from the elegant drinkers...
...former official with Northern Ireland's Sinn Fein party and British intelligence informant; found dead at his remote rural cottage; in County Donegal, Ireland. In 2002 Northern Ireland's power-sharing government collapsed after Donaldson and two other men were arrested and accused of running an I.R.A. spy ring in British government offices in Belfast. The case against them collapsed late last year, but Donaldson subsequently admitted to being a paid British agent for two decades and was expelled from Sinn Fein. The I.R.A. has denied any involvement in the slaying...