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...extent to which forces have aligned against AQI was evident from General David Petraeus's comments at a year-end briefing for reporters in Baghdad's Green Zone. AQI has been the primary target of the American reinforcements brought to Iraq by the surge, and of the coordinated counter-insurgency strategy directed by Petraeus, who is the commander of the coalition forces in Iraq...
DEFINITION goo-gul zeyt-geyst n. Year-end report on the fastest-rising and most popular searches on Google. The popularity of some search terms was seasonal--the Tour de France saw a surge in June--but users consistently sought out ratatouille recipes as well as information about the iPhone. Some of life's bigger questions were also search-engine staples. The top hits by category include...
Most of the nation's critics groups announced their year-end awards this past week, and all gave their Best Film prizes to wayward Westerns - No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James and There Will Be Blood - that might be too violent, too slow or just too weird to win large audiences...
...Remember (and to Forget). This is a hype society; we're constantly focusing on the next thing, the new thing. The year-end list is our single chance to pause, to see what held up over time--and to note, by omission, what we got overexcited about. Remember Evan Almighty? Well, neither do the Top 10 movie lists...
...expansion across the Charles River. At a meeting of the Harvard Allston Task Force last night, Allston residents said they were no longer content with waiting as the deadline for the legally binding plan for community benefits to be implemented by Harvard over the next decade reaches its year-end deadline. “Lots of people in the community have thought about the benefits questions but have not had the chance to voice those concerns in this forum,” said task force member Brent Whelan. “I’m wondering when in this meeting...