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...California, President George W. Bush landed in flying gear on the deck of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln--which sported a banner reading MISSION ACCOMPLISHED--and said, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." The war, said Bush, had been carried out "with a combination of precision and speed and boldness the enemy did not expect, and the world had not seen before...
...speed of the U.S. advance from the south, coupled with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's determination that the U.S. invading force should be as small as possible, had a further consequence. When the war was over, there were not enough U.S. troops to detain and disarm Iraqi fighters or maintain security in the cities. Governmental authority in Iraq collapsed, leaving the U.S. forces, already stretched thin, to do everything from guarding banks to hunting down guerrillas. "The Americans thought they would come and just slot in at the top," says Entifadh Qanbar, a spokesman in Baghdad for Chalabi's Iraqi...
...consumer electronics remains Sony, a true innovator. To conquer the consumer market, Dell wants to solve the gadget-compatibility issue and speed the transition to the digital home. So Dell recently--and quietly--began offering basic home installation of computer networks for $119. The Dell.com site, which will be revamped on Oct. 10, even has a search engine to help homeowners locate providers of broadband service, another prerequisite for the coming digital transformation...
Northeastern, despite its terrifying spectre of rushing speed and power, was stifled by the Crimson defense and gained a measly 91 yards on the ground. This was a team that previously was averaging 333 rushing yards per game. Saturday, the Huskies managed only 332 yards of offense overall...
...reason it became so effective was that, especially in the early years, it was artist-driven. There was oversight and censorship by apparatchiks, of course, but it was the artists - impassioned by the Bolshevik Revolution, holding high office themselves, and exploring the new techniques of photography, film and high-speed presses - who conjured up the images. The show begins with early esoteric work like Kliment Redko's 1924 Uprising, a black and flaming red square-within-a-square symbolizing the cosmic force of the Bolshevik Revolution. But by the late 1920s, the Left Front movement, which included filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein...