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BURK: Um, probably not. He’s a stubborn son-of-a-bitch. But hopefully I’ll parlay this publicity into a more prominent role, and demolish those NOW (National Organization of Women) haters...
...Iraq's newly titled Staff Field Marshal Saddam played to his limited strengths by deploying highly motivated loyalist paramilitaries to the towns and cities where they could help him keep his grip on power. Saddam carefully chose forces that could handle double duty, tying down coalition troops with a stubborn stream of skirmishes while compelling local populations to stay loyal...
...joyous welcome of coalition forces in Basra has not yet materialized, and Iraqi commanders have committed forces to slow the coalition advance in towns along the Euphrates, such as Nasiriyah, Najaf, Kerbala and Samawha, further south than expected. Iraqi political militias organized on guerrilla lines have put up stubborn, often suicidal resistance in towns all along the Euphrates and along U.S. supply lines that stretch 300 miles back to Kuwait. As Lt. Gen. William Wallace told reporters Thursday, "The enemy we're fighting is a bit different than the one we war-gamed against...
...their portability, their character. I also like to think of myself as a humanitarian, clothing and feeding the poor indie artists of America. I have no moral qualms with downloading music. Rather, like my disdain for “Friends,” my resistance is but a stubborn attempt at nonconformity...
...that Harvard is loath to take advice from other educational establishments one needs only recall its stubborn refusal to move winter finals from January to December. And, after Tufts Dean Charles Inouye last year derided Harvard students as “essentially a lazy bunch,” the prospect that University Hall would take advice from its Medford neighbors seems especially slim. Yet, College officials would do well to look for culinary—if not academic—inspiration just two stops up the Red Line: for Tufts has devised a meal plan that makes Harvard?...