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...September 2002 dossier, which included the claim that Saddam could fire chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes. Blair's foreword pushed the case harder, calling the issue of Saddam's weapons a "current and serious threat to the U.K. national interest." Last week Blair admitted: "I have to accept that we have not found [WMD] and that we may not find them." President Bush called the Senate report "useful" and has said he is "open for suggestions" on intelligence reform. But the President already shelved one overhaul plan after Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld objected to it. And the report...
Against the Wall MIDDLE EAST The International Court of Justice, meeting in the Hague, ruled that Israel 's controversial West Bank barrier violates international law and called on the U.N. to consider taking action to halt its construction. Jerusalem said it would not accept the nonbinding judgement, and the U.S. argued that it was inappropriate for the World Court to rule on what it called a political issue...
...tried to promote him from within, but Toronto didn’t give him much time to accept or decline [in 2003],” Thomas said. “We tried to explore ways of accelerating the tenure process, which is somewhat difficult to do at Harvard...
...program aims to accept 30 students entering 10th grade each year, Rodbury said, so that by 2006 there will be 90 total students in the program each summer...
Shannon Lanier, who is black, had a very personal reason to accept the story all along. His mother had told him as a child that he was related to the third President. Descended from Hemings' son Madison, Lanier recalls standing up in his first-grade class in Atlanta and announcing his presidential heritage: "I said, 'Thomas Jefferson was my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.' The teacher told me to sit down and stop telling lies...