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...failure to get the costs right turned on two false assumptions: that Iraq's infrastructure was in relatively decent shape and that Iraqi oil exports would pay for much of the country's reconstruction. But Iraq's electricity grid is barely functional, and its oil installations aren't much better. "The oil refineries can't be repaired, in my opinion," said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham after a visit to Iraq last month. "They have to be replaced...
...paintings and sculptures for the show, and supplemented those with work by Haitian artists living the Boston area. “It was an extraordinary experience to go to Haiti and meet with the artists. Everything is art there—everyone paints. They express themselves through color and shape even when their lives are difficult,” says Anninger...
...given the amount of oil in the Middle East, a Western government that does not want to be in the good books of regimes there is either energy-rich or brain-deficient. France is neither. And France's attempt to shape the European project in its own image is at least 50 years old. Given the continuing unwillingness of Europeans to pool their sovereignty in a true political union, France is no more likely to succeed in this effort now than it has been in the past...
...weird sometimes," he says as he sips iced coffee in a secluded hotel caf? in Tokyo. "When people call me Mr. Kam, I'm like, who is Mr. Kam? Or they call me Mr. Kim, and I have to remind them that I'm not Korean." He admits his shape-shifting attributes, which are a powerful acting tool, may stem from personal rootlessness. He owns two apartments, one in Tokyo and one in Taipei, but says that he's never in either long enough to decorate. "I don't have a sense that I live anywhere," he sighs. By nature...
While council members say Chopra likes to personally shape everything the council does on a daily basis, Chopra also said he’s taken time recently to step back and think of broader issues affecting undergraduates at Harvard...