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...substitute, it's hard to imagine that any court, even one containing, as New Jersey's does, a majority of judges appointed by Republicans, would rule against providing voters with a choice on Election Day. Hearings are scheduled for the high court on Wednesday morning, and if their argument prevails, Democrats have pledged to reveal their candidate Wednesday night or Thursday morning...
That is the story. What is its importance? Despite every effort and argument, there is no way to know what century Abraham lived in, or even whether he actually existed as a person. (If he did live, it would have been between 2100 B.C. and 1500 B.C., hundreds of years before the date most historians assign to the actual birth of the religion called Judaism.) But Abraham represents a revolution in thought. While he is not a pure monotheist (he never suggests that other gods do not exist), he is the Ur-monotheist, the first man in the Bible...
...just a politically necessary warm-up for the main event. Bui*At the countries that forced Bush to try inspections first could see things very differently. They could well be pleased if the process somehow takes the air out of the American case for war. That means the argument Colin Powell won on that day back in August--that going to the U.N. will build support for U.S. policy without limiting Bush's options--could turn out to be dead wrong.--Reported by Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington, J.F.O. McAllister/London, Andrew Purvis/Vienna and Stewart Stogel/U.N...
...Inalienable Right,” Sept. 25) suggesting not only that Israel should retaliate in the event of an Iraqi attack, but that the United States should fully support retaliation. The authors point to the bombing of the Osirak reactor over 20 years ago to support this argument, but this misses the essential issue at stake: whereas 20 years ago Iraq had no nuclear capability, today we are at least expected to believe that they may. Certainly, Israel now has nuclear weapons. And let us not delude ourselves into thinking that if Israel is attacked, particularly by weapons of mass...
...find language that includes enough patience to keep the Europeans from opposing the U.S. or abstaining in the Security Council - and enough of an ultimatum to keep Washington from bolting the U.N. and acting alone. Evidence that Iraq is harboring or helping terrorists gives the U.S. another argument in the battle of the wordsmiths - and could also provide another rationale for an invasion if weapons of mass destruction are counted, found or removed. "Are we throwing everything against the wall?" asked a White House official, who then answered his own question. "We're throwing everything on the wall and connecting...