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...important as ends, with Iraq exhibit A. He says he learned from Vietnam, where he served as skipper of a swift boat, that you go to war only if all other options fail and that you had better make certain you are prepared to do what it takes to succeed. Whatever his criticisms of Bush's war, Kerry says, he is committed to finishing the mission. "My exit strategy is success," he says, "a viable, stable Iraq that can contribute to the stability and peace in the Middle East." Among the first things Kerry would do as President, says Samuel...
...billion secondary market for live events is a model of inefficiency. "There's a great deal of time and energy wasted," says Princeton University economist Alan Krueger, who has studied ticket prices. But an upstart business, StubHub.com which was launched near the end of the Internet boom, may yet succeed in changing this landscape. The site is a NASDAQ for tickets, and unlike eBay, StubHub guarantees the transaction and thus a seat. Its home page directs you to concerts, sports or theater events, and after its program crunches the credit-card numbers and finalizes a trade, the ticket seller receives...
...face of gun-toting mobs, and looters have since been digging with relative impunity. Archival reconstruction and international police cooperation have managed to return many of the pieces stolen from the Baghdad Museum, but the harm done to these archaeological sites is irrevocable. While U.S. damage control might again succeed in the apprehension of many of the stolen objects, their context and provenance are forever lost, severely curtailing the wealth of information professional archaeologists might have otherwise reaped...
...disagreement might seem to dampen their revolutionary spirit. But it’s exactly this uncertainty that makes the present such an exciting time to study electronic copyright law—the chaotic lack of infrastructure, just below an apparently sound surface, that makes a revolution succeed...
...self-disciplined,” Solis said. “He put so much pressure on himself to succeed. His parents didn’t pressure him—he applied that pressure to himself...