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...inspectors. Which Iraq did. The inspectors visited hundreds of sites, and turned up nothing. Inspections, of course, provided the opportunity for renewed intelligence gathering in Iraq, and the ability to update what intelligence services knew about Iraq's activities. The presence of the inspectors also functioned as a block on any ongoing WMD activities. But the Bush team had plainly planned to go to war regardless of what the inspectors found, or didn't find. For those among the antiwar Europeans who actually believed Saddam may have retained some WMD capability, the inspections were a valid strategy. After...
...location, in the chic Normandie Apartments Building, is a sequestered gem. The block is Shanghai's only "flatiron" edifice, erected in 1924 on a thoroughfare through the leafy old French Concession, and has now been designated by the authorities as a preserved building. Arch is nestled on the ground floor and forms a swanky hideaway that is the antithesis of the spit-and-sawdust watering holes on down and dirty Maoming Lu or the contrived, yuppie hangouts of Xintiandi...
...location, in the chic Normandie Apartments Building, is a sequestered gem. The block is Shanghai's only "flatiron" edifice, erected in 1924 on a thoroughfare through the leafy old French Concession, and has now been designated by the authorities as a preserved building. Arch is nestled on the ground floor and forms a swanky hideaway that is the antithesis of the spit-and-sawdust watering holes on down and dirty Maoming Lu or the contrived, yuppie hangouts of Xintiandi...
...betrayed them in 1991 when the first President Bush urged them to rise against Saddam and then stood by while they were slaughtered has left little trust among Iraqi Shiites in Washington's intentions. Sistani has played a masterful game of using his moral authority first to block U.S. efforts to transfer power to a government of its own making, and then to force them to bring back the UN as the final arbiter of the election standoff...
...barnyard gym. ?The goalposts are still 18-feet wide,? says Vinatieri, smiling. ?Once we move the ball past the 50-yard line, I?ll just step over to the side and start booting a couple of balls into the net. It?s been easy for me to block everything out.? What might be harder is for the Panthers to block another Vinatieri family moment...