The battle between the doctrines is centered in Najaf, in two nondescript houses less than 200 yards apart.
But the action that matters has been going on less raucously in a nondescript modern building in the south of the city, the headquarters of the Federal Electoral Tribunal.
As FrontPoint fights to stay alive after an insider trading scandal, one of its co-founders, Philip Duff, who left in 2006, sits in a nondescript office less than a mile away from his former firm rethinking the pension business with his latest venture, Massif Partners.It is his second attempt.
To reach MMIG's headquarters on the 16th floor of a non-nondescript office building less than three blocks from the state capitol, I brave a raging late-Spring snowstorm.
Tucked mid-block between rows of nondescript buildings, it is less about the hard sell than the slow seduction.
Patterson is of slightly less than average height, with features that are nondescript in a way that allows him to shift easily from one appearance to another.
Living modestly with a less ambitious spouse in a little prairie house (nondescript apartment) warmed with children's love is old-fashioned foolery that might make sense in Bangladesh or Kenya.
When Maurizio Pollini plays in some nondescript suit, his body-aliveness is no less present for us.
Less successful were escargots over puff pastry ($8) in an anemic, nondescript sauce, veal Marsala in a too-thick veal stock reduction and free, though far-too-salty, marinated olives and button mushrooms that don't make a positive first impression.
Metcalf came to talk to me in the Travelers Rest police station, a small nondescript building in the middle of town, where the less dangerous prisoners hang out around tables with the police officers.
