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This literary makeover couldn't have come at a better time for the Karadzic family. The European Union last month ordered Karadzic's assets frozen, and the royalties for his autobiographical love story--about a wrongly imprisoned psychiatrist in prewar Sarajevo--will go to his wife. Although Toholj claims he obtained the manuscript through an intermediary and doesn't know the author's whereabouts, one thing is certain: with a $5 million bounty on his head, Karadzic won't be toting his laptop to the local Starbucks to write a sequel. --By Julie Rawe and Dejan Anastasijevic
...sophisticated economic thinking. The current White House has done neither. Quite the opposite: it has dumbed down governance, scorned serious planning, politicized formerly nonpartisan agencies. One example: having the Medicare administrator mislead Congress about the true cost of Bush's Medicare prescription-drug plan. The Administration distorted the prewar analysis of Saddam's capabilities and failed to plan for the post-Saddam occupation. Last week we learned that Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith had blatantly hyped the possibility of an operational link between Saddam and al-Qaeda...
WHAT WE THOUGHT THEN In the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, the CIA stated that "Baghdad has begun renewed production of mustard, sarin, GF and VX." During his prewar presentation to the U.N., Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed that satellite photos taken in May 2002 showed the movement of chemical weapons from a factory to the field...
...REPORTED THAT "BUSH CONSTANTLY cites the example of postwar Germany and Japan to argue that it is far too soon to call Iraq a failure." But it is prewar Germany, in the years 1933-39, that gives many of us a frightening, disheartening parallel: How could a nation of well-educated, civilized, sophisticated people believe the rhetoric of a fanatic leader pretending their lives were threatened by obviously weaker neighbors, and follow him into a disastrous pre-emptive...
...what kind of history Bush is making should have a look at his unmistakable cowboy posturing. Yehia El-Ezabi Cairo You reported that "Bush constantly cites the example of postwar Germany and Japan to argue that it is far too soon to call Iraq a failure." But it is prewar Germany, in the years 1933-39, that gives many of us a frightening, disheartening parallel: How could a nation of well-educated, civilized, sophisticated people believe the rhetoric of a fanatic leader pretending their lives were threatened by obviously weaker neighbors, and follow him into a disastrous pre-emptive...