I can't speak for my fellow "zealots" but as someone who supported the invasion and who, unlike some others, is still willing to admit it I have always assumed that "genuine democratic elections" in Iraq or anywhere else might well produce outcomes that were "highly unpalatable to Washington. The current trajectory in Iraq is poor: rising sectarian violence threatens to rend Iraqi society and destroy America s will to continue the struggle. The choices are bleak: nobody has yet developed a...

Since its founding in 1965, the San Francisco-based firm has grown to 30 cities worldwide, and Houston has become one of its top two for designing office buildings and hotels. A: Actually, the most important thing to us is to walk the walk, so to speak, and to create the collaborative space that we talk about in our one-firm firm culture. Gensler is relocating within Pennzoil Place the building that brought it to Houston in 1972 to design interiors for its namesake's headquarters. We share...

I secretly harbour hopes that a dearth of places to stay will encourage him to find his own, or offer to actually move into mine and split the rent instead of occasionally buying a six pack and a loaf of white bread, which he knows I don't eat, and considering that his contribution to the household. I secretly harbour hopes that a dearth of places to stay will encourage him to find his own, or offer to actually move into mine and split the rent instead of occasionally buying a six pack and...

They tell their story -- about life on the bayou, the loss of wetlands and the impact of that loss on New Orleans when Katrina roared in nearly two years ago -- through the eyes of Amanda Shaw, a teenage fiddle player who gives a wide-eyed tour of the musical and natural beauty of the Louisiana swamplands. They tell their story -- about life on the bayou, the loss of wetlands and the impact of that loss on New Orleans when Katrina roared in nearly two years ago -- through the eyes of...

June 8, 2007 - 8:10am By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) - Burger King and its famous Whopper burger returned to Japan Friday after a six-year hiatus, and customers who lined up for hours at the first new branch needed no translation to understand "whopper" means "outlandishly huge. June 8, 2007 - 8:10am By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) - Burger King and its famous Whopper burger returned to Japan Friday after a six-year hiatus, and customers who lined up for...

Yes, the San Francisco Mime Troupe has dealt with aspects of American foreign policy before -- as when it uncovered the Cheney-Rice plot to invade Canada a few summers ago -- but the nation's longtime leading radical political theater troupe hasn't taken on the war and military contracting corruption in Iraq directly. Yes, the San Francisco Mime Troupe has dealt with aspects of American foreign policy before -- as when it uncovered the Cheney-Rice plot to invade Canada a few summers ago --...