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...given the scarcely disguised disdain that some in the Administration have shown for the U.N., the decision to seek a new Security Council resolution was branded a reversal of policy. And inevitably, members of the Administration, who would not admit to error if the Inquisition put them through an auto-da-fe, scoffed at the very idea, stressing their flexibility, reminding skeptics--how could anyone have thought otherwise?--that they have been multilateralists all along. "We've been making course corrections virtually on a weekly basis," said Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz last week. Surprisingly, given the animosity between...
After high school, Cash worked at an auto plant in Pontiac, Mich., and in 1950 joined the Air Force. He came home, married Vivian Liberto and settled with her in Memphis, Tenn. This was in 1954, and by the next year he had a deal with Sun Records, which had launched Presley's career. Hey, Porter, backed by Cry, Cry, Cry, was his first hit. Around that time, with the help of Phillips and producer Jack Clement, Presley (who would shortly move on to RCA Victor and megastardom) and two other young men, Perkins and Lewis, would create the rockabilly...
...much the way they are; a balanced budget, a growing economy--once the bloodthirsty, bloviating Bushies are removed from office--will pay for it. And so, the strategy revealed: Gephardt has decided to challenge Dean's Internet whippersnappers by appealing to the elderly. He will have the Teamsters and Auto Workers drive the old folks to the polls...
From the very top of the monastery’s pink stucco tower, Father Roman Ugrinko, the senior bell ringer, points out the Moscow sites that have become familiar to him during his three years at Danilov—the Zil auto factory, the bend of the Moscow river, the sparkle of the Kremlin’s gold onion domes in the distance and the imposing Soviet-style cardboard box buildings that elbow the skyline...
...Outwardly at least, Hanif did not seem dangerous. Neighbors saw him as a quiet, religious, hardworking man, who left home every morning at daybreak and returned late. In Chimatpada, where Hanif's auto-rickshaw sits covered in blue tarpaulin, there is now a sense of shock and bewilderment over the arrests. "We simply can't believe it," says Amir Jaha, who lives two blocks from the Hanifs. "They were just like...