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...Garner and his operation are a government-in-waiting--a few hundred former generals, aid workers and diplomats standing by in Kuwait, awaiting Saddam's defeat. Once that happens, they will cross the border to become the nerve center of postwar Iraq. Advance teams are ready to move in as early as this week. Garner plans to establish three administrative centers--in Baghdad, Mosul and Basra--that will supervise humanitarian relief and reconstruction, keep the oil flowing, purge Saddam loyalists from Iraqi government agencies and set in motion the most difficult of U.S. war aims: the establishment of democratic institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Governor-in-Waiting | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

...This defeat was far worse than any other for other reasons as well...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brown Thwarts W. Water Polo at Northerns | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

...magnitude of the game—which would decide a berth in the Northern Division finals—far outweighed any similar matchup from earlier in the season, while the 11-goal margin of defeat was the largest for Harvard all season long...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brown Thwarts W. Water Polo at Northerns | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

Even though the Brown men’s lacrosse team came within a goal of upsetting No. 3 Georgetown last Saturday, they could not even touch Harvard last night as the Crimson handed the Bears a 12-6 defeat at Jordan Field...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lax Overcomes Brown in Home Shootout 12-6 | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

...really be proud of this man? Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers is arguably the most pathetic show in television history. Abraham fathered a great nation. Moses led us from Egypt and gave us the law. Saban? He gave us strange robots that morphed into a larger robot, to defeat grotesque puppets and weird men in gray spandex called “puddies...

Author: By David Weinfeld, | Title: The Mighty Morphin' State of Israel | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

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