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...Blair's and Bush's governments face parallel but separate inquires from their own legislatures operates, in some ways, like the police tactic of interrogating suspects separately in the hope of finding discrepancies in their testimony. The U.S., for example, started a lot earlier than the British conceding that actual weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq. British officials were apoplectic some weeks ago when the President and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld suggested Saddam may have destroyed his banned weapons before the invasion. Blair, after all, has stuck by the promise that WMD will be found in Iraq...
...develop a relationship with him. I didn't know how to process him at first, because he's as iconic as one can possibly be. And he plays robots. Quite often. And very persuasively. So it was a bit jarring to realize that he was a guy, an actual human being...
That SPIKE LEE--everybody wants a piece of him. First the cable channel TNN tried to change its name to Spike TV. Lee (actual first name: Shelton) saw that as an infringement on his personal Spikeness and slapped TNN with a lawsuit. A judge has agreed to hear the case, but Lee has to post $2.5 million to cover the cable channel's losses if the verdict doesn't go his way. (Spike Jones Jr., son of the famous bandleader, is taking TNN's side in the case.) But the madness did not stop there: there's a canine conspiracy...
...training in sheiks and ayatullahs, Sunni customs and Shi'ite factionalism. Yet there is one group that has been thinking--passionately--about Muslims for more than a decade. Its army is weaponless, its soldiers often unpaid, its boot camps places like the Queens classroom. It has no actual connection with the U.S. government (except possibly to unintentionally muddy America's image). But in the past few months, its advance forces have been entering the still-smoldering battlefield of Iraq, as intent on molding its people's future as the conventional American troops already in place...
Steen said that his department reacted quickly to the Bugbear virus, posting an announcement on their website and updating the virus definitions for the anti-virus software that all FAS affiliates are encouraged to install, and that the actual number of computers infected was minimal...