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  • The argument over whether we ought to have been involved in introducing a no fly zone is now, as they say in government, OBE, "Overtaken by Events."

    Richard N. Haass: Weakened U.S. in Stormy Mideast Richard N. Haass 2011

  • His account of his February-March 2011 trip to Pakistan, titled "After the Flood," will be published as a stand-alone electronic book and as a chapter added to the next printing of Overtaken By Events.

    Ethan Casey: Greg Mortenson Redefines "Doing One's Best" Ethan Casey 2011

  • His account of his February-March 2011 trip to Pakistan, titled "After the Flood," will be published as a stand-alone electronic book and as a chapter added to the next printing of Overtaken By Events.

    Ethan Casey: Capturing Osama: The Urgent Importance of Mutual Respect Ethan Casey 2011

  • This will be my first trip to Pakistan since the visit almost exactly two years ago that resulted in my book Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip.

    Ethan Casey: What Does Egypt Mean for Pakistan? Ethan Casey 2011

  • His account of his February-March 2011 trip to Pakistan, titled "After the Flood," will be published as a stand-alone electronic book and as a chapter added to the next printing of Overtaken By Events.

    Ethan Casey: Greg Mortenson Redefines "Doing One's Best" Ethan Casey 2011

  • His account of his February-March 2011 trip to Pakistan, titled "After the Flood," will be published as a stand-alone electronic book and as a chapter added to the next printing of Overtaken By Events.

    Ethan Casey: Capturing Osama: The Urgent Importance of Mutual Respect Ethan Casey 2011

  • His account of his February-March 2011 trip to Pakistan, titled "After the Flood," will be published as a stand-alone electronic book and as a chapter added to the next printing of Overtaken By Events.

    Ethan Casey: Greg Mortenson Redefines "Doing One's Best" Ethan Casey 2011

  • Overtaken by fits of passionate anger provoked by the tepid Barack Obama's presence in the White House, they are lashing out at whomever and whatever haunts a disturbed psyche.

    Michael Brenner: For Whom Does the Bell Toll? 2010

  • “Sam Holt sic, the black fiend… has been caught and made to pay the penalty for his crime… Overtaken by the wrath of an outraged community, burned at the stake, his very ashes scattered to the winds, there is nothing to remind us that such a monster in human form ever had existence save the bitter recollection of his infamous career while on earth.”

    The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

  • On the final memorandum, see George Will, “A Report Overtaken by Reality,” Washington Post, December 7, 2007; on “Six Years of Accomplishment” see Al Kamen, “In the Loop,” Washington Post, November 17, 2006.

    Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010

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