Middle East

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Reason June 2003 Jesse Walker	The Dubious Anarchist Libya's libertarian rhetoric
Reason June 2003 Charles Paul Freund	Baghdad Rock Meet Iraq's only officially tolerated heavy metal band. According to the German weekly Der Spiegel, A. Crassicauda (the Latin designation for the black scorpion) is a five-man group that models itself on Slayer, Metallica, and Machine Head.
Reason June 2003 Jesse Walker	What Next for U.S. Foreign Policy? Power, stability, and the post-Iraq world order: interviews with three men with very different ideas about the emerging world system.
Reason June 2003 Charles Paul Freund	Look Who's Rocking the Casbah The revolutionary implications of Arab music videos
CFO June 2003 Frieswick & Harris	Big Dig to Baghdad? Andrew Natsios walked into a fiscal nightmare when he left his job as Secretary for Administration and Finance for Massachusetts to take the helm at the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, aka the Big Dig. But the Big Dig now looks like the farm team for his new gig -- rebuilding Iraq.
CIO June 1, 2003 Susannah Patton	Europe Pushes Own Wireless Agenda European companies are angling to get a piece of the action in Iraq now that the fighting has stopped. In the decisions over the construction of a wireless telecommunications network in war-ravaged Iraq, European companies may have the edge.
Geotimes June 2003	Iraq's Desert Also Needs Healing The desert is protected by a delicate layer of gravel pieces, sorted and placed over time by wind. With the recent war in Iraq, military vehicles and digging destroyed this layer; but the military can take measures to begin to heal it.
ifeminists May 27, 2003 Ilana Mercer	Women Who Wed the Wrong Wahhabi Roush is an advocate for women whose personal errors she turns into international political incidents. She is asking President Bush to intensify the pressure on Saudi Arabia to rectify the marital mistakes these women have made.
ifeminists May 6, 2003 Carey Roberts	Feminists Poised to Highjack the Iraqi Reconstruction Effort Once the hostilities ended, President Bush requested a sweeping $2.4 billion humanitarian package to aid in the reconstruction of that country. But if radical feminists get their way, men will be shunted aside by these humanitarian relief efforts.
U.S. Banker May 2003 Holly Sraeel	Global Community? The World Can Only Hope. The free world is compelled to rebuild Iraq, complete with a democratic government, with the Iraqis for the Iraqis. It won't be cheap and, even more, it won't be easy.
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