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...Iraqi Kurds have been in control of their own region since 1991, when, with the help of the American-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 American 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 a tiny landlocked region, uncomfortably...
...celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, are the centerpiece of a counterintuitive new ad campaign by the maker of Dove soap to promote its latest line of beauty products. In its first global launch ever, Dove hopes to attract the 40 million or so baby-boomer women in the wrinkle-war zone with a provocative twist: instead of demonizing wrinkles with "antiaging" products, Dove celebrates them and calls its new line Pro Age. For the Anglo-Dutch consumer giant Unilever, Dove's $52 billion parent company, the stakes are high: total sales in 2006 grew just 4%. Indeed, since 2004, Unilever...
With every passing day, the situation in Iraq seems increasingly hopeless. Young people are sent to Iraq by the planeload, and return jaded and disillusioned with the difference our presence is making there. Despite Senator John McCain’s assertions to the contrary, Baghdad outside the Green Zone remains dangerous, the Iraqi government remains weak, and the sectarian violence remains endless. And Americans grow ever more restless. America’s Iraq policy is drowning in quicksand, yet our president insists that we can still swim out. Just a few more strokes, he says; all that?...
...well-timed double steal. HARVARD 4, PENN 2 Freshman Max Perlman threw a complete-game four-hitter in his first career Ivy League start, earning the victory as the Crimson came from behind to win, 4-2. Perlman thrived by consistently staying down in the strike zone, producing an excellent 12-3 ground ball-fly ball ratio, including three rollers that the Harvard middle infield turned into double plays. “[There was] a little adrenaline around the beginning of the game, but I settled down and did pretty well,” Perlman said...
...poise and possessed the ball well, which was something we asked them to do to allow the defense to play fresh.”With the Crimson clinging to a 5-4 lead after senior attackman Greg Cohen stole an errant pass out of the air in the Denver zone and scored with 11:33 to play in the third quarter, senior attackman Evan Calvert had a number of chances to increase the lead. Denver had its chances, too, but sophomore goalie Joe Pike and the defense held on to enter the fourth quarter with a one-goal lead.The final...