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With the handover of power set for June 30, the troubles plaguing the U.S. venture in Iraq remain on harrowing display. In Baghdad, where Bremer's green zone headquarters sit cordoned off and isolated from the rest of the city ("like Xanadu," says a British official), a suicide bombing on Thursday killed 35 Iraqis and wounded at least 138. In all, car bombs killed nearly 90 throughout Iraq last week. For some, images of the continuing carnage, the failure to find illicit weapons and now the 9/11 commission's conclusion that Iraq did not aid al-Qaeda's attack...
...workshops, which will comprise just one of the roads to publishing in Xanadu, should provide an arena for the discussion of undergraduate writing that’s less formal than creative writing classes but more structured than meetings in student common rooms...
...Xanadu will sponsor a prose slam (public reading of prose) in an effort, according to Weatherall, “to distinguish ourselves from other magazines on campus. We wanted to figure out some kind of performance art that focused on prose rather than poetry...
...envisions Xanadu as the prose version of the poetry publication, The Gamut. Both are alternatives to the city-on-a-hill-like Advocate, which “has its place,” Weatherall says, though he’s not a fan of its selection method...
...Xanadu will perform at 1:30 on Saturday in the Carpenter Center, Room...