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...inevitable effort to assign blame, some ORHA staff members criticize the Pentagon's top brass for America's postwar effort. In Washington too, some insiders grumble that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his allies made a critical error by not--as the military saying goes--hoping for the best while planning for the worst. Civilians in the Defense Department seemed to have believed that Iraqis would be so grateful to the U.S. that the number of troops needed after the war could be relatively modest...
...genuine action on the ground. Sharon last week signaled that he is willing, though some of his Cabinet members think he is just playing along for the sake of good relations with Washington. But Abbas, more commonly known as Abu Mazen, may emerge as the weak link. If so, blame Arafat. Said to be bitter that Abbas has ended his decades-long run as the unrivaled leader of the Palestinians, Arafat is working behind the scenes--with some success--to undermine the new Prime Minister...
...insurers blame rate hikes and policy cancellations on what they describe as a rising tide of lawsuits and $1 million--plus jury awards. Their solution (which many doctors, including Sosenko, support): caps of $250,000 on noneconomic damages awarded for pain and suffering. President Bush and other Republicans, whose campaigns are supported by doctors and insurance firms, endorse such legislation, and the House of Representatives has passed a bill along those lines. But plaintiffs' lawyers, who contribute heavily to the campaigns of Democrats, are lobbying their friends in the Senate, and national "tort reform" may remain more of a rallying...
Many critics of the strength of the anti-war movement say the peculiar circumstances around the war itself are to blame...
...King Licorish shows that the blame does not always fall on the pressures of high rent and gentrification...