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...utter desperation in Iraq, and it comes at a crucial moment. Iraq's fate--well, the U.S.'s fate in Iraq--will be decided in the next six months. There are few optimists left in the Congress, intelligence community or U.S. military. But the Bush Administration harbors a gossamer strand of hope that the Dec. 15 election will finally produce a strong Iraqi government, a real coalition of Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds. The Administration also realizes it may take a supremely oleaginous political thug, perhaps someone as rare and fetid as Ahmad Chalabi, to bring...
Every woman should own a strand of pearls, especially now that they're affordable. PurePearls.com is part of a growing crop of Internet-based wholesalers selling Fifth Avenue--quality freshwater and cultured pearls at eBay prices. Run by Amanda Raab, 25, the site also teaches consumers about the different types of pearls and how they're farmed and graded. Prices start at $27 for freshwater-pearl earrings and go up to $16,400 for a South Sea pearl necklace. Every piece comes with a certified GIA appraisal and a 90-day return policy. --By Betsy Kroll
...Rangoon, Burma's capital. In the distance, red-brick Victorian steeples poke up among the golden domes of the pagodas, and along the road, great white-columned English mansions stand empty like haunted houses, their walls mildewed, their gardens overrun with weeds, moisture dripping from their eaves. In the Strand Hotel, a grand monument to colonial decay, ceiling fans turn lazily above a lost-and-found case still stuffed with pince-nez, ladies' compacts and rusting cuff links misplaced during an age of vanished elegance. Around the lobby, black-tied men in curry-stained white coats serve...
...pictures testify, this apparently prosaic man harbored a true poetic vision. A passionate student of the piano, Adams reluctantly concluded in his late 20s that his hands were too small for a concert career. After an encounter with the photographer Paul Strand, he decided to devote himself to his second love, the camera. His mother and aunt were dismayed. The camera, they informed him, could not express the soul. "Perhaps the camera cannot," he retorted, "but the photographer...
...That strand of influenza, which killed between 2.5 percent and 5 percent of those infected, “seems merciful in comparison to the 55-percent mortality rate of the current Avian flu,” Frist said...