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...book became a best seller, won a Pulitzer, was turned into a movie?and revolutionized the status of the memoir. Until then, the privilege of telling one's life story to a paying public had been the preserve of celebrities, but after Angela's Ashes, the memoir was thrown open to anyone, however young or unimportant. The point was no longer to pack a book with facts about your life (studied here, married there) but to produce a narrative, preferably of the gut-wrenching variety (dropped out here, cheated on her there) with which the reader could connect. The literary...
...Eagles, losers of three straight NFC championship games. The Eagles are a team that has not always been great, but that has nonetheless been blessed with a fanatically loyal group of fans. Eagles fans are the stuff of legend; these are the people who have booed injured Dallas Cowboys, thrown ice balls at Santa Claus and necessitated the creation of an “Eagles Court” beneath the stadium to deal with rowdiness. Yet Eagles fans do have a softer and more civilized side to them. The franchise is one of the few remaining to have...
...more immediate concern date will be the rules that govern the continued presence of U.S. forces. Ahmed Chalabi, the former Pentagon favorite who has since thrown in his lot with the Shiite list, has called for the U.S. to negotiate a "status of forces" agreement with a new government. While such agreements are quite common with U.S. forces deployed in most parts of the world, given the recent history of U.S. military involvement in Iraq the government may be inclined to set limits on the freedom of action of the U.S. forces, which could prove nettlesome for U.S. commanders...
...diplomat, David Welch, rather than to a neocon (although it is expected that the ever present Elliot Abrams will have a hand in this area from his perch at the National Security Council). The neoconservative lockout at State has led to speculation that the U.N. post might be thrown to them as a sop. The rumor last week was Paul Wolfowitz; the rumor the week before was Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton. There is a tradition of neoconservative eloquence at the U.N.: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jeane Kirkpatrick were excellent U.S. representatives during the Soviet...
...cash for energy supplies but when she tried to take on the country's coal industry in Jan. 2001, President Leonid Kuchma fired her. She subsequently spent 42 days in jail on charges of bribery, money laundering, corruption and abuse of power, all of which were eventually thrown out of court. Indeed, no evidence of any of these crimes was ever produced. "So either it just wasn't true or she's the smartest person in the world," says a source close to Yushchenko. In 1999, Tymoshenko launched her own opposition party and last year joined forces with Yushchenko...