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...conflict between the two reports was reflected in the press coverage they generated. Both the New York Times and Washington Post led with the bleak assessment contained in the GAO study, while the Wall Street Journal highlighted what it called a "generally upbeat assessment" of Iraq's current security and political situation. It relegated the GAO's findings to the final three paragraphs of a 17-paragraph story. But it did lead with bad news from the Pentagon report: claims that Iran continues to funnel money to militias inside Iraq, and that Tehran "may well pose the greatest long-term...
Endangered since 1967, the Caribbean monk seal is the first seal species to have been driven to extinction by humans, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Its fate portends a bleak future for other endangered monk-seal species...
...Betting on the Farm The outlook is not unrelentingly bleak, however. Leaders meeting in Rome pledged - at least in theory - to spend billions more dollars for agricultural programs. African governments and international organizations now face the task of getting new projects off the ground quickly. Obstacles abound. After decades of neglect, transportation networks for getting crops to market consist mainly of rutted dirt roads; irrigation systems are in a shambles; and there's little access to credit for poor farmers. Aid agencies are starting some programs virtually from scratch. "There are very few plans to take off the shelf," says...
...With the revelations made in the past week, Americans ought to wonder whether they have ever actually seen this president stare down a storm on his own, and whether he has ever, with the privilege of principle and information on his side, overruled the bleak drumbeat of his éminence grise. And, if not, we may be forced to ask if he is instead merely a overgrown boy, coasting along a dark sea—full of bravado, without a care, and with...
...perfect conference record on the line at Colgate. With just over two minutes left in regulation, Harvard and the Raiders were deadlocked in a 2-2 tie, and the Crimson found itself with its back to the wall facing a 4-on-3 penalty kill. The situation looked bleak, and Vaillancourt sensed that something needed to be done...