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...Khalilzad did admit that one of the toughest obstacles he faced was a "culture of consipiracy" among Iraqi politicians, rooted in years of oppression. Each small step in one direction was seen as a huge swing of loyalty. Getting them to trust each other has been an uphill battle, he said, especially when you consider that the Iraqis are faced with trying to do state building and nation building "at the same time...
...passionate reader, to be sure, but her allusion to Jefferson, who wrestled with Barbary pirate attacks on American sailors two centuries ago, may also have been her way of illustrating the intractability of Mideast problems - and of lowering expectations. As she embarked late Friday on a four-day swing across the region, Rice knew very well how little time she had left to work toward the breathtakingly ambitious goal set by President Bush: the creation of a Palestinian state that could live alongside Israel in peace...
While Vance is anxious to get back into the swing of things—he hadn’t faced real competition in nearly 10 months before leading off Harvard’s March 10 season opener against Quinnipiac—the Crimson coaching staff remembers the heartbreak of Vance’s injury all too vividly...
...Shelly] has a tremendous rise ball,” Allard says. “She gets people to swing out of the zone...
...what are the current problems? Too much of the country is ignored. In particular, why should a candidate’s stance on swing-state concerns like ethanol—a hot button issue for Iowa’s farmers—determine whether or not they end up in the White House? The Founders strove for equality among the states, not unfettered favoritism. Take California for example, the largest state, whose population is nearly 70 times that of the smallest state, Wyoming. California’s 55 electoral votes is only 18 times Wyoming’s three, meaning...