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...sound of explosions, Iraqis were jolted by a Friday morning bombshell: the news, first reported on time.com, that Sgt. Santos Cardona, viewed here as one of the villains of Abu Ghraib, had been ordered back to their country. Although Iraqi and Arab media have been slow to pick up on the story (the news cycle here tends to be a day or two behind the U.S.) many in Baghdad read about it online, and word quickly spread. The reaction was predictable: total outrage...
...Western official in the Green Zone told TIME he had received several angry calls from political figures, expressing "a cold fury" at what they interpreted as American arrogance and insensitivity. "To them, the fact that [U.S. Ambassador Zalmay] Khalilzad didn't pick up the phone and tell [Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri] al-Maliki shows the Americans simply don't care about Iraqi opinion," says the diplomat. "If Abu Ghraib was a p.r. calamity, then this is Part II-another disaster...
...rest of the studiously bedraggled employees at 1369 put their heads together to pick the music for the day. It’s actually a better place to get ready for the 80s dance than you might expect...
Rozier: It wasn’t really something I was planning for, but when they welcomed everyone to submit something, I handed in a bunch and had them pick...
...undersold and the commission was forced to cancel the show in order to minimize losses, which were already somewhere in the range of $30,000.To this day, no one knows exactly what went wrong. One possibility was that the HCC was unable to properly assess student interest and had picked an unpopular artist.A proposed remedy for this dilemma was to democratize the HCC, or as a Nov. 2, 2005 Crimson staff editorial put it, to “institute direct elections of the commission.”For the time being though, the HCC doesn?...