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...with respect to the proposed location of the dance space, the underutilization of the QRAC’s weights and cardiovascular equipment is simply not germane. Teeming with flawed logic, the administration’s argument also ignores that the QRAC area most heavily utilized by students—the basketball courts—is the area that will be reduced by the renovation...
Francis Ford Coppola knew his only daughter would become a director by the time she was 3. "My wife and I were driving in the car with Sofia," he says, "and we were having a typical silly marital argument that was going on a little too long. All of a sudden this little voice in the back seat said, 'Cut!' She knew how to use that word at a very early...
...Gumshoe Diplomacy The arrest of the alleged terrorist mastermind Hambali by Thai police [Sept. 1] offers the latest and best rebuttal of Bush's argument that the preferred way to thwart terror is to wage war. Afghanistan and Iraq have been invaded at the cost of uncounted local civilian lives and hundreds of acknowledged American deaths, with the capture of only a few terrorists. But during the same time, police in Pakistan, Yemen and now Thailand have captured terrorist bigwigs. It's hard to avoid the thought that the Bush Administration's policy of war is largely show business. Police...
...most newsworthy claim - that Iraq could use weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes - applied only to battlefield systems. On the core question of whether Blair hyped the case for war, the report revealed an intriguing omission. In contrast to the publicity he gave the dossier, which backed his argument, he kept mum about a later intelligence assessment that concluded a war would actually make it easier for terrorists to get their hands on Saddam's arsenal. Blair told the committee he judged that risk was less than that of giving Saddam more time to forge a link between terrorists...
...leadership of al-Qaeda except for bin Laden are not Saudis. Why have we seen in the 9/11 incident nobody but Saudis. It was done on purpose [to harm U.S.-Saudi relations]. Unfortunately, those in the U.S., in the media or in Congress, who continue to make that argument, are falling into the strategy of the terrorists...