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...officials do not believe the uprising will turn into a nationwide insurrection. They say the Shi'ite militia numbers only a few thousand and describe leaders, including al-Sadr, as two-bit thugs. All that may be true. But the inability of the U.S., its coalition partners and their Iraqi allies to prevent the outbreak of mayhem showed that, a full year into the occupation, Iraq is nowhere close to being under control. After Iraqi police forces were overrun by al-Sadr's men, the Iraqi Interior Minister resigned at the behest of U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer...
Let’s talk about the night of a performance. Friday is always a hectic blur: After surviving a thousand quizzes and fifty problem sets, you forget what’s going on—you even have trouble remembering what classes you’re taking. I try to put every spare second to good use, so I try to find time to just lay down on my bed and relax. It’s great if I can find time for a half-hour nap before a performance. Because of the nervousness that comes with an approaching...
...same, if prefab has never quite arrived, it is also an idea that never goes away. In the more crowded confines of Europe and Japan, the possibilities offered by prefab are eagerly pursued. In Sweden, Ikea has sold more than a thousand of its Bo Klok ("Live Smart") prefab apartments. In London the engineering firm First Penthouse uses cranes to lower instant apartments onto the rooftops of existing buildings. And lately a number of American architects have been venturing into prefab as a way to bring clean, modern design into a U.S. housing market still dominated by retro ranch styles...
...don’t have to be Pat Buchanan’s gin partner to admit that Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington has offered a worthwhile contribution to our public discourse on immigration and Americanism. One-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, three-one-thousand. Okay, I realize that may have caused a fair number of readers to spray their Froot Loops or orange juice all over the page—so let me explain...
...entire song. But by the time the second track, Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance, comes on, he's pushing the throttle with some funk four-four and singing about a gigolo and his old bag of a client. "Ugly! So ugly, the bitch beyond compare/Dropped a couple hundred thousand dollars on a silver whip just to match the color of her hair...