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...Washington is hoping to lighten the load with an infusion of some 20,000 troops slated to be sent - in small contingents, mostly at U.S. expense - from those NATO countries that supported the war. But the number that actually arrive in Iraq may shrink somewhat if it turns out they're headed into a counterinsurgency mission rather than a more pedestrian peacekeeping affair. This week's British casualties, in what had ostensibly been the most tranquil part of Iraq, won't help Washington's recruitment efforts. Britain's own force levels in Iraq had been reduced from 45,000 during...
Shoemaker in the fall. Still, for all her daughter's troubles, Tanya is somewhat sympathetic to the challenges Chancellor Beacon faced. "The district expected them to do in months what it hasn't been able to do for decades," she says...
...quasi-pagan raves. In Bombay, Indian friends told me matter-of-factly that "[authorities]cleaned all that up." I didn't like the sound of that?even aging hippies need a place to lay their buzzing heads. But although a crackdown on drugs has restrained the nightlife in Goa somewhat, there are still plenty of cheap rooms and heaving clubs, most of them located north of the Mandovi River, for young travelers with statement hair. South Goa keeps its beaches tie-dye-free, catering mainly to the well-heeled...
...quest to shape the narrative, and Yoga is no exception. The author is searching for the mythical Zone of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 postapocalyptic film, Stalker, a place where, Dyer says, "Everyone can become whatever they want to be." As both author and central character of his "somewhat fictionalized" travelogue, Dyer can likewise choose an identity. But instead of striking a heroic pose, he portrays himself as a hapless failure, someone who is always wishing to do something?hop a freight train, ask a woman out, adopt a child in Goa?but never follows through. "I have an idea...
Hillary Clinton's palpable humanity is the pleasant surprise of Living History. Unlike her husband, she is not larger than life. She is a recognizable, somewhat overmatched human being in an utterly ridiculous situation. She is paralyzed and discombobulated by events; she gets angry; she cries; she admits to being brittle. "We were both in the eye of the storm," she writes, "but I seemed to be buffeted by every gust of wind, while Bill just sailed along...