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...them? The reason, suggests Duelfer, lay in how he saw the "survival of himself, his regime and his legacy." While the U.S. was fixated on Saddam's threat, he focused on his strategies for Iran and considered WMD essential to keeping his neighbor in check. So he was driven by what the report calls "a difficult balancing act": getting rid of his WMD to win relief from the sanctions while pretending he still had them to serve as a strategic deterrent. "The regime never resolved the contradiction inherent in this approach," says the report. Saddam privately told an aide...
From Fitch, spurred to invent the steamboat by a mortal need for speed, to Turner, driven by the thrill of risk and winning, American inventors and innovators during the U.S.'s march to economic dominance in the past two centuries have thrived in difficult--even deadly--conditions. In They Made America (Little, Brown; 496 pages), author, journalist and immigrant Harold Evans celebrates the near mythic lives of 70 unique thinkers who beat long odds to realize a dream and, in their day, to improve life for the masses...
...Teen Disney roots, giving an uneven yet charming performance as Terri Fletcher, small-town girl whisked away from commonplace and complacency when she lands admission to the prestigious Bristol Hill School of Music in L.A. You’ve undoubtedly seen Raise Your Voice before: this film is formula-driven, from start to finish. But no matter how many times Duff clips her lines or awkwardly over-acts her most intense scenes, the film somehow recovers. Despite its reliance on ham-fisted elements to a garner a reaction, Raise Your Voice pulls off moments where palpable, genuine emotion pumps from...
...feel that economics is a very common major among athletes because of its competitiveness,” he writes. “Athletes, in general, are a very driven group that enjoy high-pressure, high-stress environments. The opportunities in many of the careers that follow an economics degree come with such an environment...
...expected, getting the younger crowd to the game wasn’t too difficult, with some traveling to Cambridge courtesy of their city-provided student T passes, and the others picked up in Phillips Brooks House vans driven by their chaperones...