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...upstairs from a McDonald's, are the offices of the seven-week-old Iraq Reconstruction and Development Council. A pet project of Wolfowitz's, the organization consists of a group of exiled Iraqi technocrats sympathetic to Chalabi who have been feverishly planning how to restart everything from irrigation to trash collection to oil production as soon as the fighting stops. When they get the word from Garner, they will deploy as liaisons between his temporary American ministers and those Iraqis deemed salvageable from Saddam's sprawling bureaucracy. Over a period of three to six months, the U.S. bosses will hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam's Heirs: Who Will Call The Shots? | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...East German food products, which have been replaced by better Western goods. He is so desperate that he collects old East German packages and refills them with Western products. "That's how far they have reduced us," says a staunch communist neighbor when he sees Alex searching through trash cans looking for empty containers. Becker describes the film as a "sad comedy," in contrast to other films about the East such as the 1999 hit Sonnenallee, a more slapstick look at life under communism. "Comedy always has a serious basis," Becker says. "The people we're all laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Berlin Wall Lives! | 4/20/2003 | See Source »

...dynamic group of Harvard students thrills audiences with a mix of drums, cymbals, cups, brooms, trash cans, bottles and water jugs—all without missing a beat. The Harvard University Drummers (THUD) is Harvard’s four-year old percussion group...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Music Preview | 4/18/2003 | See Source »

...scrubbed dishes, made sandwiches and worked the register. When female employees had to take out the trash, he grabbed the bags for them. When company managers came to inspect the store, Rlickman would make them try to blow up one of his balloons—but puff as they might, they could never get one started...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook and Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Controversial Clown Gave Laughter, Life to Square | 4/17/2003 | See Source »

...derided Buhari, a Muslim from the north, as a champion of the Islamic law now in force in several states. Buhari reportedly told Muslims not to vote for non-Muslims. (He told TIME he was "quoted out of context" and that opponents spread the story in "desperation.") The trash talk has helped to fuel political violence, which has killed 10,000 since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Generals' Election | 4/13/2003 | See Source »

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