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...step toward reviving a failed state. Aidid, Gedi and President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed all recognize that they cannot succeed without reaching out to all sectors of the population. "We will reconcile with the Islamists," says Aidid. "All their remnants can join our forces." But given the chaos the warlords wrought over the past 15 years and the fragile order now reigning in Mogadishu, distrust of the T.F.G. on the streets is running high. "For the last six months," says development consultant Muktar Hassan Elmi, "we could say, 'I will live tomorrow and the next day.' Now everything has changed...
...trial, and they have amounted to nothing substantial. Most of the violence in Iraq is now perpetrated by people with no love for the dictator. Even if the Ba'athists were to step up their attacks, there's a good chance they would be lost in the general carnage wrought by Jihadi groups and Shi'ite militias...
...Marshall, which deals with a much larger tragedy. In 1970, a small college's entire football team (save a couple of players left behind because of injuries) was wiped out in an airplane crash as it returned home from a loss on the road. The devastation that wrought on a small school and a small town, both of which pretty much lived and died with the successes and failures of its sports teams, was huge and seemingly irreparable. Many, possibly most, of the students and fans wanted to shut down the program, the better to concentrate on mourning. But they...
...worst part of middle school was the inevitable social awkwardness that all of us had to endure. You would think that this social uneasiness would pass as we grew older and gained more experience, but unfortunately, even at college our social experiences at parties are wrought with horrible awkwardness...
...close.Such was the contradictory tale for the Harvard varsity lightweights in 2006. A perpetual game of musical chairs—resulting in countless lineup changes throughout the spring—added to an already frustrating dual season wrought with inconsistency and underachievement. It wasn’t until June, until the last strokes of the 2006 season, that the Crimson showed how far it had come on a Saturday afternoon in Camden. Far enough to make the 2006 lightweight IRA final the most thrilling in recent memory. And close enough to make 2007 a campaign for the national title even...