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...smoothest regime-change scenario - a coup from within Saddam's own military ranks - is the least likely. At least six such coups have been attempted in the past decade, and all have failed miserably. With internal intelligence and security services at his disposal, Saddam has recently stepped up the pace of military purges, shifting around or simply executing any popular, effective officer who posed a potential threat. That leaves classic warfare as the only real alternative to a proxy...
...need to emulate these commercial culture entities in order to justify itself in the world or to attract the numbers of people that keep it alive financially. Now there is a distinction between popular culture and commercial culture. Museums are about slowing people down and changing the pace at which they regard the visual world and asking them to look longer at certain things. It ought to be a world apart from the street. In that respect, we need to not emulate the street...
...scoring, Brooks still appeared strong, although the frenetic pace of the game must have taken its toll on her as it did on the other players...
...pickups, SUVs and minivans and suddenly the king of Detroit again, estimated that the industry's total U.S. sales would be up about 2.5 percent for the month. (Toyota, Honda and Volkswagen also posted inched-up U.S. sales numbers Wednesday.) That puts the industry on an annual U.S. sales pace of some 18 million vehicles, far stronger than originally estimated and enough - if they can keep it up - for carmakers to log one of the best U.S. sales years in history...
...then something strange happened. A few weeks before retiring, Gollob went to see a performance of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes, the Oscar-nominated actor best known for playing an SS officer in Schindler's List. There was something about the production--its pace and precision--that Gollob found "galvanizing." It whetted his appetite for more Shakespeare. He started reading plays and watching PBS videotapes. Before long, his curiosity had grown into a full-blown obsession--and a new way of life, as Gollob explains in his book, Me and Shakespeare: Adventures with the Bard (Doubleday; $26), to be published...