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...Iraq, the securing of Iraq's southern oil fields and the advance of thousands of troops to within 50 miles of Baghdad. There was also the prospect that a major allied score in coming days would change the atmosphere. On the other hand, both the worried and the sanguine understood well that the lesson of the war's first act was that however long the campaign lasts, coalition soldiers would probably be bedeviled by pockets of resistance that would continue to complicate their missions and imperil their lives. After 10 days of combat, 38 Americans and 23 Britons were confirmed...
Johnson, who was born in Panama, understood all too well what the Spanish-language network was saying. One of the POWs was an African-American female, 30 years old, named Shana--Shoshana's nickname. Not quite ready to believe the worst, he called Telemundo, which confirmed that his daughter had been spotted on Iraqi TV. It would be six long hours, however, before officials at Fort Bliss called Johnson and his wife Eunice to confirm what the couple had already surmised from surfing TV channels and the Internet. Their gentle daughter--a single mom who, when she was a child...
...complicated: that’s another old saw which doesn’t say much, and spring is when we’re most inclined to ignore it. Now we’ve heard the lecture, we’ve understood the points: when can we go back to our frolicking in the green goo-coated fields of youth? The sooner the better, but not quite yet. We are grown-up boys and girls, and ignorance is not an option. Make the freedom to frolic a universal right, and there’ll be much more if it; otherwise hypocrisy...
...didn't turn out that way, and perhaps it never could. Resolution 1441, like so many other diplomatic texts, turned out to have enough ambiguities in it to mean all things to all men. The French insist that they understood the resolution allowed some time for inspections to work. "Maybe six months, maybe 12, maybe 18," says a top aide to French President Jacques Chirac. By December, Paris was starting to panic. The Americans, says the aide to Chirac, were saying, "We're putting Saddam to a test that he's certain to fail. In a few weeks...
Something was different. There were few tears. There were few glum faces. Instead, I saw a satisfied squad that knew it had just hung with the No. 7 team in the nation. I saw a Crimson team that understood it had finally played up to its expectations against a top-25 opponent. I saw 11 Harvard players who will be hungrier, more talented and more experienced when the NCAA Tournament rolls around...