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...Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Little, Brown; 838 pages), historian Robert Dallek has bravely set himself the task of trying, 40 years and a thousand books after Dallas, to reassemble the pieces of the Kennedy puzzle--essentially, to bridge the considerable distance between the dark side and the somewhat tattered radiance of the myth, between the tabloid hedonist and the martyred saint. It has become a familiar problem: How to explain that the irrational, risk-taking Hefnerian who went to bed with the girlfriend of the Mafia boss of Chicago, who routinely lied about his disastrous health...
...have Iraqis had a clear sense of who is in charge. The U.S.-led transitional authority has been for the most part inaccessible to the residents of the city, if not somewhat invisible. The most orderly neighborhoods in Baghdad may well be in the Shiite ghetto known now as Sadr City, where local imams, acting on orders from the clerical hierarchy in Najaf and for the most part ignoring coalition troops and administrators, have organized local militia to stop looting, provide security and restore basic services. But given the strong influence of Islamist radicals among them, these...
...very idea of a UN mandate for postwar Iraq may sound somewhat anachronistic in light of the military realities there, but it remains a significant goal not only because President Bush promised his European coalition partners before the war that the UN's blessing would be sought for postwar arrangements, but because it remains key to convincing other governments to share the economic and military load of getting Iraq back on its feet. Some 15 countries sent representatives to a meeting in London Thursday to discuss sending troops for an international stabilization force being initiated by Washington. But some...
...little different [than Northwestern]—we don’t have uniform set-up, and Northwestern is somewhat smaller then Harvard,” Steen said...
DIED. NINA SIMONE, 70, fiery, eclectic singer and classically trained pianist who was known, somewhat inaccurately, as the "high priestess of soul"; of undisclosed causes; in Carry-le-Rouet, France. Born Eunice Waymon (she changed her name so her mother wouldn't catch on to her pop career), the onetime aspiring concert pianist and self-described "diva" had only one hit single--I Loves You Porgy in 1959--but gained a following in the U.S. and Europe for her alternately smooth and gravelly tones, majestic stage presence and maverick opinions. Bristling at mainstream pop-music labels, Simone called her music...