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...mantle of empire laid down by European powers. The dream of the neo-imperialists was idealistic; they imagined that after U.S. soldiers had secured Iraq, the invisible infrastructure of the modern state-such as independent judges, honest civil servants and an efficient tax collection-would gradually take shape under a benign American tutelage until, one day, a beacon of democracy in the Middle East...
...mantle of empire laid down by European powers. The dream of the neo-imperialists was idealistic; they imagined that after U.S. soldiers had secured Iraq, the invisible infrastructure of the modern state?such as independent judges, honest civil servants and an efficient tax collection?would gradually take shape under a benign American tutelage until, one day, a beacon of democracy in the Middle East...
...This guy's supposed to be the greatest warrior of all time; I had to get my [butt] in shape." BRAD PITT, American actor, explaining why he quit smoking, went on a diet and worked out intensively to prepare for his role as Achilles in the movie Troy
...bigger problem for Microsoft is that fully 65% of Windows users have not yet upgraded to XP. Why should they, when there's another new version taking shape? As Gates is fond of saying, "Our biggest competitor is our installed base." Now the Longhorn team has been told to scale back its ambitious plans for the new operating system in order to make sure it will work with the average...
...though only a little. A few days later, Hurricane Marty, the second hurricane to hit the production, blew down the walls of Troy. The walls were rebuilt, and Pitt's leg healed, but shooting was suspended for three months, during which both actors had to stay in peak physical shape. "You could say it was just another one of the challenges," Bana says wryly...