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...clear that the real story is much more unsettling. The blunt conclusion of the bipartisan House and Senate joint inquiry into the causes of 9/11, released last week, was that while no one in the government "identified the time, place and specific nature of the attacks," the government lost repeated opportunities to detect, if not disrupt, the hijackers...
...proof will be in the pudding,” he says. The real test will come “three months from now, when we have mid-semesters and the teachers work us over with blunt instruments...
...carried out in secret and whose papers remain secret--expressed the attitude two years ago in a now infamous way: "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy." Representative Raymond Green, a Texas Democrat, was more blunt when the House earlier this year beat back an attempt to raise mileage standards. While allowing that he was for "better gas mileage," said Green: "We come from a big state that wants big trucks and big cars...
...show works, however, because the duo, two fashion journalists, are blunt but never mean. They represent opposite poles of the female form (Woodall is a twig, Constantine is Rubenesque), and they are as frank about their own bodies as about their victims'. There's a towel-snapping, locker-room sexuality about them--they spend a lot of time grabbing their guests' and each other's breasts and butts--and real heart behind their snippiness...
...banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, had been confined to a monastery since 2001 for agitating for religious freedom and human rights. A Communist Party newspaper said Do was released because of the government's "humanitarian policies." But some observers speculated the authorities might be trying to blunt the strong international condemnation over the recent 13-year jailing of another dissident, Pham Hong...