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...named a candidate for al-Jaafari's job. More damaging is the fact that his party is allied with powerful Shi'ite groups that control the very militias he says he wants to crush. Criticizing U.S. troops will help him gain some street cred--if Iraqis believe he is serious. In the 10 weeks since the Haditha incident was made public, he showed little interest in the alleged massacre--until his outburst last week...
...infant, toddler and preschooler (ITP) products grows--sales of ITP home furnishings were up 5.2%, to more than $8 billion, from 2004 to 2005--and high-design products like the Bugaboo stroller sell for three times the average price of such common purchases, big-name designers are suddenly paying serious attention to child's play...
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...listens to the rain.”Her more recent work has become increasingly spiritual with frequent references to dreams and phenomena beyond our world.Valentine says that contemporary culture is less receptive to poetry than in the fifties when she started writing. “The interesting serious literature in this culture is declining fast, and that includes poetry because poetry is one of the first to go,” she says, mentioning that poetry offers little chance for financial gain.Free-verse poetry seems especially impractical, she says, because “there’s nothing much...
...larger campus that would enable the College to admit even more applicants.Pusey laid the groundwork for the physical expansion of the University in a speech to the Associated Harvard Clubs, a group of alumni, in the spring of 1956. Calling the speech the “most serious and important” of his presidency up to that point, Pusey declared that Harvard needed $40 million—the equivalent of $287.5 million today—to meet the “building needs” of just those currently enrolled at the University.Pusey’s remarks came...