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...lofty purpose in Iraq while getting them to accept the gritty reality on the ground. And only if they re-embrace the former will they reconcile themselves to the latter. So it was fortuitous for him that two men came to the rescue last week and laid the groundwork for this complicated message. On the higher stratum, Blair touched down in Washington for six hours and gave a stirring address to Congress that portrayed the Iraq campaign as nothing short of a call to greatness for a nation whose power had never before been "so necessary or so misunderstood." Though...
...second act fast forwards a century to contemporary London—though the cast has aged only 25 or so years. The action now takes place in a park—an open, public space that lays the groundwork for the newly defined sexual mores of this new generation, though remnants of the earlier period remain. Here the veranda is deconstructed and pushed to the side, again making for a well-designed and symbolically rich space...
...same Newsday reporter had previously interviewed an intelligence officer of the former regime, who claimed to be a commander in a network of cells comprised largely of former Baathists and military and security personnel working to lay the groundwork for a long-term guerrilla resistance like that mounted by Hezbollah against the Israelis in southern Lebanon...
That decision outraged members of the United Front, who called it “a kick in the teeth, a slap in the face,” and laid the groundwork for a conflict which would last well into the early 1980s...
...core group of collaborators, which includes J. Palmer Truelson ’03, Eric M. Tulla ’03, Bradley G. Kittenbrink ’03 and Christopher M. Colosi ’03, the team spent last summer hiding away in a DeWolfe apartment, laying the groundwork for their new company, and working all hours of the day—although “working” typically involved playing video games purchased as business expenses. The short-term goal of the project was to make a respectable showing at the E3 convention in Los Angeles last month...