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...challenge of turning things around now falls to Bremer, a consummate Washington operator who worked for Henry Kissinger's consulting firm for more than a decade after 23 years in the State Department. His record as a tough, capable administrator somehow manages to satisfy both Pentagon hard-liners and State Department moderates. "He takes no prisoners," says a U.S. official, who nonetheless wonders whether Bremer can truly make a difference as long as Washington remains reluctant to conduct what the official calls a "proper" occupation, which means enough men, resources and commitment for the long, hard job of rebuilding...
...Somehow, other universities manage to accommodate much larger hordes of relatives. Boston University, for example, manages to run their commencement and senior events for classes twice our size...
...Palestinians can be shown that such a crackdown would lead inexorably to statehood and an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. All of this, of course, is familiar ground. The Bush administration had hoped that twisting Yasser Arafat's arm to appoint Abbas would somehow break the logjam, but when Sharon met with Abbas and senior PA figures last Saturday, the change of faces on the Palestinian side of the table had not changed the basic stalled conversation...
...have left the impression on an impressionable reporter that getting beat is worse than getting it wrong. "The story gets handed to anybody who gets hot," says one. "There's no talk about 'Make sure it's fair, make sure it's right.'" But the idea that competitive pressures somehow created Blair's deceptions is a charge Raines flatly rejects: "To suggest that this pathology seems to be a response to the stress of journalism is unfair to the 375 reporters and editors who work under the exact same circumstances...
...death penalty, there are more than 2,400 cases, of which more than 140 have died. Maintaining Shanghai's SARS-free reputation has become an all-encompassing obsession for this proud city. After all, an innate superiority complex makes it easy for many Shanghainese to believe their city will somehow evade the virus. A massive publicity campaign on SARS-prevention measures has helped, too, successfully quelling the large-scale panic striking many other Chinese cities. Restaurants may not be packed as usual, but life swings on in Shanghai...