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...Baghdad just over a year ago to think about how he will go out. The proud finisher of 20 marathons, Bremer was a distance runner thrown into a sprint, a mad 13-month dash to try to create a new government and something approaching stability out of the fractious void that Iraq became in the wake of the coalition overthrow of Saddam Hussein in the spring of 2003. If the U.S. occupation of Iraq has proved that Secretary of State Colin Powell was right to remind President Bush before the war that if the U.S. broke Iraq, the U.S. would...
...Bremer's energy. As a result, Bremer spent much of his time playing an inside game, forgoing meetings with the Iraqi public and allowing the day-to-day governance in much of the country to be carried out by either U.S. troops or local militia that rushed into the void. "In politics, the path from A to B is never straight. It almost always goes through C, D or F," Bremer says...
Dominick's supermarket pays Field Trip Factory up to $300,000 a year to fill the void. On a recent tour, second-graders from Universal School, a Muslim school in Bridgeview, Ill., learned how sugar-laden kids' cereals are placed on lower shelves. Li Schiavitti, 75, the store's star field-trip guide, advised them to reach instead for something healthier--like Toasted Oats, Dominick's house brand...
...score was Dawson’s third in the game’s final 16:20, a stretch during which he almost single-handedly compensated for the hefty void left by the Crimson’s injured signal caller...
Another reason for the formation shift was the necessity of adjusting to the loss of forwards Joey Yenne ’03 and Beth Totman ’03, who together accounted for 11 of Harvard’s 27 goals last season. Much of this void was filled by Moran, who shifted to forward and scored 10 times after recording just two goals last season...