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...another coup by setting up Iraq's post--June 30 political structures. The veteran diplomat has responded with impressive sangfroid. "He's on vacation," says a top U.N. aide. The aide says Brahimi's plan is to ignore American entreaties to impose a solution and instead let the Iraqis thrash out their differences until they are desperate to compromise. As violence and political bickering threaten to fracture the country, Brahimi's strategy has its merits. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington, Stephan Faris/Karbala, Vivienne Walt/Baghdad and Phil Zabriskie/Tikrit
...ever get beyond the disco thrash, you'll discover that the lyrics are frequently quite clever. Jacqueline is about an older man realizing that a younger girl is out of bounds, Michael is a sad bit of homoeroticism, and Tell Her Tonight gets at the fumbling language of infatuation ("Only watched her walk but she so is/Only heard her talk but she so is"). Franz Ferdinand isn't out to make poetry; these musicians are out to make you move your feet, and their giddy soul is revealed in every trick they use to get the job done. Pace shifts...
...challenging our obvious might, and a crimson campus rises to denounce its mewling foes. It won’t be as exciting, perhaps, as beating a real team, but if we don’t make Eli smile weakly through his tears at our merciful promise not to thrash him again for a full year, who will...
Chicago Cubs slugger SAMMY SOSA was caught using a corked bat in a game against Tampa Bay. Sosa, the only major leaguer ever to hit 60 home runs in three different seasons, and who shouldn't need a corked bat to thrash the hapless Devil Rays anyway, says the incident was an accident: he picked up the wrong bat. X rays of 76 (!) other bats from Sosa's locker all turned up negative (though the inquiry did determine the cause of global deforestation), but Major League Baseball handed him an eight-game suspension. Sosa is appealing the decision...
...constitution and Europe's role in outer space, the European Convention returned to earth last week with a thud. The grandly named Convention on the Future of Europe, led by former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, has been meeting since February 2002 to thrash out a new architecture for an enlarged European Union of 25 states. With just under two months to go before the body presents its draft constitution, Giscard infuriated delegates by unilaterally unveiling proposals for a radical overhaul of E.U. institutions - plans that incensed the E.U.'s smaller states by placing even more power...