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...complain that their nominal allies in the Iraqi police and army are more loyal to Shi'ite militias than to the national government. An American intelligence officer in a western Baghdad suburb reports that the Iraqi police there are so thoroughly infiltrated by insurgents that the entire force is useless. Bush has recently returned to the mantra that as the Iraqis stand up, the U.S. will stand down. But it is an open question whether - or for how long - the Iraqi army can survive after the U.S. leaves...
...Giuliani dealt with major emergencies on a regular basis. He had time to prepare his city for a major calamity. But did he do all that he could? Much has been made of the fact that Giuliani's state-of-the-art emergency command center was rendered useless on the day of the attacks. The $13 million center was in the World Trade Center complex, on the 23rd floor of Building 7, which collapsed that day. When I asked Giuliani three years after 9/11 if it had been a mistake to place the command center in a known terrorist target...
...decision to scrap its weapons of mass destruction program is sniffed at by some experts. Although the Bush Administration liked to attribute that move to the intimidating effects of its Iraq invasion, some independent experts suggest it was more a case of giving up poorly performing and relatively useless programs in return for almost total diplomatic rehabilitation...
Jeffrey J. Blair ’09, an astronomy concentrator, said that without this project, the plates would be almost useless to modern astronomers...
...ever did, but my menu has changed so I can annoy you just the way you have annoyed me. Press 1 if you'd like to continue in a language that I can't speak; Press 2 if you'd like to be given a series of increasingly useless options. Press 3 if you'd like to discontinue having Saporito as a customer." Sprint would hit 3. "Your call is very important to me," my voice would say, "please hold and someone resembling me will be with you shortly after the next...