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Iraqi Kurds have been in control of their region since 1991, when, with the help of the U.S.-enforced no-fly zone, they drove Saddam's forces out of northern Iraq. But now, four years after the liberation of the rest of the country, Kurdish Iraq is undergoing an identity crisis. On the one hand, it is a rare success story in the Middle East: a stable territory run by a secular leadership committed to economic and political reform and sitting on a huge pool of oil. On the other hand, it is tiny and landlocked, uncomfortably attached...
...spots were not bright last night, however. A number of passes for both teams seemed to get by their intended targets, including a point during the second quarter when senior attackman Greg Cohen lost a ball when he looked up to catch a routine pass in the Bears zone. Duboe wouldn’t go as far as to blame some of the sloppy play on the lights, however...
...good news is that the brigades, from Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio and Oklahoma, would have plenty of time to get ready before heading to the war zone around Christmastime or early in 2008. The bad news is that the outcome of the war in Iraq will most likely be all but decided by then. "If we don't get the surge right, it's all going to be irrelevant," says Andrew Krepinevich, president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, "because in nine to 12 months we will have lost the war." Those are grim words coming from a retired...
...usually the case on the Mainstage, the technical elements of “Lucie Cabrol” are lovely. The lighting, designed by Joshua Randall, casts much of the play in a dimly-lit zone, with some nice effects (the red light spilling from a wood stove, for example) that occasionally verge into gimmickry (the coffin-shaped spotlight that Lucie lies in, for example...
...these murder figures and presumed the danger in Boston to be grotesquely overblown—a fictionalized byproduct of the mass media’s relentless drive to bolster ratings through breaking news. How can Puritan Boston possibly be dangerous if its only notoriously disreputable district, the combat zone, no longer even exists...