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...group, the Iraqi National Congress, that full de-Baathification of the military was essential. In May, two weeks after Bremer took over as proconsul in Baghdad, he ordered the army completely demobilized. Many U.S. officials involved in post-Saddam Iraq now feel this was a poor decision, sending a vast number of experienced soldiers home, jobless and armed. For months the State Department and CIA have argued for remobilizing as fast as possible. But when lawmakers gathered in the secret S-407 briefing room on Capitol Hill last week to press the point on Bremer, he made it clear that...
Crowe's life is now significantly calmer. In the study of his vast apartment, where we lunch on calamari and ginger beer, there is a picture of Danielle Spencer, the Australian singer and actress he married this past April. Spencer is pregnant with Crowe's first child, a son, due in January. I ask if domesticity has calmed him, and he raises a hand: Eat, then interview. When lunch is over, he says, "I'm sure regardless of my marriage and impending fatherhood, certain things shift just because of age." One of those things is that he no longer goes...
Fash, 49, said that he hopes to build on the work of his predecessor in areas such as “digitalization of the Museum’s vast collections and outreach to the greater Boston community...
...This place has the wherewithal to teach film studies with the thing itself rather than a pale version of the thing itself,” Jenkins says. The experience of watching the HFA’s vast array of 35 millimeter films in its theater is hardly comparable to watching a video copy of a movie, he says...
...grew up in the south. I grew up with the very people that you’re talking about,” he said. “The people that I grew up with, the vast majority of them, they don’t drive around with Confederate flags on pickup trucks...