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Thursday, Apr 17, 2003

frankly mr shankly
since you ask

(for the nonsense crude)

chilled to the boner
loves more than
alone again or

traced
on the ceiling
sieging is believing

scrawled
on the floorboards
which way is towards

motorboats sputter
rearranged clutter

a gathering swarm

war,m

j-scholar

"Lee C. Bollinger, president of Columbia University, said yesterday that Nicholas Lemann, the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, had agreed to become dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, an appointment that comes at a pivotal time for the school.

Mr. Lemann, 48, is a highly respected journalist who has worked as a reporter and editor at The Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Post."
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Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003

art officials

"Why did the US fail to protect the museum? To the extent that the ACCP would rather see anquities on the market rather than locked up in "retentionist" state museums, the group's recommendations may have struck a respondant chord among the Pentagon's neoconservative ideologues. Neoconservatives see state-owned libraries, archives, and museums as residues of socialism and are working to transfer public library and museum assets to private concerns.. Were the troops instructed to stand by while the museum looting took place? This seems unlikely; after all, the troops failed to protect hospitals as well as museums, and may have violated the Hague Convention in their failure to do so.* It seems that no plans were developed for protecting the Iraqi people's assets in the conflict's aftermath."
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cons�quences graves

"The fall of France was astonishingly swift. After regime change in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, it was only a matter of time before Tony Blair and George W. Bush said that they had �no plans� to attack France. The detested Jacques Chirac had long been a thorn in their sides. He was a past friend of Saddam Hussein, welcomed Arab exiles and had a suspiciously large Muslim population. Above all, he refused point-blank to disband his force de frappe weapons of mass destruction. As Donald Rumsfeld had said back in 2003: �Things mean consequences.� France posed a clear and immediate threat. The coalition acted in pre-emptive self-defence. It was a pity about the Louvre."
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