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That, for the moment, seems to have been accomplished. But now comes the much trickier task of making Brahimi's proposal work. While many of its details are still works in progress, the plan calls for Brahimi to appoint a panel of Iraqis who would help the U.N. name a President, two Vice Presidents, a Prime Minister and a group of technocrats to run ministries and prepare the country for elections in early 2005. Critically, it attempts to bring Sunni Muslims--who make up about 30% of Iraq's population and who ran Iraq under Saddam Hussein--back into...
...flight of stairs, or Vivien Leigh flinching away from a naked light bulb. And for a college, of all places, to tackle Streetcar—to take actors not long out of high school and cast them as sensual hulks and aging pedophiles—is an even trickier proposition; a few false steps and the production could start to feel like Max Fischer’s Serpico. But having all these bars against them, the Eliot crew has nevertheless managed to pull off a mostly genuine and affecting production of Tennessee Williams’ play...
...play a more traditional game, but they switched things up a lot, ran some trickier plays that we didn’t react to well," McKiernan said. "As a result we had only one blocker up, which is never good...
...changing the Massachusetts constitution would be a trickier task...
...politics quickly proved a trickier terrain for the telegenic antiwar general than even the battlefields of Yugoslavia. Only a day after his announcement, Clark told reporters on his campaign plane that if he had been in Congress last fall, he probably would have voted for the resolution authorizing President Bush to use force in Iraq. In a single sentence he had undermined the rationale for his whole candidacy--at least for those who saw him as Howard Dean with stars and a war record. Clark seems to have realized this himself, for the next day he reversed course. "I would...