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Still, neat lines of accountability do not guarantee the success of so audacious an enterprise as the American determination to remake Iraq. In any war, older and elemental loyalties, beliefs and suspicions can wreck even carefully laid plans. In a small town west of Ramadi last week, dozens of Iraqis milled around the shell of a house that had been wrecked a week before by missiles from a U.S. helicopter gunship, killing six resistance fighters. The visitors were there because they had heard--and believed--the rumors. The place, they said, smelled not of death but of sweet perfume...
...prescribed for me in an attempt to control my depression and other mental problems. I have often been worried about the long-term effects of many drugs I have taken (several of which are being examined regarding their safety for children). I know that without medication I am a wreck, but I often feel as though I am somehow altering the person I might have become. NAME WITHHELD Columbia...
...actors square with each other during a dress rehearsal; in the second act, an increasingly hostile company does battle backstage a month into their play’s tour; by its closing night, seen in Noises Off’s third act, Nothing On has become a nonsensical wreck...
...Roth’s novel. For most of its meandering minutes, The Human Stain remains as glacial as its scenery, too cool and too detached; it never packs a genuine emotional, much less social or political, punch. Even Farely’s bitter tears, shed as she mourns the wreck of her life, fail to generate much sympathy for her character. Perhaps it’s the uneven pacing; perhaps it’s the inherently disjointed nature of this chronologically fragmented tale. In any case, The Human Stain is a story better left in print...
...computers. "Consumers feel they haven't been well served by consumer-electronics companies," says George. "These companies always have the next hot thing, which doesn't work with the last hot thing and doesn't work with the competitor's next hot thing. So you're always in the wreck-and-rebuild stage...