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...President's two main arguments for war in Iraq to be faulty: no WMD, no collaborative relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. Bush was forced to acknowledge on the stump that "stockpiles" hadn't yet been found, but he and especially Vice President Dick Cheney seem reluctant to abandon the Saddam-al-Qaeda fantasy. The consequences of Iraq-including the Administration's approval of the use of torture on enemy combatants-have sapped the energy of Bush's re-election campaign. The number in this week's TIME poll that political pros will find eye-popping is that only...
...quits--or so he told his friends. In one of more than 20,000 letters that scholars estimate Jefferson completed before his death on July 4, 1826, the future Secretary of State, Vice President, two-term President and founder of the University of Virginia confirmed his premature decision to abandon the rigors of government service for the pleasures of rural solitude: "I have taken my final leave of everything of that nature, have retired to my farm, my family and books from which I think nothing will ever more separate...
...history is any guide, Harvard will look to turn over the reins to a candidate with pre-existing Cambridge ties. Yale coach Tim Taylor ’63 withdrew his candidacy midway through the search five years ago and would be unlikely to abandon a cushy situation in New Haven, but several other prominent alumni present attractive alternatives...
There was never any rush, no need to sprint or become too excited, no reason to abandon the low cadence and smooth strokes that powered 24 straight dual victories...
...puppet of an occupying power that much of the population no longer trusts. But the selection of the new government has proved to be almost as shambolic as the occupation itself. It forced Brahimi last week to rip up well-laid plans, accede to political pressure and abandon some first principles--including his original intention to appoint a new Prime Minister untainted by association with the U.S. Though the pieces of Iraq's first post-Saddam government may fall into place this week, it's anyone's guess how long it will hold together. "It's a very complicated business...