from today's SLATE news summary: >The LA [TIMES] fronts a look into how reconstruction efforts are going in Iraq and says that there are no plans to renew funding after the $18.6 billion approved by Congress in 2003 runs out at the end of this year. Many of the projects are going unfinished since money is running low and foreign governments are not giving as much as they promised. Now it appears that the Iraqi people, along with private investment, will have to burden the costs of reconstruction. "No pain, no gain," said a U.S. Embassy employee in Iraq.< -- Jim Devine "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin
